Gilbert Baker helps hoist one of the two original rainbow flags created by the decoration committee for San Francisco Gay Freedom Day | 1978 | ph: James McNamara, lead seamster of the flags

Madeline (1952), dir. Robert Cannon

"The film that started radical transgender porn. Alley of the Tranny Boys was the first feature length erotic film with an all-trans man cast. In 70's retro style, S/M, Hot big cocks and sexy trans stars. Starring Angel, Buck Davis and a host of celebrity porn stars." - International Transgender Film & Video Festival Program, London 1998

“AN ARMY OF LOVERS SHALL NOT FAIL” lesbian shirt from the Wearing Gay History archive. Truly one of my absolute favourites.

Joyce Lee (South Korean, b. Seoul, South Korea) - A Woman, Paintings: Watercolor, Acrylic, Colored Pencil on Paper

Non fungible

~photo credit: Christian Spencer~

“Fresh air, sleep, and rest will help to make you strong.” In Training For Health. 1935. 

20 years later, in the face of explosive nostalgia marketing and an unrecognizable music industry, Napier’s TATTOOED, PIERCED, & FUCKED-UP collects interviews, photos, diary entries, ticket stubs, call sheets, and other personal ephemera from her life in Los Angeles, Berlin, and the proverbial road.  Alongside green room access to the era-defining Vans Warped Tour and early interviews with bands like My Chemical Romance, Sugarcult, and the re-formed Reagan Youth, Napier expresses her passion for the artists who never make it big—and raises questions about what it means to be part of a subculture at risk of extinction.

Palestinian embroidery on wedding handkerchief. Front and back.