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🌈 Classic Gay Men celebrates LGBTQ+ history, literature, film, art and music—uncovering hidden gems and forgotten voices. Follow @classicgaymen.bsky.social for rare archives, timeless stories, and deep dives into queer culture! #ClassicGayMen

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"𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜 our 𝙡𝙚𝙜𝙖𝙘𝙮, 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙩 𝙖 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚." #classicgaymen

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From the #gayarchives:

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#bestgayever films:

Shades of Gay

Rupert Everret

2022

Rupert Everett's Shades of Gay | Full Documentary | LGBTQIA+

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“I’ve always known I was gay, but it wasn’t confirmed until I was in kindergarten. It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF.”

― David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy

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#goodgayreads:

Hand in Hand with Love

2023

An outstanding anthology celebrates queer poetry from Sappho and the Ancient Greeks to Edna St. Vincent Millay and the modernists. Simon Avery traces the development of poetry, in all its forms, that gives voice to queer lives, loves and friendships.

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#gayvisualartistsyoushouldknow:

Born in 1978 in Bogota, Colombia, Carlos Motta is a New York–based artist whose multidisciplinary practice includes film, video, photography, drawing, and sculpture. His work focuses on the body as a “contested terrain”.

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#songofthegay:
#GayMusicMasters

Ride 🏳️‍🌈 (Austin Leeds Remix)

LGBTQ+ Pride 2019 - Reigen

Ride 🏳️‍🌈 (Austin Leeds Remix) LGBTQ+ Pride 2019 - Reigen

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#onthisdayingayhistory:

1979

The first National March on Washington for Gay and Lesbian Rights attended by 125,000 LGBT people and straight allies to demand equal civil rights and to urge civil rights legislation. The march served to nationalize the gay movement, until then on local struggles.

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From the #gayarchives:

"Terry and Me"

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#bestgayever films:

Beach Rats

2017

Frankie spends his idle hours hanging with his delinquent friends, fooling around with his girlfriend, and hooking up with men he meets online. Beach Rats is a provocative look at the personal and secret urges we often fear will come out into the light.

Beach Rats Trailer #1 (2017) | Movieclips Indie

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"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

-Aristotle

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#goodgayreads:

Dear Queer Self: An Experiment in Memoir.

Jonathan Alexander

2022

In this unconventional memoir, Jonathan Alexander addresses wry and affecting missives to a conflicted younger self. Focusing on three years—1989, 1993, and 1996.

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#gayvisualartistsyoushouldknow:

The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in NYC is the only dedicated LGBTQIA+ art museum in the world with a mission to exhibit and preserve LGBTQIA+ art and foster the artists who create it.

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Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art

The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art provides a platform for artistic exploration through multi-faceted queer perspectives.

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#songofthegay:
#GayMusicMasters

Neon Trees

Songs I Can't Listen To

2015

Neon Trees - Songs I Can't Listen To

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#onthisdayingayhistory:

October 13

1307

France

All Knights Templar members are arrested in a single night by order of Philip IV. The Order is then abolished in 1312 over “charges of heresy and sodomy” in order to “neutralize a rival power and satisfy greed.”

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From the #gayarchives

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“Call me by your name and I’ll call you by mine.”

— André Aciman

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#goodgayreads:

My Government Means to Kill Me

Rasheed Newson

2023

Earl “Trey” Singleton III is a child of privilege who moves to New York City in 1985 to live without his parents’ money, influence, or protection. Seventeen and thrilled to begin exploring the city’s Black queer scene.

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#gayvisualartistsyoushouldknow:

Gengoroh Tagame, Japanese "bara-manga" artist legend, is known for his erotic hyper masculine art works and stories.

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#songofthegay:
#GayMusicMasters

GoldFord

"Walk with Me"

2020

Walk With Me - Acoustic

YouTube video by GoldFord

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#onthisdayingayhistory:

October 11

Happy National Coming Out Day! Welcome Home!

First celebrated on October 11, 1988 in the United States. It was founded by Robert Eichberg, a psychologist and personal growth workshop leader, and Jean O’Leary, an openly lesbian political activist.

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#saturdaynightgayfright film selection:

GANYMEDE

Directed by Karina "ScreamQueen" Adelgaard

2024

GANYMEDE (2024) is a new LGBTQ+ thriller with a plot that has vibes of both demonic and gothic tales. A very different (and important) kind of cautionary tale.

Now free streaming on Tubi. (ads)

GANYMEDE (2024) | Official Trailer HD

YouTube video by Jordan Doww

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From the #gayarchives:

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#bestgayever films:

Touch of Pink

written and directed by Ian Iqbal Rashid

2004

Sometimes you just need some good romantic comedy fluff. Touch of Pink never takes itself too seriously (see: Kyle MacLachlan playing the ghost of Cary Grant), which makes it a fun, endearing film.

"Touch of Pink" (2004) Trailer

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#catchofthegay :
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