Will never see eye-to-eye with anyone less than the people who treat their pets like wandering ronin instead of valued family members. Like oh there goes Bronson our uncollared, chipless chocolate lab out of the permanently open back door again. If he comes home in three days after subsisting on garbage we’ll be mildly thrilled to see him again but if he succumbs to his natural predator, the 2006 Toyota Camry, that’s just the circle of life
there are actually only 2 movie genres. the ones where u have to remain completely silent throughout the whole film, and the ones where u have to comment on whatevers happening on screen every 5 minutes
might i suggest a third genre: you have to PAUSE it every 20 minutes to discuss in detail what u just witnessed
letter from a mother of a gay man. sent to ONE magazine, 1958.
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This post was flagged as adult content and the original poster was deactivated so I’m bringing it back.
A supportive parent in the 50s ran a boarding house for gay men and hosted dinner parties for her son and all his friends and people think that’s adult content.
Info dump time:
This magazine. This shit is such a cool piece of history. This is a letter a woman sent to the guest ever openly gay and lesbian magazine in the US. ONE was revolutionary, and so many people wrote to them! From all over North America. And those letters are archived and an amazing person named Joshua Irving Gershick compiled an array of these letters into a script called Dear ONE:
It’s a phenomenal piece of queer history. Straight supportive parents, closeted queers, 17 yr old looking to meet men, worldly bisexual polyamorists, stealth trans folk, dishonorably discharged gay veterans, cishet threats letters (anon hate), happily “married” gay people, letters from Black and other POC describing their intersectional experiences, and so much more. This collection is like touching the thoughts of queer people I’ll never get to meet, but that I know. These letters are incredibly humanizing and one if the big steps towards are wider connected queer community in the 50s and 60s. This magazine gave people advice and legal help for being persecuted by systemic homophobia.
Im.so glad to see this in circulation. When this play and playwright (!!!) came to my workplace I was lucky enough to stage manage the shortened production that toured in middle and high schools (in spring 2022). It was pretty amazing to watch young folk connect to these letters. Not to mention getting to sit and chat with the playwright as a trans queer elder.
Anyway that’s why queer archiving is so so important and valuable. Its connects us to the pieces of queer history that we lose connection to, because of active queerphobia and erasing of history, and because of the culture gap left by the AIDS crisis.
Dear ONE: thank you for being the safe space our elders needed. Thank you for being bold and helping our community.
