jester in a court of sexual panic

Shirley MacLaine, 1950s. Photo taken by Peter Basch

JOE RANTZ or JOHN EGAN requested by @ronsenthal

Burt Lancaster photographed by Jim Peppler speaking at a rally for James Meredith’s March Against Fear at Tougaloo College, Mississippi, June 25, 1966.

Bob Willoughby - Colleen Dewhurst portrait, "The Cowboys", 1971

two androgynous beings becoming one.mp4

— Michael Phillips in the Chicago Tribune

(a million thanks to my friend @calicoskiesacoustic for the GLAM <3)

A jester in a court of sexual panic, anxiety filled proto-gay, spectacle of feminization, a gay icon from hell: Jerry Lewis — from Larger than Life: Movie Stars from the 1950s, edited by R. Barton Palmer

In 1948 Jerry Lewis told a Hollywood reporter, “There’s nothing we do that another act couldn’t do, and maybe better, but it’s the way we feel about each other that nobody can duplicate. There couldn’t be two men who are as close to each other as we are.”

Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis at a Friar’s Club Testimonial Dinner, 1951.

Me when my cockblocking bff and my ex husband with whom i just reunited after 20 years stumble through a serenade on my telethon in the wee hours of the morning only for him to leave unceremoniously and for us to not speak to each other for another ten goddamn years