Bijou Stories

• I Prefer Girls

  Did any of these books ever live up to their covers?

• Fredericks of Hollywood

• Joe Dallesandro in Andy Warhol’s Flesh (1968)

• That Kind of Girl

  You can just feel those italics itching to be used on That

• Hand in Glove - The Smiths

  Early Smiths undoubtedly had a homoerotic vibe going on.

• Hal Fischer: The Gay Seventies | AnotherMan

  Hal Fischer’s photography series, Gay Semiotics, deconstructed the ways his queer contemporaries in 1970s San Francisco presented themselves. Here, Fischer tells Another Man the story behind the series – and why he would never do a modern-day version

• Queer as Fuck: The Soft Pink Truth's Black Metal | Pitchfork

  With his new album as the Soft Pink Truth, Matmos' Drew Daniel offers dance-ready black metal covers—and grapples with the genre's sorry history of homophobia in the process. By Brandon Stosuy.

• How to dramatise a plague: a history of Aids on screen

  Film and TV have little by little learned to be honest about life and death in the HIV age.

• Why Queer Archives Are Important: A Study of LGBTQ Life - Google Arts & Culture

  Author Hugh Ryan on the importance of the archives of the LGBT Community Center National History Archive

• Spotify – A Bijou Christmas

  Get out your Xmas hot pants! It's the Bijou Christmas playlist. A heady mix of classics, abominations and alternative sounds to make your yuletide gay.

• 📷 Alvin Baltrop: The queer photographer who captured Manhattan’s bygone cruising culture

  "Bronx native Alvin Baltrop captured the emotional side of public hook-ups." Evocative of another era these intimately voyeuristic photographs capture a gay cruising area in New York.

• 🎞️ The Discipline of D.E.: Gus Van Sant Adapts a Story by William S. Burroughs

  Early short by one of the key directors of the early 90s New Queer Cinema movement. Based on a short story by William Burroughs who featured in the director's Drugstore Cowboy.

• 🎞️ Le Sang d'un Poete - Jean Cocteau

  The Blood of a Poet (French: Le Sang d'un Poète) (1930) is a beautifully dream-like film by Jean Cocteau.

• 🎞️Jean Genet: Un Chant D'Amour

  Genet's classic 1950 short film on UbuWeb. Free to watch.

• Desire, love, identity: exploring LGBTQ histories - British Museum - Google Arts & Culture

  Many objects from across the British Museum's collections can offer glimpses into LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer) histories, experiences and l...

• 🎨 📖 A Queer Walk Through British Art – In the Gallery | Tate

  Discover queer responses to our collection at Tate Britain, curated by members of the LGBTQ+ community at Tate and beyond

• 📖🎞️ Out on the screen: 50 years of queer cinema in Britain

• 🎞️Lesbians (Gay Life) online - BFI Player

  Gay women from different generations discuss their experiences in this revealing TV documentary

• 📖The Personal is Political: Lesbian Life | Glasgow Women's Library

  One of the most notable things about the LAIC and LGBTQ collections is the way in which they capture everyday life of the archives contributors.

• 📖 Arena Three: Britain’s first lesbian magazine

  Steven Dryden looks at how Britain’s first lesbian magazine came about and its impact on society.

• 📖Gay Liberation Front Manifesto

  The Gay Liberation Front Manifesto, published in 1971, sets out the group's key demands and principles. From British Library

• 📷 Images Of LGBTQ London In The 1970s

  A selection of photographs from the 1970s including Divine, who was performing in "Women Behind Bars". Were you lucky enough to see this? If so, we would love to hear from you.

• 🎞️ PUTTING ON THE DISH // A short film in Polari

  "In 6 minutes, Brian and Karl’s new short film Putting on the Dish creates a complete environment of the homosexual under Britain’s anti-homosexuality…

• 🎞️London Pride parade in 1975

  Kaye compilation including London Pride parade in 1975. Pride footage starts at 2:50 From London Screen Archives

• 🎞️Mrs Shufflewick

  Mrs Gladys Shufflewick (Rex Jameson) video made at the Downtown restaurant Surrey Docks. Old school drag comedy. Contains adult material.

• 🎧A Bijou Playlist on Spotify

  LGBTQI+ themed music and queer artists.

• 📖📷🎶How Gay Pop Music Shaped The World As We Know It - Museum of Youth Culture — Google Arts & Culture

  This exhibition explores the impact of LGBTQ culture - gay culture - on the wider youth cultures since the end of the second world war in 1945. We shall lo...

• 🎞️21st Century Nuns - BFI Player

  Street protest tranvestite nuns perpetually indulge in this 1993 doc featuring Derek Jarman.

• 🎞️David Is Homosexual - BFI Player

  A lonely gay man discovers friends, love and activism in this rediscovered educational film made by the Campaign for Homosexual Equality

• 🎞️Gay Black Group - BFI Player

  The Gay Black Group - reasserting culture and identity on two levels.

• 🎞️What's a Girl Like You ... - BFI Player

  Scintillating look at the 1960s drag renaissance, with a visit to London's Royal Vauxhall Tavern.

• Far Out Meets: Short film director Matt Houghton

  Watch the film, here.

• 15 great classical composers who also happened to be gay

  From Copland to Corelli, we celebrate some of the greatest LGBTQ+ composers in classical music history.