from: Girls from Mars:
and recorded on this youtube channel
Month: June 2021
june 8 for lgbtq2
1949
A report by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) named celebrities John Garfield, Edward G. Robinson, Danny Kaye, Dorothy Parker, Fredric March, Paul Muni and Helen Keller as members of the Communist Party.
1953
The U.S. Supreme Court outlawed segregated restaurants in Washington, DC.
1963
Lesley Gore remained at #1 with “It’s My Party”
1974
Elton John was at #10, 34 weeks since the release of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
David Bowie started a four-week run at the top of the UK charts with his third No.1 album ‘Diamond Dogs’. The cover art features Bowie as a striking half-man, half-dog grotesque painted by Belgian artist Guy Peellaert. It was controversial as the full painting clearly showed the hybrid’s genitalia. Very few copies of this original cover made their way into circulation at the time of the album’s release.
Dolly Parton was at No.1 on the US country chart with ‘I Will Always Love You’. Elvis Presley indicated that he wanted to cover the song. Parton was interested until Presley’s manager, Colonel Tom Parker, told her that it was standard procedure for the songwriter to sign over half of the publishing rights to any song Elvis recorded. Parton refused. ‘I Will Always Love You’ later became a worldwide No.1 hit for Whitney Houston in 1992 when featured in The Bodyguard.
1985
Tears For Fears started a two-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Everybody Wants To Rule The World’, the group’s first US No.1. In 1986, the song won Best Single at the Brit Awards. Band member and co-writer Roland Orzabal argued that the song deserved to win the Ivor Novello International Hit of the Year award, claiming that the winner, ’19’ by Paul Hardcastle – was not an actual song, but only a “dialogue collage.”
1991
Whitney Houston had her 16th hit and 13th Top 10 with “Miracle”
1993
Drag queen RuPaul releases his debut album “Supermodel of the World”
2000
Sinead O’Connor revealed that she was a lesbian in an article that would later be published by “Curve” in their July-August 2000 issue.
Lisa Marie Presley and her children broke ground for the Presley Place in a special ceremony.
2006
Barbara Streisand announced her first full tour in ten years.
2007
A British judge sentenced George Michael to 100 hours of community service and banned him from driving for two years for driving under the influence of drugs.
2014
Audra McDonald wins a Tony for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar And Grill”
2016
Cher filed a lawsuit against SAIL Venture Partners and related firms, claiming they defrauded her out of more than $800,000 in investments which went bad.
Janis Joplin‘s childhood home in Port Arthur, Texas was put up for sale. Although surrounding houses usually sold for between $70,000 and $80,000, the asking price for the five-bedroom, three-bathroom house was $500,000. “You’re obviously paying for the fame of the home,” said the listing realtor. 2017: A previous listing in June 2016 had a price of $500,000. It was reduced to $250,000 in November 2016, and now it’s down to $200,000. The house has been appraised at $52,500
Janis Joplin’s childhood home in Port Arthur up for sale at a reduced price
Blogger Nina Notes:
the home she left, in the town she never fit into and when she went back to show them she was famous, they did not care
they expect a fan to overpay for the house that basically was why she was doing drugs that killed her the in first place….
Janis Joplin’s Childhood Home In Port Arthur TexasJanis Joplin grew up at this home in Port Arthur after a previous home had burned down. Joplin & her sister carved their names into wet cement at the home.
rockandrollroadmap.com
2020
Beyoncé celebrates ‘beautiful queerness’ and Black Lives Matter protesters in inspirational
2021
Ghana court denies bail for 21 detained LGBT activists | ReutersA Ghanaian court on Tuesday denied bail to 21 gay rights activists arrested nearly three weeks ago for what police described as an unlawful gathering, their lawyer said.www.reuters.comhttps://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/lgbt-people-globally-are-not-waiting-for-white-saviours-to-rescue-them/LGBT people globally are not waiting for ‘white saviours’ to rescue themBut if you watched Netflix’s new documentary ‘Hating Peter Tatchell’, you might think they are. It's one of several things the film got wrongwww.opendemocracy.net
June 7 for lgbtq2
June 7, 1965
The USA Supreme Court handed down a decision that legalized the use of contraception by married couples.
1971
The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Paul Cohen’s disturbing the peace conviction in Los Angeles , by wearing a jacket displaying “Fuck the Draft” in the public corridors of a California courthouse.
establishing the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment of the Constitution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohen_v._California
1975
Elton John’s album Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, which came in #85 in the Top 100 Albums of All-Time in the Rock Era*, had been released this week and debuted at #1, the first album in history to accomplish the feat and one of a select few in the Rock Era. Elton toppled Earth, Wind & Fire’s album That’s the Way of the World while the Soundtrack to “Tommy” fell to #3. Jeff Beck was #4 with Blow By Blow and America reached #5 with Hearts“. The rest of the Top 10: Alice Cooper with Welcome To My Nightmare, Chicago VIII was at #7, Bad Company fell to #8 with Straight Shooter, Nuthin’ Fancy from Lynyrd Skynyrd was #9 and Carly Simon had the #10 album with Playing Possum.
1980
“The Rose” spent a fifth week at #1 for Bette Midler on the Adult Contemporary chart.
1980
Elton John’s 29th career hit “Little Jeannie” was #10
1986
Madonna had the new #1 with “Live To Tell” but it would be short-lived as Patti LaBelle & Michael McDonald’s “On My Own” was closing fast. Whitney Houston fell to 3 after three weeks at #1 with “Greatest Love Of All”.
The album Whitney Houston spent its 11th week at #1 and 36th in the Top 10 and 63rd week on the Album chart.
1987
David Bowie played a concert in West Berlin in front of the Reichstag with the speakers pointing towards the nearby Berlin Wall where thousands of young East Berliners stood and listened.
1993
Prince changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol (
). (from the name “The Artist formerly Known as Prince) – the symbol being a combination of the Male/female ones – and also used for transgender. The name change reflected an ongoing battle with Warner Brothers Records over ownership and direction of his music.
2000
The “Prince: A Celebration” party began at Paisley Park Studios. The weeklong event was in celebration of The Artist reclaiming his name “Prince” after a 7-year battle with Warner Brothers.
2009
Elton John’s musical Billy Elliot won 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical.
2020
Grease: John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John Reflect on THAT Finale Reveal | rETroET spoke with the cast of ‘Grease’ about turning the hit Broadway musical into a cinema classic. John Travolta reveals who else was considered to portray Sandy, and why he knew Olivia Newton-John was the only person for the role. ‘Grease Sing-a-Long’ will air June 7 at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.
Exclusives from #ETonline :
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQwITQ__CeH2Y_7g2xeiNDa0vQsROQQgv
2021
https://theindependent.ca/journalism/why-st-johns-pride-banned-uniformed-police/Why St. John’s Pride Banned Uniformed Police — The IndependentWhy St. John’s Pride Banned Uniformed Policetheindependent.ca
gender critical feminists are women.. so siding against women is being against women.
Cotton Ceiling is a transwomen admission of hate crime against lesbians
There’s a alarming link between ‘gender-critical’ feminism and the far-rightThe anti-trans arguments made by ‘gender critical’ feminists risk enforcing heterosexual norms, the Institute of Race Relations has warned.www.pinknews.co.ukhttps://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/books/ct-books-biblioracle-0613-20210607-wltdlmxncngchgejxa43ifgcbe-story.html
USMNT-Mexico Nations League final halted for anti-gay chant by fansThe CONCACAF Nations League final between the United States and Mexico was marred by unruly fan behavior.www.espn.com
How Did a Gay Scientist of Jewish Descent Thrive Under the Nazis? – The New York TimesIn “Ravenous,” Sam Apple tells the story of a researcher who was able to carry out his groundbreaking work on cancer cells even in the middle of World War II.www.nytimes.com
What is the “don’t act straight when you’re gay!” sound all over TikTok rn?The “don’t look at me like that, don’t act straight when you’re gay” sound is all over TikTok right now, but where is it from originally?thetab.com
Judas Priest’s Rob Halford looks back on coming out as gay on MTVJudas Priest’s Rob Halford has marked Pride month by reflecting on the moment he came out as gay on television.www.nme.com
Chick-fil-A won’t stop funding anti-gay causes, so Burger King is stepping in to helpBurger King’s Ch’King sandwich will help fund LGBTQ equality to counter Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy’s support for anti-LGBTQ causeswww.metroweekly.comdenying access to material is censorship.
from the article:
Carmel Farahbakhsh, who goes by the pronouns they/them, said they understand that the libraries do not want to engage in censorship and does agree with that.
“I do not want to tell the person who wrote this book that they cannot publish. But I do want to have a community-centered space…taking a stance to protect marginalized voices and say that they’re not going to carry it,” they said.
LGB Alliance is a British charity that advocates for the rights of lesbians, gays, and bisexuals. Its exclusion of transgender and nonbinary communities from its advocacy angers many groups focused on LGBTQ issues, a consortium of which recently challenged the alliance’s charitable status. They accuse LGB Alliance of being transphobic and having links to the U.S. Christian right, VICE reports.
LGB Alliance denies both accusations. They assert that lesbians, gays and bisexuals have “specific concerns” that differ from transgender people, and that it’s “unhelpful” for them to work together.
june 6 for lgbtq2
June 6, 1972
David Bowie released “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars” album.
June 6, 1977
Queen appeared at Earls Court in London.
1987
Whitney Houston had her second UK No.1 single with ‘I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)’. It reached No.1 in over a dozen other countries and won a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1988
in the USA Whitney Houston bounced into the Top 10 after just four weeks with “I Wanna’ Dance With Somebody”.
2001
Twenty of Elton John‘s automobiles sold at auction for $2.75 million. Elton said he, ‘doesn’t have time to drive them anymore’. The most expensive was a ’93 Jaguar that sold for over $330,000.
2021
focusing on trans children – takes the public debate about what is happening in the adult world.
june 5 for lgbtq2
1964
‘Liza Jane’ became the first recording to be released as a single by David Bowie (but under the name Davie Jones with the King Bees). Despite promoting the single on the television shows Juke Box Jury, Ready Steady Go! and The Beat Room, and receiving good radio coverage, the single sold poorly and the band was subsequently dropped from the label Vocalion Pop. Jones later became David Bowie to avoid confusion with Davy Jones of The Monkees.
1987
The annual Prince’s Trust Rock Gala charity event was held for the fifth time at Wembley Arena in London. Highlights included George Harrison performing “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” with Eric Clapton, and Ringo Starr’s version of “With A Little Help From My Friends,” featuring Jeff Lynne. Other performers included Elton John, Phil Collins, Bryan Adams, Dave Edmunds, Boy George, and Ben E. King.
2010
In Palm Beach, Florida, Elton John performed at the wedding of talk show host Rush Limbaugh, as he married his fourth wife, Kathryn Rogers.
2016
The four members of ABBA performed alongside one another for the first time since 1982 at a private gala to mark 50 years since songwriting duo Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson met for the first time in Stockholm. The impromptu performance reportedly began when Agnetha Faltskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstadon recited their 1980 hit “Me and I” as a tribute to Andersson and Ulvaeus, before the two others joined in and made the reunion official.
2021
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jun/05/stonewall-trans-debate-toxic-gender-identityStonewall is at centre of a toxic debate on trans rights and gender identity | Transgender | The GuardianSome have called the LGBT rights charity extremist, others say it’s on the right side of historywww.theguardian.com
june 4 for lgbtq2
June 4, 1976
The Sex Pistols appeared at The Lesser Free Trade Hall, Manchester, England. The now legendary night is regarded as a catalyst to the punk rock movement. In the audience was, Morrissey, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook (soon to form Joy Division) and Mark E Smith, (The Fall). Tickets cost £1.
Elton John performed at the Capitol Theatre in Leeds, England.
1977
Barry Manilow reached #1 with “Looks Like We Made It” on the Adult Contemporary chart.
1985
Elton John began a high court battle with Dick James Music, seeking the rights to early songs and recordings plus damages estimated at more than £30 million ($51 million). The singer lost a six-month court battle to recover the copyright to 169 songs however, the court ordered Dick James to cough up millions in unpaid royalties.
1994
at number 2 Madonna with “I’ll Remember”
2002
On a CNN news show, phone-in guest George Michael was jeered and heckled by the live audience while he attempted to defend the content of the video for his new single “Shoot The Dog,” in which U.S. President George W. Bush was shown in bed with British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Michael insisted it was an attack on Blair and not on President Bush.
2003
Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera toured together, beginning in Phoenix, Arizona.
Lisa Marie Presley performed “Sinking In” at the halftime show of the NBA Finals game between the New Jersey Nets and the San Antonio Spurs.
2017
Ariana Grande’s Manchester benefit concert, with guest performers Katy Perry, Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Coldplay, Liam Gallagher, Niall Horan and Pharrell Williams, aired on networks in 38 countries across five continents. An attack at her May 22 show in Manchester, England killed 22 people and left dozens injured. All net proceeds from the “One Love Manchester” concert were donated to victims and families affected by the attack. An audience estimated at 50,000 attended the more than three-hour concert.
2021
Bisexual Representation on Television | POPSUGAR EntertainmentIt’s hard to believe we’ve come a long way in terms of bisexual representation on TV, but in 2005, LGBTQ+ characters represented less than 2% on TV.www.popsugar.comhttps://www.gaytimes.co.uk/life/ammonite-helped-me-feel-pride-as-a-bisexual-woman-in-distant-dorset/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-man-who-used-app-target-gay-men-pleads-guilty-n1269585
‘The Lesbian Bar Project’ chronicles the decline of women’s queer spacesThe short film, executive produced by comedian Lea DeLaria, will also be used to raise money for the U.S.’s remaining lesbian bars.www.nbcnews.com
Crazy Lesbian Trope In Media LGBT Mental Health CrisisThe ‘crazy lesbian’ trope is an exaggeration and sits in opposition to the reality that queer women are statistically far more likely to reckon with mental illness. The crazy lesbian isn’t real and yet the crazy lesbian is real.www.refinery29.comhttps://msmagazine.com/2021/06/01/wmn-zine-lesbian-writers-art-poetry-publication/
40 years of AIDS taught us epidemiologic humility. We need to apply that lesson in fighting Covid-19 – STATAn article published 40 years ago in a medical journal heralded the era of a mysterious and deadly new disease, now called AIDS.www.statnews.comhttps://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/844148-ricky-martin-shares-how-him-being-gay-is-hindering-career
june 3 for lgbtq2
June 3, 1968
Radical feminist writer Valerie Solanas shot and critically wounded Andy Warhol in his New York film studio. Solanas was indicted on charges of attempted murder, assault, and illegal possession of a gun, eventually pled guilty to “reckless assault with intent to harm” and was sentenced to three years in prison.
Valerie Solanas’ SCUM Manifestohttps://www.ccs.neu.edu › home › shivers › rants › scum
The Scum Manifesto · War · Niceness, Politeness, and `Dignity’ · Money, Marriage and Prostitution, Work and Prevention of an Automated Society · Fatherhood and …
June 3, 1976
Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” was certified Gold.
1978
at #2 John Travolta and Olivia Newton John You’re the one that I want from Grease.
1987
Britain’s BBC announces that it has banned George Michael‘s “I Want Your Sex” because of its sexually explicit content. Michael said the song was about love, not lust.
2002
In London, Paul McCartney, Sting, Elton John, Brian Wilson, Cliff Richard, Ozzy Osbourne, and Aretha Franklin were among the performers at Queen Elizabeth II’s Golden Jubilee celebrating the 50th year of her reign.
2003
Barry Manilow suffered a broken nose after he accidentally walked into a wall at his home in Palm Springs, California and knocked himself unconscious. Although he passed out for four hours, he didn’t endure any lasting effects as doctors determined that surgery was not necessary.
2010
Hundreds of fans walked out of Whitney Houston’s show in Denmark after her voice continually faltered. Music critic Thomas Soie Hansen, of the Berlingske Tidende newspaper, wrote: “She looked and sounded like a person who doesn’t have many years left to live. At the end of the show she looked like she was ready to explode.”
2016
In North Carolina, Dolly Parton began her Pure & Simple tour with a concert at the Greensboro Coliseum.
june 2 for lgbtq2
June 2, 1967
David Bowie released his first album, which contained the single, “Love You ‘Til Tuesday”. Although the LP got positive reviews, neither it or the single sold well.
1984
Wham! had their first UK No.1 with ‘Wake Me Up Before You Go Go.’ Written and produced by George Michael, one half of the duo. Inspiration for the song was a scribbled note left by his Wham! partner Andrew Ridgeley for Andrew’s parents, originally intended to read “wake me up before you go” but with “up” accidentally written twice, so Ridgeley wrote “go” twice on purpose.
1987
Whitney Houston released her follow-up album Whitney on Arista Records.
2009
Cher launched a lawsuit against Universal Music Group, claiming that the label shortchanged her and the heirs of her late ex-husband, Sonny Bono, by underpaying about $5 million in royalties. A UMG spokesman said “The claims are meritless and we are confident that we will prevail in court.”
2016
The limited edition vinyl pressing of the David Bowie album ChangesOneBowie was at No.1 on the UK’s Official Vinyl Album Chart. Bowie had four other vinyl albums on the chart; Blackstar at No.14, Hunky Dory at No. 17, The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars at No. 18 and Nothing Has Changed – The Very Best of David Bowie at No.23. Sales of vinyl records were up 32% to $416 million, their highest level since 1988, according to the RIAA.
2021
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2021/06/02/lgb-troops-are-much-more-likely-to-be-sexually-assaulted-than-their-heterosexual-peers-study/LGB troops are much more likely to be sexually assaulted than their heterosexual peers: studyThough only 12 percent of troops identified as non-heterosexual, they reported 43 percent of the sexual assaults.www.militarytimes.com
June 1 for LGBTQ2
1921
Nelson Riddle is born in Oradell, New Jersey. He’ll become famous as the orchestrator and arranger behind countless hits for Capitol Records artists like Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Dean Martin, Peggy Lee, and – decades later – Linda Ronstadt.
1931
Noël Coward‘s classic “Mad Dogs And Englishmen” is performed for the first time in public by Beatrice Lillie in The Third Little Show at the Music Box Theatre, New York.
June 1, 1956
Doris Day signed a five-year recording contract with Columbia Records worth $1 million. By late June, “Whatever Will Be, Will Be” (Que Sera, Sera) entered the US charts and eventually climbed to number 2 for a three week stay.
June 1, 1963
Four weeks after it entered the Billboard chart, 17 year old Lesley Gore‘s “It’s My Party” hit the number one spot. It was a song that was chosen for her by Quincy Jones, then a staff producer for Mercury Records, who had seen Leslie sing for the first time just a few weeks earlier.
June 1, 1967
David Bowie released his self titled debut studio album. Two singles were released from the album, ‘Rubber Band’ and ‘The Laughing Gnome’. The album’s failure cost Bowie his record contract with Deram Records who dropped him in April 1968.
1986
Wham! had #1 with “Everything She Wants”
1989
Cher released the comeback single “If I Could Turn Back Time”.
2015
Caitlyn Jenner, former OlympianBruce Jenner after gender transitioning, was pictured on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine
Tabbing Through the Tabloids: Bruce/Belinda Jenner
The Jenner Transition: From Butch to Cait
Dear Jenner: Return the Medals
Elvisworld: Gender and Jenner
Jenner: Costume, Caricature and Legit Commentary
Jenner is not a hero, but is in community
Romances: Linda Thompson
2018
Elton John ‘Put the Hours In’ to Get Noticed For Cocaine Use
Ultimate Classic Rock–May 31, 2020Bernie was one of the people who tried to tell me to stop doing drugs and I wouldn’t listen, but he stuck by me and never gave up on me.” John …Elton John Jokes About The ‘Herculean Effort’ He Put Into His …
ETCanada.com–May 30, 2020
Impersonators and soundalikes vs tributs
can we say religion is the problem?
from heterosexual women’s oppression to LGBTQ2, to being the source of all bigotries of ethnicity and lack of empathy for disabled and hostility to science and social progress.
Dear National Post:
You did not mention the pedophile serial killer priests…
from the article:
The commission ultimately determined that at least 3,200 children died while a student at a Residential School; one in every 50 students enrolled during the program’s nearly 120-year existence. That’s a death rate comparable to the number of Canadian POWs who died in the custody of Nazi Germany during the Second World War.
But a true figure will never be known for the simple fact that death records – if they were kept at all – were often lacking even basic personal information. “In many cases, school principals simply reported on the number of children who had died in a school, with few or no supporting details,” reads the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Bodies of children were not returned to families, and parents rarely learned the circumstances of a child’s death. Often, the only death notification would be to send the child’s name to the Indian Agent at his or her home community.
Why so many children died at Indian Residential Schools | National PostAt some schools, annual death rates were as high as one in 20nationalpost.com
Catholic Church must take responsibility for the harm done in residential schools | The StarAnd while the Anglican Church, United Church, and Presbyterian Church have all issued formal apologies for their participation in the residential scho…www.thestar.comsee also
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/as-tulsa-digs-for-victims-of-the-1921-race-massacre-victims-say-the-road-to-justice-is-a-long-one-1.5449716As Tulsa digs for victims of the 1921 race massacre, victims say the road to justice is a long one | CTV NewsOne hundred years and a day after one of the country’s bloodiest massacres of the 20th Century, the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Tuesday will begin exhuming bodies possibly linked to the crimes.www.ctvnews.ca
Nineties Dyke 