Heute vor 5 Jahren starb der Autor #MartCrowley in New York. Sein #Theaterstück "The Boys in the Band" (1968) rückte erstmals schwules Leben explizit in den Mittelpunkt der Handlung. Für die 1. #Verfilmung schrieb er das #Drehbuch. Wir erinnern an ihn mit Hinweis auf die #Filmkritik:
Maxi Braun, Vom Tabubrecher zum Tabu: Comeback für The Boys in the Band (1970), #WerkstattGeschichte 86/2022, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/papierkram
Enchanted Autumn in the City Park 
Sound: LUNO AI - manually cut
Images: SD-1.5, SDXL - manually post-worked
Img2Vid: Kling AI - manually cut
Prachtige podcast op NPO-VPRO over #FedericoGarciaLorca, waar ik aan meewerkte in verband met diens 'onspeelbare toneelstuk' Het Publiek (El Publico) uit 1930... #queer #gayhistory #theater
https://www.2doc.nl/docs/2023/153-De-maan-de-dood-en-de-citroenen.html
2/n My list of Names, including four ex-lovers and many close friends.
1/n Watching "And the Band Played On" (1993). A dramatization of the early years, up to mid-1980s or so, of the responses to what we came to call AIDS. All-star cast.
Although it centers San Francisco as *the* epicenter, NYC was right there, too.
Tough to watch because this was my 20s.
Endurance trauma is a thing.
"Even if your whiskers, bringing hair, have sprung forth,
and soft blonde curls are on your temples,
even so I do not flee my eromenos. But his beauty
even with a beard, even with hair, is mine."
Greek Anthology 12.10
A young man with body hair was considered no longer attractive by the beauty standards of #ancientGreece. Once he could grow a full beard, he wasn't eromenos material anymore.
#PrideMonth #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory #gayHistory #ancientGreece @antiquidons @histodons
"#Helenos, son of #Priamos, was beloved of #Apollon and received from him the silver bow with which he wounded #Achilles in the hand."
Ptolemy Hephaestion, Book 6 in Photius 190
Helenos and Apollon under a #Pride banner by my illustrator @freitas_art
#PrideMonth #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory #gayHistory #ancientGreece #mlm #TrojanWar @antiquidons @mythology @histodons #Apollo #indieArt #indieArtist
"[My friend, the] penis that you touched so your heart rejoiced,
grubs devour [(it) … like an] old garment.
[My friend, the crotch that you] touched so your heart rejoiced,
it is filled with dust [like a crack in the ground.]"
Tablet XII, Epic of Gilgamesh
#Enkidu died and this is his ghost talking to #Gilgamesh.
#PrideMonth #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory #gayHistory #ancientMesopotamia #mlm @antiquidons @mythology @histodons
"#Iolaos, who shared the labours of #Herakles and fought by his side, was beloved of him and Aristotle says that even in his day lovers plighted their faith at Iolaos' tomb.
It was natural, then, that the band should also be called sacred, because even #Plato calls the lover a divine friend."
@antiquidons @histodons #PrideMonth #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory #gayHistory #ancientGreece #MosaicMonday
"Homer's Nestor was no tactician when he urged the Greeks to form in companies by clans and tribes, since he should have stationed lover by beloved. [...] A band that is held together by the affection between lovers is indissoluble and not to be broken, since the lovers are ashamed to play the coward before their beloved, and the beloved before their lovers, and both stand firm in danger to protect each other."
@antiquidons @histodons #PrideMonth #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory #gayHistory #ancientGreece
"The Sacred Band [of #Thebes], we are told, was first formed by #Gorgidas, of 300 chosen men, to whom the city furnished exercise and maintenance and who encamped in the Kadmeia. But some say that this band was composed of lovers and beloved."
Plutarch, The Parallel Lives
#PrideMonth #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory #gayHistory #ancientGreece @antiquidons @histodons @mythology
