All posts tagged "gay history"
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8.2K2Arts and LeisureIsabella Stewart Gardner, Early Gay Icon?
Isabella Stewart Gardner is known to most for Fenway Court, her palatial Boston museum from which $500 million in art was stolen...
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9.9K10Arts and LeisureFemale Impersonator Julian Eltinge Gets His Start in Boston’s Gay ’90s
The rise of female impersonator Julian Eltinge was a twist on the old story of instant stardom, in which an agent/producer spots...
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10.1K1Arts and LeisureEleonora Sears, Brahmin Bad Girl on the Tennis Courts (and Polo Field and Squash Court…)
Eleonora Sears pioneered women’s sports in the way only a Boston blueblood could. When she took up long-distance walking from Boston to...
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14.8K7MassachusettsBaron von Steuben Shows the Army a Bayonet Is Not a Grilling Tool
An impoverished Prussian nobleman named Baron Friedrich von Steuben showed up in Valley Forge on Feb. 23, 1778, and taught the Continental...
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17.0K10Arts and LeisureCharlotte Cushman, Cross-Dressing Tragedienne of the 19th Century
Charlotte Cushman, considered the greatest actress in America during the mid-19th century, played both male and female dramatic roles. She did it...
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8.1K7Arts and LeisureA Mountain View Inspires ‘America the Beautiful’
When a 33-year-old Wellesley college professor reached the top of Pikes Peak on July 22, 1893, she was so moved she scribbled...
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