Calm before the storm. Happy to be back in NYC for a long (soon to be snowy) weekend!

Still feeling grateful to have received the "LGBTQ+ History Keeper Award" at Councilmember Rue Landau's 2nd Annual Philadelphia LGBTQ+ Hall of Fame Awards this past week. A lovely ceremony and all heros of mine among my fellow awardees past and present. 🙏🌈🏆

MW's Words First Used In Print is your personal We Didn't Start The Fire: butt naked coronavirus Fu Manchu mustache marginalize nondairy penny loafer talk radio walking catfish

@septa-social.bsky.social There’s no sign at 3rd and Market indicating that the 17 is not stopping there. Several people waiting on it as it made this detour.

Celebrating Shark Week with a non-alcoholic “Baby Shark” (fresh lemonade and a plastic shark filled with grenadine) at Khyber Pass Pub. 📸 @riversaredamp.bsky.social

Nature is wild, man – v. 2678, part B. This is near Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, on the Great Salt Lake.

Happy anniversary, @cccamac.bsky.social! We “met” on Twitter 16 years ago today.

In 2008, my mother donated a box of family records to the Holocaust Museum. Do I know anyone who can visit the reading room in Bowie, MD & make scans? Compensated, of course. Recommendations welcome! collections.ushmm.org/search/catal...

So very sad for my alma mater. Some of the most prestigious programs. Not shown here, but I understand the world famous Historical Performance Institute (Early Music Institute when I was there) will no longer be accepting majors either.

post a ten year old pic of yourself

I actually got this driver and his Eagles-themed car on a Lyft ride home one night in April. It was so wild! I wasn’t sure @riversaredamp.bsky.social would believe me so I recorded a bit of the ride to show him. I’ll post my video in the thread. share.inquirer.com/MWGEeS

Who stole the ‘gayest’ truck in Philadelphia? A 14,000 lb. flatbed truck with pink lashes and red lips that belonged to the Bearded Ladies was stolen from Mt. Airy. 🔗 inquirer.com/arts/bearded...

Hey fellow terminated #NEH fellows @nehgov.bsky.social @altnehgov.altgov.info Sharing my #NEH Appeal of Termination, which I uploaded into the eGMS system. Mine is for an individual fellowship. Another example below. It is recommended that if you were terminated you get an appeal in today.

So we did a thing… 🧵 You’ve heard about the erasing of LGBTQ history on National Park Service websites. Egregious changes made to the Stonewall National Monument site (erasing all instances of trans and queer) & the disappearance of resources like the monumental “LGBTQ America” theme study.

These rumors have been confirmed, Blueskis. I am enraged.

This Kickstarter could use some love.

Latin Americanists and foreign film buffs: Trying to ID a Latin American film. Only have a meter of 35mm film. Might be titled PRESTAMOS. Kodak edge code suggests copy made in 1922, 1942, or 1962. Perhaps actors, military uniform, or locale will help with ID.

Lovely exhibition at the The Morgan Library & Museum on librarian Belle da Costa Greene.

Hello again, NYC. Always a pleasure!

Apple Macintosh PowerBook of some flavor. I think maybe a 540c. I’m older than this model suggests (1993?) as I came to computers late, in grad school.

Excited to share this essay from @maxfox.bsky.social which makes use of the Wilcox Archives’ collections on Kiyoshi Kuromiya.

On this World AIDS Day / Day With(out) Art, the Philadelphia HIV/AIDS History Portal, launched February 2024. paohp.wilcoxarchives.org

Philly friends: Angle On: Short Films from the Archives  Please join us for an evening of short films from the John J. WIlcox, Jr. Archives at William Way LGBT Community Center. Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 6PM at the John C. Anderson Apartments, 251 South 13th Street.