A Life of Gay Liberation: Remembering Peter Taylor
LGBTQ activist Peter Taylor, a founder of Kentucky’s gay rights movement, dies at age 71.
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Entries by Faulkner Morgan Archive
The Best Gay One-Night Stand in America in Lexington Kentucky
You won’t believe the folks that made the best gay night out in Lexington.
Black Queer Excellence at The Historic Lyric Theatre
In the early 1900s, Black drag was happening in Lexington from the Woodland Park Auditorium to the Lyric Theatre. Newspaper clippings even mention James Herndon performing as Sweet Evening Breeze, in “The Passion Dance of the Bongo-Bangoes” at the Woodland Auditorium in the 1920s and 1930s. As the years went on, other venues in Lexington […]
A Community Coming Together: HIV/AIDS Activism in Kentucky
In honor of World AIDS Day, Queer Kentucky and the Faulkner Morgan Archive remember the history of HIV/AIDS in Kentucky.
The Male “Gaze” in Homoerotic Bourbon History
Queer folks have often taken advantage of ambiguity as a way to get their images and fantasies before a wider audience. Advertisements, especially, have long served as a public-facing format to create such imagery. For instance, young men reading Time Magazine around the 1950s would have been greeted by ads like this one. Though meant […]
From the Archives: A Brief Butch History
The term “butch,” commonly associated with LGBTQ+ women, originated from a robust Lesbian subculture in the mid-1900s. While its cultural meaning has shifted and is more widely used amongst many different genders and sexualities, it is still predominantly used to describe more masculine-presenting women. In our collections at Faulkner Morgan Archive, we have a wide […]