Megan takes us on a ride through the life of #AnitaBerber : Weimar Germany's Priestess of Depravity. Dancer and legendary #bisexual bad girl, Anita was the first true star of her era and her short life was shocking even for hedonistic #Berlin of #the1920s.

Content Warning:
MAJOR warning for underage grooming, inappropriate adult/child relationships, animal mistreatment, drug use, violence. Please take care while listening.

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all images from Mel Gordon's #SevenAddictionsandFiveProfessionsofAnitaBerber

1 'Portrait of the Dancer Anita Berber' - #OttoDix 1925
2 Felix Berber
3 Lucie Thiem Berber 1921
4 Anita with Grandma Thiem, 1901
5 Anita 'Allegory of Spring', 1916
6 Valeska Gert 'Dance in Orange', 1916
7 Susi Wandrowski and Anita, 1922
8 Anita as Eton-Boy in 'Please Pay!' by Ernst Scheider, 1921
9 Sebastian Droste, by Francis Bruguiere, 1925
10 Henri 'Lotus Land', 1931

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Happy Pan(sexual/romantic) Awareness And Visibility Day (May 24)! 💞 💛 💙 The earliest instance I can find of the word "pansexual" used in its current form, as a sexual orientation, is from a 1974 issue of the San Francisco Bay Guardian (though if you know of any earlier, please let me know!):

https://archive.org/details/Iss09.02/page/n15

#history #QueerHistory #PanHistory #PansexualHistory

San Francisco Bay Guardian Issue 09.02 : San Francisco Bay Guardian : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Searchable PDF of print layout for San Francisco Bay Guardian Issue 09.02