*cough gay cough*

*cue vine voice* Oh my god, they were roommates…

Cary grant and Randolph Scott lived together for 11 years in their mansion entitled the bachelor pad there are press pictures of the two of them living in a completely wonderfully domestic setting

When Cary grant has to marry as to stop the rumours of their gayness he became very depressed, him and his wife divorced 13 months later

Putting more pictures here because yes

Also they reason said wife divorced Cary is bc Randolph “refused to leave” their home and Cary wouldn’t kick him out.

I’d seen some of these pub stills before but not all of them, imagine middle America looking at this and thinking they were just bachelors sharing a house holy fuck

I am obligated to reblog this everytime it shows up on my dash

Confirmed bachelors, best fiends, and roommates. Yup, bros being bros.

So apparently last year the National Park Service in the US dropped an over 1200 page study of LGBTQ American History as part of their Who We Are program which includes studies on African-American history, Latino history, and Indigenous history. 

Like. This is awesome. But also it feels very surreal that maybe one of the most comprehensive examinations of LGBTQ history in America (it covers sports! art! race! historical sites! health! cities!) was just casually done by the parks service. 

This is really great??

• Chapter 1: Prologue: Why LGBTQ Historic Sites Matter by Mark Meinke
• Chapter 2: Introduction to the LGBTQ Heritage Initiative Theme Study by Megan E. Springate
• Chapter 3: Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History in the United States by Leisa Meyer and Helis Sikk

• Chapter 4: The History of Queer History: One Hundred Years of the Search for Shared Heritage by Gerard Koskovich
• Chapter 5: The Preservation of LGBTQ Heritage by Gail Dubrow
• Chapter 6: LGBTQ Archeological Context by Megan E. Springate

• Chapter 7: A Note about Intersectionality by Megan E. Springate
• Chapter 8: Making Bisexuals Visible by Loraine Hutchins
• Chapter 9: Sexual and Gender Diversity in Native America and the Pacific Islands by Will Roscoe
• Chapter 10: Transgender History in the US and the Places that Matter by Susan Stryker
• Chapter 11: Breathing Fire: Remembering Asian Pacific American Activism in Queer History by Amy Sueyoshi
• Chapter 12: Latina/o Gender and Sexuality by Deena J. González and Ellie D. Hernandez
• Chapter 13: “Where We Could Be Ourselves”: African American LGBTQ Historic Places and Why They Matter by Jeffrey A. Harris

• Chapter 14: LGBTQ Spaces and Places by Jen Jack Gieseking
• Chapter 15: Making Community: The Places and Spaces of LGBTQ Collective Identity Formation by Christina B. Hanhardt
• Chapter 16: LGBTQ Business and Commerce by David K. Johnson
• Chapter 17: Sex, Love, and Relationships by Tracy Baim
• Chapter 18: LGBTQ Civil Rights in America by Megan E. Springate
• Chapter 19: Historical Landmarks and Landscapes of LGBTQ Law by Marc Stein
• Chapter 20: LGBTQ Military Service by Steve Estes
• Chapter 21: Struggles in Body and Spirit: Religion and LGBTQ People in US History by Drew Bourn
• Chapter 22: LGBTQ and Health by Katie Batza
• Chapter 23: LGBTQ Art and Artists by Tara Burk
• Chapter 24: LGBTQ Sport and Leisure by Katherine Schweighofer

• Chapter 25: San Francisco: Placing LGBTQ Histories in the City by the Bay by Donna J. Graves and Shayne E. Watson
• Chapter 26: Preservation of LGBTQ Historic & Cultural Sites – A New York City Perspective by Jay Shockley
• Chapter 27: Locating Miami’s Queer History by Julio Capó, Jr.
• Chapter 28: Queerest Little City in the World: LGBTQ Reno by John Jeffrey Auer IV
• Chapter 29: Chicago: Queer Histories at the Crossroads of America by Jessica Herczeg-Konecny

• Chapter 30: Nominating LGBTQ Places to the National Register of Historic Places and as National Historic Landmarks: An Introduction by Megan E. Springate and Caridad de la Vega
• Chapter 31: Interpreting LGBTQ Historic Sites by Susan Ferentinos
• Chapter 32: Teaching LGBTQ History and Heritage by Leila J. Rupp

Let me explain what is happening here, because I don’t think that this post is very representative of why this matters.

The purpose of the theme studies, this one included, is to locate the physical remnants of the past, so that they can be properly preserved by governmental and nonprofit entities. They are not just descriptions of history, they are documents that can be used for grant work, for preventing places from being destroyed, or for promoting the restoration of those places. This theme study is a statement from the federal government that the preservation of these places is important, and that can be translated by the states into these places being legally required to be protected.

The theme studies are also really important because they recontextualized what it means to locate history in a place. This started before the LGBT theme study, there’s a lot of this in the Latino theme study, but they present a reconsideration of what you can call historic when the actions of a group left no physical traces on the spaces that they used. We are now seeing the possibility of considering places like cruising areas as historic properties because they represent the patterns of a culture.

This is the Park Service’s job. This is what you should be expecting from them. There are theme studies and special resource studies on dozens of things. A really important Civil Rights one dropped like last week. The Park Service is charged with running our national parks, sure, but the bulk of their work is like this. This is the type of shit that you can and should expect out of your National Park Service. Nobody else is gonna do it.

Ebenezer Scrooge: Goes outside

500 Muppets: There goes Mr Asshole! There Goes Mr Bitch!

so violent that actors have to get buff for marvel films. So fucked up that women have always had to be the smallest they can be to get work as actors. Changing your body for cinema should be illegal actually

Hollywood has !! Professionalised the body !!!

I've literally lost count of the number of male actors I've heard of being hospitalised for malnourishment or dehydration to the point of near organ failure for a fucking role. The number of female actors who have come forward about their struggles with body dysmorphia, eating disorders, etc., for a fucking role.

This is not normal. This should not be treated as normal. Why is this so fucking normalised?!

My dashboard be like "this is Eddie and his boyfriend Steve, and this is Steve and his boyfriend Bucky, and this is Buck and his boyfriend Eddie, and this is Ed and his boyfriend Stede"

writing eddie and steve in love isn't enough, they need to be gomez/morticia levels of whipped and horny for each other at all times

and they were roommates, part 2