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Contents:

• GAY ARCHECTS
• THE GAY ARCHECTS OF ROCK
• GAY ARCHECTS: SILENT BGRAPHI: FROM 18TH TO 20TH CENTURY PAPERBACK – MARCH 14, 2023
• GAY ARCHECTS: SILENT BGRAPHI
• IS ARCHECTURE GAY-IENDLY?

GAY ARCHECTS

She is a vol advote for LGBTQIA+ rights and is the -founr of the ‘Organizatn of Lbian + Gay Archects and Digners. Across many untri, Pri Month tak place June and is a time to celebrate the acplishments of all those who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, tersex, asexual, and any other genr/sexual fluidy.

Photo creded to ONE Natnal Gay and Liban Archiv at the Universy of Southern California. William Dorr Legg was a landspe archect and a proment Amerin gay rights activist. As Legg and Bird began to immerse themselv to the muny, they were troduced to members of The Mattache Society, one of the earlit Amerin gay rights society.

In 1953, the men formed ONE Inrporated, an anizatn dited to unifyg the gay muny through tn. The anizatn released one of the first pro-gay magaze publitn Ameri.

THE GAY ARCHECTS OF ROCK

The ONE library, also known as the IGLA (Internatnal Gay and Lbian Archiv) is the largt LGBTQIA+ archive the word.

Louis Sullivan, a gay Amerin archect, is often referred to as the 'Father of Skyscrapers' and the 'Father of Mornism'. This rais the qutn as to whether beg a gay archect fluenc the sign procs and output for the dividual? Co-founr of the anizatn of Lbians + Gay Archects and signers, archect and activist Jane Greenwood is a vol advote of queer cln the archecture and nstctn dtry.

GAY ARCHECTS: SILENT BGRAPHI: FROM 18TH TO 20TH CENTURY PAPERBACK – MARCH 14, 2023

Consir the gay image makers of the day, like Brian Epste and Jann Beatl wh their manager Brian Epste, right, October Archiv/Redferns, via Getty ImagOct.

Managers groomed them and shaped them, and the classic rock era those managers were often gay s, the close relatnships between the managers and the predomantly straight micians they advised were not discsed much.

“The Fifth Beatle, ” a recent graphic novel that foc on the personal life of the Fab Four’s gay manager, Brian Epste, was a New York Tim bt seller and is now velopment as a six-part mi-seri, wh the approval of the Beatl’ tate. And the documentary film “Lambert & Stamp” ma clear the important role played by K Lambert, the gay -manager of the Who, shapg the band’s inty. “Beg gay gave me a fer appreciatn of the sexualy of the guys up there, ” Mr.

GAY ARCHECTS: SILENT BGRAPHI

“It was all great until Harry said, ‘The only thg is, I don’t thk I uld be managed by a gay man. Up until 1967, beg gay was illegal Bra, and long after that law changed, gay men remaed a target of police entrapment, blackmail and beatgs. As managers of some of the era’s most potent Brish rock bands, they stood at the foreont of sounds, sensibili and styl that would molish and remake pop gay managers of that era were forthright about their sexualy, if only among iends and lleagu.

Napier-Bell, part of the reason Brish gay men of his era gravated to the mic bs was bee was one of the few areas “where you uld be out amongst yourselv. You’d go to Robert Stigwood’s hoe and was like a gay pub. “As gay men, we have to remake ourselv orr to survive, ” he said.

”Mart Aston, the thor of “Breakg Down the Walls of Heartache: How Mic Came Out, ” said the nnectn between rock’s gay managers and image moldg stems om the fact that “gay men at the time would be judged almost entirely on how they looked. Aston said, gay men veloped a fort wh the art of beg seen, “as opposed to straight men, who, before the phenomenon of the ‘metrosexual, ’ were threatened by the notn of beg looked at, of beg an object. That beme the foreont rock ’n’ roll, enuraged by the gay managers.

IS ARCHECTURE GAY-IENDLY?

”Straight rock stars also found that appropriatg the sensual awarens of gay men paid off sexual opportuni. ’”Still, given the vilifitn of homosexualy at the time, one might expect the rockers to have some disfort wh the gay men who advised them.