Month: March 2022

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LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes:

To Each Decade it’s Age of Understanding, do not under consider differing geographies, nor the heterosexual clash of cultures – in particular – do not read backwards the words of humans now to earlier ages, to each own expression in culture and under legal conditions; and to all biology applies, regardless of what humans think is understood, rather than told, the why and when.

Sex the act of; is central to religion, war – who gets to what to who- vs which has had a no.

Understood as noting to be debated, quibbled nor negotiated.

Both in personal lives, in public and the workplaces, which were gender divided owing to sexual roles, across cultures and times.

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where I note, The Last Elvis Secret given what the Memphis Mafia wrote about Presley Parties, the only thing not officially and rarely luridly written about was the balance of probability Elvis Presley was bisexual, and was described by heterosexual men as being so attractive as to raise a question – including Jerry Reed, writer and performer. And given Larry Geller’s descriptions of being accused by other Memphis Mafia members of being gay with Elvis during the private hair cut sessions -rather makes it seem the Memphis Mafia were jealous, and Larry having to point out that were they admitting Elvis was bisexual? As if Geller, a Hollywood hairdress would have a problem.

LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes:

Most of the above is copied from one of the sites cited as sources in the daily post and as linked at the end of every post.

the history of nonheterosexuals and different historical eras views are such that there is a there is a danger to apply current decadish of time, in 2021 to past decades and centuries; particularly without application of complete history.

There is a difference between adopting male attire in the era when clothing was spelled out in law, and lesbians who passed in public, differ from those who only change clothing for personal sexual gratification, in private “cross dressors” in the language of this same era.

Laws regarding clothing exist in many nations, including capitol punishment, this is why sexual orientation is a demographic, That heterosexual women continue to be denied reproductive rights, education and professions, even where won at court; that women are a demographic. That male and female persons who are ethnically different from the majority population and with differing experiences being merged into colour blind visible minorities are differing demographics.

the farther back in time the given individual is, and why on this blog, there is a under theme of Elvis Presley, as the most prominent modern era person of the 1900s Current Era; who was photographed almost every day of his adult life., and who’s number of days on this planet have resulted in his being one of the most recognizable individuals across all cultures on the planet, which in 1950s was 1 billion people, and by his death almost 4 billion, to the 8 billion currently existing on earth.

LGBTQ2 for March 20

BCE to The Suffragettes

1749 – A group of single women called “The Petticoat Club” felt they were paying a severe economic penalty for not marrying while they saw large numbers of “eligible” men who, for whatever reason also chose to not marry and doing well in the world.In a petition to the New York Gazette, the club proposed that those “old bachelors” were not carrying out their proper duties and should be severely taxed for their selfishness and that tax would go to support unmarried women. It didn’t happen.

1852

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” subtitled “Life Among the Lowly,” was first published.

1890, Denmark – Opera star Lauritz Melchior (20 March 1890 – 19 March 1973)was born in Copenhagen. He was a Danish-American opera singer. He was the pre-eminentWagneriantenor of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s and has since come to be considered the quintessence of his voice type. Late in his career, Melchior appeared in movie musicals and on radio and television. He also made numerous recordings.He was virtually a household name for his singing at New York’s Met. Between 1944 and 1952, Melchior performed in five Hollywood musical films for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Paramount Picturesand made numerous US radio and television appearances. In 1947, he put his hand and footprints in cement in the forecourt of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.Novelist Hugh Walpole (13 March 1884 – 1 June 1941)had been his lover and patron.

1901 – Gavin Arthur (March 20, 1901 – April 28, 1972)was born Chester A. Arthur II in Colorado. He was a San Francisco astrologer and sexologist. The grandson of President Chester Arthur, he dropped his famous name and headed out on his own at an early age, working his way around the world in the merchant marine. Along the way he discovered he was bisexual and became friends with many of the gay gurus of the period — Edward Carpenter (29 August 1844 – 28 June 1929), Havelock Ellis (2 February 1859 – 8 July 1939), and Magnus Hirschfeld (14 May 1868 – 14 May 1935).

1915 – Sister Rosetta Tharpe (March 20, 1915 – October 9, 1973) was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and recording artist. As a pioneer of mid-20th-century music, she attained popularity in the 1930s and 1940s with her gospel recordings, characterized by a unique mixture of spiritual lyrics and rhythmic accompaniment that was a precursor of rock and roll. She was the first great recording star of gospel music and among the first gospel musicians to appeal to rhythm-and-blues and rock-and-roll audiences, later being referred to as “the original soul sister” and “the Godmother of rock and roll.” She influenced early rock-and-roll musicians, including Little Richard, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis. Tharpe’s biographer, Gayle Wald, found some of the singer’s contemporaries who were willing to talk off the record about her bisexuality. One musician claimed to have walked in on Tharpe and two other women in bed together during her “honeymoon tour” right after her third wedding in 1951. Tharpe’s 1944 hit Down by the Riverside was selected for the National Recording Registry of the U.S. Library of Congress in 2004. Her recording Strange Things Happening Every Day, recorded late in 1944, has been called the precursor of rock and roll. In 1946 Tharpe saw Marie Knight(June 1, 1920 – August 30, 2009)perform at a Mahalia Jackson concert in New York. Tharpe recognized a special talent in Knight. Two weeks later, Tharpe showed up at Knight’s doorstep, people speculated that Knight and Tharpe maintained a romantic and sexual relationship.

LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes: Tharpe’s Hound Dog was about her cheating man, Elvis’ cover was about himself.

1928 – Fred McFeely Rogers (March 20, 1928 – February 27, 2003) was an American television personality, musician, puppeteer, writer, producer, and Presbyterian minister. He was known as the creator, composer, producer, head writer, showrunner and host of the preschool television series Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood (1968–2001). The show featured Rogers’s kind, neighborly persona, which nurtured his connection to the audience. Rogers would end each program by telling his viewers, “You’ve made this day a special day, by just your being you. There’s no person in the whole world like you; and I like you just the way you are.”Rogers met Sara Joanne Byrd (called “Joanne”) from Jacksonville, Florida, while he attended Rollins College. They were married in 1952 and remained married until his death in 2003. They had two sons, James and John. According to biographer Maxwell King, close associates said that Rogers was “absolutely faithful to his marriage vows.” Also according to King, in an interview with Rogers’ friend William Hirsch, Rogers said that if sexuality was measured on a scale, then: “Well, you know, I must be right smack in the middle. Because I have found women attractive, and I have found men attractive,” leading some readers to describe Rogers as bisexual.In January 2018, it was announced that Tom Hanks would portray Rogers in an upcoming biographical film titled A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood directed by Marielle Heller. That same year, the documentary film Won’t You Be My Neighbor? based on the life and legacy of Rogers, was released to critical acclaim and became the highest-grossing biographical documentary film of all time.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

03-20-1950 Paula Aboud – Born in Tucson, Arizona. She is an American

politician who is a member of the Arizona Senate, representing the 28th District. A Democrat, she serves as the Senate’s, minority whip. A lesbian, Aboud’s partner is Terri Berg. She is one of four openly LGBT members of the Arizona State Legislature. Her campaigns have won the backing of the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund.

The Civil Rights 60s: When the Boomers were under 30

1961: The United States Supreme Court denies certiorari to Frank Kameny’s petition to review the legality of his firing by the United States Army’s Map Service in 1957, bringing his four-year legal battle to a close.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

1970:

Twenty-three year old David Bowie marries nineteen year old American Mary Angela Barnett. A few years later, Bowie explains how they met, “Angela and I knew each other because we were both going out with the same man.” Angie Bowie went on to a career in Hollywood, though the two divorced in 1980.

Elton John’s “Border Song” is released, but fails to chart in the UK (it reaches #92 in the US). Nearly a year later, “Your Song” becomes his first hit.

March 20, 1971

Janis Joplin started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with her version of the Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster song “Me And Bobby McGee.” Joplin, who was a lover and a friend of Kristofferson’s from the beginning of her career to her death, changed the sex and a few of the lyrics in her cover. Kristofferson states he did not write this song for her, but the song is associated with her – especially, he has said, in the line “Somewhere near Salinas, Lord, I let her slip away.” Joplin died of a drug overdose the year before on 4th October aged 27.

1975 –

Gays of Ottawa (GO) picket police station and office of Ottawa Journal to protest arrests and homophobic media coverage of arrests in a so-called Sex Scandal.

March 20, 1975

Patti Smith and Television begin a 7-week residency at CBGB in New York City. During these shows, Smith refines that songs that later appear on her debut album Horses.

1976

Queen entered the Top 10 with A Night at the Opera A3 9 on the USA Lp Charts

1977 – The Arkansas State House of Representatives unanimously passes a resolution in praise of Anita Bryant and her anti-gay and lesbian rights campaign.

1978: The San Francisco Board of Supervisor passes what is described as “the most stringent gay rights law in the country.” Only one of the eleven supervisors — Dan White — votes against the ordinance.

The Genderfuck Apathetics vs Yuppies : Aids the new STD on the list

March 20, 1982
Joan Jett And The Blackhearts started a seven week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll’, a No.4 hit in the UK. The song had been a B-side from 60’s bands The Arrows.

and the Go-Go’s were on the song chart move to #6 with “We Got The Beat”.

The Go-Go’s were to this point the top self-contained all-girl group of the Rock Era (The Bangles would later pass them.) The Go-Go’s album Beauty and the Beat was #1 for a third week.

Vangelis moved from 13-6 with the Soundtrack to the classic movie “Chariots of Fire”, while Olivia Newton-John was Physical at #8

1986:

After fourteen years the New York City Council finally passes a gay rights ordinance with a vote of 21 to 14. Mayor Ed Koch tells reporters, “The sky is not going to fall. There isn’t going to be any dramatic change in the life of this city.”

03-20-1986 Ruby Rose – Born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She is an

Australian model, actress, and television presenter. She was the face of Maybelline in Australia and co-hosted various television shows. Rose was cast as Batwoman in 2019, the role is the first openly lesbian lead superhero in television. She is a supporter of many charities, including animal welfare, campaigns for anti-bullying, and youth mental health. Rose came out as a lesbian at the age of 12.

1988 – M. Butterfly opens on Broadway. The play by David Henry Hwang is about a civil servant attached to the French embassy in China who falls in love with a beautiful Chinese opera diva who is a “man masquerading as a woman.” They are together for twenty years until the truth is revealed. The civil servant is convicted of treason and imprisoned, then kills himself.

03-20-1989 Xavier Dolan – Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is a

French-Canadian filmmaker and actor. On Out’s 3rd Annual 100 Most Eligible Bachelors (2013) Xavier received international attention with his first feature film, I Killed My Mother (J’ai tué ma mère), which he wrote, directed, and starred in. The film premiered at the Director’s Fortnight program of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival where it received an eight minute standing ovation and won the Art Cinema Award, the Prix Regards Jeunes and the SACD Prize. I Killed My Mother sold to more than 20 countries. Dolan’s 2014 film Mommy won the Jury Prize in the main competition section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. Dolan identifies as gay and described I Killed My Mother as semi-autobiographical.

90s: Listserves and Email distribution replaces telephone trees for activism

1990 – Queer Nation forms in New York to eliminate homophobia and increase visibility of LGBT people. It was founded by HIV/AIDS activists from ACT UP. The four founders were outraged at the escalation of anti-gay violence on the streets and prejudice in the arts and media. The group is known for its confrontational tactics, its slogans, and the practice of outing.On March 20, 1990, sixty LGBTQ people gathered at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Services Center in New York’s Greenwich Village to create a direct action organization. The goal of the unnamed organization was the elimination of homophobia, and the increase ofgay,lesbianandbisexual visibility through a variety of tactics. The organization of Queer Nation, being non-hierarchical and decentralized, allowed anyone to become a member and have a voice.The group’s use of the word “queer” in its name and slogan was at first considered shocking, though the reclamation has been called a success,^[8] used in relatively mainstream television programs such as Queer Eye and Queer as Folk. The use of the word “queer” disarmed homophobes by reversing its derogatory nature

1991

A jury in Los Angeles awarded Peggy Lee $3.8-million (later reduced to $2.3 million) in videocassette profits for her singing and songwriting in Disney’s animated classic “Lady and the Tramp.” Lee had been paid only $3,500 for co-writing six songs and providing the voice for four characters in the 1955 film.

1993

“Simple Life” by Elton John was the #1 Adult Contemporary song.

Whitney Houston scored her 16th Top 10 song in 20 releases–“I Have Nothing”.

03-20-1996 Karina Manta – Born in Olympia, Washington. She is an American ice dancer. Since 2013, her partner is Joseph Johnson, who is openly gay. In 2018, she came out as bisexual in a video accompanied by her girlfriend. This made her the first female figure skater competing on Team USA to come out. On April 18, 2019, Manta announced that she was stepping away from competitive figure skating. She and Johnson plan to move to Montreal in June and join Cirque du Soleil.

(Photo of Karina Manta & Joe Johnson)

Post 9/11 – The Shock Decade From “gay and lesbian” to “lesbigay” to “Lgbt/Lgbtq/Lgbtq2”

2004: A lesbian minister in Bothell, Washington, is acquitted by a Methodist church jury of violating church rules.

Human Rights in global conflict: Trans/Pans vs LGB/ vs Heterosexual women

2015

The series finale of Glee, titled “Dreams Come True,” airs on FOX. During its six-year run, the influential musical drama made old music new again with a stream of hit covers…

LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes and broke records from Elvis Presley and The Beatles along the way – by covering previous hit songs on a tv show – and 1956 and 1957 are not counted so Elvis is cheated in favour of current artists. As well as demonstrating The Monkees/Partridge Family premise that Showing the public cannot tell from music artists and actors playing music artists.

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LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes:

Sex the act of; is central to religion, war – who gets to what to who- vs which has had a no.

Understood as noting to be debated, quibbled nor negotiated.

Both in personal lives, in public and the workplaces, which were gender divided owing to sexual roles, across cultures and times.

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LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes:

Most of the above is copied from one of the sites cited as sources in the daily post and as linked at the end of every post.

LGBTQ2 for March 19

BCE to The Suffragettes

1859

The opera Faust by Charles Gounod premiered in Paris.

1872, Russia – Sergei Diaghilev (19 March 1872 – 19 August 1929) was born in Novgorod, Russia. He was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, from which many famous dancers and choreographers would arise. It is impossible to underestimate the influence of his Ballets Russes on the development of 20th century art, yet the fact that he was gay is often overlooked. Had he not been gay, had he not been attracted to the great artists of his day, the century might have taken a different turn. Diaghilev’s emotional life and the Ballets Russes were inextricably entwined. His most famous lover was Nijinsky. However, according to Serge Lifar, of all Diaghilev’s lovers, only Léonide Massine, who replaced Nijinsky, provided him with “so many moments of happiness or anguish.” Diaghilev’s other lovers included Anton Dolin (27 July 1904 – 25 November 1983), Serge Lifar (2 April1905 – 15 December 1986) and his secretary and librettist Boris Kochno (3 January 1904 – 8 December 1990) . Ironically, his last lover, composer and conductor Igor Markevitch (July 27, 1912 – March 7, 1983) later married the daughter of Nijinsky.

1892

In St. Petersburg, Russia, Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker Suite” was first performed. This performance was a selection of eight numbers from the “Nutcracker” ballet.

1894 – Loretta Mary Aiken (March 19, 1894 – May 23, 1975), known by her stage name Jackie “Moms” Mabley, was an American standup comedian. A veteran of the Chitlin’ Circuit of African-American vaudeville, she later appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show and The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. She came out as a lesbian at the age of twenty-seven, becoming one of the first openly gay comedians. During the 1920s and 1930s she appeared in androgynous clothing (as she did in the film version of The Emperor Jones with Paul Robeson) and recorded several of her early “lesbian stand-up” routines. Despite Mabley’s popularity, wages for black women in show business were meager. Nonetheless, she persisted for more than sixty years. At the height of her career, she was earning $10,000 a week at Harlem‘s Apollo Theater. In a documentary film, Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley, she was said to be known to those who worked with her as “Mr. Moms.” The documentary film first aired on HBO on November 18, 2013

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

1953 – The Diana Foundation was founded in Houston, TX by a small group of friends. The Diana Foundation is a nonprofit organization and recognized as the oldest continuously active gay organization in the United States and hosts two annual fundraising events including its Diana Awards. On Thursday, March 19, 1953, the annual Academy Awards were to be broadcast on television for the first time. David Moncrief, a gay man in Houston, who loved to entertain, was so excited about the upcoming broadcast that he purchased a new television set. He invited ten friends to watch the first televised Oscar broadcast. However, the broadcast signal failed. Undaunted by the 1953 failure, on Thursday, March 25, 1954, Moncrief organized a second party to watch the Academy Awards television broadcast. A man with a spirited sense of humor, David Moncrief, had bought a gag award for one of his guests. The award was seemingly insignificant at the time, but it struck a human chord that would lead to the founding of Houston’s Diana Foundation. A nearly life size plaster model of Diana, the Roman goddess of the hunt, stood in one corner of his living room. Guests noticed the same statue of the goddess Diana that they had seen the year before. Moncrief would festively decorate the statue with leis around her neck. It was a funny, campy sight and guests thought Diana appeared to be partying right along with the rest of the group during their gatherings. The Diana Foundation was born (March 19, 1953); The first Diana Award was presented (March 25, 1954); Nonprofit 501(c)3 status was given (February 9, 1976); The legendary organization of friends continues today.

03-19-1953 – 10-12-1985 Ricky Wilson – Born in Athens, Georgia. He was

an American musician and singer-songwriter best known as the original guitarist and founding member of the rock bank the B-52’s. At the age of 32, Wilson died from AIDS following the recording of the band’s fourth studio album, Bounding off the Satellites.

The Civil Rights 60s: When the Boomers were under 30

03-19-1962 Gary Cloutier – Place of birth unknown. He grew up in Rhode

Island. Cloutier is a gay civil rights lawyer. He was the first openly gay person to run for the mayor of Vallejo, California. He is the former law partner of pioneering gay civil rights lawyer Paul Wotman. Wotman and Cloutier were among the first lawyers in California to make new law under the American with Disabilities Act for same-sex and opposite-sex couples who had been discriminated against in seeking life insurance due to the HIV status of one partner. The United States Supreme Court ruled that people with asymptomatic HIV are protected by the disability law. In a San Francisco Superior Court case Gohstand v. Leibert, he obtained a large and highly publicized settlement on behalf of a straight man who was beaten outside a gay bar by two students from UC Berkeley who believed the victim was gay.

1966

Lesley Gore was a guest on the final episode of The Donna Reed Show on ABC-TV.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

March 19, 1977

For the fourth week, Natalie Cole held on to #1 on the R&B chart with “I’ve Got Love On My Mind”.

Barbra Streisand remained at #1 for a third week with “Evergreen”, # 6 ABBA and “Dancing Queen” on the usa song charts

LP Usa charts: The Soundtrack to “A Star Is Born” was #1 on the Album chart for a sixth week.

The Genderfuck Apathetics vs Yuppies : Aids the new STD on the list

1981, Canada – A Provincial election in Ontario sees the return of the Conservatives to power. The NDP suffers losses, attributed in some parts of province to backtracking on the gay issue. Conservative Susan Fish wins in Toronto riding of St George, defeating gay protest candidate George Hislop (June 3, 1927 – October 8, 2005). Conservatives had been Ontario’s governing party continuously since 1943.

1982 – Victor Victoria opens nationwide to generally rave reviews. Blake Edward’s farce, based on a 1933 German film, Viktor und Viktoria, features Robert Preston as perhaps the most relaxed and affable homosexual ever scripted into a major Hollywood motion picture. The movie becomes a box office hit and accomplishes what many years of gay liberation have not – an impression on the general public’s consciousness of homosexual as compassionate and likable people

03-19-1985 Caroline Seger – Born in Heisingborg, Sweden. She is a Swedish soccer player. In 2009 she was appointed captain of the Swedish team. Seger played at the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games. She is an out lesbian, telling QX magazine in December 2013, that she was proud of her girlfriend. In previous years Seger had concealed her orientation, but decided to come out to be a role model for others. She was one of 49 out LGBT athletes to participate in thee 2016 Summer Olympic Games at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

1987 – The FDA approves AZT for the treatment of HIV /AIDS. It is the first drug for the treatment of HIVAIDS approved by the US Food and Drug Administration.

LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes: AZT was developed for terminal cancer patients and deemed too toxic for use against terminal cancer. Social attitude toward gay and drug users, what what it was in an era that misunderstood pandemic while coping with a new sexual transmitted disease.

90s: Listserves and Email distribution replaces telephone trees for activism

1999

Cher had a huge comeback hit with the #1 song “Believe”.

Post 9/11 – The Shock Decade From “gay and lesbian” to “lesbigay” to “Lgbt/Lgbtq/Lgbtq2”

2001

16th annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame award ceremonies at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City, inducted Aerosmith, Michael Jackson, Paul Simon, Queen, Ritchie Valens, Solomon Burke, Steely Dan and The Flamingos , Johnnie Johnson and James Burton (Guitarist for Elvis and Ricky Nelson)

2004, Canada – In Quebec, the Court of Appeal upholds a superior court ruling that same-sex marriages are legal under Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Canadian provinces of Ontario and British Columbia already permitted same-sex marriage

2005

At the 46664 festival in George, South Africa honoring Nelson Mandella, Queen perform with Paul Rodgers on vocals. Billed as “Queen + Paul Rodgers,” they begin a tour nine days later, marking a return to action for the band, which has played sporadically with various guest vocalists since the death of Freddie Mercury in 1991, but has not toured.

Human Rights in global conflict: Trans/Pans vs LGB/ vs Heterosexual women

2010

The Runaways, the film biography of the group which featured Joan Jett, opened in theaters. Riley Keough played a part.

2012 –

The US Supreme Court declines to hear John Lotter’s case. In 1993, he killed transgender man Brandon Teena (December 12, 1972 – December 31, 1993) and was sentenced to the death penalty.

Madonna’s new album, “MDNA” was leaked online nearly a week before its official release date. Her 12th studio record was due to hit store shelves on March 26th, but emerged on an illegal file-sharing website.

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LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes:

Sex the act of; is central to religion, war – who gets to what to who- vs which has had a no.

Understood as noting to be debated, quibbled nor negotiated.

Both in personal lives, in public and the workplaces, which were gender divided owing to sexual roles, across cultures and times.

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https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/religious-groups-u-s-seek-reversals-in-lgbt-bias-case-ruling

LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes:

Most of the above is copied from one of the sites cited as sources in the daily post and as linked at the end of every post.

LGBTQ2 for March 18

BCE to The Suffragettes

1308, France – Philip IV of France orders the arrest of all Knights Templars on charges of heresy, idolatry and sodomy, but these charges are only a pretext to seize the riches of the order. Order leaders are sentenced to death and burned at the stake on March 18, 1314 by Notre Dame, including Jacques de Molay (1243 – 18 March 1314) who was found guilty of homosexuality. Though little is known of de Molay’s actual life and deeds except for his last years as Grand Master, he is one of the best known Templars.

1796 – The State of New Jersey adopted a statute that reduced the penalty for same-sex intercourse from death to a fine and a maximum of 21 years of solitary imprisonment with hard labor. This is the first sodomy law in the United States of America to use the term “crime against nature.”

1886 – Actor Edward Everett Horton (March 18, 1886 – September 29, 1970) is born in Brooklyn. He was an American character actor with a long career in film, theater, radio, television, and voice work for animated cartoons. It’s impossible to think of the comedies of the ’20s, ’30s, or ’40s without recollecting the lanky Nervous Nellie characters he portrayed. A whole new generation discovered him in the ’70’s and ’80s as the voice in Fractured Fairy Tales on the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon show. Horton’s companion for many years was actor Gavin Gordon (April 7, 1901 – April 7, 1983), who was 15 years his junior. They both appeared (but shared no scenes) in only one film, Pocketful of Miracles (1961). They also appeared together in at least one play, a 1931 production of Noël Coward‘s Private Lives.

1922, Germany – Magnus Hirschfeld’s (14 May 1868 – 14 May 1935) petition for the repeal of Paragraph 175 is presented to the Reichstag. Although 6,000 people had signed the petition, including Sigmund Freud, the late Leo Tolstoy, and Albert Einstein, it fails to persuade German lawmakers to decriminalize sex between men.

03-18-1928 – 04-30-2002 Charlotte von Mahlsdorf (born Lothar Berfelde) – Born in Berlin-Mahlsdorf, Germany. Biologically a male, even as a child preferred girl’s clothing. Also liked to play with “junk” rather than toys. Preferring the term “transvestite” to “transsexual”, Mahlsdorf declared that, “In my soul, I feel like a woman”. His father was a violent man who rose in the ranks of the Nazi party. In 1942, was forced to join the Hitler Youth, even though despised the Nazis and resented their treatment of Jewish friends and neighbors. Mahlsdorf’s mother was a nurturing woman that accepted Lothar’s feminine interests. Lothar also found acceptance from a lesbian aunt, who cross-dressed in male clothing and who gave Lothar the book The Transvestites (1910) by Magnus Hirschfeld. In 1944, the mother announced that she was getting a divorce. with father threatened to kill the entire family. In response, Mahlsdorf killed him with a rolling pin while he slept. Spending several weeks in a psychiatric institution and was sentenced by the court in Berlin to four years detention as an anti-social juvenile delinquent. The full term not served owing to the jails were opened at the end of the war. After WWII ended, Mahlsdorfbegan to collect household items, saving historical every-day items from bombed-out houses. The collection evolved into the Gründerzeit Museum, which became well known in cinematic, artistic, and gay circles. From 1970 on, the East Berlin gay scene often had meetings and celebrations in the museum. In 1992, the published autobiography, I Am My Own Wife– not only tells the life story lived under extreme conditions, but also that of a whole generation of East German LGBT people, who faced persecution first from the Nazis and then from the Communists. In 1997, Mahlsdorf left Germany for Sweden. The city of Berlin took over the museum and it’s still operating today. On April 30, 2002, during a visit to Berlin, dying of heart failure. Doug Wright’s play, I Am My Own Wife, which opened on Broadway in 2003, went on to win the Tony Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Lambda Literary Award.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

The Civil Rights 60s: When the Boomers were under 30

03-18-1960 Kevin Grant Hague – Born in Aldershot, England. He is a member of the New Zealand Parliament representing the Green Party.

He was first elected in 2008. Prior to his election, he was the Chief Executive of the West Coast District Health Board. He is also an author, long time gay rights activist, and former executive director of the New Zealand AIDS Foundation. He is openly gay. He has represented New Zealand at the United Nations, UNESCO, and Commonwealth conferences on apartheid and on AIDS.

03-18-1961 – 09-13-2017 Grant Hart – Born in South Saint Paul, Minnesota. He was an

American musician, best known as the drummer and co-songwriter for the band Hüsker Dü. When the band broke up in 1988, he formed the band Nova Mob, and played guitar and sang lead. His solo career began in 1997 with the break up of Nova Mob. Hart was openly bisexual. He became addicted to heroin. On September 13, 2017, Hart died from complications from liver cancer and Hepatitis C. He is survived by his wife Brigid McGough and his son.

1967

Soundtrack to “The Sound of Music” headed back up the charts to #6 after more than two years of release (105 weeks),

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

1971: Idaho decriminalizes homosexual acts between consenting adults, but before the law can take effect, the legislature – under pressure from conservative and religious groups – reverses itself and votes to make them a felony again.

1975, Canada – Warren Zufelt (1879 – March 18, 1968), one of eighteen men arrested in an Ottawa “sex scandal,” commits suicide by jumping from his apartment building balcony after his name was published in local newspapers.

1976

The Man Who Fell To Earth, starring David Bowie, premiered in London.

1978

The Soundtrack to “Saturday Night Fever” was becoming a phenomenon, now totaling nine weeks at #1 on the Album chart. While #6 was News of the World by Queen, Even Now by Barry Manilow moved from 11-8 in its fourth week,

1979

Sister Sledge released the single “We Are Family”.

The Genderfuck Apathetics vs Yuppies : Aids the new STD on the list

03-18-1981 Laura Pergolizzi (known professionally as LP) – Born in Long Island, New York. She is an American singer and songwriter. Her song Lost on You released in 2015 was commercially successful. She has written songs for other artists including Cher, Rihanna, the Backstreet Boys, Leona Lewis, Mylène Farmer, Céline Dion, and Christina Aguilera. She is openly lesbian.

1982: Police raid a Washington, D.C. male escort service, “Friendly Models,” and cart away more than a dozen boxes of business records, including the names and addresses of several hundred of the service’s clients.

1986

Whitney Houston released the single “Greatest Love Of All”.

90s: Listserves and Email distribution replaces telephone trees for activism

1990 – OutWeek outs Malcolm Forbes (19 August 1919 – 24 February 1990). He was an American entrepreneur most prominently known as the publisher of Forbes magazine, founded by his father B. C. Forbes. He was known as an avid promoter of capitalism and free market trade, and for an extravagant lifestyle, spending on parties, travel, and his collection of homes, yachts, aircraft, art, motorcycles, and Fabergé eggs. In March 1990, soon after his death, OutWeek magazine published a story with the cover headline “The Secret Gay Life of Malcolm Forbes,” by Michelangelo Signorile, which outed Forbes as a gay man. Signorile was critical of the media for helping Forbes publicise many aspects of his life while keeping his homosexuality a secret. The writer asked, “Is our society so overwhelmingly repressive that even individuals as all-powerful as the late Malcolm Forbes feel they absolutely cannot come out of the closet?” Even in death, the media was reluctant to disclose his sexuality. A friend stated that Forbes “lived openly as a homosexual… but expected the media and his famous friends to cover for him.”

1992

White South Africans in a national referendum voted overwhelmingly in favor of ending the country’s racist Apartheid policy.

LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes: South Africa copied Canada’s Indian Act, which remains in force in 2022.

1995,

UK – The Archbishop of Canterbury, the chief primate of the Anglican Communion, tells the press: “We reject homophobia in any form.” He and the other 35 Anglican primates call for a Church-wide debate on issues of sexuality “at variance with the received Christian moral tradition.”

USA -Madonna ruled for a fourth week with “Take A Bow”.

In New York, Madonna celebrated the premiere of her “Bedtime Story” video with a pajama party. The gathering was for 1,500 guests that were in pajamas and had teddy bears.

1996 – Hellene Harrington “Muffin” Spencer-Devlin was born Oct. 25, 1953, in Piqua, Ohio. She is the first LPGA pro to come out.

1998

Elton John told a British TV interviewer that tributes to Princess Diana, killed in a car crash the previous August, should stop. He said it was “time to give it a rest.” John’s recording of “Candle in the Wind ’97,” which he performed at the princess’s funeral, became the best-selling single in history and raised millions for the Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fund.

Post 9/11 – The Shock Decade From “gay and lesbian” to “lesbigay” to “Lgbt/Lgbtq/Lgbtq2”

2002

George Michael‘s single “Freeek!” was released in Britain.

Human Rights in global conflict: Trans/Pans vs LGB/ vs Heterosexual women

03-18-2013

David Bowie’s first album in a decade become the fastest-selling of the year, hitting the No.1 spot in the UK in its first week of release. The Next Day was the 66-year-old’s first No.1 since 1993’s ‘Black Tie White Noise’ and sold 94,000 copies in the first week. In the USA it was #2

Hillary Clinton announces support for gay marriage.

2022

Sincerely held beleifs that others should have less rights or be genocided is the problem of religion: Beliefs that too often become reality

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Today in LGBT History – March 18 | Ronni Sanlo https://ronnisanlo.com › today-in-lgbt-history-march-18Mar 18, 2018 — Today in LGBT History – March 18 … 1886 – Actor Edward Everett Horton (March 18, 1886 – September 29, 1970) is born in Brooklyn.

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Understood as noting to be debated, quibbled nor negotiated.

Both in personal lives, in public and the workplaces, which were gender divided owing to sexual roles, across cultures and times.

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LGBTQ2 for March 17

BCE to The Suffragettes

03-17-1866 – 06-09-1952 Alice Austen (Elizabeth Alice Austen) – Born on Staten Island, New York. She was an American photographer. From the 1880s to the 1930s, she shot around

8,000 photographs that documented the upper middle-class society on Staten Island and poor people living in New York’s Lower East Side. The house she grew up in was built in the 17th century, but was expanded during the 19th century by Alice’s grandparents. The home, called Clear Comfort, was dedicated as a National Historic Landmark on April 8, 1976. It is also known as the “Alice Austen House.” In 1899 Alice met Gertrude Amelia Tate (1871-1962), a kindergarten teacher and dancing instructor from Brooklyn New York. She became Alice’s lifelong companion. She moved in with Alice at Clear Comfort in 1917, overriding her family’s objection over her “wrong devotion” to Alice.

03-17-1912 – 08-24-1987 Bayard Rustin – Born in West Chester, Pennsylvania. He was an American leader in social movements for

civil rights, socialism, non-violence, and gay rights. In 1936, he moved to Harlem, New York City and earned a living as a nightclub and stage singer. In the pacifist groups Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) and the War Resisters League (WRL). A member of the Communist Party before 1941, he collaborated with A. Philip Randolph on the March on Washington Movement in 1941 to press for an end to discrimination in employment. He was a leading activist of the early Civil Rights Movement, helping to initiate a 1947 Freedom Ride to challenge, with civil disobedience, the racial segregation issue related to interstate busing. He recognized Martin Luther King, Jr.‘s leadership, and helped to organize the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to strengthen King’s leadership. Rustin promoted the philosophy of nonviolence and the practices of nonviolent resistance, which he had observed while working with Mahatma Gandhi‘s movement in India, and helped teach Martin Luther King, Jr. about nonviolence. Rustin was a gay man who had been arrested throughout his early career for engaging in public sex with white male prostitutes. Rustin’s sexuality, or at least his public criminal charge, was criticized by some fellow pacifists and civil-rights leaders because it detracted from his effectiveness. Rustin was attacked as a “pervert” or “immoral influence” by political opponents from segregationists to conservative black leaders from the 1950s through the 1970s. In addition, his pre-1941 Communist Party affiliation when he was a young man was controversial, having caused scrutiny by the FBI. To avoid such attacks, Rustin served rarely as a public spokesperson. He usually acted as an influential adviser behind the scenes to civil-rights leaders. In the 1980s, he became a public advocate on behalf of gay and lesbian causes. On November 20, 2013, President Barack Obama posthumously awarded Rustin the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

03-17-1938 – 01-06-1993 Rudolf Nureyev – Born in Irkutsk, Russia. He was one of the most celebrated ballet and modern

dancers of the 20th century. He defected from the Soviet Union to the West in 1961, despite KGB efforts to stop him. Within a week of his defection, he was signed up by the Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas. On a tour of Denmark, he met Erik Bruhn, soloist at the Royal Danish Ballet, who became his lover, his closest friend, and his protector until Bruhn’s death in 1986. He joined The Royal Ballet as Principal Dancer. His first appearance with the company was dancing with Margot Fonteyn in Giselle on February 21, 1962. Nureyev stayed with the Royal Ballet until 1970, when he was promoted to Principal Guest Artist, enabling him to concentrate on his increasing schedule of international guest appearances and tours. In 1983 he was appointed director of the Paris Opera Ballet. Nureyev’s influence on the world of ballet changed the perception of male dancers; in his own productions of the classics the male roles received much more choreography. Another important influence was his crossing the borders of classical ballet and modern dance by performing both. Today it is normal for dancers to receive training in both styles. In 1984 he tested positive for HIV. He died from cardiac complications at the age of 54.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

The Civil Rights 60s: When the Boomers were under 30

03-17-1961 Alexander Bard – Born in Motala Municipality, Sweden. He is a Swedish artist, music producer, and writer. Self-proclaimed bisexual, Bard studied in the United States and in Amsterdam, Netherlands. While living in Amsterdam, he earned part of his living as a sex worker. Bard returned to Sweden to study at the Stockholm School of Economics from 1984 to 1989. He also took a strong interest in philosophy and social theory. He has written 3 books on the internet revolution. He formed a band, Army of Lovers, and had over 20 European hits. He disbanded the group in 1996. Army of Lovers have earned a widespread iconic status in the gay culture, often referred to as a perfect example of the postmodern take on the ideals of camp. Since 2011, he has been a judge on Swedish Idol, a spin-off of American Idol.

03-17-1963 Dave Koz – Born in Encino, California. He is an American smooth jazz saxophonist and radio host. He was a member of Bobby Caldwell’s tour and served as a session musician in several bands. His album, Saxophonic, was nominated for both a Grammy Award and an NAACP Image Award. Koz co-hosted The Dave Koz Morning Show on 94.7, The Wave, a smooth jazz station in Los Angeles for six years. He is the host of a weekly half-hour television series named Frequency put on by Fast Focus. Koz was also a bandleader on The Emeril Lagasse Show. On September 22, 2009, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In December 2014, he opened Spaghettini & Dave Koz Lounge, a restaurant and live music venue in Beverly Hills, California. In an April 2004 interview with The Advocate, Koz came out publicly as gay.

03-17-1966 Jeremy Sheffield – Born in Chelmsford, United Kingdom. He is an English actor and former professional ballet dancer. He is most noted for his roles in Holby City and Murder in Suburbia on television, as well as in the films, Creep and The Wedding Date. He has a regular role on the British television show Hollyoaks. He is openly gay.

1968 – Two drag queens known as “The Princess” and “The Duchess” held a St. Patrick’s Day party at Griffith Park, a popular cruising spot and a frequent target of police activity in Los Angeles. More than 200 gay men socialized through the day to protest entrapment and harassment by the LAPD.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

1970: The film version of Matt Crowley’s play The Boys in the Band opens in New York, directed by William Friedkin. The director remarks, “I hope there are happy homosexuals. There just don’t happen to be any in my film.” The screenplay is based on Crowley’s Off-Broadway play The Boys in the Band. It is among the first major American motion pictures to revolve around gay characters and is often cited as a milestone in the history of queer cinema. Crowley is openly gay.

03- 17-1972 Pink Flamingos is released. A John Waters film staring Divine. His third feature film, and first in color. The film was so popular that it had a 95-week run in New York City and ran for ten consecutive years in Los Angeles. For its 25th anniversary, the film was re-released in 1997, featuring commentary by Waters and unused scenes.

march 17, 1973

“Danny’s Song” by Anne Murray was the new #1 on the Adult chart and !0 on the pop.

March 17, 1975

Cher was pictured on the cover of TIME magazine.

1977: Two years after having repealed its state sodomy laws, Arkansas’s state legislature votes to repeal the repeal and reinstates criminal penalties for homosexual acts between consenting adults. The new law, approved two years after Arkansas had repealed its anti-sodomy laws, is the first of a series of setbacks for gay and lesbian civil rights that evidence the rise of a conservative backlash in the US.

The Genderfuck Apathetics vs Yuppies : Aids the new STD on the list

1984

Rockwell owned the new #1 on the R&B chart with “Somebody’s Watching Me”.

the Soundtrack from “Footloose” moved from 21-9

1987:

The White House reveals that President Reagan has undergone AIDS testing out of fear that he may have contracted the disease during blood transfusions after his 1981 assassination attempt.

Anne Murray’s “Country” album was certified Gold.

1989: Actor Merritt Butrick, best known for his portrayal of James Kirk’s son in the films Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, dies of AIDS in Los Angeles at the age of twenty-nine. Savvier viewers also remember him as Johnny Slash from the short-lived ’80s sitcom Square Pegs, starring a young Sarah Jessica Parker and Jami Gertz.

90s: Listserves and Email distribution replaces telephone trees for activism

1998

George Michael played at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in Sydney, Australia.

1990

Whitney Houston headlined an AIDS benefit concert at Radio City Music Hall in New York City along with Daryl Hall & John Oates, Dionne Warwick and Barry Manilow took part in Arista Records’ 15th anniversary concert at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, where they raised more than $2 million for various AIDS organizations.

Post 9/11 – The Shock Decade From “gay and lesbian” to “lesbigay” to “Lgbt/Lgbtq/Lgbtq2”

2004

Lisa Marie Presley clarified remarks she had made in an Australian TV interview. She said that she had never seen her ex-husband, Michael Jackson, engage in inappropriate behavior with kids.

2006

The Smiths turned down a $5m (£2.8m) offer to reform for a music festival. The band who split acrimoniously in 1987, rejected the bid to get back together for this year’s Coachella US festival.

Human Rights in global conflict: Trans/Pans vs LGB/ vs Heterosexual women

2013

2016

Barry Manilow‘s management launched a lawsuit that claimed Princess Cruises repeatedly used a film of the entertainer’s Vegas show without permission. Stiletto Entertainment, which manages Manilow’s affairs, requested statutory damages of up to $150,000 for each instance of direct and contributory copyright infringement, punitive damages, restitution, attorneys fees and additional damages.

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LGBTQ2 for March 16

BCE to The Suffragettes

1680 – Legislators of New Hampshire pass the colony’s first capital laws, copied almost word for word from the Plymouth laws of 1671: If any man lie with mankind as he lies with a woman; both of them have committed abomination; They both shall surely be put to death: unless one party were forced, or were under fourteen years of age. And all other Sodomitical filthiness shall be severely punished according to the nature of it

03-16-1911 – 02-27-2006 Sybille Bedford (born Sybille von Schoenebeck) – Born in Charlottenburg,

Germany. She was a German-born English writer. Bedford was a lesbian that wrote non-fiction and semi-autographical fiction books. In the early 1920s, she travelled between England and Italy. With the rise of fascism in Italy, she settled in the south of France. While there, she became friends with Aldous Huxley. She also socialized with Thomas Mann and Bertoit Brecht, who also lived in the area. In 1933, Bedford published an article critical of the Nazi regime in Die Sammlung, the literary magazine of Klaus Mann, the son of Thomas Mann. When the Nazi’s found out about her Jewish ancestry, her bank accounts were frozen. Thanks to Aldous Huxley’s wife, Marie, Sybille married a gay English Army officer, Walter Bedford (He was an ex-boyfriend of a former manservant of W.H. Auden) and obtained a British passport. After WWII, she spent the remainder of the 1940s living in France and Italy. She had a love affair with an American woman, Evelyn W. Gendel, who left her husband. Between the 1950s and the 1970s, Bedford had a tweny-year relationship with the American novelist Eda Lord. In 1981 she received the Order of the British Empire. Her final work was Quicksands, a memoir published in 2005.

03-16-1822 – 05-25-1899 Rosa Bonheur – Born in Bordeaux, France. She was a French animalière, realist artist, and sculptor.

Bonheur is widely considered to have been the most famous female painter of the nineteenth century. She was known for wearing men’s clothing, her choice of companions, and her penchant for smoking cigarettes. She lived for over forty years with her childhood friend, Nathalie Micas. In the final year of her life she became involved with Anna Klumpke, the author of her “autobiography,” so named because Klumpke had used Bonheur’s first person voice.

03-16-1938 – 05-02-2005 Jack Nichols (born John Richard Nichols) – Born in Washington, D.C. He was an American gay

rights activist. He co-founded the Washington D.C. branch of the Mattachine Society in 1961 with Franklin E. Kameny. He also appeared in the CBS Reports: The Homosexuals (1967). Although he allowed himself to be interviewed on camera, he used the pseudonym “Warren Adkins” in the broadcast because of his father, an FBI agent. His father threatened to kill him if the U.S. government found out that Jack was his son and he lost his coveted security clearance. Nichols led the first gay rights march on the White House, in April 1965. He and other activists successfully lobbied the American Psychiatric Association to rescind its definition of homosexuality as a form of mental illness.

03-16-1939 – 02-03-2015 Koos Van Den Akker – Born in the Hague, Netherlands. He was a Dutch-born fashion designer based

in New York City. He was known for his unique collaged ‘Koos’ designed clothing. Until his death Koos had a store on Madison Ave., New York. He maintained a high profile in New York and LA where entertainers such as Julie and Harry Belafonte, Cher, Elizabeth Taylor, Diahann Carroll, and Barbara Walters were clients. His clients also included Stevie Wonder, Chita Rivera, Brooke Shields, Isabella Rossellini, Glenn Close, Lauren Hutton, and NBA stars Isaiah Thomas and Magic Johnson. In 1991 Koos’ life partner John Bell died of AIDS. Van Den Akker died at the age of 75.

1885, Australia – Novelist Ida Alexa Ross Wylie (16 March 1885 – 4 November 1959) is born in Melbourne. She is known by her pen name I. A. R. Wylie. She was an Australian-British-American novelist, screenwriter, short story writer, and poet who was honored by the journalistic and literary establishments of her time, and was known around the world. Between 1915 and 1953, more than thirty of her novels and stories were adapted into films, including Keeper of the Flame (1942), which was directed by George Cukor and starred Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. In 1940 she published “My Life With George,” at the time a groundbreaking work about her life with another woman. In the 1930s, Wylie and two pioneering physicians, Dr. Sara Josephine Baker and Dr. Louise Pearce, settled on a property near Skillman, New Jersey called Trevenna Farm. They lived there together until Baker died in 1945, followed by Pearce, and then later Wylie who died on 4 November 1959 at the age of 74. Wylie and Pearce are buried alongside each other at Henry Skillman Burying Ground, Trevenna Farm’s family cemetery. Dr. Sara Josephine Baker (November 15, 1873 – February 22, 1945 a pioneering public health specialist best known for capturing “Typhoid Mary.” Dr. Louise Pearce (March 5, 1885 – August 10, 1959), was an American pathologist at the Rockefeller Institute who helped develop a treatment for African sleeping sickness (trypanosomiasis)

1938 – John Richard “Jack” Nichols Jr. (March 16, 1938 – May 2, 2005) is born. He was an American gay rights activist who co-founded the Washington, D.C. branch of the Mattachine Society in 1961 with Franklin E. Kameny (May 21, 1925 – October 11, 2011). He appeared in a 1967 documentary under the pseudonym Warren Adkins.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

1954 – The Army–McCarthy hearings convene to investigate conflicting charges made by the United States Army and Senator Joseph McCarthy about allegations of preferential treatment that McCarthy and his aide Roy Cohn (February 20, 1927 – August 2, 1986) had secured for Cohn’s friend David Schine (September 11, 1927 – June 19, 1996). The hearings include inquiries into the supposed security risks posed by homosexuals employed by the federal government and include instances of gay-baiting by Special Counsel for the Army Joseph Welch. Notably, Welch defines a pixie as being “a close relative of a fairy”. “Fairy” is a slang term for “homosexual” and Welch’s remark is interpreted as a jibe at Cohn, a closeted homosexual who later died of AIDS.

03-16-1954 Anna Grodzka – Born in Otwock, Poland. Transgender pioneer. Poland’s first transgender to serve

in its parliament when elected in 2011. Living as a male, shehad married and fathered a son; transitioned in 2009 after divorcing in 2007. In June 2014, changed party affiliation and joined the Green party. As of May 2013, is also the only remaining openly transgender MP in the world.

03-16-1958 – 06-06-2004 Kate Worley (born Kathleen L.

Worley) – Born in Illinois (city unknown). She was an American comic book writer best known for her work on Omaha the Cat Dancer. She was a writer and performer for the science fiction comedy radio program Shockwave Radio Theater. Kate came out as bisexual in the Omaha letters column in 1988, making her and her then-lover, Reed Waller (he was out as bisexual too), the first openly bisexual couple creators in comics. She was married to Jim Vance, a comic book writer, at the time of her death. She died of cancer in 2004.

The Civil Rights 60s: When the Boomers were under 30

03-16-1964 – 05-17-2009 Octavia St. Laurent – Born in Brooklyn, New York. She was an American model and AIDS educator who was active in New York City’s Black and Latino drag society and Harlem’s drag balls. Octavia

was featured in the 1990 documentary Paris Is Burning. Octavia was an intersex person that produced more estrogen than most people assigned male at birth. She said that growing up, her parents were accepting. “I had wonderful parents that supported me. My sexuality was not an issue with my parents.” She also said, “This is me, you understand? No, I am not a woman. No, I am not a man. I am Octavia.” Diagnosed as HIV+, she served as an educator about the disease. During her appearance in the LGBT documentary How Do I Look, Octavia discussed her drug use, sex work, and fight with AIDS. After a long battle with cancer, she died in 2009.

1969

The Ed Sullivan Show.” Ed Ames, Chet Atkins, Floyd Cramer, Boots Randolph and Scoey Mitchell performed while Janis Joplin sang “Maybe” and “Raise Your Hand”

03-16-1969 – 02-11-2010 Alexander McQueen – Born in Lewisham, London, England. He was a British fashion designer

and couturier. He is known for having worked as chief designer at Givenchy from 1996 to 2001 and for founding his own label. His achievements in fashion earned him four British Designer of the Year awards (1996, 1997, 2001 and 2003). McQueen was openly gay and said he realized his sexual orientation when he was six years old. He described coming out at a young age by saying, “I was sure of myself and my sexuality and I’ve got nothing to hide. I went straight from my mother’s womb onto the gay parade.” In February 2010, his housekeeper found him hanging at his home on Green Street, London. He died nine days after his mother had died from cancer at the age of 75. A friend of the designer said that McQueen “was doing a lot of drugs and was very unhappy” at the time of his death.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

1974

Cher’s “Dark Lady” was #3

Barbara Streisand’s The Way We Were was atop the U.S. Album chart while , Elton John moved back up to 9 with Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

The Genderfuck Apathetics vs Yuppies : Aids the new STD on the list

1985

Make It Big by Wham was #1 on the Album chart for a third week,

90s: Listserves and Email distribution replaces telephone trees for activism

1995

Mississippi became the last U.S. state to formally ratify the 13^th Amendment to the Constitution, which abolished slavery, 130 years after the Amendment was officially ratified.

Post 9/11 – The Shock Decade From “gay and lesbian” to “lesbigay” to “Lgbt/Lgbtq/Lgbtq2”

Human Rights in global conflict: Trans/Pans vs LGB/ vs Heterosexual women

2010

ABBA were inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,

2015

Sam Smith stopped Madonna from topping the UK album chart, denying her the 12th No.1 of her career. Madonna’s latest album, Rebel Heart, had been in pole position throughout the week, but Smith’s In The Lonely Hour sneaked ahead at the last minute, beating Madonna by 12,000 sales. In The Lonely Hour had now spent six separate spells at No.1 – a record for a male solo artist.

2021

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LGBTQ2 for March 15

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BCE to The Suffragettes

Roman Era bisexuality was a norm, one of the emperors was heterosexual and that was deemed shock or horror: Caeser is assassinated on this day in 44 BC. This is famously dramatized in William Shakespeare‘s play Julius Caesar, when Caesar is warned by the soothsayer to “beware the Ides of March.” So beware! Writing prompt: What is your favorite work by Shakespeare and why?

559, Turkey – “Men-corruptors” are blamed for the earthquake and plague in Constantinople by the Emperor of the Byzantine Empire.

1633, Sweden – Christina (8 December 1626 – 19 April 1689) becomes Queen at age six. She always wished to be a boy and is given the nickname “Girl King.” When she was fourteen her tutor remarked that “she is not at all like a female.” Christina is remembered as one of the most educated women of the 1600s, being educated as a royal male would have been. With her interest in religion, philosophy, mathematics and alchemy, she attracted many scientists to Stockholm, wanting the city to become the “Athens of the North.” She was intelligent, fickle and moody; she rejected what the sexual role of a woman was at the time. She caused a scandal when she decided not to marry and, in 1654, when she abdicated her throne and converted to Roman Catholicism. She changed her name from Kristina Augusta Wasa to Christina Alexandra. Christina revealed in her autobiography that she felt “an insurmountable distaste for marriage” and “for all the things that females talked about and did.” As she was chiefly occupied with her studies, she slept three to four hours a night, forgot to comb her hair, donned her clothes in a hurry and wore men’s shoes for the sake of convenience. Her unruly hair became her trademark. Her closest female friend was Ebba Sparre (1629 – 19 March 1662), a Swedish lady-in-waitingand noble, with whom she shared “a long time intimate companionship”.

1811, UK – The trial for two Scottish teachers Miss Marianne Woods and Miss Jane Pirie begins, accused of lesbian acts. One of the judges said that sex between women was “equally imaginary with witchcraft, sorcery or carnal copulation with the devil.”

1867, UK – Lionel Pigot Johnson (15 March 1867 – 4 October 1902) is born in Broadstairs, England. An influential poet and literary critic in his time, he was also the victim of one of the oldest ironies in the history of love. He made the mistake of introducing his young lover to a friend, who quickly snatched him away. The young lover was Lord Alfred Douglas (22 October 1870 – 20 March 1945), and the friend, Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900).

1886 – Gerda Marie Fredrikke Gottlieb (15 March 1886 – 28 July 1940) was a Danish fine-artist, illustrator and painter best known for erotica. She met artist Einar Wegener (1882–1931) at art school. They married in 1904, when Gerda was 18 and Einar was 22. They traveled through Italy and France, eventually settling in Paris in 1912. The couple immersed themselves in the Bohemian lifestyle of the time, befriending many artists, dancers and other figures from the artistic world. The couple would often attend carnivals and other public festivals. Einar eventually identified as a male-to-female transgender woman. In 1930 she underwent the second publicly known sex reassignment surgery in history after years of living life solely as Lili Elbe. Dora Richter/Dörchen R. (born 1891) was the first person to undergo complete male-to-female gender reassignment surgery. She was one of a number of transgender people in the care of sex-research pioneer Magnus Hirschfeld at Berlin’s Institute for Sexual Research during the 1920s and early 1930s. She underwent surgical removal of the testicles in 1922, followed in 1931 by removal of the penis and construction of a vagina. Dora’s success and the resulting publicity encouraged Lili to also have the surgery. Sadly, she died from a post-operative infection.The film The Danish Girl, David Ebershoff‘s 2000 novel, is about Einar/Lili and Gerda.

1926 – Ruth Simpson (March 15, 1926 – May 8, 2008) was the founder of the United States’ first lesbian community center, an author, and former president of Daughters of Bilitis, New York. s president of the New York chapter of Daughters of Bilitis (DOB), Simpson organized gay rights demonstrations and educational programs for DOB members during the period 1969–71. Several times when NYC police, without warrants, illegally entered DOB’s lesbian center in lower Manhattan, Simpson stood between the police and the DOB women. On three occasions she was cited for court appearances by the police. She was also arrested at a Women Against Richard Nixon (WARN) rally, along withher partner of 37 years videographer Ellen Povill,author Ti-Grace Atkinson(born November 9, 1938)andlawyer Flo Kennedy(February 11, 1916 – December 21, 2000)and spent most of a day in jail until the women’s attorney gained their release.Ruth’s book From the Closet to the Courts was published in 1977 and republished in 2007. She also produced the weekly hour-long program “Minority Report” in Woodstock, New York from 1982 until her death in 2008.

03-15-1933 – 07-25-2020 Ruth Bader Ginsburg – Born in Brooklyn, New York. She was an American lawyer and served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in September 2020. Ginsburg was the first Jewish woman and the second woman to serve

on the Court. Much of her legal career was spent as an advocate for gender equality and women’s rights. Her impact on the lives of LGBT Americans is incalculable. She fought for the decriminalization of homosexuality, same-sex marriage, and job protections. One of Ginsburg’s final cases was Bostock v. Clayton County, concerning a gay employee fired after he mentioned joining a gay softball league; he sued, seeking to have sexual orientation and gender identity recognized as protected classes in the same way race and disability. In the major decision, the court found that the Civil Rights Act does protect LGBT people. Ginsburg became an “American cultural icon” known as “The Notorious R.B.G.”, She appeared in both a comic opera and a workout book. She admitted to having a large supply of Notorious R.G.B. t-shirts, which she gave away as gifts. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg became the

first Supreme Court justice to officiate a same-sex marriage. She officiated a marriage between Kennedy Center President Michael M. Kaiser and economist John Roberts. The wedding took place at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend seeing the 2018 documentary RGB. For those that follow in her footsteps, they have a towering role model who set the standard for what it means to fight for liberty and justice for all. RGB died from complications of pancreatic cancer. On September 29, she was buried beside her husband in Arlington National Cemetery.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

1945

“Billboard” magazine began listing a top albums chart.

03-15-1948 Kate Bornstein – Born in Neptune City, New Jersey. She is a Jewish-American author, playwright, performance artist,

and gender theorist. Having been assigned male at birth and then receiving sex reassignment surgery in 1986, Bornstein identifies as gender non-conforming, saying, “I don’t call myself a woman, and I know I’m not a man.” Bornstein has chronic lymphocytic leukemia and in September of 2012 was diagnosed with lung cancer. Bornstein and her partner Barbara Carrellas live in New York City with three cats, two dogs and a turtle. Bornstein’s autobiography, A Queer and Pleasant Danger: A Memoir, was released May 2012. In an interview with Ray Filar, dated March 14, 2016, she stated that she is now cancer-free.

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1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

The Civil Rights 60s: When the Boomers were under 30

1964

Berry Gordy, Jr., the founder of Motown Records, and his wife celebrated the birth of son Kennedy William Gordy, who would later be known as Rockwell (“Somebody’s Watching Me”), in Detroit, Michigan.

1965

PopCulture Reference: Sandy Posey records “Born A Woman”, which will rise to number 12 in the US and become the first of her four Top 40 hits.

March 15, 1967

Joan Crawford’s letter to Elvis:

1969

Janis Joplin was on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine being called the Judy Garland of Rock.

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March 15, 1973

Elton John had the #1 album in the US with “Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player”, which contained two hit singles, “Crocodile Rock” and “Daniel”. According to Philip Norman’s 1990s authorized biography, Groucho Marx jokingly pointed his index fingers at Elton, as if holding a pair of six-shooters. John is reported to have put up his hands and said, “Don’t shoot me, I’m only the piano player”, so naming the album.

1975

Ally Olivia Newton-John enjoyed her second US #1 album with “Have You Ever Been Mellow”, which title track peaked at #1 and dropped to 4 on the single charts. Her LP overtook Bob Dylan (Blood on the Tracks) for the top album. Led Zeppelin debuted at #3 with Physical Graffiti, while the songs above were The Doobie Brothers had their first #1 as “Black Water” moved to the top. Frankie Valli was second with “My Eyes Adored You” and LaBelle with “Lady Marmalade”.

1977: The ABC sitcom, Three’s Company, premieres. The “sit” in the sitcom is that an unemployed straight chef (John Ritter‘s Jack Tripper) moves in with two female roommates, but in order to satisfy the landlord’s suspicions that there might be sexual impropriety, pretends he is gay. The show stays in the Nielsen Top Ten for the next six years.

LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes: in the Jiggle TnA TV Era the sitcom stood out

The Genderfuck Apathetics vs Yuppies : Aids the new STD on the list

1980

Queen had one of their biggest career hits as “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” spent a fourth week at #1.

03-15-1982 Kwame Harris – Born in Jamaica, his family moved to The Bronx, New York City, New York when he was three years

old. Former NFL offensive tackle, this 6’7”, 332 lb. tackle played for the San Francisco 49er’s and the Oakland Raiders. On March 29, 2013, Harris officially outed himself as being gay during an interview with CNN. No NFL player had come out as gay while they were still playing, and only a few have after retiring.

1983: A West Virginia kindergarten teacher, Linda Conway, is forced to resign from her job after parents complain that she LOOKS like a lesbian. She files a $1 million lawsuit against the school board. However, three years later the state supreme court confirms the school board’s right to dismiss her because of her appearance.

1985: A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association concludes that AIDS is most likely NOT spread by casual contact.

1986

After 51 weeks, Whitney Houston was at her peak with her self-titled debut album, which spent a second week at #1. meanwhile on the song charts where “How Will I Know” as the #1 song for 15 weeks, it took these four songs Starship had their 27th hit (counting their days as Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship) and second consecutive #1 with “Sara”. Heart was making a bid with “These Dreams” while previous #1 “Kyrie” by Mr. Mister relinquished its spot. Atlantic Starr was up with “Secret Lovers” to drop Houston’s song to five.

90s: Listserves and Email distribution replaces telephone trees for activism

1990

13.7 million households signed up to see a pay-per-view special by New Kids on the Block, breaking the record for PPV events.

1995

Madonna is signed to star as Eva Peron in the film version of the musical, Evita, based on the life of Evita Duarte, a B-picture Argentinean actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinean president and dictator Juan Peron. Madonna will win a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress In A Motion Picture for her role.

1997

Marketted as faux lesbian/The Beatles boy band era: The Spice Girls became the first act to ever hit #1 with their first four singles in the U.K., as “Mama” reached the top

Post 9/11 – The Shock Decade From “gay and lesbian” to “lesbigay” to “Lgbt/Lgbtq/Lgbtq2”

2004

In Australia, an interview with Lisa Marie Presley was broadcast in which she said that she had seen things she “couldn’t do anything about” during her marriage to Michael Jackson. She clarified her remarks two days later and included that she had never seen Jackson engage in inappropriate behavior with kids.

Whitney Houston entered a drug rehabilitation program.

2006, Czech Republic – The Czech House and Senate pass a bill allowing same-sex partner registration but President Vaclav Klaus vetoes it. The veto is overturned on this day and the law goes into effect on July 1, 2006.

Human Rights in global conflict: Trans/Pans vs LGB/ vs Heterosexual women

2010

Former ABBA vocalist Anni-Frid Reuss ruled out a reunion with her old band mates by saying that it’s “too late for that” at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony in New York. Anni-Frid joined her ex-husband Benny Andersson at the gala where they were inducted by The Bee Gees’ Robin and Barry Gibb.

Sony Music announced a recording deal with the estate of the late Michael Jackson that would pay Jackson’s heirs $200 million over seven years, the largest contract in music history.

2012

Lisa Marie Presley announced that she would release her first new album, in five years, “Storm and Grace”.

2013

Elton John was forced to cancel a concert in Birmingham, Alabama, just hours before the show due to medical reasons.

2022

Dolly Parton turns down Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nomination

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LGBTQ2 for March 14

BCE to The Suffragettes

March 14, 1794

Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin, a mechanical device that removes the seeds from cotton and one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution. The word gin is short for engine.

1860, Estonia – Stanislaus Eric, Count Stenbock 14 March 1860 –14 April] 1895) is born in Estonia. He was a Baltic Swedish poet and writer of macabre fantastic fiction. Virtually forgotten today, he was the aesthete who could out-aesthete the great Oscar Wilde. A writer of opium-induced poems and stories, he once hosted Wilde who dared light a cigarette in front of a bust of Shelly. The sacrilege was so horrible the count fainted.

03-14-1887 – 10-05-1962 Sylvia Beach – Born in Baltimore, Maryland. She was an American-born bookseller and publisher who lived most of her life in Paris. Beach was one of the leading expatriate figures between

WWI and WWII. She is known for her Paris bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, which published James Joyce’s controversial book, Ulysses. While conducting some research, Beach found the name of Adrienne Monnier’s bookshop in a French literary journal and decided to seek out the little store on the rue de l’Odéon. There she was warmly welcomed by the owner who, to her surprise was a plump fair-haired young woman. Although Beach was dressed in a Spanish cloak and hat, Monnier knew immediately she was American. At the first meeting Monnier declared,”I like Americans very much.” Beach replied that she liked France very much. They later became lovers and lived together for 36 years.

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14-1952 Carolyn Gage – (Place of birth unknown) She is an American playwright, actor, theatrical director, and author. She has written nine books on lesbian theater and sixty-five plays, musicals, and one-woman shows. A lesbian feminist, her work emphasizes non-traditional roles for women and lesbian characters. Gage’s best-known work is The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, a one-woman play about the historical figure Joan of Arc. It has been translated into Portuguese, French, Italian, Bulgarian, and Mandarin and achieved a first-class production in Brazil. The script was published in The Second Coming of Joan of Arc and Selected Plays, an anthology of Gage’s historical plays. The anthology was named the national winner of the 2008 Lambda Literary Award in Drama. In addition to creative works, Gage has published a manual on lesbian theater production, Take Stage! How to Direct and Produce a Lesbian Play, published by Scarecrow Press. Gage also wrote Monologues and Scenes for Lesbian Actors. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Gage’s one-act Female Nude Seated was successfully produced on Zoom. This short but emotionally rich piece tells the story of two Irish artists, Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone, that meet in art school just after World War. As they cover topics from the challenges of women in the arts, predatory men, what it takes to succeed, and the drive to paint with passion and originality, they move slowly and tentatively, yet unmistakably, toward a deeper spiritual and physical intimacy. [Both Hone and Jellett are featured in the LGBT Daily Spotlight on their respective birthdays of April 22, and April 29.]

Post contributed by Sandra de Helen – She currently lives and writes in San Diego County, but her heart remains in Portland, Oregon. She is the author of the Shirley Combs/Dr. Mary Watson mystery series, set in Portland; Till Darkness Comes, a thriller set in Kansas City, Missouri; and three collections of lesbian poetry published by Launch Point Press. See more of her work at www.SandradeHelen.com. de Helen is a member of the Golden Crown Literary Society, Dramatists Guild, Honor Roll! and International Centre for Women Playwrights. Follow her on Twitter @dehelen, like her on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/dehelen, follow her on Instagram @dehelen.

03-14-1955 Franco Grillini – Born in Pianoro, Italy. He is an

Italian politician and Italy’s most prominent gay rights activist. In 1999 he was named president of the Italian Ministry for Equal Opportunities’ “Commission for the Rights and Equal Opportunities of Homosexual People.” Among the legislation, Grillini has proposed is a civil union law and adding sexual orientation and gender identity to the anti-discrimination article of the Constitution of Italy. He also founded LILA (Italian League for the Fight Against AIDS.

The Civil Rights 60s: When the Boomers were under 30

03-14-1960 Rabbi Denise Eger – Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is an American Reform rabbi. In March 2015 she became president of the

Central Conference of American Rabbis, the largest and oldest rabbinical organization in North America. She is the first openly gay person to hold that office. Eger came out as gay in 1990 in a story in the Los Angeles Times. In 1992, she and 35 other people founded Congregation Koi Ami, a synagogue intended to serve both gay and non-gay Jews in West Hollywood, California. Eger has worked extensively with people with HIV/AIDS and is also known as an expert on Judaism and LGBT civil rights. On June 16, 2008, she officiated the wedding of LGBT activist Robin Tyler and Diane Olson.

03-14-1967 Alex Hai – (Birth name, Giorgia Boscolo). Born in Hamburg, Germany. He is

a transgender man of German and Algerian descent. Born female, in 2010 Hai became the first woman to become a gondolier in Venice. Roberto Luppi, gondolier and the president of the gondoliers’ association from 2003 to 2009, claimed Hai (who had not yet come out as a transgender man) should not have tried to become a gondolier, and that, “A woman is the best thing in the world, but she shouldn’t be a gondolier […] In my opinion, she should stay at home and take care of a family.” In contrast, Roberto Sussberg, jury member for the gondola’s test and safeguard, said that the gondoliers were wrong to be hostile to Hai, citing precedents during the war when mothers and grandmothers rowed gondolas. In 2017, Hai came out as transgender and is now the first openly transgender person to be a gondolier in Venice.

03-14-1969 Mary Cheney (daughter of former Vice-President Dick Cheney) Born in Madison, Wisconsin. She is politically

conservative and is involved with a number of political action groups. She is openly lesbian, has voiced support for same-sex marriage, and has been credited with encouraging her father to support same-sex marriage. In 2013, she was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief (friend of the court) submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage during the Hollingsworth v. Perry case. Mary Cheney has been together with her partner, Heather Poe, since 1992. They married on June 22, 2012 in Washington, D.C. They have two daughters and live in Virginia.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

1971:

More than two thousand protesters march on the steps of the Albany capitol building demanding an end to laws that discriminate against gays and lesbians.

Barbra Streisand appeared on “The Burt Bacharach Special” on CBS-TV.

03-14-1971 Dave Holmes – Born in St. Louis, Missouri. He’s an

LGBT comedian, TV personality, actor, blogger, and writer. Holmes came out as a gay in Out magazine in 2002. His spouse is Ben Wise. He has an encyclopedic knowledge of music trivia and hosts the daily video podcast A Drink With Dave. He has also appeared in commercials for Ford motors.

1977 – Windsor, Ontario becomes the third Canadian city council to pass resolution banning discrimination against gay and lesbian city employees.

The Genderfuck Apathetics vs Yuppies : Aids the new STD on the list

1981

Barbra Streisand & Barry Gibb rose to #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart with their duet–“What Kind Of Fool”.

Dolly Parton topped the chart with “9 To 5”, while Blondie responded with a 12 to 7 move for “Rapture”, at at 8 – ABBA and “The Winner Takes It All”

1987 – The New York City AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (Act Up) is formed as a direct-action group by Larry Kramer and some 300 other activists.

90s: Listserves and Email distribution replaces telephone trees for activism

1993, Brazil – Armed men abduct, torture, and behead Renildo Jose dos Santos (1964 – March 14, 1993), an openly bisexual local city councilor in the state of Alagoas. Santos, who had been under attack from the local mayor and the mayor’s allies, had repeatedly been denied police protection, despite a previous attempt on his life.

1995

Prince released the single “Purple Medley.”

Post 9/11 – The Shock Decade From “gay and lesbian” to “lesbigay” to “Lgbt/Lgbtq/Lgbtq2”

2006, India – Prince Manvendra Kumar Singh Gohil (born 23 September 1965) of the former state of Rajpipla comes out as a gay man making him the first openly gay prince in the world. He is the son and probable heir of the Maharaja of Rajpipla in Gujarat. He runs a charity, The Lakshya Trust, which works with the LGBT community.

Human Rights in global conflict: Trans/Pans vs LGB/ vs Heterosexual women

2012, Denmark – The gender-neutral marriage equality legislation is proposed in the Danish Parliament, goes on to be passed on June 15^th, granting rights to civil marriage as well as marriage in the Church of Denmark.

2012, New York – On behalf of Sexual Minorities Uganda, the Center for Constitutional Rights files a lawsuit claiming that Scott Lively violated international law with conspiracy to engineer a genocide of LGBT people in Uganda. The case is still open. Massachusetts hate preacher Scott Lively is one of the world’s most notorious homophobes, and has been linked to anti-gay laws in a number of countries.

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LGBTQ2 for March 13

BCE to The Suffragettes

March 13, 1901

Andrew Carnegie announced that he was retiring from business and that he would spend the rest of his days giving away his $300 million fortune.

March 13, 1902

Andrew Carnegie approved 40 applications from libraries seeking donations.

1906 — Susan B. Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) dies. Anthony was an abolitionist, a teacher and education reformer, a labor activist, a temperance worker, a feminist and, of course a suffragist. She never married and she is believed by historians to have had three intimate relationships with women in her life.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

The Civil Rights 60s: When the Boomers were under 30

1965

The Soundtrack to “Mary Poppins”, which had hung around the top for several weeks, finally became the #1 album.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

1971

Posthumously, Janis Joplin moved to #2 with “Me And Bobby McGee”

Pearl by the late Janis Joplin was #1 on the Album chart for the third week., The Soundtrack to “Love Story” remained second, at four Soundtrack–“Jesus Christ Superstar” was fourth followed by Elton John’s Tumbleweed Connection with #10 Barbra Streisand enjoyed another Top 10 album with Stoney End.

March 13, 1977

With Blondie as their opening act, David Bowie and Iggy Pop started a North American tour at the Jean-Deslauriers Theatre in Montréal.

1978

ABBA began recording the album Voulez-Vous.

1979

Olivia Newton-John received the Officer of the Order of the British Empire medal from Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace in London.

The Genderfuck Apathetics vs Yuppies : Aids the new STD on the list

1980, Canada – The Association of Gay Electors chooses George Hislop (June 3, 1927 – October 8, 2005) as candidate for the Ward 6 aldermanic race in downtown Toronto. The civic election would be held in November. Hislop had been co-founder and long-time president of the Community Homophile Association of Toronto. A co-owner of the Club Baths of Toronto and The Barracks Bathhouse, he had been charged as “keeper of a common bawdyhouse” following the notorious Bathhouse raids. He was one of Canada‘s most influential gay activists.

1982

the Go-Go’s had their first Top 10 with “We Got The Beat” at 7

1984: Claiming an “absence of compelling need” for such legislation, California governor George Deukmejian vetoes a gay rights bill that would have prohibited job discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

1989

Madonna released the single “Like A Prayer”.

90s: Listserves and Email distribution replaces telephone trees for activism

1990

MTV became available in the Middle East with the launch of MTV Europe in Israel.

1991 – “Paris is Burning” premieres in the US. It’s a documentary that shows New York’s drag scene in the 1980s. It is a 1990 American documentary film directed by Jennie Livingston. Filmed in the mid-to-late 1980s, it chronicles the ball culture of New York City and the African-American, Latino, gay, and transgender communities involved in it. Some critics consider the film to be an invaluable documentary of the end of the “Golden Age” of New York City drag balls, and a thoughtful exploration of race, class, gender, and sexuality in America. In 2016, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.

1999

15 years since her last hit, Cher started a four week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Believe’, making Cher the oldest woman to top the Hot 100 at the age of 53.

Post 9/11 – The Shock Decade From “gay and lesbian” to “lesbigay” to “Lgbt/Lgbtq/Lgbtq2”

2007, France – Nicole Stéphane, Baroness Nicole de Rothschild (27 May 1923 – 13 March 2007) dies. She was a French actress, producer and director. In the early 1970s, Stéphane was the lover of the American writer and critic Susan Sontag(January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004.

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LGBTQ2 for March 12

BCE to The Suffragettes

03-12-1860 — 04-26-1895 Eric Stenbock – Place of birth unknown. He was a Baltic

Swedish poet and writer of macabre fiction. His family was of Swedish nobility belonging to Baltic German House of nobility. Stenbock lived in England most of his life. While at Oxford, he became greatly influenced by the gay artist Simeon Solomon. Stenbock had a relationship with composer and conductor, Norman O’Neil, and with other men. He was also an alcoholic and addicted to drugs. He published a number of books during his lifetime, including Love, Sleep, and Dreams (1881), Rue, Myrtle, and Cypress (1883), and The Shadow of Death (1894). His last publication was Studies of Death, a collection of short stories, published also in 1894. Stenbock died from cirrhosis of the liver.

03-12-1883 – 1969 Ethel Collins Dunham – Born in Hartford, Connecticut. She and her life partner, Martha Mary Eliot, devoted their lives to the care of children. Dunham focused on premature babies and newborns, becoming chief of child development at the Children’s Bureau in 1935. She became one of Yale’s School of Medicine’s first female professors. From 1949 to 1951 she studied the problem of premature birth with an international team of experts for the World Health Organization in Geneva. Dunham retired in 1952. In 1957 the American Pediatric Society awarded her their highest honor, the John Howland Award. She was the first woman pediatrician to receive the award; her life partner, Martha May Eliot was the second (honored in 1967). LGBT historian and scholar, Lillian Faderman stated, “From 1910 to Ethel’s death in 1969, the two women were inseparable. As a couple, Martha Eliot and Ethel Dunham…succeeded in times that were as unsympathetic to professional women as they were to lesbians. Their partnership nourished and sustained them through their entire adult lives.”

(Photo: The Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University – Martha May Eliot (left) and Ethel Collins Dunham (right) 1915)

3-12-1885 – 11-22-1973 Tracy Dickinson Mygatt – Born in Brooklyn, New York. She was an American writer and pacifist. While attending Bryn Mawr

College, she met Frances M. Witherspoon. Both women graduated from college in 1909 and became life parters for over sixty years. They founded the War Resisters League in 1923, which is the oldest secular pacifist organization in the United States. The pair were active in the Episcopal Church. They were also involved in women suffrage, organizing the Socialist Suffrage Brigade, and edited an issue of The Call about suffrage. Mygatt also wrote several plays. In late 1973, the women died within a month of each other. The couple’s papers were donated to Swarthmore College Peace Collection.

1890, Russiqa – Vaslav Nijinsky (March 12, 1890 – 8 April 1950) is born in Kiev. He was a ballet dancer and choreographer cited as the greatest male dancer of the early 20th century. His love affair with choreographer Diaghilev (19 March] 1872 – 19 August 1929), his marriage, and his eventual madness led to his becoming an icon in the arts.

Cited as the greatest male dancer of the early 20th century. In 1909 he joined the Ballet Russes, a new ballet company started by Sergei Diaghilev. Nijinsky became the company’s star and lovers with Diaghilev. With the Ballet Russes, Nijinsky had the chance to expand his art and experiment with dance and choreography; he created new directions for male dancers. He became internationally famous. In 1913 Nijinsky married Hungarian Romola de Pulszky. She had ‘stalked’ the company and Nijinsky since 1912. The

marriage caused a break with Diaghilev, who soon dismissed Nijinsky from the company. With no alternative employer available, he tried to form his own company, but he was not a good businessman and was unsuccessful. In 1914, because of his Russian citizenship, he was placed under house arrest in Budapest, Hungary during WWI. He was only released because the American promoter of the Ballets Russes’ second US tour stipulated that Nijinsky had to be part of the company. Nijinsky was given permission to leave Hungary for New York in September 1916. The tour was a financial and artistic disaster. Nijinsky became increasingly mentally unstable with the stresses to manage tours himself and deprived of opportunities to dance, which had always been his obsession. After a tour of South America in 1917, and due to travel difficulties imposed by the war, the family settled in St. Moritz, Switzerland. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1919 and committed to an asylum for the first time. For the next 30 years, he was in and out of institutions.

March 12, 1894

After eight years of being available only at soda fountains, Coca-Cola was sold in bottles for the first time.

1928 – Edward Franklin Albee III (March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016) was an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), and A Delicate Balance (1966). Three of his plays won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and two of his other works won the Tony Award for Best Play. Albee was openly gay and stated that he first knew he was gay at age 12. Albee insisted that he did not want to be known as a “gay writer”, stating in his acceptance speech for the 2011 Lambda Literary Foundation‘s Pioneer Award for Lifetime Achievement: “A writer who happens to be gay or lesbian must be able to transcend self. I am not a gay writer. I am a writer who happens to be gay.”^[ His longtime partner, Jonathan Thomas(1946-May 2, 2005) , a sculptor, died from bladder cancer. They had been partners from 1971 until Thomas’s death. Albee also had a relationship of several years with playwright Terrence McNally (born November 3, 1938) during the 1950s

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

1943

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra debuts Aaron Copland’s “Fanfare For The Common Man,” a stirring anthem with rousing percussion and solemn horns composed in response to the US entrance into World War II.

03-12-1946 Liza Minnelli – Born in Hollywood, California, she the daughter of Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli. She is an American actress and singer best known for her portrayal of Sally Bowles in the

1972 musical film Cabaret, which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She married four times to men who had active sex lives with other men. Minnelli says she first became aware of AIDS when she invited Rock Hudson to be her date for a charity dinner. “When he showed up he looked so ill, something was wrong, but of course you can’t say. ‘You look bad’. But then I began to hear more about the disease, and I called Elizabeth Taylor, and I said, ‘Elizabeth, something is wrong. Something is happening, and people are not talking about it enough, and we have to do something. And so we did, and that helped lead to AmfAR (the American Foundation for AIDS Research). And then it became a movement.” In 2007, she stated in an interview with Palm Springs Life magazine, “AmfAR is important to me because I’ve lost so many friends that I knew [to AIDS].” In 1994, she recorded the Kander & Ebb tune The Day After That and donated the proceeds to AIDS research. That same year she performed the song in front of thousands in Central Park at the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall riots.

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

March 12, 1953

Memphis disc jockey Rufus Thomas signed with Sun Records to release a song called “Bear Cat,” an answer to Big Mama Thornton’s “Hound Dog.”

March 12, 1958

Jazz singer Billie Holiday, who had pled guilty to a narcotics-possession charge in 1956, is given a year’s probation by a Philadelphia court.

The Civil Rights 60s: When the Boomers were under 30

March 12, 1967

The Velvet Underground & Nico the debut album by the Velvet Underground was released by Verve Records. Though the record was a commercial failure upon release and was almost entirely ignored by contemporary critics, The Velvet Underground & Nico is now widely recognized as one of the greatest and most influential albums in the history of popular music.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

1976: At a campaign stop in Los Angeles, Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter tells an audience that, if elected, he would be willing to issue an executive order banning discrimination against gay people in housing, employment, immigration and the military.

1977

Olivia Newton-John rose to #1 on the Adult chart with “Sam”, her ninth #1 on the Adult chart.

The Soundtrack to “A Star Is Born” was the #1 album for the fifth week

The Genderfuck Apathetics vs Yuppies : Aids the new STD on the list

1981, Canada – MCC pastor Brent Hawkes ends a twenty-five day hunger fast when Toronto City Council decides to ask Daniel Hill to investigate police/gay relations. Hawkes began his fast to create pressure for independent inquiry into the Toronto bath raids. But, Hill, the mayor’s advisor on community and race relations, announced in mid-May that he would not take on the job. 1984, Europe – The European Parliament approves its first resolution in support of lesbian and gay rights. The resolution is based on a report previously accepted by the Parliament from Italian member Vera Squarcialupi.

1984, Europe – The European Parliament approves its first resolution in support of lesbian and gay rights. The resolution is based on a report previously accepted by the Parliament from Italian member Vera Squarcialupi.

90s: Listserves and Email distribution replaces telephone trees for activism

1990

Sinead O’Connor released the single “Nothing Compares 2 U”.

1995, Cambodia – A same sex couple is married in the village of Kro Bao Ach Kok. It was allowed because one of the partners already had children from a previous marries. If they were both childless, they would not have been allowed to get married because they couldn’t produce children. There were about 250 guests at the wedding including Buddhist monks and high officials from the province.2004 – The Wisconsin State Senate approves of an amendment to the state constitution (20-13) that would ban both same-sex marriages and civil unions

Post 9/11 – The Shock Decade From “gay and lesbian” to “lesbigay” to “Lgbt/Lgbtq/Lgbtq2”

2004: The Wisconsin State Senate approves of an amendment to the state constitution (20-13) that would ban both same-sex marriages and civil unions.

2004: Oregon’s attorney general issues an opinion on same-sex marriage, stating that issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples would contradict current state law. At the same time, he also concluded that the Oregon Supreme Court would probably strike down those statutes as violating the state’s constitution. Partially as a result of this, the Wisconsin State Senate voted to approve an amendment to the state constitution banning same-sex marriages or even civil unions.

Human Rights in global conflict: Trans/Pans vs LGB/ vs Heterosexual women

2022

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Today in LGBT History – March 12 | Ronni Sanlo https://ronnisanlo.com › today-in-lgbt-history-march-12Mar 12, 2018 — Today in LGBT History – March 12. 1890, Russiqa – Vaslav Nijinsky (March 12, 1890 – 8 April 1950) is born in Kiev.

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