Marsha P. Johnson at a Christopher Street Liberation rally with a curtain that has the words GAY LOVE written all over it, c. 1970s

An African Dancer by Richmond Barthé (1934)

— Wayne Dyer

Geoffrey Holder painting Lena Horne’s portrait during the run of the Broadway Musical “Jamaica” (1959).

Sammy Davis Jr. dances across Madison Avenue. New York City. 1959. By Burt Glinn

Sammy Davis Jr.

Marlon Brando, a cat lover, once declared: "I live in my cat's house."

Cristina Garcia Rodero - Haiti

"The stage was a floor of thin ice for me to tread. To hold my own or to sink through and die, never to be remembered."

Eartha Kitt poses in her dressing room at the London Palladium, photos by Lloyd A. Borguss, November 13th, 1958.

— Duke Ellington

source: cult cinema classics

Eartha Kitt as Anna Lucasta in Anna Lucasta (1958)

Eartha Kitt as Anna Lucasta in Anna Lucasta (1958)