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From the #gayarchives:

#bestgayever films: Nighthawks Ron Peck 1978 Ron Peck’s tale of a teacher (Ken Robertson) who haunts London’s gay clubs at night has earned a cult following for its rare depiction of homosexuality in the U.K. as something that existed within a subculture, and not simply as a crime.

#catchofthegay : gay quotes “Christmas calories don’t count when you’re gay – we sparkle them off.”

#goodgayreads: Nightwood Djuna Barnes 1936 This modernist novel is like stepping into a dream—intense, poetic, and wildly unique. Set in bohemian Paris, Nightwood is all about passionate, tangled queer love affairs, and it’s packed with gorgeous (and sometimes dizzying) prose.

#gayvisualartistsyoushouldknow: Claudio Petit-Laurent (Cañete, Chile, 1982) has a degree in Art, Mention in Painting, from the Catholic University of Temuco (Chile). With a Master's Degree in Design and a Doctorate in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid.

#songofthegay: #GayMusicMasters QUINZE [Bob Sinclar] Never Knew Love Like This Before 2023

#onthisdayingayhistory: December 17 1987 Morton Downey Jr. is arraigned on charges of attacking a gay guest on his television show. Hate has always been here.

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#bestgayever films: Nuovo Olimpo Director-Ferzan Özpetek 2023 Italian (subt.) In the late 1970s, two young men meet by chance and fall madly in love. An unexpected event, however, separates them. For 30 years, they pursue the hope of finding each other again.

#catchofthegay : gay quotes "It's not my job to judge one of my athletes. Everybody is different. Some are the partying type, some are the studying type, some are ultra-religious, some might be gay. Put it this way: If you can play ball, that's all I care about." -Tom Izzo

#goodgayreads: Openly Straight (Book 1 of 2) Bill Konigsberg 2016 The award-winning novel about being out, being proud, and being ready for something else. Rafe is a normal teenager from Boulder, Colorado. He plays soccer. He's won skiing prizes. He likes to write.

#gayvisualartistsyoushouldknow: Eduardo Urdiales has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Granada. He delved into the discipline in which he has become a true virtuoso: drawing. One of his first works was actually selected in the XXV Gregorio Prieto Drawing Contest in 2019.

#songofthegay: #GayMusicMasters Steve Grand I'll Be Home For Christmas 2021

#onthisdayingayhistory: December 16 1983 Mel Brooks’ To Be or Not To Be, a remake of the Ernst Lubitsch classic, becomes the first mainstream Hollywood film to not just acknowledge Nazi persecution of homosexuals but makes it a key plot element.

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#bestgayever films: C.O.G. Director- Kyle Patrick Alvarez 2013 Based on a David Sedaris short story, a closeted Yale dropout goes off the grid to pick apples among religious zealots at a rural Oregon orchard.

#goodgayreads: A Forbidden Rumspringa Keira Andrews 2014 When two young Amish men find love, will they risk losing everything? Isaac knows his sinful desire for David is forbidden.

#gayvisualartistsyoushouldknow: Using orthopedic bandages dipped in plaster, New York sculptor George Segal (1924-2000) constructed some of the most haunting and memorable figurative art of the 20th century.

#songofthegay: #GayMusicMasters Kylie Minogue XMAS 2025

#onthisdayingayhistory: Dec 15 1988 The Free University of Amsterdam convenes the Int'l Scientific Conference on Gay and Lesbian Studies. The highlight of the session is a heated debate inspired by the Constructionism vs. Essentialism controversy, entitled Homosexuality, Which Homosexuality?

#songofthegay: #GayMusicMasters Wrabel The Village 2017

#onthisdayingayhistory: December 14 1990 In New York, Alfred University faculty approved a resolution urging officials to ban ROTC because of the military’s anti-gay policies.

#catchofthegay : gay quotes “Only to hold your hand in mine. Make me forget my tears. Hope on my pathway seems to shine. The sad world appears when in your eye love light I see all the sad world is true telling me that you are to me all that I am to you. NE” Dunlop, Missouri – August 24, 1911

From the #gayarchives: This photo brings to mind a time when two guys would have to find any place to show a speck of love and intimacy. A bar, an alley, a car.. precious moments.

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#saturdaynightgayfright film selection: It's A Wonderful Knife Dir. Tyler MacIntyre 2023 Spin on the 1946 Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life; however, instead of the lead character recognizing his previous good deeds, the character Winnie discovers how many deaths she has prevented in her town

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#goodgayreads: Jean Genet turned the anarchic and crude into high art. Drawing on his experiences as a prostitute and drifter, he summoned the pungent dissoluteness of pre-World War II Paris in Our Lady of the Flowers (1943), a tale of a cross-dresser and his colorfully deviant cohort.

#gayvisualartistsyoushouldknow: Zanele Muholi: A South African photographer and visual activist, Muholi's work focuses on the lives and experiences of black LGBTQ+ individuals, using photography as a means of empowerment and representation.

#songofthegay: #GayMusicMasters December Song (I dreamed Of Christmas) George Michael 2010

#onthisdayingayhistory: December 13 1973 Washington, D.C.’s Title 34 makes discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation illegal.

"In love but who?...Leonard." Lenny and friend.

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#bestgayever films: Kiss Me, Guido Director Tony Vitale 1997 Kiss Me, Guido is a mistaken-identity comedy in which a straight Sicilian-American guy from the Bronx -- a "Guido" in the film's parlance -- moves in with a gay man in Greenwich Village.

#catchofthegay : gay quotes "It never ceases to amaze me how many 'intelligent' people are bigots." -CGM

#goodgayreads: Great Believers Rebecca Makkai 2019 This Pulitzer and National Book Award finalist follows a Chicago art gallery director in 1985 as the AIDS crisis grows around him. A moving, thoughtful page-turner that’s one of the best pieces of fiction about AIDS in the 21st century.

#gayvisualartistsyoushouldknow: John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was an American expatriate artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian-era luxury.

#songofthegay: #GayMusicMasters Karl Loxley Never Enough (from The Greatest Showman) 2019

#onthisdayingayhistory: December 10 1792 The Commonwealth of Virginia criminalizes buggery, including female same -sex intercourse, with the death penalty.

British same sex championship dancing now open to all!

Eileen Higgins elected mayor of Miami, Florida, becoming the city’s first woman mayor #NOH8

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#bestgayever films: Riley Director Benjamin Howard 2025 Dakota Riley is a star player on the high school football team whose hidden sexuality threatens to unravel his life. When his identity is exposed, he is forced to confront the consequences of denial, and come to terms with who he really is.

#catchofthegay : gay quotes "Love is love. And if I could give you one thing in life, it would be the courage to follow your heart and intuition." -Angelina Jolie

#goodgayreads: A Boys Own Story Edmond White (1940-2025) 1982 A nameless narrator's coming-of-age story in the 1950s, struggling with his homosexuality and seeking emotional connection amidst unhelpful attentions.

#gayvisualartistsyoushouldknow: Scott Csoke's work uses historical genre paintings as a foundation to create a series of acrylic works that serve as expressive avatars of queer experience. His paintings, such as "Gay Puppy Running Away from Heterosexuality" explore the complexities of sexuality.

#songofthegay: #GayMusicMasters Cher Christmas Is Here 2025