Tag: gay history
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Disco Queerness
I’ve been working on a disco mix using rare, camp/gay and psychedelic disco for the last few months, originally called Disco Sickness but it mushroomed into a two-part mix. Here’s the first part, an uptempo celebration of Pride month (it’s London Pride today, so yes it’s rather late!) and also the U.S. same-sex marriage Supreme…
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Never forget
Just going down memory lane partly because me and Kirk were chatting about the mid 90’s gay scene with a bloke down the pub last week. It turns out the first gay club I went into is now a hipster ‘rock and roll pool hall‘. Hmm, like Coleherne toilets now being the gastropub kitchen, it’s…
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RC 234: The Queer History of Pop Part 1 (1960s-1980s)
I’ve been listening to the Story of Pop which again has been repeated on 6Music, but this time also reading the excellent Simon Napier-Bell’s Black Vinyl White Powder and the contrast has been striking – not so much the drug usage which has been there in the BBC series, but the queer element has been…
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All the Rage
A random search of LGBTQ history blogs about Paul Cadmus lead me strangely to this blog post about the AB101 Veto Riots in San Francisco in 1991, and then this documentary about the riot and the Bob Ostertag & Kronos Quartet piece based on it called ‘All the Rage’ – you can download the MP3.…
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Radio Clash 38: Difficult 38th
It’s like totally random; remembering Myron and Jean Charles, a difficult birth and the Big MASSIVE Podcast Promo Jumble Sale, everyfin’ fer a pahnd! Please listen here to Radio Clash 38: Difficult 38th: (52:08 / 30Mb) Shownotes Myron Floren tribute: Big Podcast Roundup Bargain Jumble Sale: https://media.blubrry.com/radioclash/www.radioclash.com/show-archive/rc_038.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 52:09…