Chaka Khan  *March 23, 1953

SCORPIO RISING (1963)

dir. Kenneth Anger

even dykes in dresses can hold up the world. photograph of louise rafkin in common lives/lesbian lives no. 15/16, june 1985

by Daniel Kramer

Joel Meyerowitz Bay/Sky Series 1984 Vintage chromogenic prints overall: 11 in x 14 in; 27.94 cm x 35.56 cm The Phillips Collection Gift of Lisa Finn, 2014

all prisoners on death row are political prisoners. capital punishment is part of both the afterlife and presentlife of lynchings and slavery. the myriad of issues including the permanence of death as punishment, how death sentences are deployed in an overtly discriminatory manner, how capital punishment does nothing to actually prevent crime, denies people any chance of restorative justice all of these are secondary to the simple fact that the state should not have the right to kill human beings. some of y'all keep missing the point and focusing on the dichotomies of guilt versus innocence when it comes to the liberation of prisoners on death row (and otherwise). regardless of whether or not an individual is "guilty" of the crime they have been charged with, the state should not be able to detain them indefinitely before murdering them. full stop. rest in power marcellus williams and may we, in the words of george jackson, "rage on aggressive and free" until no human being is murdered by the state again

"Tranz Portraits" by Del LaGrace Volcano, from the book Sublime Mutations

“I want to take voguing not to just Paris is burning, but I want to take it to the real Paris.”

Paris is Burning (Jennie Livingston, 1990)

Jana Wirth and Natalya Piro for Creem Magazine 2007

Katharine Hepburn in a photo shoot from Sylvia Scarlett, by Ernest Bachrach.

they were confreres in christ