A friend sent the following photo to me yesterday...
Ah, the gals. I love this photo. They're smokin' cigars.And for my readers in the Portland area, there's a great show this month at Q Center, featuring photos from Portland's LGBTQ history. The photos are from David Grant Kohl’s book “A Curious and Peculiar People” subtitled “A History of the Metropolitan Community Church in Portland and the Sexual Minority Communities of Northwest Oregon.” What do you think Portland was like for us 50 years ago? What could it have been like to be a transgender doctor (pictured below)?
I don't know what that would be like, but I like to know my history, my culture and people who came before me. You can read more about the show here.
8 comments:
Oh cool! Thanks Lelo.
Awesome photos... and thoughts. :)
Great pictures and equally great questions!!
I'm with you. Everyone is gay. Especially the cute ones.
According to Kurt Cobain, everyone IS gay.
I'd love to go see that display.
What very thought provoking questions. That display sounds really interesting.
I wish there were more like it. I get sooooo bent with all the holier-than thou, self-righteous whatevers saying that bad things happen because God is mad that there are homosexuals - like it's some new 'affliction'.
Any well educated person knows, homosexuality has been present in man and in nature since we all came into existence. In some cultures, it was reverred. Take the secret band of Thebes, an elite fighting force consisting of 150 couples as the thought was "lovers will fight more fiercly at each others side."
Perhaps if museums and the like had more displays showcasing things like this, some of the moronic people walking around might learn a thing or two.
What great pictures. Wish I could see all of them!
How far we have come .... when I was a little girl my Grandma's neighbor Verna had a son named Chris who lived with her. Chris wore make-up and caftans and I always found him SO fascinating. My Grandma never spoke of him being gay, he was "just a bachelor who was so-o-o good to his Mamma".
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