#black gay history

[thequeereview]

Exclusive Interview: Fellow Travelers stars Noah J. Ricketts & Jelani Alladin "this miniseries is a revolution"

Ron Nyswaner’s exquisitely crafted work of queer historical fiction, Fellow Travelers, is a compelling and deeply moving epic miniseries that takes in the Lavender Scare of the 1950s and follows its repercussions in the lives of those directly affected through the following decades, taking in the post-Stonewall period of liberation in the 70s up to the devastation of the onset of HIV/AIDS in the…

[danu2203]

ALVIN AILEY DANCER

CHOREOGRAPHER

[i-love-sufjan-stevens]

Vintage Photos of Queer Couples of Color

[disease]

"TWO WOMEN IN LOVE" JOHN GUTMANN // 1937 [gelatin silver print | 19.6 × 19.7 cm.]

[archivedotorgfan]

gay and lesbian pride parade in london, june 1985.

[mrmousetolliver]

Francisco Moncion, Fire Island, 1948 by George Platt Lynes

[k-wame]

I rather envy you. I remember what it was like the first time I met him…It's something quite indescribable. I imagine you're having it as we speak. ↳ BLACK SAILS | S2.E1 · IX

[my-darling-boy]

And it hurts to miss you, but it’s worse to know

That I’m the reason you won’t come home

Photos by keltikfilm, editing by me

[that-butch-archivist]

"Ruth Ellis, Golden Threads Celebration 1995," from the documentary Golden Threads

source: The Wild Good: Lesbian Photographs & Writings on Love, edited by Beatrix Gates

[regulusblqck123]

Dark academia is literally alcoholism, drugs, murder and speaking dead languages to your gay friends who you like but deny it.

The Secret History in a nutshell.

[thequeereview]

Exclusive Interview: Patric McCoy on capturing 1980s Black gay Chicago

On his 38th birthday in December 1984, budding photographer Patric McCoy made a commitment to himself that he would carry his 35mm camera with him wherever he went, take at least one shot a day, and stop whatever he was doing if anyone asked him to take their picture and oblige. Four decades on, the collection of thousands of photographs that McCoy took in the 1980s while on his bicycle commute…

[effeminateebony]

Civil Rights For All

All Black Lives Matter

[i-love-sufjan-stevens]

Black Vintage Queerness

happy black history month !! enjoy some vintage lesbians, gays, and trans people!! ^^

[noahhawthorneauthor]

"Every indifference to prejudice is suicide because, if I don’t fight all bigotry, bigotry itself will be strengthened and, sooner or later, it will return on me." -Bayard Rustin

*Edit to add that Adiba Jaigirdar is Bangladeshi/Irish, not Black. Apologies !

[the-golden-vanity]

Recovering the Queer History of Britain's Navy in the Age of Sail by Seth Stein LeJacq for Royal Museums Greenwich

@rulebaetannia sent me this lecture because they thought I'd appreciate it. They were right.

[mrmousetolliver]

Scotty Cunningham (c.1966) photographed by Bruce Harry Bellas under his pseudonym Bruce of Los Angeles. Bruce of Los Angeles was an American photographer and pioneer with his work of male physique and nudes. Many contemporary photographers such as Robert Mapplethorpe, Herb Ritts, and Bruce Weber are considered to be highly influenced by his work. He passed away in 1974 while on vacation with his favorite model and long-time partner Scotty Cunningham (above), to whom he left his estate.