Gay jewelry historian Levi Higgs ep dive to the ways that queer jewelers have been forcibly silenced or erased throughout time.
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Where is still te today that some of the most important ntemporary jewelers such as Shn Leane or Joel Arthur Rosenthal are openly gay men, a tremendo amount of the most important jewelry signers of the 20th century often had their queerns erased om the example, the mid-20th century, was the curse of the "nfirmed bachelor. Siarly, there's a special relatnship between a gay jeweler and his client. He moved eper wh, and found a space on Wt 4th where he uld fortably exprs himself as a gay black man.
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