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About the Blog

Welcome! This blog (and archive) is dedicated to taking a retrospective look at the life, career, and legacy of American entertainer Władziu Valentino Liberace.

Liberace was a kitsch, camp, and gay icon who not only revolutionized pop culture with his glittering costumes and legendary showmanship, but who also did more than any modern American to popularize piano music with the working class. Unabashedly flamboyant in ways it was unthinkable for a successful male performer to be, Liberace inspired generations of artists from Little Richard to Elton John while living a life in both public and private that continues to make him the subject of dismissal and oversimplification.

With this blog, I hope to go beyond both the idol and the caricature to provide a fuller picture of Liberace as a complex but important historical figure who pushed the limits of what it meant to be gay and visible at a time when his very existence was considered a crime.

About the Blogger

I’m a writer, researcher, and Liberace fan with a passion for re-evaluating historiography. If you’d like to reach out to me, feel free to use the Contact page linked above.

Disclaimer

This blog is personal, non-monetized, and operates in the spirit of fair use. While all analysis and commentary featured is my own, all images, videos, names, likenesses, and other media referenced are the exclusive property of their respective copyright holders. I take citations and sourcing very seriously, and always do my best to properly cite/credit all media used or quoted in my posts. If you are the copyright holder of any image or video used on this blog and would like to have it removed, please contact me.

This blog is in no way affiliated with The Liberace Foundation.