All posts tagged "gay history"
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18.9KArts and LeisureAdrian, The Hatmaker’s Son Who Dressed America
Adrian is known as the man who designed the most famous shoes on the planet, but he also deserves credit for padding...
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11.0K2Arts 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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13.5K10Arts 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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14.0K1Arts 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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19.2K7MassachusettsBaron 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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20.9K10Arts 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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