This Mother’s Day we celebrate by remembering the Amazing being that was Heavenly Angel Octavia St. Laurent Manolo Blahnik or just Octavia St.Laurent. A Transgender powerhouse who ruled the Harlem and New York City Ballrooms from the late 1980′s thru to the new millennium. She started in Paris Is Burning (documentary) 1990 along with Pepper Labeija, Dorian Corey, Anji and Venus Xtravaganza. Octavia was featured in the movie The Saint of Fort Washington in 1993 starring Danny Glover and Matt Dillon. Miss Octavia’s last film was How Do I Look (documentary) 2006 which also starred Willie Ninja ( the Master of Vogue). [...]
Society’s Greater Openness Toward Homosexuality 1979
Before Viagra, Madonna and Sex and the City, Americans learned about sex and love from medical pioneers William Masters and Virginia Johnson. Secretively in a small Midwest hospital lab, they presided over the biggest, most controversial sex experiment ever, relying on prostitutes and college volunteers to perform more than 10,000 sexual acts in the name of science. They documented how the human body responds during sex, and then came up with a successful therapy that replaced Freuds psychoanalysis in curing problems. For more than forty years, these two researchers, who eventually married, reigned as the nations top experts on sex, [...]
Klub Kid Ernie Glam, Gives Good Glamour
Klub Kid Ernie Glam from the Limelight nightclub at 656 Sixth Avenue in New York City…brings us Instant Glamour. Work it! Work it! Use it all up… You don’t get to save it….Touch it up… Your thinking, it takes hours… Who does this Queen thinks she is dictating to me how to be fierce? Sample her out of this mix! “Instant Glamour” By Ernie Glam (NY’s Limelight Klub Kid Celebutante), Courtesy of FabulousWonderTwins. Thank you
Sing if Your Glad to Be Gay, Sing if Your Happy This Way
Glad to Be Gay Vs Before Stonewall, Courtesy of permanentaddiction. Thank You
The Stonewall Inn, the Riot, the Uprising, the Celebration
On Monday Night April 25, 2011 PBS stations nationwide unveiled a new documentary about the Stonewall Riots which took place June 28, 1969. The oppression that the LGBT community was subjected to should have never happened in the first place. People were getting tired of being arrested and treated like a second class citizens. On that warm night in June the boiling point was at its peak and people were ready to fight back and that’s just what happened. In this documentary we follow the veterans who take us step by step on that fateful night through to the first liberation [...]
Levi Leather Bar 1994 Open for Previews
Contributed to back in the gays is an invite from the opening night of The L.U.R.E. Saturday January Twenty Ninth, 1994 9:00pm – 4:00am. This was one of the best leather bars in New york City at the time and we sure do miss it. Tons of good memories and parties were held at the L.U.R.E. . Also remember being turned away on numerous occassions for hiking boots, while watching the guys in leather walk right in with their full drag. AwW the memories… Alot of the times we would have a better time outside than inside or maybe it [...]
L.U.R.E. Saturday January 29, 1994
New York’s Brand New Bar For Men Into Leather – Uniform – Rubber – Etc. . The LURE was located on the rim of the West Village at Four Hundred Nine West Thirtenth Street New York City and here is the official opening party invite contributed to http://backinthegays.com.