#eric emerson

[twixnmix]

Warhol Superstars Geri Miller and Eric Emerson photographed by Andy Warhol, 1973.

[pierppasolini]

Heat (1972) // dir. Paul Morrissey

[sntg]

[queercounterculture]

Another 10 queer punks

1. Gina Schock(on the right, Joan Jett is on the left): lesbian

Gina Schock is the drummer for the Go-Gos and prior to that she was the drummer for “Edie and the eggs” (which was fronted by Edith Massey who was most know for being in John Waters movies).

2. Kristian Hoffman(In the middle between David johansen and Jonathan Richman): gay

Kristian Hoffman was the keyboardist and song-writer for “The Mumps” and also played with “The Contortions” and Lydia Lunch. He was in the 1971 documentary tv series “An American Family” because he was Lance Loud’s (who was the singer of “The Mumps”) best friend.

3. Snuky Tate: gay

Snuky Tate was involved in the San Francisco punk scene and was in a band called “The Alterboys”. Though he recorded a single called “who cares?” that was not with “the Alterboys”. He died in 1998.

4. Cherry vanilla: unknown

Cherry Vanilla is a singer-songwriter and actress. She worked with and dated David Bowie. Too my knowledge she has never specifically stated her sexuality though her keyboardist Zecca Esquibel said “Well, Cherry's act was always a very sexual act. She's gorgeous woman, and known for her sexploits, so it was very easy for her to put into her show an occasional song about her attraction to women. Basically she's heterosexual, but she's had many…ah, I won't say many, I won't put words in her mouth. Cherry had had lesbian experiences with other women and was attracted to women, and occasionally she would sing about it, and ended up with one song on each album. "Foxy Bitch," which was, is about Linda Ronstadt, and "Amanda," on the second album. I can't claim that it's a reference to Amanda Lear, but I think it is, who is the famous sex change that appeared in a lot of Bowie's work.” So I’m not sure exactly how she identifies but it seems as though she’s not 100% straight.

5. Eric Emerson: Bisexual

Eric Emerson was a Warhol actor originally and then was in early glam punk band “The Magic Tramps”. Emerson was openly bisexual. At some point (probably in the 60’s) his father accused him of being “a little sweet” and Eric Emerson’s response to the statement was "What he don't understand is that my generation can swing both ways". He died in 1975 a month before his 30th birthday. The official cause of death was a hit and run though it is more likely he died from a heroin overdose in a different location and then placed on the side of the road.

6. Marie France: trans woman

Marie France is a French singer and actress who was somewhat involved with punk in the 70s, putting out a punk style single “Daisy / Déréglée” in 1977. She was involved with FHAR, Front homosexuel d'action révolutionnaire which in English is Homosexual Front of Revolutionary Action. She was involved in a group called “The Gazolines” and was on the cover of a single by punk band “Gazoline” which was named after the group she was in.

7. Alice Bag: Bisexual

Alice Bag was the singer for the L.A punk band “The Bags”. She has said that David Bowie was was a big influence on her and how she found out that bisexuality was an option “When you’re in your early teens you’re starting to explore sexual feelings. At that point, I thought you either had to be straight or be gay. I didn’t know that you could be bisexual. But when David Bowie talked about it, all of a sudden I thought, That’s how I feel and that’s OK. He’s David Bowie and he’s giving me permission. It was very powerful.”

8. Vaginal Davis(the one in the front) : genderqueer and intersex

Vaginal Davis’s name is a homage to Angela Davis, considering Angela Davis to be one of her biggest inspirations. Vaginal Davis was in multiple bands such as “The Afro Sisters” and “¡Cholita! The Female Menudo” which Alice bag was also a member of. She also helped form the Queercore punk movement of the 80’s and made the zine “Fertile LaToyah Jackson” which was published from 1982 to 1991.

9. Phranc: lesbian

Phranc was in the L.A punk band “Nervous Gender” she was also in the bands “Catholic Discipline” and “Castration Squad”. Around the 80’s she moved away from punk and into folk music, calling herself the “All-American Jewish Lesbian Folksinger".

10. Tom Robinson: bisexual

Tom Robinson was in “The Tom Robinson Band” which was a political band that had many LGBT related songs. For a long time he identified as gay though in 1982 he met Sue Brearley and he would eventually marry her, though he would still identify as gay. In the 90’s he stated "I have much more sympathy with bisexuals now, but I am absolutely not one." Though he now does consider himself bisexual.

[blueiskewl]

Lonesome Cowboys Andy Warhol, 1968

A set of original 16mm presentation reels of the film that sparked the “Stonewall of the South.” Six 35mm film reels housed in 2 metal flight cases. Movielab, New York, pritned ca. 1969.

On the evening of 5 August 1969, a small crowd of seventy settled in to view Andy Warhol’s Lonesome Cowboys at the recently opened art cinema at the Ansley Mall in Atlanta. About fifteen minutes into the homoerotic underground spoof on westerns featuring Warhol stars Viva, Joe Dallesandro, Eric Emerson, Meade, and Tom Hompertz, the film suddenly stopped, and the house lights went up. The police, some in uniform, others in plainclothes, were everywhere, some with cameras taking photographs of the startled movie-goers still in their seats. Those who attempted to depart quickly were blocked at the door and they too were photographed and questioned by Atlanta police officers. Other officers headed upstairs to the projection room to seize the film reels and arrest James Russ, the manager of the Ansley Mini-Cinema. The police mounted the raid not only to enforce local obscenity laws but identify “known homosexuals,” part of a pattern of harassment that members of Atlanta’s gay Midtown neighborhood routinely endured. Abby Drue, a noted LBGTQ activist, was in the audience that night. “They had everybody get up and line up,” she recalled. “We had popcorn in our mouths. I think I had a submarine sandwich I was in the middle of eating. That’s how absurd it was.”

The police raid in Atlanta occurred a little more than a month after the Stonewall riots in New York, and for many members of the city’s burgeoning LGBTQ community, the raid on the Ansley Mini-Cinema was the final straw. Several days after the raid, a group of protesters were pepper-sprayed and some arrested. These events compelled Atlanta’s LGBTQ community to form the Georgia Gay Liberation Front. That organization would mount Atlanta’s first Pride march in 1971 — an unsanctioned march in which many of participants wore paper bags over their heads to protect their identities — starkly demonstrating the risk of physical harm that was an ever-present threat. Despite local hostility, the marches continued, and Atlanta’s LBGTQ community began flourishing over the ensuing decades becoming strong and vibrant. Today, the raid has been dubbed, “The Stonewall of the South.”

Yet the Atlanta police were not the only law enforcement agency to take interest in Lonesome Cowboys. The FBI had been monitoring the film soon after it was filmed in a single day a dude ranch near Tucson, Arizona on 28 January 1968. A Special Agent was dispatched to Arizona to interview witnesses to support a potential charge of “interstate transportation of obscene matter.” The investigation had been prompted by a complaint received at the Pinal County Sherriff, that “some guests at the Rancho Linda Vista Guest Ranch were making an obscene film.” Sherriff’s deputies arrived at the ranch on the afternoon of the 28th and ordered that the filming be halted immediately. The FBI kept a copiously detailed dossier on the film’s production based on eyewitness accounts that offer a window into the chaos of the film’s production covering all aspects from various “unnatural sexual acts” to details on the license plate numbers (redacted) of those on set. One eyewitness recalled that “The movie seemed to have no plot and the actors just said anything that came into their minds.” (Vincent Canby and other critics would take a similar view.) The FBI continued to monitor the film’s production and distribution, noting that Warhol had intended it to be premiered at the Hudson Theatre in New York in late April 1968, but editing was taking longer than planned. Then in early June, Warhol fell victim to an assassination attempt, further delaying production. It finally premiered at the San Francicso International Film Festival on 1 November 1968, and FBI agents were there collecting further evidence.

Meanwhile in Atlanta, the question of whether the film could be considered obscene landed in the courts. Ultimately, Lewis Slayton, the Fulton County District Attorney, allowed the film to be shown after Cradock Films, who held the rights to distribute the film in Georgia, agreed to edit out what the county considered objectionable. By early January 1970, the Ansley Mini-Cinema was once again presenting Lonesome Cowboys. As far as the FBI’s investigation into Warhol’s activities was concerned, federal prosecutors in Arizona, San Francisco and New York ultimately declined to pursue the charges in court, as the film was not considered “obscene within the definition of that word as defined by the Supreme Court of the United States.”

The present copy is believed to have been printed as early as 1969, but no earlier. According to the FBI report on the film’s screening in San Francisco in November 1968, the film opened with “the woman [Viva] and her male nurse [Taylor Meade] on a street in the town,” but the present copy, opens with a sex scene between Viva and Tom Hompert which appears to be consistent with the currently-known copies. The markings found on the paper sleeves include a red stamp for “INTERNATIONAL AMUSEMENT CORP,” a short-lived distribution and production company based in North Carolina established in 1974. This would suggest this film was in circulation in various art houses up until at least the mid to late 1970s.

The current number of original copies used during the film’s showings in 1969 and 1970 is unclear, but the present set of reels is marked as “Print No. 10” on each of the surviving paper sleeves. Original reels of the film are known to have survived including a master print at the Andy Warhol museum and copies at the Museum of Modern Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago. It is not clear if other copies survive in any private collections.

[missrayon]

Eric Emerson by Chris Stein, 1972. x

[dearmistermuse]

Chelsea Girls

Andy Warhol, [Unknown Eric Reel], 1966. Pictured: Angelina “Pepper” Davis, Sam, Susan Bottomly, Eric Emerson, Ingrid Superstar

[internatlvelvet]

Susan Bottomly, Rene Ricard, Eric Emerson, Mary Woronov, Andy Warhol, Ronnie Cutrone, Paul Morrissey, Pepper Davis.

[vertonghen]

compilation of the past and present players congratulating sonny 🥺🤍

[lee-kangin]

"What you did, what you are doing, and what you will do for this fantastic football club, for us... very proud to have you as our captain."

Spurs lads of past and present send their congratulatory messages to Sonny for his 400 appearances for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. 🤍

[strangewallflower]

I'm so normal.

You have NO IDEA just how normal I am.

I'mnormalaboutthemimnormalaboutthemimnormalllaboutvthenmbmmmm

THE LEVELS AT WHICH I AM NORMAL.

I am sane.

I am fine.

IT'S FINE.

I'm not taking questions.

AAAAAGH

OKAY BUT SERIOUSLY I CANNOT BE ALONE ON THIS-

[delstroyer]

Tottenham vs. Marseille | September 7th |  2-0 

[lydiamaya]

PL Teams as baby : Tottenham Hotspur

Hugo Lloris 🤍💙

Pierre Emile Højbjerg 🤍💙

Son Heung-Min 🤍💙 (please tell me if this child is actually Sonny and not some random child again 😭)

Harry Kane 🤍💙

Richarlison 🤍💙 (side note but I would die for Richarlison but especially baby Richarlison)

Matt Doherty 🤍💙

Oliver Skipp 🤍💙

Davinson Sánchez 🤍💙

Bryan Gil 🤍💙

Emerson Royal 🤍💙

Eric Dier 🤍💙

Cristian Romero 🤍💙 (I tried okay, I tried very hard 😭😭)

Ryan Sessegnon 🤍💙

Fraser Forster 🤍💙 (Furthest I could find, from 2007)

Dejan Kulusevski 🤍💙 (loan from Juve)

Djed Spence 🤍💙 (The 1st circled child is him, the other is ESR)

Japhet Tanganga 🤍💙

Papa Matar Sarr 🤍💙 (He's 20 now, the 1st pic is from 2020)

Rodrigo Bentacur 🤍💙

Ben Davies 🤍💙

Clément Lenglet 🤍💙 (loan from Barca)

Yves Bissouma 🤍💙

Brandon Austin 🤍💙 (I am sorry this is the furthest I could find 😭, 1st pic from 2017)

Harvey White 🤍💙

Bonus —: Antonio Conte 🤍💙

[queercounterculture]

Interview with Lou Reed in Creem magazine in 1987 for the twentieth anniversary of The Velvet Underground’s first album . This isn’t the whole interview I just though the parts about Brian Epstein and Eric Emerson were interesting.

[lovesomehate]

Our boys 💙

[happyhotspur]

an evening of mixed emotions

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