So delighted to receive a copy of Bad Gays-A Homosexual History by the enigmatic writing team of Huw Lemmey (very patrician sounding moniker) and Ben Miller, Board President of the Schwules Museum in Berlin and frequent contributor to The New York Times/International Herald Tribune and other prescient periodicals.
Once you start reading this engaging tome, you won´t want to put it down until you are finished with it, then you will find yourself reading it again just in case you missed something. That is my personal criteria for an exceptional book. With chapters on Hadrian, Yukio Mishima and my fav Margaret Mead who the late scholar Jose Munoz called the Grand Duchess of inappropriate, self importance and grift.
There is also an award winning podcast called Bad Gays that you must subscribe to NOW!
One of this centuries most gifted fine artistes is the Canadian born, Los Angeles based Karen Lofgren. Of her many and varied talents she also creates specialty jewelry that is mind altering. She sent me a Silver Bobcat ring which I just adore. Her sculptural jewelry pieces remind me of the work of the late great jewelry designer Lee Brevard who crafted exquisite items especially for Michele Lamy and Elizabeth Taylor. Go to Karen´s website at www.Karenlofgren.net or find her on Instagram. One must support this kind of juicy talent.
Karen Lofgren´s Silver Bobcat ring
Margaret Mead