Fire Island in 1976 a much simpler time. No cell phones, no texting, people actually hanging out with each other enjoying being around other like minded adults. Nelson Sullivan’s early videography showed us how we vacationed back in the mid 1970′s. People cruising and gallivanting on the beach without the hassles of modern technology. Fire Island – The Beach – 1976, Courtesy of 5ninthavenueproject. Thank you
You’ll Come Again and Again.
Man’s Country Baths which was located at 28 West 15th street was a gay bath house in New York city that opened sometime in the early 197os. It was not as popular as the downtown St.Marks Baths or the uptown Everard Baths. Man’s Country Bathhouse was located on a residential street in a former office building said to have up to nine or ten floors of orgies (a person who had attended said “that only the top two or three floors were used.”) It was said that the main orgy room featured a full sized tractor trailer cab for use [...]
June 17 2010 Was the Day BiTG Was Born, Two Years Later Here We Are.
<Waves> Hello extended family. Want to start by saying Thank You for all the love, continuing support and contribution to date. We originally started backinthegays to give people the opportunity to share their own history or share those that are no longer part of our lives. Which is where the tag line started: Committed to stories and events that happened back in the days in the LGBTQIA community. Two years later, we’re still committed to your stories, individual history and continuing struggles our community faces in 2012. When we had our show with QPR in 2011 a new tag line [...]
The Time Is 1980, the Summer Is Hot and Humid. It’s Saturday
Where do I go? Where is the eye candy dripping with sweat? The Discotech sounds groovy, but the backrooms keep calling me. Wherever I end up I hope I can groove with someone like me. Gay and free to love you and me… Spargo – You And Me (1980), Courtesy of VinylFlavoured. Thank you
This Gives Bowery Boys a Whole Differnt Meaning
The forever naughty Leigh Bowery Stars in this 1987 video that will have you dressing up and dancing in the aisles. Channel your inner Club Kid and get on out there and dance damn it! ‘Boys’ starring Leigh Bowery a film by Baillie Walsh (1987), Courtesy of blackdogfilmsuk. Thank you
Polictical Awareness, Has It Changed Much From 1982? to 2012?
As the video opens we start out with a ditty from four Gay San Franciscians. The Choral Majority consisting of Leslie Hassberg, Barbara Brautigam, Larry Wisch and Tim Curbo. They perform from their repartee of sinful but wicked little ditties about the treatment of gays durning early 1980′s. The Choral Majority is a bold, blaspheming quartet crusading and caroling against the New Right, Reaganomics, all things homophobic and politically incorrect. They have managed to offend just about everyone at some point with audiences loving it! Are politics any different from 1982 to 2012? Thirty years later in some respects yes [...]
Fashionista Patricia Field’s Eighth Street Boutique
Downtown videographer Nelson Sullivan Stops by fashion icon Patricia Field’s Eighth Street store and fashion emporium. Nelson hangs out with fashionistas and downtown scenesters Tangella, James St. James, Lisa E. and Gabriel Rotello. This mid 1980′s video shows Pat Field hard at work keeping her store and clientele happy with the latest trendy fashions. Watch as Tangella runs from one end of the boutique to the other showing off the store to Nelson who is video taping his way through the shop. In comes James St. James and Lisa E. millinery shopping and also running rampant all over the store [...]