This post is a part of Fashion In the Broad Sense: a series of posts that explores how The Golden Girls relates to important topics and issues surrounding women and fashion. Inspiration sometimes strikes in the strangest of ways, and this post comes courtesy of the USPS's untimely announcement on the first day of Pride Month …
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Happy Pride season everyone! I know for a lot of people this year's celebrations are also especially revelatory since the pandemic got in the way of parades and other in-person parties last year. Over the past year there's also been a lot of fantastic writing and media about The Golden Girls that explores how the …
This post is a part of Fashion In the Broad Sense: a series of posts that explores how The Golden Girls relates to important topics and issues surrounding women and fashion. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Inn riots that took place in New York City on June 28th and 29th, 1969. …
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Welcome to the first of two posts for LGBTQ Pride Month! Somehow I missed writing something for the occasion last year, so this year I wanted to do something special. There are already lots of wonderful articles out there about why the show connects with LGBTQ audiences and how it tackled topics ahead of its time, …
October 11 is National Coming Out Day and, in the course of my recent research, I've been thinking a lot about how The Golden Girls portrayed LGBTQ characters and issues over the years. The show tackled topics like coming out, AIDS, and learning to accept family members' sexuality, among others, with sensitivity and humor in …
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