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Forgotten Queers

Forgotten Queers

Written by: Gary M Thoren Jr
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 This is Forgotten Queers, a show about the queer figures history pushed aside. They were once stars, leaders, icons — but time, shame, and prejudice buried their names. We’re here to remember them, to honor them, and to say: you don’t get to forget us.

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  • Forgotten Queer Rob Halford

    Forgotten Queer Rob Halford
    Jan 7 2026
    Rob Halford lead vocalist of Judas Priest. He joined them in 1973. They received a 2010 Grammy award for best metal performance. Learn more in this podcast.

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    58 mins
  • Forgotten Queer Keith Haring

    Forgotten Queer Keith Haring
    Dec 31 2025
    Moved to New York City in 1978 to study painting at the School of Visual Arts
    Started his career as a graffiti artist in subway stations using white chaulk on black, unused
    advertisement boards.
    1980: He used New York lamp posts to post graphic letter messages around the city.
    “Regan Slain By Hero Cop” “Pope killed for Freed Hostage”
    1980: Participated in The Times Square Show with one of his earliest projects. He altered a
    banner advertisement above a subway entrance in Times Square that showed a female
    embracing a male’s legs, blacking out the first letter of the clothing brand Cardon, to read
    Hardon.
    1980: began organizing exhibitions at Club 57 which were filmed by close friend, photographer
    Tseng Kwong Chi.
    1981: First solo exhibition at Westbath Painters Space in the West Village
    Later that year, he had a solo exhibition at the Hal Bromm Gallery in Tribecca
    1982 to 1986: His career started to take off
    HIs work appeared in Times Square, computer animated, (probably some of the first of it’s kind)

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    37 mins
  • Danny Lockin

    Danny Lockin
    Dec 26 2025
    Danny Lockin was born in Hawaii in 1943,Not for any glamorous reasons but because that’s where dad Joseph was an operations manager for Dole Pineapple well anyway the family didn’t stay there long and fairly soon relocated to Omaha, Nebraska. Mom also known as Jean, who had been a dancer in the last raspy gasps of The vaudeville circuit , opened up a successful dance studio. From an early age Danny excelled at dancing. He obviously wowed his mom because well come on it’s mom but other people noticed also. So from an early age he performed. Professionally from the age of 9. In a kind of modern day vaudevillian act with an African American partner named Neal Reynolds. They would do the fair circuit, and by all accounts, it was successful, let’s keep in mind, queers and weirdos, we are talking about, the mid-west and like a 3 month time frame but a success All the same.
    In, what to me, seems like a terrible time to do this, but none of us know what was going on in the Lockin family, they moved to Anaheim, California, Danny’s junior year of high school. During this time he got leading juvenile roles is several regional productions of Gypsy, The Music Man and Time for Everything (a show I have never heard of).
    Once graduating he almost immediately got a small, let me restate that by saying, more like glorified extra part in the filmed version of Gypsy in 1962 as one of Dainty June’s farm boys, truly a blink and you’ll miss it part but it was a working part of the film industry. I’m sure he was hooked. Next in 1963 he was cast in the play Morning Sun with Bert Convy and Patricia Neway….

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    28 mins
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