Month: June 2025
Book Review: Titanic: The Untold Tale of Gay Passengers and Crew by Jack Fritscher
Last year, when I was working on my “Ship of Secrets” blog post, I stumbled across a book called Titanic: The Untold Story of Gay Passengers and Crew by Jack Fritscher. One quote from the author kept popping up in my research: Of the 885 male crew on TITANIC, 693, or 78 percent, died. Altogether,…
Hidden in the Wake: The Lusitania’s LGBTQ+ History
Last year for Pride Month, I wrote a post about the LGBTQ+ history of RMS Titanic. This year I wanted to focus on RMS Lusitania and her stories. Lusitania was one of the most famous ships in the world when she was torpedoed and sunk by U-20 on May 7, 1915. The ship was a…