We're taught that education eliminates bigotry, yet the nastiest homophobes I've endured have all been professional educators. Graduate School at Shippensburg. 1976. #gayrights #equality #bigotry #homophobia #equalrights #1970s

Midge and John Littlechap enjoy the Sunflower Patch. #flowers #garden #summer #dolls #dolllover #dolllovers #dollphotographer #dollcollector

My friends and I have made movies most of our lives. "The Mifflintown Wives" was our final 8-millimeter silent reel, shot in 1975. #8mm #reg8mm #movies #homemovies #1970s #thestepfordwives #drama #horror

I call this leggy beauty by the backdoor Elizabeth Berkley, because she's a real "Showgirl." #flowers #garden #gardening #pennsylvaniagardens #showgirls #elizabethberkley #canna #cannas #cannalily #cannalilies #posies

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A Most Memorable Halloween, at the McConnellstown Playhouse several years ago. Fred, Wilma, Stevie, Lucius, and Harry. #Halloween #flintstones #stevienicks #harrypotter #communitytheater

Every time I hear the theme song, I'm back in Nana's living room on a Saturday night in the 1960s. "Perry Mason" is a favorite TV show of 2/3rds of our household, and Raymond Burr has now become a gay icon. Who'd 'a thunk it? #classictv #perrymason #tvdetectives #lawyer

Deanna Troi once visited friend Brownie in Mifflin to offer free counseling. He wouldn't open the door. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. #startrek #tng #deannatroi #mifflin #counseling #apartments

Planters outside the Old Hermit's Garagarchives. #flowers #garden #pennsylvaniagardens #containergardening

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I made a lot of new friends during "the Gay Nineties." Halloween, 1994. #1990s #gayrights #equalrights #Halloween #halloweenparty #endbigotry

Monarch Butterfly on Fifth Street. #nature #garden #butterfly #monarch #monarchs #pennsylvaniagardens #butterflybush

"Ellen, hiking at Poe Valley, with a towel about her shoulders." Watercolor, 1989. #watercolor #art #artwork #hiking #poevalley #pennsylvania #portrait #portraits

This new variegated Canna Lily bulb was one of the Old Fart's best producers all summer. #canna #cannas #cannalily #cannalilies #flowers #posies #garden #pennsylvaniagarden

Shocking that both JOHN WATERS and MST3K are having events at The Mahoning Drive-In Theater in the upcoming few weeks!!! #DriveIn #JohnWaters #MST3k

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Arthur Knight Hammer gave great Halloween parties in the 1990s. He later turned his vintage Milesburg home into the men's club "Bearadise." #gay #gayrights #equalrights #bears #mensclubs #1990s #gaynineties

Frank dries himself on the dower bed, after his Monday morning medicated bath. #dogs #doglover #doglovers #dogphotographer #pets #petlovers

My friends and I have made movies most our lives. "Shipwrecked" was written and directed by friend Cyndi, and was about an island of giants. 1980s. #super8mm #homemovies #movies #1980s #writing #directing #producing

Canna-nizing Andy Warhol. #art #popart #modernart #andywarhol #flowers #canna #cannas #cannalily #cannalilies #posies #posy #garden #pennsylvaniagarden