Throughout the twentieth century, clothg has been ed by lbians and gay men as a means of exprsg self-inty and of signalg to one another.
Contents:
- REVIEW: 1970S GAY STREET FASHNS AND OTHER VTAGE DISVERI ‘PHOTOGRAPHY AND LANGUAGE’
- HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI
- RISE OF GAY DESIGNERS
- GAY HISTORY IS BLACK HISTORY: THE 10 INS PROVE IT
REVIEW: 1970S GAY STREET FASHNS AND OTHER VTAGE DISVERI ‘PHOTOGRAPHY AND LANGUAGE’
Gallery review: Strikg work by Hal Fischer, examg vtage gay male street fashn, leads the group show “Photography and Language” at Cherry & Mart. * gay 1960s fashion *
From Wong’s work, to the wild, androgyno jewelry of partners love and life Alex and Lee, to Billy Shire’s studd “Welfare” jacket (wner of the Levi’s Denim Art Contt) — all reads a b like the left-behd artifacts of a fal Summer of Love, jt before AIDS stroyed a generatn of gay men. ’75 (former Berkeley Law archivist, thor, and founr of the Gay Bears Collectn the Universy Archiv), the Gay Liberatn Front was very radil for s time. Around the same time, a group of gay stunts formed a muny center lled Sherwood Fort, which met at the Wley Center.
HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI
Durg Prohibn, gay nightlife and culture reached new heights—at least temporarily. * gay 1960s fashion *
Across the Bay Bridge, gay and bisexual men, cludg Harvey Milk, migrated to the Castro startg the early 1970s. In 1977, Milk beme the first openly gay elected official California’s history when he joed the San Francis Board of Supervisors. “My ia was that stunts might change their attus for the better if they knew I was gay, ” he wrote an email.
RISE OF GAY DESIGNERS
Gays and lbians have long been “hidn om history”—cludg the history of fashn. “Reclaimg the gay and lbian past” volv more than simply regnizg that some dividual fashn signers happened to be gay. * gay 1960s fashion *
It was there that Vermazen first heard discsn of same-sex marriage—an outrageo thought at the time—and the first time he met the late Sheldon Anlson, the Universy of California’s first openly gay regent.
GAY HISTORY IS BLACK HISTORY: THE 10 INS PROVE IT
In a time where beg gay was not socially acceptable, the flower was ed to secretly intify one’s self, a reasong which would ntue throughout queer fashn. While piercgs general were beg more normalized, gay men saw a sgle piercg the right ear as an intifier for queerns.