Soft launch of my website, which in 2026, I prefer to CVs and LinkedIn, but could never get together until now, thanks to my partner @jacob.engelberg .
More info still to add, finer details, scans of exhibition catalogues, collaborations, curatorial work, film festivals, and updates on publications and book series.
Link in bio.
Mini illustrated portrait by @lotierneyarttt , which I haven’t stopped adoring as someone who tends to avoid the camera. At the launch of @prideisatransledprotest , Lo, one of our artists featured in the exhibition, handed me and @conniefrankish portraits done in one of their signature graphic styles. Lo does commissions, so head over to their Insta. Bonus pic of my other portrait with strong Dorian Gray vibes from a Butlins holiday circa, looks closer, 1978!!!
In response to the "Human Gay Male movement" and following @conniefrankish reel, which asserts this better, this short clip from Arthur J. Bressan's 1977 "Gay USA" is brief but an essential serve on the origins of pride, marches, and parades. While there wasn't the language we have now, vernacular such as "street kids' and "bar folks" and the "poorer elements" are references to trans women and sex workers.
A month of Amsterdam
1. Eye Museum digital wall
2. New throat tattoo by Nick at Zeitgeist NL
3. Jacob looking gorgeous just before his book launch
4. Custom Aunt Gladys lego mini fig
5. #willychavarría x Adidas drop
6. Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression (Duke UP)
7. Misha Kavka and Jacob Q&A post screening
8. That #tildaswinton Suspiria cardigan from Hades
9. Athaneum magazine purchase
10. Back to the digital wall
1935 short-promo “The Fashion Side of Hollywood” includes the most incredible classical Hollywood serves from Marlene Dietrich for the fashions in “The Devil is a Woman.” BTS with Paramount designer Travis Banton and his collaborations with Sternberg/Dietrich and other Paramount designs on Carole Lombard and Claudete Colbert.
#MarleneDietrich #ClassicalHollywood #Screenstyle #fashion #Hollywood
James Ransone (1979-2025) - just passed taking his own life at 46. very sad to hear this news. Talented, handsome, kinda under the radar, and only recently opened up about his experiences of addiction and abuse. Not going to say much but I was a fan of his work from the early days of ‘Ken Park’ and ‘The Wire’ through to ‘IT: Part 2’ with my all-time favourite performance as the bad body Chester in ‘Tangerine. #jamesransone
Remember Harlow, she on the receiving end of one of the fiercest reads in history from Crystal LaBeija in “The Queen” (1968)? Everything I knew about Harlow was from that doc and shaped by Crystal’s epic read but there’s more to her life in Philadelphia as a pioneering trans legend still with us today. Now, as Rachel Billebault her story is being written in an upcoming memoir which this article in the Philly Inquirer covers in detail and with great pic.
To read copy and paste /life/a/harlow-philadelphia-trans-jack-kelly-20251206.html?query=harlow or search “Harlow’s Still Here” at the Philly Inquirer.
#Trans #CrystalLaBeija #LGBTHistory #RachelBillebault #TheQueen1968 #transhistory
GARY ‘I identify as queer. Growing up in the 80s and 90s, we saw queer as a way to resist those pre-existing categories which limited our ability to come together under a more inclusive term, but one that also spoke to radical and alternative ways of using our gender and sexuality against the grain. Some of us didn’t fit neatly into what was gay back then, which included your politics as much as gender non-conformity. Queer was like punk. It was an attitude, a body, a style, and still is. I am now 51, still queer, my queer tattoos don’t rub off, and I’m still hoping to shake things up.
Liverpool got me back into clubbing again after a long hiatus. The queer club, along with the classroom, is where I belong. Liverpool also got me re-engaged with my activism which was also on hiatus. Thanks to some local trans scouse legends, I feel inspired by those younger queers to get back on the streets again and start shouting because they need us generation Q to step up for them like they did for us.
Queer and Trans are each other’s evil twin, so let’s get plotting the next revolution.’
RESIDENTS is a socially engaged photography project by Ming de Nasty and LGBTQIA+ community members, co-commissioned by @openeyegallery and @homotopiafest .
Residents is part of the Photo Here programme – a series of 6 residencies with a variety of groups around the Liverpool City Region. Residents is also part of Homotopia Festival 2025.
There are a total of 32 portraits which can be seen at Open Eye Gallery atrium until December 14th. Nineteen of the portraits have been installed larger than life at various MerseyRail stations until Feb 2026 .
Posting this again, a receipt from the 80s, in light of UK politics. I’m not good at these kinds of posts but wanted to register my anger around the discourses of over-diagnosis, autism epidemics, insane for kids to wear headphones, and all that hostile, uncaring, ableist media that adds to an already unaccommodating world an extra layer of cruelty.
This school report from the eighties, which was part of the “evidence” in my formal diagnosis, is the language of un-diagnosis. Accusatory, you’re at fault for being unable to make friends, you’re a loner as if any child would choose to be a loner. I stopped going to school in the end around age 13, unbearable and untenable, and went to the public library every day for several years. Fell off the school radar, never fished any formal education until, accidentally, ended up in Glasgow University.
I’m so thankful of the dozens of content creators on here who provide the navigation, support, insights, stories, and knowledge (infographic whizzes and canva queens) that our governments and institutions often fail to provide.
#autism #neurodiversity #ASD #autismacceptance
