“Dyke, A Quarterly,” is a very cool part of our history. Usually I blog about GLBT music, but I love it when archiving our history is done so well. Liza Cowan and Penny House were the editors and their website states: “All over The United States Lesbians were getting together to make culture: music, literature,…

Born Jacques Charles Dufresnoy, the career of Coccinelle began around 1953 when she made her debut at the famous Paris female impersonation club Madame Arthur’s. Just as Christine Jorgensen had her sexual reassignment surgery in Denmark and came back to the United States in 1953 a celebrity, when Coccinelle received her surgery in Casablanca and…

I was working so very hard on my latest QMH show, on Lesbian / Feminist Bands of the 1970’s, that I forgot I had in my archives a rare video of the Berkeley Women’s Music Collective. This is courtesy of the San Francisco GLBT Historical Society, and is a rare look at a TV performance…

Sid Spencer died of AIDS in 1996, leaving us with a loss of one of our very best country talents. His four albums, “Lovin’ Strangers” (1993), “Family Ties” (1994), “Out-n-About, Again” (1995), and the posthumous 1996 CD “Chasin’ That Neon Rainbow” are all well worth tracking down. All are from the mid 90s, and “Out-n-About,…

Okay, I’m weak…I was going to wait to do this blog entry until Matt Fishel’s debut album comes out later this year, but I just can’t. He released his latest single from it, “Behind Closed Doors,” and it’s still another song of his I’ve gone nuts over. I just can’t resist his queer-infused pop masterpieces. …

When I read of the passing last week of acclaimed poet Adrienne Rich, it reminded me that I had recently acquired a vinyl LP, recorded in 1977, where she reads some of her own poetry. She is joined on that recording by Audre Lorde, Honor Moore and Joan Larkin. This disc was released by Larkin’s…

My OutRadio show for April was a fun one, as I got to interview Sir Ari Gold, and talk about his new title, and new CD, and of course I queeried him about a few of my favorites from his career. And like the say on TV, “and that’s not all”….by a long shot, in…

“A Grecian beauty reveals her most secret thoughts and passions as she describes her many sensual nights of Lesbian love. Her budding desires awaken on the isle of Lesbos. Voluptuous pleasures she had never known transform her young body into trembling submission.” So started out the LP liner notes on this 1962 recording, with the…

The Club 82, also called the 82 Club, was the premier female impersonation club in NYC. Opened in 1953, and directed by famed star Kitt Russell, the club had an unusually long life, for that type of business, lasting into the ‘80’s, though in the ‘70’s it had transformed into a glam-rock bar, that featured…

I just have to share the news that this week it was announced that I was one of the winners of a major award, given by The Committee on LGBT History. I am honored and very, very pleased.  ♪ ♫♪ ♫♪♪ ♫♪ ♫♪♪ ♫♪ ♫♪♪ ♫♪ ♫♪♪ ♫♪ ♫♪♪ ♫♪ ♫♪ From their announcement: The…