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…
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…
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…
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.