Rebel Heart is Bebe Buell's no-holds-barred account of her life at the center of the rock scene in the '70s and '80s, when rock stars were royalty. Her relationships with musicians like wunderkind Todd Rundgren, Aerosmith's Steven Tyler—father of her daughter Liv-Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page and Elvis Costello played out against a backdrop of some of the most legendary locales of the era.
As soon as she graduated from high school, Pamela Des Barres headed for the Sunset Strip, where she knocked on rock stars' backstage doors and immersed herself in the drugs, danger, and ecstasy of the freewheeling 1960s. Warm, witty, and sexy, this kiss-and-tell–all stands out as the perfect chronicle of one of rock 'n' roll's most thrilling eras.
In this riveting popular history, season 1 podcast guest probes the inner workings of Hollywood’s glamorous golden age through the stories of some of the dozens of actresses pursued by Howard Hughes, to reveal how the millionaire mogul’s obsessions with sex, power and publicity trapped, abused, or benefitted women who dreamt of screen stardom.
How do Christianity and homosexuality factor within each other? Vines embarks upon a thorough investigation of just this question (along with a host of others it triggers) throughout this catalog and interpretation of the Bibles various references to same-sex coupling. In his quest to let the text do the talking, he leaves no stone (or page) unturned.
Baldwin cements his literary influence via this tale of clandestine romance amid a Paris in the thrusts of creative and cultural upheaval. As a result of phrasings textured to engaged the reader's full range of senses, the story's painted pictures realize characters almost realer than life itself.
Until very recently, much of the Trans community's media visibility erased the dynamic presences of those posited in an the intersectional marginalization of both gender transition and racial 2nd-class citizenship. Riley Snorton considers via expansive cultural research, the ways in which the deliberate obscuring of their existence works to confirm the presence and impact of these maverick individuals.
In the tradition of Cherokee communities, a place of acknowledgment—and often veneration—was carved for those who embodied a binary-subversive gender and/or sexual identity. Driskill approaches chronicling this Queered-Indigenous, intra-community formation via a rigorously academic methodology.
Tucked away within Harlem's early-twentieth century creative revolution was a burgeoning community of Queer artists, writing, painting, singing, dancing, and living outside of society's strict mores. Here, a location of not only their expressive cultural contributions but a study of the contexts in which those occurred illuminates the ever resilient nature of the artistic spirit.
In authoring this pioneering feminist manifesto, Friedan helped to unleash too long stifled dialogues surround the patriarchal subordination of women in Western society. Though the feminist community's ideologies continue to evolve more nuanced and inclusive, none can refute the historical influence that this landmark testament maintains.
A lady never kisses and tells. A "hustler"—by contrast—is likely to spill several juicy beans, as Bowers does within this behind the screens peak at the Hollywood Golden Era's most elicit sexcapades. Odds are 5 to 1 that the only thing dropping faster than a world-famous matinee idol's trousers will be your jaw.
Unmistakeable not only in her singular brand of haute-burlesque performance, but her honing of an aesthetic-of-self so meticulous it cannot be duplicated, Von Teese pulls back the velvet curtain to share some her the beauty tricks-of-the-trade. This icon's goal is never to make you over in her image, but rather to grant you magically transformative tools allowing you to realize an amplified one all of your own.
Lifetimes before matching a "right swipe" provided listless men with the opportunity for casual coitus, Los Angeles' brothels and bordellos thrived amid a Hollywood that was yet to fully form. Our site's own Madame, Liz Goldwyn constructs a fiction (based largely on actual events encountered within her extensive research) of flop houses, feathered lamps, and fast cash for love. This was how the West was done.
A flash of shoulder revealed then covered, a shimmy of the hips executed to tantalize without telling the entire story; burlesque is as much about what you conceal as it as about what you reveal. Our own founder, Liz Goldwyn profiles the performance genre's twilight luminaries in this captivating study of the performative tease.
Originally published in 1976, the Hite Report served to explode the at the time limited analyses of female sexuality. Utilizing a survey of 100,000 women, the study shed light on the the sex women were REALLY having, in the process elucidating the centrality of clitoral stimulation in the vast majority of female orgasm.
