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Boston marriage
Boston marriage, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, was an arrangement in which two women lived together, independent of any man’s support. These relationships were not necessarily sexual; the existence of platonic Boston marriages was used to quell fears of lesbianism after the loss of men in World War I. Today, the term sometimes describes two women living together without a sexual...
Lavender marriage
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In which the spouses do not have the same sexual orientation and have wed to conceal the homosexual or bisexual orientation of one or both spouses. In gay slang, the heterosexual spouse in a lavender marriage is referred to as a “beard” for a wife or, less attested, a “merkin” for a husband. Although there have been a number of...
Gay Hollywood- the last taboo
Part 1 :
http://www.guba.com/watch/3000048181/Gay-Hollywood-The-Last-Taboo-Part-1-of-2
Part 2 :
http://www.guba.com/watch/3000048222/Gay-Hollywood-The-Last-Taboo-Part-2-of-2
QUEER— Harmony Hammond, ‘definition of feminist art’ (non-hegemonic) in “Wrappings: Essays on Feminism, Art, and the Martial Arts”, TSL Press (Time and Space Limited Press), New York City, 1984, p. 99::: “Feminism is the political analysis of the experience of being a woman in patriarchal culture. The main problem is that both the art establishment and the...
Band: Flying lesbians
http://flying-lesbians.de/
Harvey Milk
Harvey Bernard Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978) was an American politician and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Politics and gay activism were not Milk’s early interests; he did not feel the need to be open about his homosexuality or participate in civic matters until around age 40, after his...
