From the #gayarchives:

#catchofthegay : gay quotes “I learned to love men the way I learned to breathe — slowly, then all at once.” — Garth Greenwell

#goodgayreads: Mark Merlis — American Studies (1994) A razor‑sharp gay novel about repression, desire, and the stories men tell to survive. Merlis threads together a closeted professor’s past and present, exposing how shame becomes a sort of architecture.

#gayvisualartistsyoushouldknow: Hernan Bas. A Miami‑born, Detroit‑based gay painter whose work blends queer romanticism, gothic melancholy, and literary references. Bas paints young men in lush, atmospheric settings — forests, abandoned rooms, strange coastlines.

#onthisdayingayhistory: July 14 1914 ARTHUR LAURENTS, American playwright, novelist, director and one of the giants of the American theater, born (d: 2011); His credits included the stage musicals West Side Story and Gypsy and the film The Way We Were.

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From the #gayarchives:

#catchofthegay : gay quotes “The opposite of loneliness is not togetherness. It’s belonging.” — Andrew Holleran

#goodgayreads: Paul Lisicky – The Narrow Door (2016) A queer memoir about friendship, loss, art, and adulthood — written with the kind of emotional precision that feels like someone thinking in real time.

#gayvisualartistsyoushouldknow: Del LaGrace Volcano — A foundational figure in queer visual culture — genderqueer, intersex, and one of the earliest photographers to center butch, trans, drag‑king, and gender‑variant bodies with dignity, humor, and intelligence.

#onthisdayingayhistory: JULY 11 1931 Tab Hunter (born Arthur Andrew Kelm; July 11, 1931 – July 8, 2018) is born. He was an American actor, television host, pop singer, film producer, and author. He starred in more than 40 films and was a well-known star and heart throb of the 1950s and 60s.

From the #gayarchives:

#catchofthegay : gay quotes "Every man is afraid of being queer. I get a little tired of it. maybe we should all become queers and relax." — Charles Bukowski

#gayvisualartistsyoushouldknow: Slava Mogutin (full name Yaroslav Yurievich Mogutin, b. April 12, 1974, Kemerovo) is a New York-based Russian artist and author, who works across different media, including photography, video, text, installation, sculpture, and painting.

#onthisdayingayhistory: #goodgayreads: July 1 1925 Farley Granger (1925 – 2011) is born. He was an American actor best known for his two collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock. In 2007, Granger published the memoir Include Me Out, co-written with domestic partner Robert Calhoun.

From the #gayarchives:

#catchofthegay : gay quotes “Desire is the map; courage is the country.” — Richard Siken

#goodgayreads: Robert Ferro — The Family of Max Desir (1983) A gay, East‑Coast domestic novel about a closeted man whose return home detonates every unspoken tension in his Italian‑American family.

#gayvisualartistsyoushouldknow: Tony Greene (1955–1990) A gay LA artist whose work fused camp, baroque, queer eroticism, and memorial aesthetics. Best known for lacquered, jewel‑toned paintings that incorporate found imagery, devotional motifs, and a distinctly queer sense of glamour and mourning.

#onthisdayingayhistory: June 27 2011 Brazil The first same-sex civil union is converted into same-sex marriage by Sao Paolo State Judge Fernando Henrique Pinto.

From the #gayarchives:

#catchofthegay : gay quotes “We invent ourselves because the world keeps trying to edit us.” — Hilton Als

#goodgayreads: Michael Lowenthal — Avoidance (2002) A gay man returns home to care for his dying father and collides with the life he tried to outrun.

#gayvisualartistsyoushouldknow: Dean Sameshima Los Angeles–born, Berlin‑based. Queer minimalism with a cruising‑culture backbone. Photocopy aesthetics, repetition, and archival desire. deansameshima.com

#onthisdayingayhistory: June 24 THE UPSTAIRS LOUNGE ARSON ATTACK occurred on this date in 1973 at a Gay bar on the second floor of the three-story building located at 141 Chartres Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. 32 people were killed by the fire or by smoke inhalation.

From the #gayarchives: "A little necking party-Salton Sea"

#catchofthegay : gay quotes “Every gay life is a second draft — the one we write for ourselves.” — Edmund White

#goodgayreads: A Visitation of Spirits — Randall Kenan (1989) Southern, Black, queer, haunted. Masculinity, religion, and desire colliding in rural North Carolina.

#gayvisualartistsyoushouldknow: Rafael Soldi (b. 1987) Peruvian‑born, Seattle‑based queer photographer whose work sits at the intersection of masculinity, migration, silence, and the self you build when the old one no longer fits. His images feel like the emotional aftershocks of a life.

#onthisdayingayhistory: June 20 1940 JOHN MAHONEY, British actor, born (d: 2018); An award-winning English/American actor known for playing the retired police officer father, Martin “Marty” Crane, of Kelsey Grammar’s character, Dr. Frazier Crane in the popular TV series Frazier (NBC 1993-2004).