Whisper A Story

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

The Choice of a Boy between Virtue and Vice Paolo Veronese (1528–1588) (after) National Trust, Attingham Park

Ophelia (1873), Thomas Francis Dicksee

"Love is powerful. It can bend the gods to their knees."

~1863

In the Roman Rite, the feast of the Chair of Saint Peter is celebrated on 22 February. Before Pope John XXIII’s revision in 1960, the Roman Calendar also included on 18 January another feast of the Chair of Saint Peter (denominated the Chair of Saint Peter in Rome, while the February feast was then called that of the Chair of Saint Peter at Antioch).

'The Swan Maidens' (1894), Walter Crane (English, 1845-1915)

Portrait of Isabella d’Este, Margravine of Mantua, Titian, ca. 1534-36

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Ambrogio de Predis | Bianca Maria Sforza (detail) | 1493-95

the sewing circle was a private group of gay and bisexual women and men in hollywood. the group existed during the so-called “golden age of hollywood ” in the 1920s to 1950s. the circle included film idols such as greta garbo, marlene eietrich, joan crawford, and barbara stanwyck, as well as the poet and screenwriter mercedes de acosta. the circle kept its existence a secret, as the hollywood code of conduct as it did not allow homosexuality to appear in the cinema at the time, nor did it allow people whose homosexuality was publicly known to work in the industry. especially in the case of the big stars, this was prohibited with the corresponding contractual clauses.

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his fangs are CRIMSON STAINED.

Auguste Rodin, Girl Kissed by a Phantom, 1900. Photo by Eugène Druet © Musée Rodin

Diana, Goddess of the Hunt, Leaning Against a Tree, Pietro Antonio Rotari (1707-1762)