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#bestgayever films: Tucked (2018) Jamie Patterson tells the story of a veteran drag queen with a terminal illness. Needing to tidy up unfinished business, an unexpected friendship with a younger queen in this movie brings us a tale of love and loss.

#catchofthegay : gay quotes "From a religious point of view-if God would have thought homosexuality was a sin-he wouldn't have created gay people." -Howard Dean

#goodgayreads: Better Angels Forman Brown 1933 One of the first positive images of gay life that became an underground classic. It remains a touching story of a young man's discovery of his sexuality in the 1920s and 1930s and is considered to be one of the most important gay books ever written.

#gayvisualartistsyoushouldknow: Aubrey Beardsley 1872-1898 The linear elegance of his designs coupled with the artist's bizarre sense of humor and fascination with the grotesque and taboo simultaneously intrigued and repelled his Victorian audience.

#songofthegay: #GayMusicMasters Chris Housman Hidin' Something 2025

#onthisdayingayhistory: October 24 1981 The first National Conference on Lesbian and Gay Aging was held in California. Sponsored by the National Association for Gay and Lesbian Gerontology, it sought to “dispel myths about older lesbians and gay men.

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#bestgayever films: The Imitation Game Morten Tyldum- Dir. 2014 Alan Turing was a considered a hero during World War 2. Overall, this genius cracked nearly-indecipherable Nazi codes and inadvertently invented the internet as we came to know it. Turing was outed in 1952 and got sent to prison.

#catchofthegay : gay quotes “When a president refuses to support gay communities, he refuses to support community itself. Queer dignity is not a niche—it’s the measure of whether a nation values intimacy, truth, and difference.” CGM

#goodgayreads: Two Boys Kissing David Leviathan 2013 Two 17 year old boys decide to break the world record for kissing. This means they have to kiss for 32 hours straight. Over the course of the 32 hours, they flashback on their relationship and do their best to just keep kissing.

#gayvisualartistsyoushouldknow: Hugh Hayden knows his way around a block of wood. His surreal sculptures of school desks, dining table sets, and whole, habitable cabins all appear to sprout branches, but are carved from continuous timber blocks.

#songofthegay: #GayMusicMasters "IT'S A SIN" The Palace String Orchestra featuring Aidan & Keith

#onthisdayingayhistory: October 22 2009, Sweden The Church of Sweden votes to allow same-sex marriages. and 2013, Australia The Legislative Assembly of the Australian Capital territory (ACT) (Canberra), votes in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage.

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From the #gayarchives: West Village in the 1970s

#bestgayever films: Three Months 2022 Jared Frieder-Dir. Singer Troye Sivan stars as Caleb, who discovers he has been exposed to HIV. During the three-month waiting period while he’s awaiting his results, he connects with Estha (Viviek Kalra), who is also waiting for the same results.

#catchofthegay : gay quotes “You don’t have to be one thing to be real. You only have to be yourself.” —Alok Vaid-Menon

#goodgayreads: Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway 1925 In this vivid classic a portrait of a single day in a woman’s life, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of preparation for a party while in her mind she is something much more than a perfect society hostess.

#gayvisualartistsyoushouldknow: Roni Horn famous for creatively challenging the scopes of nature, self-identity, and emotional perception. At 19, she graduated the Rhode Island School of Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, later receiving a Master of Fine Arts in sculpture from Yale Univ in 1978.

#songofthegay: #GayMusicMasters David Archuleta I'm Yours 2023

#onthisdayingayhistory: October 20 1991 An episode of Fox’s Roc television series (season 1, episode 8) airing on October 20 (Can’t Help Loving That Man) depicted the second same-sex marriage on U.S. prime time television.

Early estimates project across the board 700,000–840,000 LGBTQ+ participated in Saturdays 'No Kings' rallies across the nation. 10-12%. In cities with strong queer communities—like Asheville, San Francisco, and New York—the percentage may have been even higher.

Happy weekend to all as we celebrate fall!

Tomorrow-Saturday, October 18, 2025. WE RISE!

From the #gayarchives: September 1938

#bestgayever films: Reflections in a Golden Eye 1967 John Houston Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor in a haunting tale of repression, voyeurism, and emotional unraveling set on a Southern military base. 🌟🌟🌟🌟

#goodgayreads: Billy Budd Herman Melville 1891 and 1924 The novel remained unfinished at the author's death in 1891, was finally published in 1924. Billy Budd, a "handsome sailor", inadvertently beats and kills his false accuser, master-at-arms John Claggart.

#gayvisualartistsyoushouldknow: The Queer Code: Secret Languages of LGBTQ+ Art Short by National Galleries

#songofthegay: #GayMusicMasters Bright Light Bright Light Moves 2013

#onthisdayingayhistory: October 17 1920 Actor Montgomery Clift (October 17, 1920 – July 23, 1966) is born in Omaha, Nebraska. His sexuality was carefully guarded from fans but few in Hollywood did not know. Clift burned himself out and was dead at the age of 46.

#catchofthegay : gay quotes "Our gay community must reclaim our intimacy. We are more than just a nonprofit." -CGM

From the #gayarchives:

#bestgayever films: Hawaii 2013 In Hawaii, filmmaker Marco Berger explores the slow-burning relationship between Eugenio, a struggling writer, and Martín, his childhood friend turned handyman, as they navigate their growing attraction amidst the stunning Argentinian countryside. subtitled

#catchofthegay : gay quotes “You look ridiculous if you dance. You look ridiculous if you don’t dance. So you might as well dance.” — Gertrude Stein

#goodgayreads: Mothers and Sons Adam Haslett 2025 At 40, Peter, an asylum lawyer in New York City, is overworked and isolated. He spends his days immersed in the struggles of immigrants only to return to an empty apartment and occasional hook-ups with a man who wants more than Peter can give.

#gayvisualartistsyoushouldknow: Fabián Cháirez (born 13 December 1987) is a Mexican plastic artist known for his paintings on sexuality and traditional masculinity (machismo). He is both a painter and sculptor.

#songofthegay: #GayMusicMasters Brandon Stansell That's What I Feel About You 2024

#onthisdayingayhistory: October 15 1977 The Santa Barbara, California, board of education votes to ban discrimination against gay and lesbian students, making it the first U.S. school board to do so.

From the #gayarchives:

#bestgayever films: Shades of Gay Rupert Everret 2022

#catchofthegay : gay quotes “I’ve always known I was gay, but it wasn’t confirmed until I was in kindergarten. It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF.” ― David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy

#goodgayreads: Hand in Hand with Love 2023 An outstanding anthology celebrates queer poetry from Sappho and the Ancient Greeks to Edna St. Vincent Millay and the modernists. Simon Avery traces the development of poetry, in all its forms, that gives voice to queer lives, loves and friendships.

#gayvisualartistsyoushouldknow: Born in 1978 in Bogota, Colombia, Carlos Motta is a New York–based artist whose multidisciplinary practice includes film, video, photography, drawing, and sculpture. His work focuses on the body as a “contested terrain”.

#songofthegay: #GayMusicMasters Ride 🏳️‍🌈 (Austin Leeds Remix) LGBTQ+ Pride 2019 - Reigen

#onthisdayingayhistory: 1979 The first National March on Washington for Gay and Lesbian Rights attended by 125,000 LGBT people and straight allies to demand equal civil rights and to urge civil rights legislation. The march served to nationalize the gay movement, until then on local struggles.

From the #gayarchives: "Terry and Me"

#bestgayever films: Beach Rats 2017 Frankie spends his idle hours hanging with his delinquent friends, fooling around with his girlfriend, and hooking up with men he meets online. Beach Rats is a provocative look at the personal and secret urges we often fear will come out into the light.

#catchofthegay : gay quotes "What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies." -Aristotle