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A drag club in Harlem in the 1960s

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Squid Game x El Chavo Del Ocho

A mashup I created with two of my favorite shows.

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Young Royals stream on Netflix

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Mexico D.F. Newspaper Front Cover

December 16, 1970 What's up? Nobody wants to be a man anymore? THEY WHERE BORN MEN!

June 2, 1971 Follow The Calamity of Homosexuals! They love and kiss in public! They say they are boyfriends! Disgusting! The "Mujercitos" are shameless!

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Happy Pride 2021

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I Told Sunset About You Part 1:

I Promised You The Moon Part 2:

Watch Every Thursday May 27, 2021 - June 24, 2021

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Doritos Rainbow Commercial in Mexico

A Doritos Mexico ad is lighting up the Internet with its sweet message of acceptance.

The two-minute commercial released over the holidays is based on a true story and has been viewed more than 14 million times on YouTube.

At the start of the commercial, university student Javier is traveling home for Christmas and calls his single father from a service station to let him know they’re on their way. The son is bringing a blue-haired friend. The hair isn’t the issue.

After they arrive, Dad notices there’s something more to this friendship between his son and his friend. An affectionate moment in the truck, how they held each other while riding a horse and that time in the restaurant when his son slipped up and asked his friend, “What do you want, honey?”

“Hello, I’m a 52-year-old divorced father and need some help,” he writes, turning to Reddit for support. “I think my son and his friend are a couple and he won’t tell me. How can I let them know that everything is OK?”

Finally, Dad approaches Javier in the kitchen, simply telling his son: “I love you.”

“What you want to tell me is, that you love me as I am?” Javier, obviously a bright student, responds.

His father nods, they hug and the Internet’s collective eyes well up.

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Frederick Gotthold Enslin first man discharged from the Army for Sodomy

Frederick Gotthold Enslin served in the Continental Army under George Washington. Though you’ve probably studied the Revolutionary War throughout your education, you’ve probably never heard the story of the Valley Forge trial involving slander, court martial and exile.

Frederick arrived in Philadelphia from the Netherlands in 1774, according to a ship’s log. In 1778, during a cold winter in the midst of the Revolutionary War, an ensign at Valley Forge began spreading a rumor that Frederick Gotthold Enslin had committed sodomy. At first, the ensign was charged with “propagating a scandalous report,” but he was later acquitted when the rumors were judged to be true.

George Washington himself wrote the report and approved a sentence of exile from the Army. “Lieut. Enslin to be drummed out of Camp tomorrow morning,” records indicate.

And so on March 15, 1778, Gotthold Enslin was forced to march from camp with his coat turned inside-out, never to return. There are no records referencing his eventual fate.

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Your Name Engraved Herein - Stream on Netflix

In 1988 when Martial Law Era ended, two Christian high school students, A Han and Birdy, met at the school band led by Canadian Priest Ou. One day, they were granted a day off to Taipei for the late President’s funeral. The two took a chance to explore the city and theaters, finding themselves inspired by brotherly love and freedom. Days after, A Han’s affection for Birdy has been awakened, but much confused Birdy pushed him away by pretending falling in love with a girl. The misunderstanding separated them ever since until two decades later, the two men met again in a foreign city.

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The Craft Legacy Transgender Actress Zoey Luna

Black magic is in the air again, 24 years after the teenage horror movie The Craft hit theaters in 1996 with levitating pencils and blood rituals.

In the sequel, The Craft: Legacy, which is scheduled to be released on VOD October 28, four new witches, one of them played by Mexican transgender actress Zoey Luna, form their own coven when a new girl moves into town.

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"For a brief moment we were epic."

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Black History Month: William Dorsey Swann - First Drag Queen

William Dorsey Swann was an American gay liberation activist. Born into slavery, he was the first person in the United States to lead a queer resistance group and the first known person to self-identify as a "queen of drag".

In 1888, one of first recorded and widely-publicized arrests in the United States for gender impersonation took place at an event in the home of William Dorsey Swann, a Black man.  Less than a mile from the White House, Swann and twelve other Black people were arrested and charged with vagrancy after police raided a secret drag dance he was hosting. The following day the headline in the Evening Star read “Colored Men in Female Attire.”

Swann — the queen of the ball — was himself “arrayed in a gorgeous dress of cream-colored satin,” but unlike the others, he ran frantically toward the officers in a vain attempt to keep them from entering the two-story residence in northwest Washington, D.C.

They were ordered to pay a bond or serve 30 days in jail, and their names were published in the local papers the next day for all the city to read.

A year prior, in January 1887, another such dance was also raided. This one had featured both white and Black invitees — and several of the same people had been arrested, including Swann.

Available evidence hints that queens intentionally changed the locations of their parties in order to evade law enforcement. Through informants, detectives were keeping an eye on Swann and the others. On New Year’s Eve of 1895, after the men had successfully eluded the authorities for years, the police abruptly walked into Swann’s home to disrupt a gathering that had only just begun. The officers arrested the host, charging him with keeping a disorderly house. Three black guests were also taken in and charged with vagrancy, while three white guests faced no charges but were summoned as “witnesses.”

Swann was found guilty and sentenced to 10 months in jail. The judge, who said Swann’s home had become a “hell of iniquity,” told the court he wished he had had the power to impose a 10-year sentence instead.

When Swann stopped organizing and participating in drag events, his brother continued to make costumes for the drag community. Two of his brothers had also been active participants in Swann's drag balls.

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LGBT History: Cross-Dressing Nazis

Martin Dammann has spent many years studying war photography, during his research, he stumbled across many amateur photographs of soldiers in the German army who dressed as women – scenes that directly contradicted Nazi ideology.

Dammann’s discoveries are now being presented for discussion in his critical book, Soldier Studies: Cross-Dressing In Der Wehrmacht, which features pictures that provide surprising insights into the longings and everyday lives of German soldiers in World War II: from playful scenes of young recruits clowning around, to improvised disguises among close friends at the front, to carefully prepared performances in Allied POW camps.

The men in these photos were all fighting for a regime that pitilessly persecuted gays, transsexuals, cross-dressers and anyone else seen as sexual “deviants.” Several thousand homosexual men alone are estimated to have died in concentration camps under Nazi rule.

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LGBTQ Mexicans arrested 1935 x Plus LGBTQ Mexicans in the 1940s

A set of pictures of Mexicans, purportedly arrested for homosexuality in 1935. The photo belongs to the collection of the National Photo Library of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) in Mexico.

Very little is known about the detainees themselves, except these pictures are dated around 1940. These pictures come from Lecumberri prison in Mexico City. Up until 1976, gay men were imprisoned in the prison ward J, or Jota. Joto(s) is still a common homophobic slur in Mexico.

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First Mexican Telenovela That Will Star Gay Couple In Leading Role

Juntos El Corazón Nunca Se Equivoca, which translates to Together The Heart is Never Wrong, is coming this June to the Spanish-language television network. A gay couple will lead the series, for the first time ever in Univision's history.

Joaquín Bondoni plays Cuauhtémoc and Emilio Osorio plays Aristóteles, the fan favorite couple from another popular telenovela, Mi Marido Tiene Más Familia (My Husband Has More Family).

Known by viewers as Aristemo (Aristóteles + Temo), fans loved the couple so much that the two got their own spin off!

The show is premiering in Mexico, and in the U.S on Tv Network Las Estrellas.

El Corazón Nunca Se Equivoca premieres June 23 & 24 

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“We’ve Been Around” - Trans Day of Visibility 

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