Annunciation, Crucifixion and Assumption which are on permanent display at Notre Dame de France, a French Catholic Church on Leicester Place, just off Leicester Square, Jean Cocteau, 1960
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Federico García Lorca
(Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, 5 de junio de 1898 - camino de Víznar a Alfacar, Granada, 18 de agosto de 1936)
“Desechad tristezas y melancolías. La vida es amable, tiene pocos días y tan solo ahora la hemos de gozar”.
a collection of custom Jewish tattoo designs, 2020-2023
reminder: custom tattoo designs are for client use only. it's disrespectful to get an artist's work tattooed without permission, and incredibly so to steal a design that was made for someone else. if you're inspired by these, you can commission me to create something for you!
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Back and Front endpaper I did for Psyche and Eros by Luna McNamara, featuring in ToBeeRead May book box.\
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Powerful statements like these, that juxtapose the condemnation of such a simple and pure thing as love with the honour and worship of violence and death, always hit me hard and stay with me for days
This is the tombstone of Technical Sergeant Leonard Philip Matlovich, the first gay service member to intentionally out himself in order to fight the ban on gay people in the military. He hadn’t only served for Vietnam, he was a career Air Force member in good standing who would have liked to continue his career even though he knew coming out would most likely make that impossible. He’d also been an elder in the LDS church but was excommunicated
He was on the cover of Time magazine in 1975 which was the first time an openly gay person appeared on the cover of a U.S. magazine and had their name printed in that magazine
He was an advocate for AIDs/HIV patients from the start of the outbreak in the 70s. He contracted the virus in 1986 and died 2 years later
His name doesn’t appear on his tombstone because he wanted it to be a memorial for all gay veterans
here’s the King himself
and here’s his grave in its full glory, with the pink triangles and everything! the words over the dates of his birth and death are referencing the extermination of lgbt people during the holocaust and the HIV crisis, respectively.
Freud & Jung relaxing with friends at a Turkish banya during a psychoanalysts’ retreat.
I've heard its International Cat Day, so here's my collection of photos of Historical Queers And Cats
Not sure which of his many many cats this is, but here's Freddie Mercury!
Author James Baldwin with some of Istanbul's cats (photographed by Sedat Pekay)
Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo, featuring a cat on her shoulder (source)
Pilot and race-car driver Roberta Cowell with a veritable handful of kittens
Author and illustrator Tove Jansson, creator of Moomins, and owner of Psipsina (source)
Performer, activist and spy Josephine Baker walking her leopard, Chiquita
Artist Rosa Bonheur napping with Fathma, one of her pet lions.
Happy International Cat Day!
