(TIME-Warp) Honoring the 50th Anniversary of Stonewall!

The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighbourhood of New York City. They are frequently cited as the first instance in American history when people in the homosexual community fought back against a government-sponsored system that persecuted sexual minorities, and they have become the defining event that marked the start of the gay rights movement in the United States and around the world.

One June 26, 2015, The Stonewall was finally registered as a Historical Landmark! 

People of the Pride Parade – An extraordinary visual essay on love, courage, and finding oneself

For the 50th anniversary of the Pride March comes a visual celebration of the diverse, vibrant, and exuberant attendees of New York City’s Pride.

This gorgeous bright book honors the colorful celebrants of the New York City Pride March and Dyke March, capturing the faces that bring the rainbows and liveliness Pride shines with today. Through joyful portraits of two hundred LGBTQ+ community members and allies from New York City’s WorldPride, this is a resplendent one-of-a-kind volume, a portal to the spirit, sequins, and sexual liberty of the weekend, a keepsake tribute to the power of love over hate, and a meaningful touchstone, immortalizing the effervescence, excitement, and positive energy of those who attend.

To make this incredible volume, renowned Northeastern photographer, Alyssa Blumstein, who was featured on Vice’s Motherboard, photographed Pride attendees of all ages and races, sexual orientations, and genders – native New Yorkers and those who’d come in from around the world to attend the parade. The result is an extraordinary keepsake package that channels the essence and person-on-the-street nature of Humans of New York to showcase poignant and joyful portraits of the LGBTQ+ community and its allies.

Alyssa Blumstein is a renowned photographer who previously worked as a food photographer and the director of social media for Dale Talde’s Three Kings Restaurant Group. Her collections such as Weakest Link, where she documented hundreds of abandoned printers from around the world, have been featured by media outlets such as Vice’s Motherhood. Her vibrant work celebrates people and events. Blumstein works in Boston and New York City.

Courtesy of Apollo Publishers

New York Times: Pride 2020 Special Report

NEW YORK- To mark fifty years since the first Pride March, the New York Times today published a Pride special report [www.nytimes.com/spotlight/lgbt-pride], featuring LGBTQ voices on the challenges and possibilities of these troubled times.

Authors Jericho Brown, Carmen Maria Machado, and Thomas Page McBee reflect on a complicated moment for the L.G.B.T.Q. community, reflecting on the question “What Does Pride Mean Now?”


Andrea Jenkins, the first black, openly transgender woman to be elected to public office in the US, explains why she is Somber but Optimistic.


Ted Loos explores what lockdown has meant for the creative work of LGBTQ Artists and Writers [l], and Scott James writes, as the pandemic ravages the country, there are concerns that the already marginalized group of transgender people will be further left behind


To take part in the spirit and mission of Pride, charge up your computers, tablets and smartphones: the Times has compiled your digital online digest for Pride month events.



Courtesy of the New York Times

(TIME-Warp) Vintage Men's Fashion Show Beefcake!!

"This collection of marvels aims to interpret the revolt of modern man against the restrictions of conventional design."

A must-see collection of menswear from 1951

(TIME-Warp) Honoring the 53rd Anniversary of Loving Day: The Landmark Supreme court decision that started it all!

Long before the fight for Gay marriage was the fight for  interracial Marriage. The similarities are astonishing.

In June of 1958, Richard Loving married Mildred Jeter in Washington D.C. This was no ordinary marriage because he was white and she was black. In that time, laws in their home state of Virginia forbade interracial marriage, thus the couple was forced to travel to another state to wed.

(TIME warp) Progress, Hope Mark the 39th Anniversary of AIDS!

Today marks the 38th anniversary of the first formal report of the disease that came to be known as AIDS. The disease baffled doctors and public health officials when it first appeared; described in some places as a "gay cancer," the HIV virus took three years to be identified and much longer than that for doctors to develop drugs that would effectively tamp down symptoms without debilitating patients. Below is the Music Montages of some of the greatest that have died and were alive and well 34 yrs ago.