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A Jewish, transgender, anti-fascist, Surrealist artist, born in France at the end of the 1800s? Keep reading. Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob was a prolific writer, photographer, and actor who didn’t like to be called any of the above. But while she eschewed labels in her personal life, her art revolved around identity. In her theatrical and often androgynously […]

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Have Gun – Will Travel was an “adult Western” series that aired in the late 1950s to early 1960s. Set in San Francisco nearly 100 years earlier, the hero, Paladin (played by Richard Boone), was a gentleman gunfighter who enjoyed opera, beautiful women, fine food, and chess. He often quoted Shakespeare and Greek philosophers and, in one […]

By now you probably know all about Edie Windsor, the octogenarian whose lawsuit led to the defeat of DOMA. What you might not know is the life story of her late wife, Thea Spyer, in whose name Windsor fought for marriage equality. As detailed in United States v. Windsor, an 8-year-old Spyer fled the Nazis’ rise in […]

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