Raven Chanticleer Presents Stylish Stout Fashions, 1978-1979

A photo essay by T. Bloom on queer history and the perils of junk store consumerism

In Arizona, where I grew up, the thrift stores were mainly donation-based; I didn’t think much about who’d previously owned any of these items. Certainly, in many instances these were folks who’d died, and the remnants of their estate were scraped off onto Goodwill or the like. Ethics of these various organizations aside, this struck me as a decent solu…