October 9, 2014

LGBTQ History #7: Melissa Etheridge Comes Out

The year was 1993 and the democrats partied hard at Bill Clinton’s inauguration. For the first time, the LGBTQ community was invited. LGBTQ rights groups threw the Triangle Ball to coincide with the official inaugural celebrations.
October 7, 2014

LGBTQ History #5: Ma Rainey

Ma Rainey is recognized as one of the great female blues vocalists, and known as the “Mother of the Blues.” She signed a record deal with Paramount Records in 1923 and was one of the first performers to record the blues.
May 19, 2014

Started from the Bottom…Now We’re Queer

Peculiar. Unusual. Eccentric. Queer. It’s a word with a denotative meaning as broad and varying as the community that now regularly adopts and widely applies its use. In the spirit of gender nonconformity and sexual ambiguity, many members of our LGBTQ community have now found refuge from society’s labels...
November 19, 2013
Queer Fashion History Exhibit: The Museum at FIT, 2013

How to Whitewash A Dandy: A Colorless Account of Queer Fashion History

By Tiffany Mott-Smith
Last weekend, I had the opportunity to attend The Queer Fashion History Symposium. I spent six and half hours preparing for this event.