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Seeking Stories of Queer California: A Hidden Histories Online ExhibitMain MenuIntroductionGalleriesA guide to each of the online galleries in this digital exhibit, grouped by topic or theme.Asian & AAPI LGBTQ+ peopleBisexual PeopleBlack LGBTQ+ PeopleCommunitiesDefying ExpectationsGay menHIV/AIDSLatino/a/x LGBTQ+ peopleLesbiansLGBTQ+ ActivismLGBTQ+ DiscriminationLGBTQ+ Life in CaliforniaMarriage and FamiliesPoliticsPrideReligion and SpiritualityTransgender People
Arts
1media/Caja Shroud of Curaid.jpg2024-04-26T10:38:53-07:00Beth McDonald0fdc6d8696ca8ca12c571f0f59d3d5703e5e4ab04498710plain2024-04-29T19:07:31-07:00Beth McDonald0fdc6d8696ca8ca12c571f0f59d3d5703e5e4ab0LGBTQ+ communities have always gravitated towards the arts as a way to express queerness, defiance, longing, passion, and self. The forms that this expression takes varies as widely as the people within the community. Arts as a heading covers a wide swath of visual, performing, written, and other works, and we have divided the pieces in this gallery according to the discipline they most closely align with.
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1media/lookingforlesbians.jpg2024-04-25T15:55:49-07:00Beth McDonald0fdc6d8696ca8ca12c571f0f59d3d5703e5e4ab0GalleriesBeth McDonald7A guide to each of the online galleries in this digital exhibit, grouped by topic or theme.structured_gallery2024-04-29T18:53:09-07:00Beth McDonald0fdc6d8696ca8ca12c571f0f59d3d5703e5e4ab0
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1media/Huntington21_mssHansen_b68_f07_001_thumb.jpg2024-04-18T15:32:47-07:00Beth McDonald0fdc6d8696ca8ca12c571f0f59d3d5703e5e4ab0Cover for Gravedigger by Joseph Hansen, 19823Kathy Staico Schorr, artist, cover for Gravedigger (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982) by Joseph Hansen, Box 68(7), Joseph Hansen Papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Joseph Hansen was an out crime novelist and poet noted for his main character being an openly gay man. Hansen had one child, a transgender man named Daniel.media/Huntington21_mssHansen_b68_f07_001.jpgplain2024-04-25T13:24:39-07:00Beth McDonald0fdc6d8696ca8ca12c571f0f59d3d5703e5e4ab0
1media/MHL_70010708-72351247-72351248_Rope_thumb.jpg2024-04-12T12:17:00-07:00Beth McDonald0fdc6d8696ca8ca12c571f0f59d3d5703e5e4ab0Rope, 1947-19483A poster for the movie Rope by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Jimmy Stewart, and a letter from the Production Code Administration regarding implications of homosexuality in the movie. Poster: Poster collection. Letter: Motion Picture Association of America Production Code Administration records.media/MHL_70010708-72351247-72351248_Rope.jpgplain2024-04-12T14:55:21-07:00Beth McDonald0fdc6d8696ca8ca12c571f0f59d3d5703e5e4ab0
1media/CSUDH_Finocchios_thumb.png2024-04-25T10:10:47-07:00Beth McDonald0fdc6d8696ca8ca12c571f0f59d3d5703e5e4ab0Finocchio's: House of the Fabulous Female Impressonators, undated2A postcard of Finocchio's, that was a nightclub and bar in San Francisco. It shows five female impersonators standing in the back and five sitting in the front. The steps are a black and white checkered pattern and the background appears to be the stage. From left to right, starting in the back, a performer is wearing a bright pink robe with light pink feather lining, a silver patterned dress, silver shoes, and bright pink long earrings. Next the performer is wearing a pink and gold robe with a high collar, a pink dress, and a pink wig. The center performer is wearing a bright pink dress with a black belt. Next the performer is wearing a black and silver waistcoat with bright pink harem pants. At the end of the back row is a performer in a dark purple robe and dress, with peacock feathers and a peacock feather headdress. The five women in the front row are seated, all in similar 1920s flapper dancer outfits in different colors. From left to right, the first two women are turned slightly to the left and are in light purple outfits with pink feather headbands. In the center, facing forward, she is in a yellow dress with a green feather headband. Next, turned slightly to the right, she is in a dark purple dress and a dark purple feathered headband. Lastly, also turned to the right, she is in an orange dress and has an orange feathered headband.media/CSUDH_Finocchios.pngplain2024-04-25T10:27:08-07:00Beth McDonald0fdc6d8696ca8ca12c571f0f59d3d5703e5e4ab0
1media/FIDM_Galanos suit_thumb.jpg2024-04-17T16:11:57-07:00Beth McDonald0fdc6d8696ca8ca12c571f0f59d3d5703e5e4ab0Tan Suit Ensemble by James Galanos, 19622Gift of Mrs. Alfred Bloomingdale ASU FIDM Museum Collection 77.116.10A-D Note: Drawing by Antonio appeared in “America’s Mr. G,” WWD Aug 29, 1962. Ensemble worn by Betsy Bloomingdalemedia/FIDM_Galanos suit.jpgplain2024-04-17T16:12:17-07:00Beth McDonald0fdc6d8696ca8ca12c571f0f59d3d5703e5e4ab0
1media/HSLB_Object_GoldRecord_Etheridge_thumb.jpg2024-04-18T12:49:23-07:00Beth McDonald0fdc6d8696ca8ca12c571f0f59d3d5703e5e4ab0Gold record for "Melissa Etheridge" album by Melissa Etheridge, 19882Historical Society of Long Beach Collection. Given by Melissa Etheridge to Ellen Ward, whose bar The Que Sera was an important LGBTQ+ friendly space that gave Etheridge a standing weekly gig.media/HSLB_Object_GoldRecord_Etheridge.jpgplain2024-04-18T12:50:13-07:00Beth McDonald0fdc6d8696ca8ca12c571f0f59d3d5703e5e4ab0
1media/PRS_Corelli,Marie051_thumb.jpg2024-04-24T16:38:03-07:00Beth McDonald0fdc6d8696ca8ca12c571f0f59d3d5703e5e4ab0The Soul of Lilith, 18922Written by Marie Corelli, published by Grosset and Dunlap, New York. A prolific author, Corelli's works were largely concerned with Christianity, reincarnation, astral projection and mysticism.media/PRS_Corelli,Marie051.jpgplain2024-04-24T18:34:42-07:00Beth McDonald0fdc6d8696ca8ca12c571f0f59d3d5703e5e4ab0
1media/Huntington04_CI_1133_p1_thumb.jpg2024-04-18T14:33:16-07:00Beth McDonald0fdc6d8696ca8ca12c571f0f59d3d5703e5e4ab0Christopher Isherwood, typescript second draft of A Single Man, 19631CI 1133, Christopher Isherwood Papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, Californiamedia/Huntington04_CI_1133_p1.jpgplain2024-04-18T14:33:16-07:00Beth McDonald0fdc6d8696ca8ca12c571f0f59d3d5703e5e4ab0
1media/Huntington10_mssBachardy_f048_001_thumb.jpg2024-04-18T14:46:45-07:00Beth McDonald0fdc6d8696ca8ca12c571f0f59d3d5703e5e4ab0Don Bachardy, portrait of Stephen Spender, June 21, 19761Folder 48, Don Bachardy portrait drawings, 1959-2001, The Huntington Library, San Marino, Californiamedia/Huntington10_mssBachardy_f048_001.jpgplain2024-04-18T14:46:45-07:00Beth McDonald0fdc6d8696ca8ca12c571f0f59d3d5703e5e4ab0
1media/MHL_70001800-72350485_PandorasBox_thumb.jpg2024-04-11T16:10:53-07:00Beth McDonald0fdc6d8696ca8ca12c571f0f59d3d5703e5e4ab0Pandora's Box, 19291Photo (left ) of Louise Brooks, center, wearing wedding dress, dancing with Alice Roberts, in a scene from Pandora's Box. Clipping (right)from Variety magazine reviewing the film, dated December 11, 1929. From the Core Collection, Production Files.media/MHL_70001800-72350485_PandorasBox.jpgplain2024-04-11T16:10:54-07:00Beth McDonald0fdc6d8696ca8ca12c571f0f59d3d5703e5e4ab0
1media/Huntington12_archHaines_Fld_1_1_thumb.jpg2024-04-18T15:06:29-07:00Beth McDonald0fdc6d8696ca8ca12c571f0f59d3d5703e5e4ab0William Haines, rendering of living room of the Sidney and Frances Brody residence, Beverly Hills, circa 19521Oversized Folder 1, William Haines Collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, Californiamedia/Huntington12_archHaines_Fld_1_1.jpgplain2024-04-18T15:06:29-07:00Beth McDonald0fdc6d8696ca8ca12c571f0f59d3d5703e5e4ab0
1media/Huntington15_archYoch_Fld_OV_6_thumb.jpg2024-04-18T15:14:54-07:00Beth McDonald0fdc6d8696ca8ca12c571f0f59d3d5703e5e4ab0Florence Yoch, landscape design, “A Hillside Garden for Mr. George Cukor, West Hollywood,” 19361Oversized Folder 6, Florence Yoch Papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, Californiamedia/Huntington15_archYoch_Fld_OV_6.jpgplain2024-04-18T15:14:55-07:00Beth McDonald0fdc6d8696ca8ca12c571f0f59d3d5703e5e4ab0
1media/FIDM_Adrian gown_thumb.jpg2024-04-17T16:09:19-07:00Beth McDonald0fdc6d8696ca8ca12c571f0f59d3d5703e5e4ab0Gown by Gilbert Adrian, 19481Gift of Bob Diamond ASU FIDM Museum Collection 2006.883.1media/FIDM_Adrian gown.jpgplain2024-04-17T16:09:19-07:00Beth McDonald0fdc6d8696ca8ca12c571f0f59d3d5703e5e4ab0
1media/Huntington16_EB_EKH_Box_1_There_are_no_words_thumb.jpg2024-04-18T15:16:39-07:00Beth McDonald0fdc6d8696ca8ca12c571f0f59d3d5703e5e4ab0Eloise Klein Healy, typescript draft of poem, “There Are No Words for the Sexual Acts of Lesbians,” circa 19841Box 1, Eloise Klein Healy Papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, Californiamedia/Huntington16_EB_EKH_Box_1_There_are_no_words.jpgplain2024-04-18T15:16:39-07:00Beth McDonald0fdc6d8696ca8ca12c571f0f59d3d5703e5e4ab0
1media/SHGA_2015_Dalila Paola Mendez_Queerios_thumb.jpg2024-04-19T13:02:07-07:00Beth McDonald0fdc6d8696ca8ca12c571f0f59d3d5703e5e4ab0Queerios, 20151Artist: Dalila Paola Mendez. A new non-gmo cereal has made it's debut at all stores! Each serving is guaranteed to create fabulousness in your life! A delicious Non-GMO corn cereal with a whole lot of flavor! Part of the exhibit "At the Heart of It: LGBT Representation at Self Help Graphics", curated by Ruben Esparza.media/SHGA_2015_Dalila Paola Mendez_Queerios.jpgplain2024-04-19T13:02:07-07:00Beth McDonald0fdc6d8696ca8ca12c571f0f59d3d5703e5e4ab0
1media/UCR_Dollens sketchbook_thumb.jpg2024-04-19T14:54:04-07:00Beth McDonald0fdc6d8696ca8ca12c571f0f59d3d5703e5e4ab0Excerpt from Sketchbook 11, Morris Scott Dollens, undated1Morris Scott Dollens papers, Collection #MS 196, Box 3media/UCR_Dollens sketchbook.jpgplain2024-04-19T14:54:04-07:00Beth McDonald0fdc6d8696ca8ca12c571f0f59d3d5703e5e4ab0