Month: April 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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music and movie information from my previous blog

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 with Larry having to point out that were they admitting Elvis was bisexual?

As if Geller, a Hollywood hairdress would have a problem and his challenge back to those accusers was were they admitting Elvis was bisexual with the accusation? the last Elvis secret, along with the suicide note left in 1977, all swore to not reveal.

And each Memphis Mafia Member book was all about the orgies and parties Elvis made them attend, as if that was not why they were his friends acquired over time, to Red West, who saved Elvis from high school bathroom beatings and haircuts.

from my original blog:

Books: Elvis My Best Man by George Klein and Genuine Elvis by Ronnie McDowel

see also:

However:

With the new theatric Biopic that will reveal Elvis’ self harm in both diet and injuries as a pretense to get cancer level drugs from doctors and dentists and anyone who would administer anything, including an induced week long coma for weight loss in Vegas, known to any Elvis fan who read:

the Darkest Elvis Secret was said by his StepMom on National USA tv. That one can be famous and rich and be depressed, connects to why western nations have the highest suicide rates: direct/obvious and passive. In 2017 it was revealed Elvis Presley left a suicide note, and that was why the life insurance policy was never cashed.

Was There A Dark Side to Elvis and Gladys?

It is important to note that the majority of sexual predators and murderers are males who victimize: pick the most inclusive or the most diverse statement of victim categories:

A) women and other men

B) men and women

C) heterosexual men, heterosexual women and LGBTQ2

D) heterosexual men, heterosexual women, gay/bisexual men, bisexual women, lesbians and NB/Transpersons

Extra Credit:

now factor in how to phrase that sentence and include 1 ethnicity 2 disability – physical of body and/or of the brain and persons without religion/spirituality

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 Herstory/History April 29

BCE to The Suffragettes

04-29-1863 – 04-29-1933 Constantine P. Cavafy – Born in Alexandria, Egypt. He was a Greek poet who lived in Alexandria, Egypt and worked as a journalist and civil servant. He published 154 poems; dozens more remained incomplete or in sketch form. His most important poetry was written after

his fortieth birthday. Cavafy is widely considered one of the best modern Greek poets of the twentieth century. During his lifetime Cavafy was an obscure poet, living in relative seclusion and publishing little of his work. This lack of concern for publication was due, perhaps, to the highly personal nature of many poems. Cavafy, who was gay, wrote many sexually explicit poems. W. H. Auden noted as much in his introduction to the 1961 volume The Complete Poems of C. P. Cavafy when he wrote, “Cavafy was a homosexual, and his erotic poems make no attempt to conceal the fact.” Auden added: “As a witness, Cavafy is exceptionally honest. He neither bowdlerizes nor glamorizes nor giggles. The erotic world he depicts is one of casual pickups and short-lived affairs. At the same time, he refused to pretend that his memories of moments of sensual pleasure are unhappy or spoiled by feelings of guilt.”

1870, UK – Thomas Ernest Boulton (Feb. 2, 1848-Dec. 1904) and Frederick William Park (1849-?) were Stella and Fanny to their friends. They were drag queens who were arrested the night after a performance and charged “with conspiring and inciting persons to commit an unnatural offence”. They appear in court in women’s clothing. After the prosecution failed to establish that they had anal sex, which was then a crime, or that wearing women’s clothing was in any sense a crime, both men were acquitted.

04-29-1897 – 02-16-1944 Mainie (Mary Harriet) Jellett – Born in Dublin, Ireland. She had her first painting lessons when she was 11 and attended classes given by Elizabeth Yeats, daughter of the artist J.B. Yeats and sister of the poet W.B. Yeats. She studied for three years under William Orpen at the Dublin Metropolitan Art School and in January 1917 went to London to study with Walter Sickert at the Westminster Art School. It was there that Jellett met Evie Hone. They became spiritual and emotional partners. In 1921, she and Jellett moved to Paris. At the end of the year, they returned to Dublin and for the next 10 years, they spent part of the year in Paris. The artists had a joint exhibition in 1924. The women worked closely together for the next two decades. Both their works were shown at the 1928 Olympic Games. In 1923, Jellett exhibited two cubist paintings at the Dublin Painters’ Exhibition, including her painting titled Decoration. Her paintings were derided by the press at the time. Decoration now holds a place of honor in the National Gallery of Ireland. Carolyn Gage (b. 01-01-1952) wrote a play about the meeting and their relationship, entitled Female Nude Seated.

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.

04-29-1930 – 01-01-2022 Jim Toy – Born in New York City, New York. He was a Chinese-American LGBT activist and educator. Considered a pioneer among LGBT activist in Michigan. Jim

Toy identified as being gay during his speech at an anti-Vietnam-War rally in Kennedy Square, Detroit, in April 1970. At the rally Toy was representing the Detroit Gay Liberation Movement, of which he was a founding member. In 1971 Bishop Richard Emrich of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan appointed Jim a founding member of the Diocesan Commission on Homosexuality. The group published a Report & Recommendations of the Commission on Homosexuality (1973), one of the earliest church documents in this country to support the concerns of gay and lesbian people. His archives are housed in the James Toy Collection at the University of Michigan’s Bentley Historical Library. He was a founding member of the Ann Arbor Gay Liberation Front. In 1971 he helped establish the Human Sexuality Office (HSO) at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (later renamed The Spectrum Center). The HSO was the first staff office in a United States institution of higher learning, and presumably the first of its kind in the world, to respond to sexual-orientation concerns. Jim served as its Co-Coordinator, and Gay Male advocate, from 1971 until 1994 when Dr. Ronni Sanlo became the director of that center. In 2010, a LGBT research group in Ann Arbor has its center named after him.

04-29-1933 – 01-29-2015 Rod McKuen – Born in Oakland, California. He was an American poet, singer/songwriter, and actor. In the late 1960s, he was one of the best selling poets in the U.S., earning two Academy Award nominations and one Pulitzer nomination for his music

compositions. McKuen was instrumental in bringing the Belgian songwriter, Jacques Brel, to prominence. He translated Brel’s work into English, which led to the song, If You Go Away. McKuen’s songs sold over 100 million recording worldwide, and 60 million books of his poetry sold as well. McKuen refused to identify as gay, straight, or bisexual. He was active in the LGBT rights movement, and as early as the 1950s, was a key member of the San Francisco chapter of the Mattachine Society. He often gave benefit performances to help LGBT rights organizations and to fund AIDS research. McKuen lived in Beverly Hills, California with his partner Edward and four cats. He died of respiratory arrest in 2015.

His “new age” songs made him a celebrity in the late 60s. He told an interviewer “I have had sex with men. Does that make me gay?”

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

04-29-1947 – 11-09-2008 Hank Wilson – Born in Sacramento, California. He was a longtime San Francisco LGBT rights activist and long term AIDS activist and survivor. The Bay Area Reporter noted that “over more than 30 years, he played a

pivotal role in San Francisco’s LGBT history,” He co-founded many organizations, including the Gay Teachers Coalition; the Butterfly Brigade, which became the Castro Street Safety Patrol; and San Francisco Gay Democratic Club, which became the Harvey Milk LGBT Club. In 1977 he was a leader in defeating the Briggs Initiative that would have banned any gay person from teaching in California. Wilson died of lung cancer in 2008.

04-29-1948 Ann Northrop – She is a journalist and gay activist. She is the current co-host of TV news program Gay USA. She came out when she was about 28 and working for Ms. magazine. In 1988 she became involved with ACT UP/New York. She was involved in demonstrations and was arrested about 24 times for civil disobedience.

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

04-29-1955 Leslie Allen Jordan – Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He is an American actor and playwright. Autobiographical one man show, My Trip Down The Pink Carpet was produced by Jordan’s friend Lily Tomlin. Jordan is an accomplished stage actor and playwright.

In one of his best-known performances onstage, he played “Brother Boy” in Sordid Lives, a role he took to the big screen in the popular cult film of the same name. He reprised the role in Sordid Lives: The Series, a televised spin-off of the movie airing on Logo. Jordan has recently starred in the pilot episode of Laugh Out, the world’s first interactive, gay-themed comedy show. In January 2015, he guest starred in the hit British sitcom Benidorm for two episodes as the character “Buck-A-Roo”. Early on in the AIDS crisis, Jordan became involved in AIDS Project Los Angeles as a buddy and as a food delivery person for Project Angel Food. He has been an out gay actor since 1982.

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

1963

Lesley Gore released the single “It’s My Party”.

04-29-1966 Michael Alig – Born in South Bend, Indiana. He is an American former club promoter, musician, and writer who served almost seventeen years in prison for manslaughter. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter after killing fellow Club Kid Andre “Angel” Melendez in a confrontation over a drug debt in March 1996. Alig was a prominent member of the Club Kids,

a group of young New York City club goers that became a cultural phenomenon during the late 1980s and early 1990s. He was released on parole in May 2014. In school, Alig was a straight A student and graduated in the top 8% of his class. During his teenage years, Alig was often the subject of bullying because he was gay. In October 2015 it was announced that Alig was cast in the horror film Family Possessions, which started shooting in March 2016.

1967

Aretha Franklin remained atop the R&B chart for a sixth week with “I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)”.

Aretha Franklin releases “Respect”, a song that will become her signature tune and go on to win two Grammy Awards in 1968 for Best Rhythm & Blues Recording and Best Rhythm & Blues Solo Vocal Performance, Female.

04-29-1967 Rachel Williams – Born in New York City, New York. She is an

American model, TV presenter, and landscape designer. She has appeared in the British and Italian issues of Vogue and advertisements for Calvin Klein and Victoria’s Secret. In March 1994, Williams’ manager publicly announced her relationship with British pop singer Alice Temple. Rachel has no problem with the fact she’s with Alice. “I never thought to hide it. I’ve had flings with women before, though my long-term relationships have always been with men. I was pleasantly surprised when I fell for Alice.”

April 29, 1968

The original Broadway production of the musical “Hair,” starring Diane Keaton, Melba Moore, Lynn Kellogg, and Ronnie Dyson, opened at New York’s Biltmore Theatre for 1,750 performances.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

1978, Canada – Homophobic singer Anita Bryant’s visit to Edmonton prompts demonstrations.

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

1983

Querelle-Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s last film, based on a novel by Jean Genet-opens in New York City. Starring Brad Davis and Jeanne Moreau, the film is almost universally panned by critics.

The Hunger – USA film release date of the British horror film directed by Tony Scott, and starring Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie and Susan Sarandon. It’s the story of a love triangle between a doctor who specializes in sleep and aging research and a vampire couple. Susan Sarandon said that the screenplay for The Hunger originally called for her to be drunk in the lead-up to her sex scene with Catherine Deneuve, but she asked for it to be changed so that her character had only a sip of wine and then spilled the rest of the glass.

She said that she wanted to make it clear that her character was choosing to have sex with Miriam instead of doing it because of being drunk, and also because “you wouldn’t have to get drunk to bed Catherine Deneuve, I don’t care what your sexual history to that point had been.”

04-29-1983 Hedvig Lendahl – Born in Katrineholm, Sweden. She is a professional football/soccer goalkeeper for Chelsea Ladies. She previously played club football in Sweden

for Damallsvenskan clubs. She has kept goal for Sweden at the UEFA Women’s Championship, the FIFA Women’s World Cup, and the Olympic Games. She was the Swedish women’s goalkeeper of the year in 2004, 2005, 2009 and 2014. She is an out lesbian and married Sabine Willms in 2011.

1989

Madonna had the #1 song with “Like A Prayer”, # 5 Deon Estus (with George Michael) with “Heaven Help Me”, and Cher & Sun Valley, Idaho’s Peter Cetera jumped from 15-9 with “After All”

At the Dollywood theme park in Tennessee, Porter Wagonerjoined Dolly Parton on stage for the first of four sold-out shows, marking the first time they had performed together since their split in 1976.

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

1993, Russia – Homosexual acts between consenting adult males are legalized. Yeltsin signs the law so that Russia might obtain a place in the Council of Europe, a human rights organization.

1997 – The State of Hawaii creates a “domestic partners registry.”

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

2008

The Madonna album “Hard Candy” was released in the U.S.

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

2011: The United States Department of Labor updates its internal equal employment opportunity policy to bar discrimination on the basis of gender identity.

LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes: and failed to consider protected rights of women and sexual orientation – rather than creating more protection from Heterosexual Males.

04-29-2013 History is made. NBA center, Jason Collins becomes the first male professional athlete to come out.

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Today in LGBT History – APRIL 29 | Ronni Sanlo https://ronnisanlo.com › today-in-lgbt-history-april-29-2Apr 29, 2019 — 1930 – Jim Toy (born April 29, 1930) is born. He is a long-time LGBTactivist, considered a pioneer among LGBT activists in Michigan.Jim …

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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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music and movie information from my previous blog

from my original blog:

Books: Elvis My Best Man by George Klein and Genuine Elvis by Ronnie McDowel

see also:

However:

Was There A Dark Side to Elvis and Gladys?

It is important to note that the majority of sexual predators and murderers are males who victimize: pick the most inclusive or the most diverse statement of victim categories:

A) women and other men

B) men and women

C) heterosexual men, heterosexual women and LGBTQ2

D) heterosexual men, heterosexual women, gay/bisexual men, bisexual women, lesbians and NB/Transpersons

Extra Credit:

now factor in how to phrase that sentence and include 1 ethnicity 2 disability – physical of body and/or of the brain and persons without religion/spirituality

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 Her/History for April 28

BCE to The Suffragettes

04-28-1926 – 02-19-2016 (Nelle) Harper Lee – Born in Monroeville, Alabama. She is the author of the 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which became a best seller and won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize. Her book was made into an Academy Award film in 1962, staring Gregory Peck. Lee was known to be a tomboy and is depicted as such in the film as Scout. It has

long been rumored that she was gay but it has never been affirmed. Journalist Marja Mills of the Chicago Tribune was sent to interview Lee and her sister Alice in 2001. Mills described Nelle Harper Lee as inquisitive, spontaneous, easy to laugh, and moody. Mills revealed that Lee is a rabid sports fan who watches baseball, golf, and football. Why didn’t Lee marry? Mills lets Lee’s close friend Tom Butts, a Methodist minister, answer this question: “Scout was a tomboy, and so was she, and she kind of kept that almost masculine way about her

as an adult…I don’t think I’ve ever seen her wear a piece of jewelry as long as I’ve known her except something simple for appearance. She doesn’t wear makeup, hardly. You know how she dresses. Always pants and kind of baggy clothes sometime.” Mills never asked Lee if she was gay because she was afraid that Lee would stop talking to her. Lee was also friends, since childhood, with Truman Capote (he was also depicted in the film as the charcter Dill). Maybe we’ll never know for sure if Harper Lee was a lesbian, but now that she has passed maybe the truth will come out.

1929 – Gay journalist John Paul Hudson (April 28, 1929 – February 20, 2002) is born. Hudson is one of the first gay writers to take up gay rights and become involved in the media. He wrote also under the pseudonym John Francis Hunter. He wrote for the periodical Gay in 1969, the Advocate in 1970 and contributed to David, Gaysweek, News West, Flash and Vector. A tireless activist, he is credited with being one of the founders of the gay rights movement that grew out of the Stonewall riots and was one of the principal organizers of the Christopher Street Liberation Day (CSLD) committee, which put together the first GLBT Pride March in 1970 on the first anniversary of Stonewall. He died in 2002.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

04-28-1940 – 12-30-2020 Lois Sasson – Born in Brooklyn, New York. She was a jewelry designer, gay rights activist, and life partner of Lesley Gore. Her jewelry designs were featured in New York Magazine in the 1970s.

Sasson created high-end jewelry where it sold in luxury department stores such as Bergdorf Goodman. She also had some of her work on display in art galleries. By 2015 she was well known and on Valentine’s Day that year a set of men’s jewelry called “The Ambassador Set” was sold for $16,000. Sasson lived with Lesley Gore, whom she started dating in the mid-1980s, for 33 years, until Gore’s death in 2015. On December 30, 2020, Sasson died of COVID-19.

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

1954, UK – The Home Office announces that a special committee, later called the Wolfenden Committee, will be formed to study the issue of sex law reform. The Report of the Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution (better known as the Wolfenden report, after Sir John Wolfenden (26 June 1906 – 18 January 1985), the chair of the committee, was published in the United Kingdom on 4 September 1957 after a succession of well-known men, including Lord Montagu of Beaulieu (20 October 1926 – 31 August 2015), Michael Pitt-Rivers (27 May 1917 – December 1999), and Peter Wildeblood (19 May 1923 – 14 November 1999) were convicted of homosexual offences.

April 28, 1956

Little Richard earned a third week at #1 on the R&B chart with “Long Tall Sally”.

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

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April 28, 1964

At Wembley studios in England, The Beatles filmed the television special “Around the Beatles.” In addition to performing their hit songs, they played Act V Scene 1 of William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Nights Dream.” John was cast in the female role of Thisbe, Paul was Pyramus, George played Moonshine, and Ringo was Lion. Paul later named his cat Thisbe.

April 28, 1965

Barbara Streisand‘s first TV special aired on CBS. It was titled “My Name is Barbara”.

1968

The Broadway musical ‘Hair’ opened at the Biltmore Theatre in New York City. The show featured the songs ‘Aquarius / Let the Sunshine In’, ‘Good Morning Starshine’ and the title song. The production ran for 1,729 performances, finally closing on July 1st, 1972.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

1973

the Soundtrack to “Lady Sings the Blues” by Diana Ross falling to #8 USA LP chart

April 28, 1974

Olivia Newton-John released the single that would jump-start her career–“I Honestly Love You”.

1977,

Canada – Ontario MPP Margaret Campbell’s private member’s bill to include sexual orientation in Ontario Human Rights Code, introduced April 4th, fails in legislature.

USA – Florida Governor Reubin Askew asks Miami voters to rescind a recently passed gay rights ordinance saying, “I would not want a known homosexual teaching my children.” Askew was an ally of Florida Orange Juice spokesperson Anita Bryant who conducted an anti-gay crusade. He signed legislation prohibiting any gay or lesbians in Florida from adopting children.

1978:

Dolly Parton’s “Here You Come Again” album was certified Platinum.

Following the recent gay rights defeat in Dade County, Florida,voters in St. Paul, Minnesota, vote to repeal their four year-old gay rights ordinance by a margin of 2 to 1.

04-28-1979 Scott Fujita – Born in Camarillo, California. He is a former American NFL linebacker. He retired on April 22, 2013. Despite having a

Japanese last name, Scott is not biologically Japanese. He was adopted as an infant by Rodney Fujita who is a third-generation Japanese-American, and his wife, Helen, who is Caucasian. Scott is married with three children. He is politically liberal and has gone on record as a supporter of women’s rights and gay rights, as well as an advocate for adoption, wetlands preservation, and other causes; he was named the New Orleans Saints “Man of the Year” in 2009 for his charitable activities.

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

1980

Elton John released the single “Little Jeannie”.

1981: Former Beverly Hills hairdresser Marilyn Barnett files a multimillion-dollar “palimony” suit against tennis pro Billie Jean King, claiming the two had a lesbian relationship for seven years and that she is therefore entitled to the tennis star’s Malibu beach house as well as half of King’s earnings from the period when they were together. Although King at first dismisses Barnett’s claims as “untrue and unfounded,” she later holds a press conference to acknowledge the relationship. But, she adds, she is not a lesbian.

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1982

The California State Assembly consumer protection committee heard testimony from so-called experts who complained about playing the Led Zeppelin recording of “Stairway To Heaven” backwards. The “Back Masking” rock n roll scare was back on and video games replaced Comic Books from the 1930s to 50 scare and dungeons n dragons from the 1970s.

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

1990:

Sinead O’Connor remained at #1 with “Nothing Compares 2 (sic) U (sic)”.

In its first major public action, about five hundred members of the newly formed group Queer Nation march in Greenwich Village to protest a pipe-bomb attack, which left three people injured, on a local gay bar the night before.

Queer Nation, founded by AIDS activists from ACT UP, mobilized over 1000 protesters in a matter of hours outside Uncle Charlie’s Downtown in NYC responding to a pipe bombing. The explosion occurred at about 12:10 A.M, injuring three men in the very popular Greenwich Village gay bar. The protestors marched their way to the NYPD’s 6th Precinct, blocking traffic. Five years later, in 1995, it was discovered that terrorist El Sayyid Nosair who was convicted of involvement in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing was responsible for the pipe bomb attack

1994

Lisa Marie Presley announced her separation from first husband Danny Keough after 5½ years of marriage and two children. The divorce became final eight days later. Lisa Marie would soon be married to Michael Jackson.

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

2000: The Millennium March on Washington takes place in Washington, DC. The event lasts for three days.

2002: Homosexuality is decriminalized in the People’s Republic of China, as the newly amended Marriage Law avoids this topic.

2003

The iTunes Music Store with over 200,000 items to purchase.

2004

George Michael was named as the most-played artist on British radio over the previous two decades.

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

2015 – The US Supreme Court hears oral arguments on the question of the freedom to marry in Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio and Michigan. The decision may bring a national resolution on the issue of same-sex marriage.

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people link events link

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.

~~~~

music and movie information from my previous blog

from my original blog:

Books: Elvis My Best Man by George Klein and Genuine Elvis by Ronnie McDowel

see also:

However:

Was There A Dark Side to Elvis and Gladys?

It is important to note that the majority of sexual predators and murderers are males who victimize: pick the most inclusive or the most diverse statement of victim categories:

A) women and other men

B) men and women

C) heterosexual men, heterosexual women and LGBTQ2

D) heterosexual men, heterosexual women, gay/bisexual men, bisexual women, lesbians and NB/Transpersons

Extra Credit:

now factor in how to phrase that sentence and include 1 ethnicity 2 disability – physical of body and/or of the brain and persons without religion/spirituality

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 her/history for April 27

BCE to The Suffragettes

04-27-1759 – 09-10-1797 Mary Wollstonecraft – Born in Spitalfields, United Kingdom. She was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate for women’s rights. She is best

known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), in which she argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, but appear to be only because they lack education. She suggests that both men and women should be treated as rational beings and imagines a social order founded on reason. She also wrote Mary, A Fiction, which is the earliest example of a novel about a lesbian relationship written by a woman. It is the story of a woman who marries a man she does not love and with whom she does not have sex. When he leaves on an extended voyage, her girlfriend Ann moves in. “Mary” may be based on the author’s close and passionate relationship with a woman named Fanny Blood. Wollstonecraft was bisexual and married. Her daughter, also named Mary, married poet Percy Shelley and wrote Frankenstein.

1911 – Jack Cole (April 27, 1911– February 17, 1974) was an American dancer, choreographer, and theatre director known as the founder of the idiom of American show dancing called Theatrical Jazz Dance.If not for Cole, many now-immortal stage and screen actresses probably would not be remembered as dancers today. Cole’s choreography in the “Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend” sequence in the film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was reinterpreted by Madonna for her music video of “Material Girl”.

04-27-1917 – 11-15-2002 Mary Meigs – Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was an American painter and writer. She studied at Bryn Mawr College, graduating in 1939, and later

taught English literature and creative writing at that school. She served in the United States Navy’s WAVES during WWII. Her first painting exhibit was in New York in 1950. Openly lesbian, Meigs met author Barbara Deming in 1954. In 1963, Meigs met Marie-Claire Blais, a writer from Quebec, who became romantically involved with Meigs and Deming. The three women lived together for six year. Meigs and Deming parted and in 1972, Meigs and Blais moved to Canada, where she lived the remainder of her life. In the 1970s, Meigs turned to writing. In addition to her writing, she became a prominent spokesperson in Canada for lesbians, feminists, and seniors’ issues.

04-27-1927 – 01-30-2006 Coretta Scott King – Born in Heiberger, Alabama. She was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader. Married to Martin Luther King, Jr., she played a prominent role in the years after her husband’s 1968 assassination when she took on the leadership

of the struggle for racial equality, became active in the Women’s Movement, and LGBT rights movement. She was an early supporter in the struggle for lesbian and gay civil rights. In August 1983, in Washington, D.C., she urged the amendment of the Civil Rights Act to include gays and lesbians as a Protected Class. On April 1, 1998, at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, Mrs. King called on the civil rights community to join in the struggle against homophobia and anti-gay bias. “Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and the forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity, and personhood”, she stated. “This sets the stage for further repression and violence that spreads all too easily to victimize the next minority group.” Coretta Scott King’s support of LGBT rights was strongly criticized by some black pastors. She called her critics “misinformed” and said that Martin Luther King’s message to the world was one of equality and inclusion.

04-27-1937 – 03-02-1992 Sandy Dennis – Born in Hastings, Nebraska. She was an American stage and film actress. In the 1960s she won two Tony Awards, as well as an Oscar for her performance in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. She was also

in the films The Fox (1967), That Cold Day in the Park (1969) and Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982). In 1968 she was voted the 18th biggest star in the US. Dennis has been identified as a lesbian by a number of Hollywood historians. According to Dennis’ biographers, Peter Shelley and Eric Roberts, upon being asked if Dennis was bisexual, they spoke of her telling them about her many lesbian relationships and said that she, “appreciated the beauty of women. But Sandy also liked and appreciated what a very, very young man could do to a woman”.

04-27-1939 – 09-03-2015 Judy Carne – Born in Northampton, England. She was an

English actress best remembered for the phrase “Sock it to me!” on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In. She also appeared in many other television shows, including The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Bonanza, The Big Valley and I Dream of Jeannie. She was married to Burt Reynolds from 1963 to 1965 and to producer Robert Bergman from 1970 to 1971. Carne was addicted to heroin. Her autobiography, Laughing on the Outside, Crying on the Inside: The Bittersweet Saga of the Sock-It-To-Me Girl (1985) tells of her difficulties with drugs, her failed marriage to Reynolds, and her bisexuality. She died of pneumonia on September 3, 2015 in England.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

04-27-1948 Kate Pierson – Born in Weehawken, New Jersey. She is an American vocalist, lyricist, and one of the founding members of the B-52’s. A multi-instrumentalist, she played

guitar, bass, and various keyboard instruments. In February 2015, Pierson released her first solo album, Guitars and Microphones, featuring material co-written by Sia Furler. She and her partner, Monica Coleman, own two hotels, Kate’s Lazy Desert in Landers, California and Kate’s Lazy Meadow in Mount Tremper, New York. The couple have been together since 2003.

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

1951,

Mexico– Luis Zapata (born April 27, 1951), Mexico’s most productive and successful gay writer, is born. In his best-known work, Las aventuras, desaventuras y sueños de Adonis García, el vampiro de la colonia Roma(1979; Adonis García: A Picaresque Novel), he chronicled the lives of urban homosexuals.

1953:

President Dwight Eisenhower signs Executive Order 10450, banning homosexuals from working for the federal government or any of its private contractors. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs Executive Order 10450 which establishes grounds for investigation and dismissal: “Any criminal, infamous, dishonest, immoral, or notoriously disgraceful conduct, habitual use of intoxicants to excess, drug addiction, or sexual perversion.” Without explicitly referring to homosexuality, the executive order responded to several years of charges that the presence of homosexual employees in the State Department posed blackmail risks. As a result, more than 640 federal employees lose their jobs over the next year and a half.

April 27, 1957

Little Richard took over at #1 on the R&B chart with his classic “Lucille”.

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

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

April 27, 1970

Elton John released his first single–“Border Song”.

1972:

Testifying before Congress, J. Edgar Hoover assures the House Appropriations Committee that there are no gay activists in the Bureau, saying “We don’t allow any types of activists in the FBI, gay or otherwise. I ask not for average personnel but for those above average in character, education, and personal appearance.”

April 27, 1976

Olivia Newton-John’s “Come On Over” album was certified Gold.

David Bowie was detained at the border between Poland and Russia while customs officials confiscated some Nazi memorabilia he had collected. Bowie claimed that the material was being used for research on a movie project about Nazi propaganda leader Joseph Paul Goebbels.

1978, Canada – John Argue, a swimming instructor with Toronto Board of Education, is fired from his job at public school because he is gay. Argue, a gay activist later becomes active in Metro Toronto New Democratic Party.

Rachel Morrison (born April 27, 1978) is an American cinematographer. For her work on Mudbound (2017), Morrison earned a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography, making her the first woman ever – and thus the first lesbian- nominated in that category. She has twice worked with director Ryan Coogler, first on Fruitvale Station (2013) then on Black Panther (2018) Her work on Mudbound earned her a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography, making her the first woman and lesbian ever recognized in the category. Also for her work on Mudbound, she became the first woman to win the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Cinematographer, and the first woman to be nominated for the feature category or the American Society of Cinematographers Outstanding Achievement Awards. She was also the cinematographer for Marcel’s Black Panther. Morrison has a wife and a son.

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

1980

Three years and a day after opening its doors, New York’s legendary Studio 54 was closed for liquor license violations. Several months earlier, owners Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager were jailed for tax evasion. The club would reopened under new management in 1981.

1985

U.S.A. for Africa remained at #1 with “We Are The World”, a third week at the top for the humanitarian project. Madonna was patient at #2 with “Crazy For You” #6 Murray Head was back with “One Night In Bangkok”,

04-27-1987 Alexandra Lacrabere – Born in Pau, Pyrenees-Atlantiques, France. In 2012 she was an Olympic Athlete who

played handball for the French national team. She participated at the 2008 Summer Olympics in China, where the French team placed fifth, and in the 2011 World Women’s Handball Championship where the French team placed second. She is an out lesbian.

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

1993

Aretha Franklin’s first TV special was taped at New York’s Nederlander Theater and featured duets with Bonnie Raitt on “Since You’ve Been Gone,” and “Natural Woman” with Raitt and Gloria Estefan. Also performing were Smokey Robinson (singing a duet with Aretha on “Just to See Her”) and Elton John.

1994:

The Interim Constitution of South Africa comes into force, including a clause explicitly prohibiting discrimination (both government and private) on the basis of sexual orientation. A subsequent court decision in 1998 will establish that the crime of sodomy was legally invalid from this date.

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

2003

Madonna went to No.1 on the UK album chart with ‘American Life’, the singers eighth No.1 album. Also a US No.1 album.

2004

Elton John publicly responded to the home audience rejection of Jennifer Hudson on TV’s “American Idol,” declaring the call-in voters “incredibly racist.”

The Recording Industry Association of America filed 477 more lawsuits against accused file sharers. Sixty-nine of the accused had allegedly been using university networks to distribute music through peer-to-peer services.

2005

U.S. President George Bush signed a law that allowed for up to three years in prison for anyone that pirated music or films on the Internet.

2008

Vanity Fair caused a stir when it published a photo of a supposedly topless 15-year-old Miley Cyrus holding a sheet against her chest. Cyrus was quoted in a statement as saying she was “embarrassed” by the photo. “I apologize to my fans,” she said. But, 10 years later, Cyrus tweeted about the scandal: “IM NOT SORRY.”

2009 – Iowa becomes the third state to allow same-sex marriage.

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

04-27-2014 Japan’s First Lady Akie Abe joins the third annual gay parade in Tokyo to show her support for sexual minorities. After the parade, Abe wrote on her Facebook page later that she has also been involved in LGBT awareness efforts since she joined the commission set up by UNAIDS and the Lancet medical journal in 2013. “I want to help build a society where anyone can conduct happy, enriched lives without facing discrimination,” she wrote.

Japan's First Lady Akie Abe Tokyo gay parade

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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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music and movie information from my previous blog

from my original blog:

Books: Elvis My Best Man by George Klein and Genuine Elvis by Ronnie McDowel

see also:

However:

Was There A Dark Side to Elvis and Gladys?

It is important to note that the majority of sexual predators and murderers are males who victimize: pick the most inclusive or the most diverse statement of victim categories:

A) women and other men

B) men and women

C) heterosexual men, heterosexual women and LGBTQ2

D) heterosexual men, heterosexual women, gay/bisexual men, bisexual women, lesbians and NB/Transpersons

Extra Credit:

now factor in how to phrase that sentence and include 1 ethnicity 2 disability – physical of body and/or of the brain and persons without religion/spirituality

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 his/herstory April 26

BCE to The Suffragettes

04-26-1564 (baptized) – 04-23-1616 William Shakespeare – Born in Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom. English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist.

His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. The sexuality of Shakespeare has been the subject of recurring debate. It is known from public records that he married Anne Hathaway and they had three children. Scholars have also speculated that he was bisexual, based on an analysis of the sonnets, many of which, including Sonnet 18 “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day”, are love poems addressed to a man, the “Fair Lord,” and which contain play on words relating to sexual desire between men.

He is often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon”. The debate rages as to whether or not he was gay. It will likely never be resolved. The word drag is a stage direction coined by Shakespeare and his contemporaries meaning ‘Dressed Resembling A Girl’.

04-26-1886 – 12-22-1939 “Ma” Rainey (born Gertrude Pridgett) – Born in Columbus, Georgia. She was one of the earliest known American professional blues singers and one of the first blues singers to record. She was billed as The Mother of the Blues.

Rainey was in trouble with the police several times for her lesbian behavior. In 1925, she was arrested for taking part in an orgy at her home involving women in the chorus. Bessie Smith bailed her out of jail. Her album Prove it on Me Blues, a monologue about women who love women, showed Rainey in a hat, tie, and jacket talking to some flappers with a policeman behind her. The copy reads “What’s all this? Scandal? “ Take a look at the words, the song goes: “Went out last night a crowd of my friends. They must’ve been women, cause I don’t like no men… They say I do it, ain’t nobody caught me, They sure got to prove it to me…”

The political activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis noted that “‘Prove It on Me’ is a cultural precursor to the lesbian cultural movement of the 1970s, which began to crystallize around the performance and recording of lesbian-affirming songs.”

04-26-1892 – 06-19-1955 Adrienne Monnier – Born in Paris, France. She was a French bookseller, writer, and publisher, and an influential figure in the modernist writing

scene in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1915 when she opened her bookshop called “La Maison des Amis des Livres”, Monnier was one of the first women in France to found her own bookstore. Monnier offered advice and encouragement to Sylvia Beach when Beach founded an English language bookstore called Shakespeare and Company in 1919. She was lovers with Sylvia Beach for 36 years.

1895, UK – Author Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) is prosecuted in Regina v. Wilde. Wilde pleads not guilty to charges of sodomy and gross indecency. On the stand, he says of homosexuality, “It is beautiful. It is fine. It is the noblest of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it.”

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

1944 – Violette Morris (18 April 1893 – 26 April 1944) is killed. She was a French athlete who won two gold and one silver medals at the Women’s World Games in 1921–1922. In 1936, she became a spy for Nazi Germany, which continued during World War II. She was killed in 1944 in a Resistance-led ambush as a traitor to France. Morris had been banned from the 1928 Olympics for her lesbianism.

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

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

April 26, 1966

Dusty Springfield was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me’, the singers only UK No.1. When recording the track, Springfield was not satisfied with her vocal until she had recorded forty-seven takes.

1967

16 year old Janis Ian sings “Society Child” on the CBS-TV show, Inside Pop – The Rock Revolution. A year before, the song was banned by many radio stations because of its interracial love affair theme. Following her television appearance, the record shot into the US Top Twenty.

1969

The Original Cast of Hair started a 13-week run at number one on the album chart.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

1970 –

The first known print use of the term Transgender appears in The V Guide describing author Gore Vidal’s (October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) “Myra Breckenridge.

The original Broadway production of the Stephen Sondheim musical “Company,” starring Elaine Stritch, Barbara Barrie, Dean Jones, Donna McKechnie, Charles Kimbrough, and Beth Howland, opened at New York’s Alvin Theatre for 705 performances.

April 26, 1974

Queen appeared at the Orpheum Theater in Boston.

1976

David Bowie performed at Kungliga Tennishallen, Stockholm, Sweden.

April 26, 1977

In New York City, the disco boom really got rolling with the opening of Steve Rubell’s new ultra-exclusive club, Studio 54. Among the guests invited to opening night: Mick Jagger and wife Bianca, Cher, Donald and Ivana Trump, Debbie Harry, Halston, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Liza Minnelli, Salvador Dali, Martha Graham, Brooke Shields, Margaux Hemingway, Jerry Hall, and Robin Leach.

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

1980:

CBS broadcasts an hour-long documentary entitled “Gay Power, Gay Politics” that alleges to be about the emergence of gay political clout in San Francisco, but instead focuses obsessively on more lascivious aspects of gay sexuality, making them seem like the focus of the entire gay rights movement. In one segment, close-ups track the arrival of drag queens at the city’s Beaux Arts Ball while voice-over narration compares modern-day San Francisco to the decadence of 1930s Berlin. The program outrages the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, which sends an angry letter of protest to CBS. Later, reacting to a complaint from the National Gay Task Force, the National News Council rules that CBS did indeed unfairly “exaggerate political concessions to gays and make those concessions appear as threats to public morals and decency…. Justification cannot be found for the degree of attention given to sadomasochism or the treatment of the Beaux Arts Ball and the Halloween sequences.” The network is also faulted for doctoring the show’s soundtrack in such a way as to bolster its conclusions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Power,_Gay_Politics

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

1994: The United States Coast Guard makes public a memo issued by Commandant Thomas Fisher barring anti-gay discrimination against the service’s civilian employees. Uniformed personnel are still subject to discharge under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”

1999

Geffen Records and Bong Load Custom Records filed suit against Beck in Los Angeles, CA.

Sinead O’Connor was ordained as the first woman priest in the Latin Tridentine Church.

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

2000: Vermont becomes the first state in the U.S. to legalize civil unions and registered partnerships between same-sex couples.

2005: Civil unions begin in New Zealand.

2007: The legislature of New Hampshire passes legislation for civil unions, which give same-sex couples many state rights of marriage.

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

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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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music and movie information from my previous blog

from my original blog:

Books: Elvis My Best Man by George Klein and Genuine Elvis by Ronnie McDowel

see also:

https://guides.ll.georgetown.edu › c.php

However:

Was There A Dark Side to Elvis and Gladys?

It is important to note that the majority of sexual predators and murderers are males who victimize: pick the most inclusive or the most diverse statement of victim categories:

A) women and other men

B) men and women

C) heterosexual men, heterosexual women and LGBTQ2

D) heterosexual men, heterosexual women, gay/bisexual men, bisexual women, lesbians and NB/Transpersons

Extra Credit:

now factor in how to phrase that sentence and include 1 ethnicity 2 disability – physical of body and/or of the brain and persons without religion/spirituality

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 history/herstory April 25

BCE to The Suffragettes

1284, UK – King Edward II (25 April 1284 – 21 September 1327) is born in Caernavon, Wales. Also called Edward of Caernarfon, he was King of England from 1307 until he was deposed in January 1327. In 1308, he married Isabella of France, the daughter of the powerful King Philip IV, as part of a long-running effort to resolve tensions between the English and French crowns. Edward had a close and controversial relationship with Piers Gaveston, who had joined his household in 1300. The precise nature of Edward and Gaveston’s relationship is uncertain; they may have been lovers or friends. The contemporary evidence supporting their homosexual relationship comes primarily from an anonymous chronicler in the 1320s who described how Edward “felt such love” for Galveston that “he entered into a covenant of constancy, and bound himself with him before all other mortals with a bond of indissoluble love, firmly drawn up and fastened with a knot.” The first specific suggestion that Edward engaged in sex with men was recorded in 1334, when Adam Orieton, the Bishop of Winchester, was accused of having stated in 1326 that Edward was a “sodomite”. The Meaux Chronicle from the 1390s simply notes that Edward gave himself “too much to the vice of sodomy”.

He was King of England from 1307 until he was deposed in January 1327.Ancient Christianity had tolerated homosexuality but by the mid 13th century life was harder on gays and Edward was made an example. His first lover, Piers Gaveston (c. 1284 – 19 June 1312),was murdered by courtiers. His second affair, with Hugh le Despenser (c. 1286 – 24 November 1326), ended with the Baron’s arrest and imprisonment. Le Despenser had his genitals cut off and burned in front of him and then was beheaded. Edward was murdered by having a red-hot poker inserted in his anus.

04-25-1886 — 02-06-1959 Cora (Concordia) Antarova – Born in Warsaw, Poland (called Russian

Poland at the time of her birth). She was a Russian contralto who starred in the Bolshoi Theater for more than twenty years. After she retired, she wrote theosophical novels. Because she went to Theosophical Society meetings, Antarova was under constant surveillance. Stalin admired her voice, so she was never arrested. She was in a relationship with Olga Tsuberbiller, the Russian mathematician, until her death in 1959. Tsuberbiller died in 1975 and is buried next to Antarova in the Novodevichy Cemetery.

04-25-1895 – 01-09-1980 Raymond Mortimer – Born in Knightsbridge, London, United Kingdom. He is a British writer, critic, and literary editor.

During WWII he worked at the BBC and was in liaison with the Free French Forces led by Charles de Gaulle. He had a long term relationship with diplomat Harold Nicolson, husband of Vita Sackville-West.

1918, South Africa – Graham Payn (25 April 1918 – 4 November 2005) is born. He was a South AfricanEnglish actor and singer, also known for being the life partner of the playwright Noël Coward(16 December 1899 – 26 March 1973). Beginning as a boy soprano, Payn later made a career as a singer and actor in the works of Coward and others. Coward continually promoted Payn’s career. Payn received good notices for his performances but lacked the drive and star quality. Coward also eventually came to realize it, writing: “He is, I fear, a born drifter. I know his theatrical career has been a failure but there are other ploys to go after. I love him dearly and for ever, but this lack of drive in any direction is a bad augury for the future. I am willing and happy to look after him for the rest of my life, but he must do something.” After Coward died in 1973, Payn’s career for the rest of his life became the administration of the Coward estate. Barry Day, an authority on Noel Coward, wrote of Payn, “ It was not a job he ever wanted or expected but he brought to it a dedication and focus that Noel would have been surprised and pleased to see. (Photo is of Graham Payn with Mary Martin) After Coward’s death, Payn ran the Coward estate for 22 years.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

1949

An article by Deac Aylesworth in Look Magazine predicted that radio was doomed and that within three years, TV would overshadow radio completely.

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

April 24, 1955

John Walker, the British delegate on the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs announces that there is a “definite connection between increased marijuana smoking and that form of entertainment known as bebop and rebop.”

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

1961

The integrated circuit, or microchip was patented. tv, radio and music would be changed in distribution in a few short decades.

1964 – Andrew Ivan Bell (born 25 April 1964) is the lead singer of the English synth-pop duo Erasure. The duo is popular in the UK, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and in South America, especially Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Peru. Because Bell is openly gay, the band is also popular within the LGBT community. Erasure has penned over 200 songs and has sold over 25 million albums worldwide. On December 17, 2004, Bell publicly announced that he has been HIV-positive since 1998. Bell’s longtime partner, Paul M. Hickey died in April 2012 at the age of 62. In January 2013, Bell married Stephen Moss. His solo career includes the albums Non-Stop, Electric Blue, and iPop. Bell is openly gay, and had a longtime partner in Paul M. Hickey. Bell told Melody Maker in 1986, “I don’t want to go out of my way to talk about it but I’m not going to pretend I’m not [gay]. I won’t portray a heterosexual in videos and we’re consciously doing lyrics that could apply to either sex”.

1965:

An estimated 150 people participate in a sit-in when the manager of Dewey’s restaurant in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania refused service to several people he thought looked gay. Four people are arrested, including homophile rights leader Clark Polak of Philadelphia’s Janus Society. All four are convicted of disorderly conduct. Members of the society also leaflet outside the restaurant the following week and negotiate with the owners to bring an end to the denial of service.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

1977:

After former “Ronald McDonald” actor Bob Brandon publicly announces he is gay, the McDonald’s Corporation seeks an injunction forbidding him from ever dressing as the corporate clown again, or from stating or implying that “Ronald McDonald” is also a homosexual.

1978:

St. Paul, Minnesota, voters repeal a provision in the city’s human rights ordinance that protects gays and lesbians from discrimination. The ordinance is repealed by a 2-to-1 margin; 54,096 in favor of repeal, 31,694 against. Another Anita Bryant fallout.

Queen‘s single “We Are the Champions” was certified Platinum after reaching number two on the UK Singles Chart and number four on the Billboard Hot 100.

1979:

Jury selection begins in the murder trial of Harvey Milk and George Moscone killer Dan White in San Francisco. Meanwhile, published reports indicate that the city’s policemen and firefighters have contributed more than $100,000 to White’s defense fund. In a controversial verdict that led to the coining of the legal slang “Twinkie defense,” White was convicted of manslaughter rather than murder in the deaths of Milk and Moscone. White served five years of a seven-year prison sentence. Less than two years after his release, he returned to San Francisco and committed suicide.

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

04-25-1980 Sam Barnett – Born in Whitby, United Kingdom He is an English actor. He has performed on stage, film, television, and radio, and

achieved recognition for his work on the stage and film versions of The History Boys by Alan Bennett. He also appeared on the BBC comedy Twenty Twelve. In 2014, Barnett received a nomination for a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his work in Twelfth Night. He is out gay.

1985

Queen played the first of four nights at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in Australia.

1987,

Ireland – David Norris (born 31 July 1944)is the first openly gay person elected to public office. He is an Irish scholar, independent Senator and civil rights activist. Internationally, Norris is credited with having “managed, almost single-handedly, to overthrow the anti-homosexuality law which brought about the downfall of Oscar Wilde“, a feat he achieved in 1988 after a fourteen-year campaign.

Madonna went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘La Isla Bonita.’ The fifth and final single from her third studio album, True Blue, made her the only female artist to score four UK No.1 singles. The song had been offered to Michael Jackson for his Bad album.

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

1992

Wyonna’s self-titled album at #5 on the pop LP charts

1993:

An estimated 800,000 to one million people participated in the March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation. Several events such as art and history exhibits, public service outings and workshops were held throughout Washington, DC leading up the event. Jesse Jackson, RuPaul, Martina Navratilova, and Eartha Kitt were among the speakers and performers at a rally after the march. The march was a response to “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”, Amendment 2 in Colorado, and rising hate crimes and ongoing discrimination against the LGBT community.

LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina recalls seeing news coverage from the usa

1994

Not only did Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys attack a TV cameraman, but he had the poor taste of doing it at memorial services for actor River Phoenix in the previous November. Horovitz was sentenced to 200 hours of community service for the incident on this date in history.

1995 – Lawrence, Kansas passes an ordinance prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation. The law, the culmination of a 7-year struggle, is the only one of its type in the state of Kansas.

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

2003

Sinead O’Connor announced on her Web site that she was going to retire.

Singer/songwriter/pianist/civil rights activist Nina Simonewas laid to rest in Carry-Le-Rouet, France. She had lived in France since 1992, and died there on April 21.

2005:

Four same-sex couples in the Canadian province of New Brunswick ask their Court of Appeal to extend marriage rights to same-sex couples.

LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes: Canada legalized marriage equality nationally in 2003, and could have in the 1980s if the Charter of Rights Original version had been ratified.

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

2014, Pakistan – Pakistani Supreme Court rules in favor of a third gender.

2018 – Soni Wolf (1949-April 25th, 2018)of the Dykes on Bikes dies at the age of 69 from complications due to pneumonia and pulmonary disease. Soniwas a native of Rhode Island. She served as a medic in the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War, treating veterans in a Texas hospital. After she was discharged, she moved to the San Francisco Bay area in the 1970s. She lived in the Castro district and worked managing copy centers for brokerages and law firms. Wolf came to the fore when she first rode with a group of lesbians during the 1976 San Francisco’s Pride Parade. To avoid overheating their bikes, they rode in front of the parade. During the parade, someone coined the term ‘dykes on bikes’ and it stuck when The San Francisco Chronicle used it. Wolf said of the name, “It rhymes. Just kind of rolls off the tongue.” One of San Francisco’s greatest queer legends, Soni Wolf not only founded Dykes on Bikes, but also took on the U.S. Supreme Court twice in a battle over the right to trademark the group’s name. Wolf is survived by Dykes on Bikes around the world.

2022

Civil Rights in the United States, A Brief History

Feb 28, 2022 — On April 25, an estimated 800,000 to one million people participated in the March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and …

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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.

~~~~

music and movie information from my previous blog

from my original blog:

Books: Elvis My Best Man by George Klein and Genuine Elvis by Ronnie McDowel

see also:

However:

Was There A Dark Side to Elvis and Gladys?

It is important to note that the majority of sexual predators and murderers are males who victimize: pick the most inclusive or the most diverse statement of victim categories:

A) women and other men

B) men and women

C) heterosexual men, heterosexual women and LGBTQ2

D) heterosexual men, heterosexual women, gay/bisexual men, bisexual women, lesbians and NB/Transpersons

Extra Credit:

now factor in how to phrase that sentence and include 1 ethnicity 2 disability – physical of body and/or of the brain and persons without religion/spirituality

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 April 24

BCE to The Suffragettes

1801

1st performance of Joseph Haydn’s oratorio “Die Jahreszeiten” (The Seasons)

1858, UK – Dame Ethel Smyth (24 April 1858 – 8 May 1944) is born in Surrey, England. A composer, writer, and feminist, Smyth wrote seven torrid volumes of explicit memoir. In 1910, she met Emmaline Pankhurst, the founder of the British women’s suffrage movement and head of the militant and extremely well-organized Women’s Social and Political Union. Struck by Mrs. Pankhurst’s mesmerizing public speeches, Smyth pledged to give up music for two years and devote herself to the cause of votes for women. Smyth had several passionate affairs in her life, most of them with women. Smyth’s relationship with acclaimed British harpsichordist and clavichordist, Violet Gordon-Woodhouse (23 April 1872 – 9 January 1948) is depicted satirically in Roger Scruton‘s 2005 opera, Violet.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

04-24-1942 Barbra Streisand – Born in Brooklyn, New

York. She is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker. Streisand has been a long-time supporter of LGBT rights. In her ‘love letter’ to the LGBT community in Billboard, June 2o17, she said, “The first time I ever sang for a paying audience was at a gay club, The Lion, in Greenwich Village. I was 18 years old and had never been in a nightclub before. The gay community supported me from the start, and I will always be grateful. Marriage equality is the law and that deserves a toast… to all of us, because we’re all unique and beautiful in our own way and entitled to love and be loved by whomever we choose.” In 2007, she helped raise funds in an unsuccessful attempt to defeat Proposition 8 in California. Jason Gould, her son, came out to her and his father, Elliot Gould, in 1988.

1946

One-act ballet “Symphonic Variations” choreographed by Frederick Ashton with music by César Franck danced by Sandler’s Wells Ballet debuts at Covent Garden, London

04-24-1947 Astrid Roemer – Born in Paramaribo, Suriname. She is a writer and teacher that lived in the Netherlands. The Dutch language author has published novels, drama, and poetry. In May 2016, she received the P.C. Hooft Award, a Dutch language literary lifetime achievement award. Her breakthrough novel On the Madness of a Woman, written in the 1970s, examined the identity and the oppression of women, which established her as a feminist writer and made her a role model for lesbians. In 1986, in Amsterdam, she and poet Audre Lorde participated in a public discussion. When asked how important is it that black women who love other women call themselves “black lesbians”, she answered, “I do not call myself ‘lesbian’ and I do not want to be called ‘lesbian’ either. Life is too complex for us to give names not derived from us, dirty, conditioned words, to the deepest feelings within me. If I love a woman, I love that one woman, and one swallow does not make a summer.”

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

04-24-1952 Jean-Paul Gaultier – Born in Arcueil, Val-de-Marne,

France. He is a French fashion designer and was the creative director of Hermès from 2003 to 2010. Gaultier also designed some furniture for the French furniture brand Roche Bobois. In 1990 his boyfriend and partner, Francis Menuge, died of AIDS-related causes. In 2018, Gaultier staged a cabaret show that was loosely based on his life called “Fashion Freak Show” which took place at the Folies Bergere theater in Paris. He announced on January 17, 2020 that his next Paris haute couture fashion show would be his last and that he was retiring from the runway. Gaultier is openly gay.

April 24
Billboard magazine featured a headline that read: “Teenagers Demand Music with a Beat – Spur Rhythm and Blues.” It was a sign of things to come. Within a year, R&B music by both Black and White artists caught the public’s fancy.

1955: Actor and drag John Epperson, aka Lypsinka, is born in Hazlehurst, Mississippi.

April 24
Your Hit Parade, the Saturday night, Pop-music show that had been running since April 12th, 1935, has its final US radio broadcast.

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

1965

The Soundtrack to “Mary Poppins” was #1 on the Album chart for the third out of 13 weeks.

1967

Aretha Franklin released the single “Respect”.

1968

The Beatles’ record company Apple Records turned down an offer from David Bowie to sign him.

Louis Armstrong was at #1 in the UK with the single “What A Wonderful World”. At 66 years of age, it made him the oldest act ever to score a UK #1. The song stalled at #32 in the US, but Louis is also the oldest person to reach #1 on the Billboard chart, a feat he accomplished in 1964 with “Hello Dolly”. Tom Jones later broke his record in 2009 as part of a charity cover of “Islands In The Stream”–he was 68 years old at the time.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

1971

Pearl remained at #1 for Janis Joplin on the Album chart.

in pop culture

1972
One of John Lennon’s most controversial singles, “Woman Is the Nigger of the World” is released in the US. The song actually reached #57 on Billboard’s Hot 100, despite virtually every radio station in the country refusing to play it. The phrase was originally uttered by Yoko Ono during a magazine interview in 1967 and John would later explain that he was making a point that women deserved higher status in society.

1976

“Come On Over”, a song written for Olivia Newton-John by the Bee Gees, topped the Adult Contemporary chart.

A Night at the Opera from Queen held down #4,

1977

Santana and Joan Baez gave a free concert for the inmates of Soledad Prison in Salinas, California.

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

1980 – San Francisco resident Ken Horne, the first AIDS case in the United States to be recognized at the time, is reported to the Center for Disease Control with Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS). He was also suffering from Cryptococcus.

1982

Vangelis’s hit song “Chariots Of Fire” gave him the #1 album in the country for a second week with his album of the same name. Joan Jett & the Blackhearts’ I Love Rock-n-Roll was #2 followed by Beauty and the Beat from the Go-Go’s.

the song charts: Joan Jett & the Blackhearts dominated the Singles chart with “I Love Rock ‘N Roll”, remaining for a sixth week at #1. The Go-Go’s challenged at 2 with “We Got The Beat, “Chariots Of Fire” by Vangelis was at 3

04-24-1987 Jeffrey Wammes – Born in Utrecht, Netherlands. He is a

Dutch gymnast and was the all around Dutch champion four times. Whammies is openly gay. In 2011, he appeared in an edition of Linda Magazine focused on gay athletes and stated, “There was already a lot of speculation whether or not I fell for boys or girls. To me it has nothing to do with sport or how I perform. But when I was asked to do this, I made it clear straight away how things were and that’s that.” He was one of 49 out LGBT athletes to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

04-24-1989 Ian Matos – Born in Muaná, Brazil. He is a diver that competed at

the 2015 World Aquatics Championships and at the 2016 Summer Olympics synchronized 3m springboard, finishing 8th. Matos was one of 49 out LGBT athletes at the 2016 Summer Olympic Games at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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

1992

The Cleveland Orchestra sued Michael Jackson and his production company for seven million dollars. The orchestra claimed Jackson used 67 seconds from its recording of Beethoven’s “Symphony Number Nine” on his “Dangerous” album without giving the orchestra credit or compensation.

David Bowie married Iman (real name Imaan Maxamed Cabdimajiid) in the beautiful town of Lausanne, Switzerland.

04-24-1992 Rafaela Silva – Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She competed in the

2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in judo. Silva won Brazil’s first gold metal. She was one of 49 out LGBT athletes at the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. (Photo courtesy of CC BY 2.0 – Agência Brasil Fotografias.

1993 – The third gay and lesbian March on Washington is prefaced by a mass wedding ceremony held outside the Internal Revenue Service building. Metropolitan Community Church founder Reverend Troy Perry (born July 27, 1940) conducts the service, joining 1,500 lesbian and gay couples in marriage. In addition, twenty thousand lesbian join in the Dyke March, organized by the Lesbian Avengers, to march on the White House in what is the largest lesbian demonstration ever.

1993

Whitney Houston was at position #4 with “I Have Nothing”

1994,

Madonna visited the San Antonio Spurs locker room to congratulate David Robinson on his 71-point performance.

Russia – Yaroslav Mogutin (born April 12, 1974), the country’s most visible openly gay journalist, makes headlines when he attempts to register his marriage to American artist Robert Filippini. The head of Moscow’s Wedding Palace No. 4 refuses his application.

04-24-1995 Kehlani (Kehlani Ashley Parrish) – Born in Oakland, California. She is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and dancer. She achieved early fame as a member of the teen group Poplyfe. In 2016, she was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best

Urban Contemporary Album for You Should Be Here. Kehlani has publicly identified as queer and pansexual. In 2018, she clarified her sexuality on Twitter, stating, “I’m queer. Not bi, not straight. I’m attracted to women, men, REALLY attracted to queer men, non-binary people, intersex people, trans people. Lil poly pansexual papa hello good morning. Does that answer your questions?” On February 22, 2019. her third commercial mixtape, While We Wait, was released by Atlantic Records and debuted at number nine on the US Billboard 200. She is vegan.

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

2003

Sinead O’Connor announced on her website that she was retiring from music and asked for her privacy.

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

2013

04-24-2013 Rhode Island’s State Senate passed gay marriage legislation by a comfortable 26-12 margin. This followed a vote by the House in January, 2013. The bill goes back to the House for a largely procedural vote. The Governor says he will sign the bill and did sign the bill on April 30, 2013. Rhode Island became the 10th state to recognize same-sex marriage. The legislation took effect on August 1, 2013.

2015 – In a televised interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer, U.S. Olympic gold medal winner Bruce Jenner (born October 28, 1949) says, “Yes, for all intents and purposes, I’m a woman.” Jenner later reveals that she is now Caitlyn Jenner and will live as a woman.

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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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music and movie information from my previous blog

Our Daily Elvis

– the April 24 duplicates April 25 and I did not correct that error/omission

from my original blog:

Books: Elvis My Best Man by George Klein and Genuine Elvis by Ronnie McDowel

see also:

However:

Was There A Dark Side to Elvis and Gladys?

It is important to note that the majority of sexual predators and murderers are males who victimize: pick the most inclusive or the most diverse statement of victim categories:

A) women and other men

B) men and women

C) heterosexual men, heterosexual women and LGBTQ2

D) heterosexual men, heterosexual women, gay/bisexual men, bisexual women, lesbians and NB/Transpersons

Extra Credit:

now factor in how to phrase that sentence and include 1 ethnicity 2 disability – physical of body and/or of the brain and persons without religion/spirituality

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 April 23

BCE to The Suffragettes

April 23, 1616

Poet/playwright William Shakespeare died at the age of 52. (Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, The Comedy of Errors, Richard III, All’s Well That Ends Well)

1791 – James Buchanan (April 23, 1791 – June 1, 1868) is born near Mercerburg, Pennsylvania. The 15th president of the United States was the only bachelor to serve in that office. His closest friend long-time live-in companion, Alabama Senator William Rufus De Vane King (April 7, 1786 – April 18, 1853) briefly served as vice president under Franklin Pierce. King referred to the relationship as a “communion”, and the two attended social functions together. Contemporaries also noted the closeness. Andrew Jackson called King “Miss Nancy” and prominent Democrat Aaron V. Brown referred to King as Buchanan’s “better half”, “wife” and “Aunt Fancy” (the last being a 19th-century euphemism for an effeminate man). Around Washington, the pair were known as the “Siamese twins,” slang at the time for gays and lesbians.

04-23-1858 – 05-08-1944 Ethel Smyth – Born in Sidcup, United Kingdom. She was an English composer and a leader of the women’s suffrage movement. Her compositions included songs, works for piano, chamber music, orchestral and concertante works, choral works, and operas.

From 1913 onwards, she began to gradually lose her hearing and managed to complete only four more major works before deafness brought her composing career to an end. However, she found a new interest in literature and, between 1919 and 1940, she published ten highly successful, mostly autobiographical, books. In recognition of her work as a composer and writer, Smyth was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1922. Smyth had several passionate affairs in her life, most of them with women. Her philosopher-friend and librettist of some of her operas, Henry Bennet Brewster, may have been her only male lover. Smyth was at one time in love with the married suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst. At the age of 71 she fell in love with writer Virginia Woolf, who, both blamed and amused, said it was “like being caught by a giant crab,” but the two became friends. Smyth’s relationship with Violet Gordon-Woodhouse is depicted satirically in Roger Scruton’s 2005 opera, Violet.

04-23-1875 – 12-06-1954 Élisabeth de Gramont (Duchess of Clermont-Tonnerre) – Born in Nancy, France. She was a French writer. Best known for her long term relationship with Natalie Barney. She was a descendant of Henry IV of France and grew up among the highest aristocracy when she was a child.

She looked back on the lost of wealth and privilege with little regret, and became known as the “red duchess” for her support of socialism. She was a close friend, and sometimes critic, of writer Marcel Proust, whom she had met on June 9, 1903. Her mother died giving birth to her, and her father remarried the wealthy Marguerite de Rothschild. Élisabeth met Natalie Barney in the spring of 1909. They became lovers on May 1, 1910, a date that became their anniversary. Although neither was faithful to the other sexually, they were devoted to one another for their entire lives.

04-23-1876 – 1968 Mary Ellicott Arnold – Born in New Brighton, New York City, New York. She was an American social activist, teacher, and writer, best known for In the Land of the Grasshopper Song co-written with Mabel Reed.

From the time they were both sixteen, Arnold and Reed had a friendship, that later matured into a life partnership. Arnold’s papers and correspondence are housed at Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College and the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. In 2003, playwright Lauren Wilson adapted In the Land of the Grasshopper Song for the stage as a musical comedy.

04-23-1895 – 08-31-1983 Alice DeLamar – Born in New York City, New York. She was a Colorado mine heiress and one of America’s youngest and richest heiresses.

DeLamar was Eva Le Gallienne’s lover and financial supporter of the Civic Repertory Theatre in New York, founded by Le Gallienne. DeLamar was her patron for sixty years and left her a million dollars in 1982. She was also a patron of art, ballet and theater. DeLamar died on August 31, 1983. On September 3, she was creamated but she had made no arrangement for what was to happen to her ashes. Finally, her black chauffeur, Charles Edwards, carried her urn to the Royal Palm Memorial Gardens in Palm Beach, because his girlfriend was working there in the funeral home, so DeLamar’s ashes are buried in an all-black cemetery. Edwards said of DeLamar, “She knew people, she knew their limits, but she did not look at their shortcomings but only to the good in each of them.” Many of her servants had been with her for years and she did not forget them at the end.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

1943

At the Apollo Theater in Harlem, the Earl “Fatha” Hines Band began a series of engagements featuring then-unknowns Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Sarah Vaughan.

04-23-1945 François Clemmons – Born in Birmingham, Alabama. He is an American singer, actor, playwright, and university lecturer. Clemmons is best know as “Officer Clemmons” on the PBS television series Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood from 1968 to 1993. In 1968, Clemmons won the Metropolitan Opera auditions in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1973, he won a Grammy Award for a recording of Porgy and Bess.

Clemmons was one of the first African Americans to have a recurring role on a kids’ TV series, and his relationship with Mr. Rogers was ground breaking in race relations. While in college, Clemmons realized he was gay, but remained closeted, fearing disapproval from his religious family and the community. In 1968, Rogers told Clemmons that his sexuality didn’t matter to him personally, but that Clemmons couldn’t be “out” and continue appearing on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, because of the scandal it would cause. In the 2018 documentary, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Clemmons talks about working with Rogers and what it was like to have to stay in the closet. Currently, Clemmons lives and works in Middlebury, Vermont, where he is the Emeritus Artist in Residence of Middlebury College.

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

1956

Elvis Presley played Las Vegas, NV New Frontier Hotel (2 shows daily) at 8.00 p.m. and midnight. Liberace. attended and did a publicity meet:

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

04-23-1961 – 10-01-2012 Dirk Bach – Born in Cologne, Germany. He was a German television comedy actor, voice actor and moderator.

Bach is best known as Pepe in the German version of Sesame Street. He was openly gay and had a partner, Thomas. He died of a heart attack in Berlin. Bach was an activist for LGBT rights.

The Beatles were filmed running around Thornbury Playing Fields in Middlesex, England, for their first movie, “A Hard Day’s Night.” The footage was combined with an earlier sequence shot at London’s Gatwick Airport and became the famous “Can’t Buy Me Love” scene. John Lennon was attending a luncheon to honor manager Brian Epstein at the time and not present for the film shoot. A body double was used.

1967: The Student Homophile League of Columbia University pickets and disrupts a panel of psychiatrists discussing homosexuality.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

April 23, 1977

Joan Jett, with Blondie as her opening act, appeared at the Whisky A Go Go in Los Angeles.

Thelma Houston’s disco plea “Don’t Leave Me This Way,” originally recorded by Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes in 1975, hits #1 in America.

After 19 weeks on the charts, Thelma Houston culminated her ascension at #1 with “Don’t Leave Me This Way”. At the time, it was a record number of weeks to #1, but it has since fallen out of the top 10 in that category.

#6 Natalie Cole edged up one with “I’ve Got Love On My Mind”, Barbra Streisand’s former #1 “Evergreen” moved back up to #7,

The Soundtrack to ‘A Star Is Born’” would have to settle for #3 This One’s For You by Barry Manilow at #6 and Unpredictable from Natalie Cole at #8

1979

ABBA released the album Voulez-Vous.

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

1980, Canada – Montreal Police raid Sauna David, a gay bathhouse, and arrest sixty-one men on bawdyhouse charges.

1982 – U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler announces at a press conference that an American scientist, Robert Gallo, has discovered the probable cause of AIDS: the retrovirus is subsequently named human immunodeficiency virus or HIV in 1986. She also declares that a vaccine will be available within two years

1983

David Bowie started a three week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with the Nile Rodgers produced ‘Let’s Dance’, featuring the title track which made No. 1 on the US and UK singles chart and ‘China Girl.’

, David Bowie moved into the Top 10at #9 with “Let’s Dance” and Thomas Dolby was at #10 with “She Blinded Me With Science”.

1984 – The US Dept. of Health and Human Services Secretary holds a press conference announcing that the virus that causes AIDS has been discovered: it’s HTLV-3, known today as HIV (human immunodeficiency virus). AIDS was originally named called GRID – gay related immune deficiency

Secretary of Health and Human Services Margaret Heckler announces in a press conference that the “probable” cause of AIDS has been discovered: a transmissible virus that has recently been isolated by U.S. and French researchers. The era of “safer sex” begins for all sexually active individuals.

1985

The “We Are The World” album was released. In addition to the title track, the album included nine previously unreleased songs by donating artists.

Liberace first appeared on the TV soap opera “Another World”. He also was a guest VJ on MTV later in the afternoon.

The Coca-Cola Company announced that it was changing its 99-year-old secret formula. New Coke was not a hit with consumers, and the company resumed selling the original version.

1988

The Dirty Dancing Soundtrack was at #1 on the U.S. Album chart with Bad from Michael Jackson #2, More Dirty Dancing from the movie at #3, George Michael’s Faith at #4 and Kick from INXS #5.

Whitney Houston topped the pop charts with “Where Do Broken Hearts Go” while setting a record for most consecutive #1 singles. It was her seventh, beating out both the Bee Gees and the Beatles, who each had six in a row.

LGBTQ@ blogger Nina Notes: Houston’s record was partly because Elvis Presley’s run of #1 from 1956 through 1957 were no longer counted.

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

1990 – The Hate Crimes Statistic Act is signed into law by President George H. W. Bush. It is the first U.S. bill to use the phrase ‘sexual orientation.’ The act requires the Department of justice to collect and publish statistics for five years on Hate Crime motivated by prejudice based on race, religion, sexual orientation, or ethnic origin. It is the first law to extend federal recognition to gay men and lesbians. Said the elder Bush: “We must work together to build an America of opportunity, where every American is free finally from discrimination. And I will use this noble office, this bully pulpit, if you will, to speak out against hate and discrimination everywhere it exists.” Eight years later his son’s presidential administration is one of the most anti-gay in United States recorded history.

1991

Founder member of The New York Dolls Johnny Thunders (John Anthony Genzale, Jr), died of a drug overdose. He renamed himself Johnny Thunders, after a comic book of the same name. The influential New York Dolls formed in 1972 and made just two albums. A teenage Morrissey acted as president of the UK branch of the New York Dolls fan club. Formed The Heartbreakers with Dolls drummer Jerry Nolan, and Television bassist Richard Hell.

1995

Little Richard performed at the opening of Dolly Parton’s Dollywood Amusement Park in Pigeon Falls, TN.

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

2012 – Marc Acito (born January 11, 1966) wins the Charles MacArther Award for Outstanding New Play or Musical for his play Birds of a Feather. He lives in New York City with his husband Floyd Sklaver.

04-23-2013

France legalizes gay marriage. The first wedding took place in Montpellier on May 28, 2013. Vincent Autin and Bruno Boileau became the first same-sex couple to marry. In his wedding speech, Autin referred to Martin Luther King, Jr. “The law may not be able to make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me.” Boileau added: “After the hatred, it’s time to talk of love.”

USA: A measure that would remove the ban on gay marriages in the state passed the Nevada State Senate. If passed by the Assembly and both houses again in 2015, the repeal would then be put to the voters in 2016. Recent polls show 54% of Nevadans favor repealing the marriage ban.

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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.

~~~~

music and movie information from my previous blog

from my original blog:

Books: Elvis My Best Man by George Klein and Genuine Elvis by Ronnie McDowel

see also:

https://www.nytimes.com › 2022/04/21 › arts › johnny-de…

However:

Was There A Dark Side to Elvis and Gladys?

It is important to note that the majority of sexual predators and murderers are males who victimize: pick the most inclusive or the most diverse statement of victim categories:

A) women and other men

B) men and women

C) heterosexual men, heterosexual women and LGBTQ2

D) heterosexual men, heterosexual women, gay/bisexual men, bisexual women, lesbians and NB/Transpersons

Extra Credit:

now factor in how to phrase that sentence and include 1 ethnicity 2 disability – physical of body and/or of the brain and persons without religion/spirituality

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 April 21

BCE to The Suffragettes

1766, France – Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein, known as Madame De Stael (22 April 1766 – 14 July 1817), is born near Paris. She was a French woman of letters of Swiss origin whose lifetime overlapped with the events of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era. For many years she lived as an exile under the Reign of Terror and under Napoleonic persecution. Known as a witty and brilliant conversationalist, often dressed in flashy and revealing outfits, she participated actively in the political and intellectual life of her times. She was an active bisexual who lived for 19 years with Parisian socialite Juliette Recamier (4 December 1777 – 11 May 1849), the most celebrated beauty of her time. Upon Recamier’s death, De Stael wrote “I love you with a love that surpasses that of friendship…were I to embrace you with all that remains of me.” Celebrated for her conversational eloquence, she participated actively in the political and intellectual life of her times. Her works, both critical and fictional, made their mark on the history of European Romanticism.

04-22-1894 – 03-13-1955 Eva (Evie) Sydney Hone – Born in Roebuck Grove, County Dublin, Ireland. Shortly before her twelfth birthday, she suffered from polio (infant paralysis).

She was educated by a governess, continuing her education in Switzerland, and went on tours to Spain and Italy before moving to London in 1913. She studied at the Byam Shaw School of Art and the Central School of Arts and Crafts. In 1917, Hone met Mainie Jellett (b. 04-29-1897) when both were studying at the Westminster Technical Institute. They became spiritual and emotional partners. In 1921, she and Jellett moved to Paris. At the end of the year, they returned to Dublin and for the next 10 years, they spent part of the year in Paris. The artists had a joint exhibition in 1924. Carolyn Gage (b. 01-01-1952) wrote a play about the meeting and their relationship, entitled Female Nude Seated. Hone is considered to be an early pioneer of cubism, although her best-known works are stained glass. Her most notable pieces are the East Window in the Chapel at Eton College, which depicts the Crucifixion, and My Four Green Fields, which is now in the Government Buildings in Dublin.

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.

Stained glass of Saint Brigid – St. Brendan’s Cathedral, Ireland.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

04-22-1946 John Waters – Born in Baltimore, Maryland. He is an American film

director, screenwriter, actor, stand-up comedian, journalist, visual artist, and art collector. Known for his cult films of the 1970s with Divine and later for the film Hairspray. An out gay man, he is also an avid supporter of gay rights and gay pride.

LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes: Mr. Waters’s film genre is disgust, perversion and gross out, it is little wonder he is confused that generaly speaking women, and JK Rowlings are discussing dignity, that which disgusts Mr Waters the most.

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

April 22, 1952

The first nuclear explosion shown on live network television was an atomic test in Nevada.

04-22-1956 Phill Wilson – Born in Chicago, Illinois. He founded the Black AIDS Institute in 1999 and is a prominent African-American HIV/AIDS activist. Wilson career in activism started after he and his lover, Chris Brownlie, were diagnosed with HIV in the early 1980s. This was when the AIDS epidemic was just starting in the US, and Wilson felt no one was bringing together the black community to solve the problem. In 1989, Wilson’s partner died of an HIV-related illness. He channeled his grief into activism. After graduating college, Wilson moved to Los Angeles in 1982, and got involved with the National Association of Black and White Men Together. From 1990 to 1995, Wilson served as the co-chair of the Los Angeles HIV Health Commission. In 2010, he was appointed by President Obama’s Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS. He has published articles in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, Essence, Ebony, Jet, and other media outlets. Wilson has said that when he dies, he hopes people will remember him for not giving up. His biggest fear is that the black community will give up fighting against the disease.

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

1969 – Frank Bartley is shot and killed by police in Berkeley, CA. The shooting is declared accidental. After this, gay rights groups begin to take notice of the number of shootings that were declared ‘accidental.’

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

1970

on the usa song charts “A Cowboy’s Work Is Never Done” from Sonny & Cher edged up to #9

1974

The Who’s Tommy Rock Opera was being made into a Movie, April 22, Tina Turner began filming her “Acid Queen” roll. The movie also starred Ann-Margaret.

1978

“Night Fever” by the Bee Gees ruled the charts for a sixth out of eight weeks at #1 on this date. Yvonne Elliman was at #2 with “If I Can’t Have You”, while Barry Manilow moved up with “Can’t Smile Without You”

The Soundtrack to ‘Saturday Night Fever’ was #1 for a 14th week on the Album chart, Even Now by Barry Manilow was #4 and Queen’s News Of the World was at #9

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

04-22-1982 – 05-07-2011 Thomas Bridegroom – Born in Knox, Indiana. He was an American actor and songwriter. On May 7, 2011, he accidentally fell off of the roof of his friend’s four story building. At the time of his death, he had been in a five year relationship with Shane Bitney Crone. When Tom had come out to his family, they blamed Crone for “making” him gay. After Tom’s death, the family threatened Crone with physical violence if he attended Tom’s funeral.

Crone released a YouTube video, This Could Happen To You, as an emotional plea for same-sex couples that are deprived of any legal protection. Bridegroom: A Love Story, Unequaled, a documentary directed by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, based on the story of Crone’s and Bridegroom’s relationship and the difficulties Crone faced after his partner’s death, premiered on April 23, 2013.

1985

Prince released the album “Around The World In a Day.” It was his first release after “Purple Rain.” It’s his first issued on his Paisley Park imprint and primarily recorded at his Paisley Park studios

04-22-1986 Amber Heard – Born in Austin, Texas. She is an American actress and model. Heard came out in 2010, at GLAAD’s 25th anniversary event.

She has said, “ I don’t label myself one way of another – I have had successful relationships with men and now a woman. I love who I love; it’s the person that matters.” Heard is an activist in LGBT rights, abolishing slavery, and is a supporter of Habitat for Humanity.

LGBTQ2 blogger Nina Notes: her most public and famous relationships are heterosexual:

Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard: What We Know – The New York …

1 day ago — Mr. Depp has sued Ms. Heard, his ex-wife, on grounds that she defamed him in an op-ed she wrote for The Washington Post.

1989

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Despite (or thanks to) a generous heaping of controversy over its video where she dances in front of burning crosses, Madonna’s “Like A Prayer” hits #1 in the US as the album also lands at the top spot, where it stays for six weeks. It’s her third consecutive #1 album and seventh song at US No.1, also a No.1 in the UK.

“After All” from Cher and Peter Cetera was #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart.

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

1993

The rock opera musical “The Who’s Tommy,” starring Michael Cerveris in his Broadway debut, opened at New York’s St. James Theatre for 899 performances.

1999

Sinead O’Connor is ordained in Lourdes, France, as the first female priest in the Latin Tridentine Church, a dissident Roman Catholic group.

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

2003

Madonna released her ninth studio album, “American Life.”

Only days after Madonna tried to strike back at illegal sharing of songs from her “American Life” album by flooding the Internet with fake MP3s, her web site was hacked and real digital files of the songs were leaked.

2005:

USA – H.B. 1515, which would have made it illegal to fire an employee based on sexual orientation, is defeated in the Washington state senate by a single vote. Two Democratic-party lawmakers join all 23 Republican state senators to defeat the bill.

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

2010

The Los Angeles coroner’s office ruled that the death of Marie Osmond’s 18-year-old son, Michael Blosil, was a suicide, after he jumped from an apartment building in February. Marie and Donny were soon at odds in the media regarding the mormon church vs queer people.

Marie Osmond reveals her late son was ‘bullied very …

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Oct 2, 2019 — On Tuesday’s episode of “The Talk,” the co-host who replaced Sara Gilbert for Season 10, brought up son Michael Blosil, who died by suicide …

2011

Bluegrass singer-songwriter Hazel Dickens, known for her pro-union anthems and feminist songs, dies at age 75 from complications of pneumonia.

2012 – Jack Denton Reese (Jan. 25, 1995-April 22, 2012), a gay Mormon teen, commits suicide in Mountain Green, Utah. He was 17 years old. According to Jack’s boyfriend, Alex Smith, Jack was bullied at school. On April 23, Alex, who didn’t know yet that his boyfriend had taken his life, spoke at a panel about the bullying Jack experienced. The panel was held in connection with the screening of the documentary film, “Bullied.” Jack attended Morgan and Weber High Schools.

04-22-2013 Marriage equality passed the Delaware House of Representative. The state legalized same-sex marriage on May 7, 2013. The law went into effect on July 1, 2013. Delaware had civil unions since 2011.

2014 – Harvey Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978) is the first openly gay elected official on a U.S. stamp. He was an American politician and the first openly gay elected official in the history of California where he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977. He fought and defeated the anti-gay Prop 6. Milk was assassinated in 1978 by Supervisor Dan White.

04-22-2019 Gentleman Jack premiers in the U.S. A historical television series created by Sally Wainwright. The series is based on the collected diaries of Anne Lister, which contain over four million words and are written largely in secret code, documenting a lifetime of lesbian relationships. Suranne Jones plays Anne Lister and Sophie Rundle plays Ann Walker, Anne Lister’s love interest. Production on the second season was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As of March 2021, filming is currently taking place, and hopefully will be released in 2021.

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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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from my original blog:

Books: Elvis My Best Man by George Klein and Genuine Elvis by Ronnie McDowel

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Was There A Dark Side to Elvis and Gladys?

It is important to note that the majority of sexual predators and murderers are males who victimize: pick the most inclusive or the most diverse statement of victim categories:

A) women and other men

B) men and women

C) heterosexual men, heterosexual women and LGBTQ2

D) heterosexual men, heterosexual women, gay/bisexual men, bisexual women, lesbians and NB/Transpersons

Extra Credit:

now factor in how to phrase that sentence and include 1 ethnicity 2 disability – physical of body and/or of the brain and persons without religion/spirituality

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LGBTQ2 for April 21

BCE to The Suffragettes

04-21-1891 – 08-21-1974 Georgia Harkness – Born in Harkness,

New York , a town named after her grandfather. She was a Christian theologian in the Methodist tradition. Harkness was the first woman to obtain full professorship in a U.S. theological seminary. She disliked the doctrine of original sin, saying that “the sooner it disappears, the better it is for theology.” In 1948, Harkness confronted Karl Barth on his theology of female subordination. She ended the debate quoting Galatians 3:28,” …nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” In 1956, for her work on behalf of the ordination of women in the Methodist Church, she was honored with a standing ovation when an affirmative vote permitted women full ordination rights. Harkness was committed to alleviating racism, economic disparities, sexism, and believed that same sex relationships would be accepted in the future. In 2010 the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at Pacific School of Religion named an annual lectureship after her, in recognition of her advocacy of full civil rights for gay and lesbian people and honoring her thirty-three year relationship with her companion, Verna Miller.

04-21-1906 – 02-28-1987 Stephen Tennant – Born in Wilsford cum Lake, Wiltshire, England. He was born into British nobility, the youngest son of a

Scottish peer. Known for his decadent lifestyle, he was called “the brightest” of the “Bright Young People” (this was a nickname given by the tabloid press to a group of bohemian aristocrats and socialites in 192os London). During the 1920’s and 1930s Tennant had a sexual affair with the poet Siegfried Sassoon. The affair lasted for four years and remained Tennant’s most important relationship. The character of Cedric Hampton in the novel Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford is based on Tennant. Lord Sebastian Flyte, a character in the novel Brideshead Revisited, is partly based on Tennant. He died in 1987 and had outlived most of his contemporaries. A large archive of his letter, scrapbooks, and artworks is held in The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History in London.

04-21-1914 – 06-07-2006 Muriel Inez Crawford – Born in Washington, D.C. She and her partner for almost 57 years, Anyda Marchant (pen name Sarah Aldridge) were pioneering lesbian-feminist publishers. In 1972, they co-founded Naiad Press:

the premier lesbian publishing house in the U.S. throughout the 1970, 1980s, and early 1990s. They remained closeted during the terror and paranoia of the McCarthy era in Washington, D.C. In addition to the early Sarah Aldridge novels, Naiad Press began to publish romances, mysteries, and novels by other lesbian writers—authors such as Katharine V. Forrest, Renee Vivien, Valerie Taylor, and many more. Anyda Marchant died two weeks before her ninety-fifth birthday on January 11, 2006. Muriel Crawford followed five months later on June 7, 2006.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

04-21-1945 – 04-14-2017 Dr. Mark Wainberg – Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was a Canadian HIV/AIDS researcher and HIV/AIDS activist. Wainberg was the Director of the McGill University AIDS Centre at the Montreal

Jewish General Hospital and Professor of Medicine and of Microbiology at McGill University. He was part of the medical team that discovered the first antiviral drug to treat patients with HIV. Wainberg was also an outspoken advocate for people with HIV and for destigmatizing those living with the disease. He had a close relationship with the gay community and understood how the disease disproportionately affected gay men. As a Modern Orthodox Jew, Wainberg’s research of HIV led him into supporting the LGBTQ community and he marched in pride parades to show his support. His son, Zev Wainberg said, “It was a way for my father to fight intolerance that was consistent with his Judaic values.” Dr. Mark Wainberg drowned in the waters off Bal Harbour, Florida at the age of 71.

1946 – John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes(5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946) died on this day. He was a British economist whose ideas fundamentally changed the theory and practice of macroeconomics and the economic policies of governments. He built on and greatly refined earlier work on the causes of business cycles, and was one of the most influential economists of the 20th century and the founder of modern macroeconomics theory. His ideas are the basis for the school of thoughtknown as Keynesian economics, and its various offshoots.Keynes’s early romantic and sexual relationships were exclusively with men. Significant among his early partners was British classics scholar and code breaker Alfred Dillwyn “Dilly” Knox (23 July 1884 – 27 February 1943). Keynes was open about his affairs, and, from 1901 to 1915, kept separate diaries in which he tabulated his many sexual encounters.

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

1953

Philanthropist and Microsoft pioneer Ric Weiland (April 21, 1953 – June 24, 2006) is born. One of the first five employees of Microsoft, Weiland was a lead programmer and developer for the company’s BASIC and COBOL programming languages. After leaving Microsoft in 1988, he dedicated most of his time to philanthropy, donating millions of dollars to charities, including the Pride Foundation, the Lifelong AIDS Alliance, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, and the American Foundation for AIDS Research. Weiland committed suicide by gunshot on June 24, 2006. Besides his long standing HIV diagnosis, he was reported to have suffered from clinical depression. His is survived by his partner Mike Schaefer.

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

1963

Jorge Valencia is born. He was the Executive Director of the Trevor Project from 2001 to 2006. In 2007, he became the executive director of the Point Foundation where he is continuing his life’s work in support of LGBTQ youth. The Point Foundation (Point), founded in 2001, empowers promising lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) students to achieve their full academic and leadership potential – despite the obstacles often put before them – to make a significant impact on society. Point promotes change through education, mentorship, leadership development and community service training, and provides its scholars with the financial ability to attend the nation’s foremost higher educational institutions. To date, Point has assisted more than 350 scholarship recipients

John Cameron Mitchell – Born in El Paso, Texas. He is an American writer, actor, and director, best known for his films Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Shortbus, and Rabbit Hole. In 1985, Mitchell came out as gay to his family and

friends and in 1992, he came out publicly in a New York Times profile. He is a Radical Faerie, which was influential in his making of Shortbus. The long-running New York City monthly party, “Mattachine”, was founded by Mitchell, PJ DeBoy, Paul Dawson, and performance artists, Amber Martin and Angela De Carlo.

1966:

The NY Mattachine Society, spearheaded by president Dick Leitsch (born May 11, 1935), staged a “Sip-In” at the Julius Bar in Greenwich Village. This led to court actions that overturned the New York State Liquor Authority’s provisions declaring it illegal for homosexuals to congregate and be served alcoholic beverages in bars. Although Leitsch’s complaint to the State Liquor Authority resulted in no action, the city’s human rights commission declared that such discrimination could not continue. The National Park Service Register of Historic Places for the Julius’ Bar states that “Scholars of gay history consider the sip-in at Julius’ as a key event leading to the growth of legitimate gay bars and the development of the bar as the central social space for urban gay men and lesbians.” The bar now holds a monthly party called “Mattachine” honoring the early gay rights pioneers.

1969

Janis Joplin makes her first London concert appearance at Royal Albert Hall, a performance considered by many to be one of the best of her career.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

1970

Elton John’s newly-created trio, with Dee Murray on bass and drummer Niggel Olsson, made their live performance debut when they opened for Tyrannosaurus Rex at the Roundhouse in London. Spooky Tooth, Jackie Lomax, and Heavy Jelly were also on the bill.

04-21-1970 Alice Wu – Born in San Jose, California. She is a Chinese American film director and screenwriter.

Wu pursued a career in computer science but began writing a novel while working at Microsoft. Deciding the story would work better as a film, she signed up for a screenwriting class, in which she penned the feature script Saving Face. Encouraged by her screenwriting teacher, she left Microsoft in the late 1990s to try to turn the script into a film, giving herself a five-year window.

Production had begun when she reached the fifth year. In 2001, the script for Saving Face won the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment screenwriting award. Saving Face was released in 2004 and is her most noted work. The film was inspired by her own experiences coming out as a lesbian in the Chinese American community.

1976,

USA LP Charts The previous #1, Lady Sings the Blues by Diana Ross from the Soundtrack to the movie of the same name, fell to #2. Elton John slipped to #8 after a long run in the upper part of the list with Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only the Piano Player

Women Against Violence Against Women called for a boycott of all Warner Communications albums because of the promotional campaign for The Rolling Stones’new album Black and Blue. The album was being promoted with a controversial advertising campaign that depicted the model Anita Russell, bruised and bound, under the phrase ‘I’m Black and Blue from the Rolling Stones – and I love it!’

Canada – In Saskatoon the Board of Governors of the University of Saskatchewan overturns recommendation of the University Council that homosexuality should not be considered in the selection of dons of residence, but it accepts that sexual orientation not be a factor in treatment of faculty or students in faculty positions.

April 21, 1977

Natalie Cole and John Denver were guests on Frank Sinatra’s ABC-TV special “Sinatra & Friends”.

“Annie” opened on Broadway.

1979

Gloria Gaynor held at #2 with her former #1 “I Will Survive”. Suzi Quatro teamed with Chris Norman for the #7 song “Stumblin’ In”, the Bee Gees were at 8 with their former #1 “Tragedy”, Chic moved into the Top 10 with “I Want Your Love”

LP Charts: Love Tracks by Gloria Gaynor fell to #10.

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

1980

Illinois Congressman John Anderson, who will shortly be running for President of the United States as an Independent, publicly announces his support for federal gay rights legislation. “If freedom under our constitution is to have a real meaning,” says Anderson, “this legislation is a natural extension of one’s individual rights.”

The first wave of the so-called “Mariel Boatlift” brings a group of ragtag boats and other craft bearing hundreds of refugees from Cuba to the United States. By the time it’s all over, over of 101,000 Cubans – among them several thousand homosexuals – have arrived in the U.S.

1981:

Two gay men are arrested when a policeman spots them giving each other a brief good-bye kiss at the Fort Lauderdale airport. They are later convicted of creating a public nuisance and given probation.

Canada – In Toronto six people, including activists George Hislop (June 3, 1927 – October 8, 2005) and lawyer Peter Maloney and head of Club Bath chain in the U.S., Jack Campbell (born 1932) are charged with conspiracy to live off avails of crime. All three were listed as owners of the Club Toronto. These were the final charges following the February 5th bathhouse raids. Almost all charges are later dropped in court. The event marked a major turning point in the history of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in Canada; the raids and their aftermath are today widely considered to be the Canadian equivalent of the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City. Mass protests and rallies were held denouncing the incident. These evolved into Toronto’s current Pride Week, which is now one of the world’s largest gay pride festivals. Almost all the charges against the 300+ men including Hislop, Maloney and Campbell are later dropped in court and the Toronto Metro Police become a laughingstock.

04-21-1981 Kim Lammers – Born in Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2012 Olympic Athlete: Plays Field Hockey representing the Netherlands. She was part of the Dutch team that won the gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympic’s in London.

She is an out lesbian.

1982,

Canada – Metro Toronto Police Morality Squad officers seize two magazines, charge assistant manager Kevin Orr of Glad Day Bookshop with “possession of obscene material for purpose of resale.”

1984

USA song charts: #4 “Hold Me Now” from the Thompson Twins, “Miss Me Blind” by Culture Club at #5, the Pointer Sisters down to 6 with “Automatic”, Rockwell was at 7 with “Somebody’s Watching Me” and , the Eurythmics had #9 with “Here Comes The Rain Again”

1985

Fashion celebrity Rudi Gernreich, desiger of the first topless swimsuit, the “monokini”, and early founder of the Mattachine Society, dies of cancer at the age of sixty-two. Despite a New York Times obituary claiming that he lived alone and that “there are no survivors,” Gernreich in fact had a lover of thirty-one years, Dr. Oreste Pucciani.

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

1990

“Nothing Compares To You” reached #1 for Sinead O’Connor; it was also #1 in 18 other countries. Sinead O’Connor started a four week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with her version of the Prince song ‘Nothing Compares To You’. The track was also a No.1 hit in 18 other countries. The video was shot in Paris, and consists almost solely of a close-up on O’Connor’s face as she sings the lyrics. Towards the end of the video, two tears roll down her face. The clip won Best Video at the 1990 MTV Video Music Awards – the first video by a female artist to win in this category.

LP Charts: Bonnie Raitt remained at #1 on the Album chart for the third week in a row with Nick Of Time. Sinead O’Connor was at #2 with I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got and Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814 edged up to #3. The rest of the Top 10: The former #1 Forever Your Girl by Paula Abdul, Alannah Myles’ debut was at #6,

in pop culture:

Amy Grant brought a law suit against Marvel Comics for including a likeness of her in a Dr. Strange comic.

1990

Nearly two hundred students hold an anti-homosexual “Straight Pride” rally at the University of Massachusetts. A short time later, ten of the demonstrators raid and disrupt an anthropology class watching The Times of Harvey Milk.

1999,

Czech republic – The first openly gay person, Václav Fischer (born 22 June 1954), is elected to Czech Senate. Fischer is a Czech–German businessman and politician. He was the founder of the companies CK Fischer and Fischer Air.

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

Singer (I Loves You Porgy)/songwriter/pianist/arranger/civil rights activist Nina Simone died of breast cancer at age 70.

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Six things you don’t know about Nina Simone – 19 years after her death

2005

In its home state of Washington, the Microsoft corporation withdraws support for H.B. 1515, after pressure from local clergyman Ken Hutcherson. The bill would have made it illegal to fire an employee based on sexual orientation. Hutcherson threatened the company with a nationwide boycott.

2006

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

2010

Elton John made an appearance on American Idol‘s Idol Gives Back, where he seemed to struggle vocally to get through his 1970 composition “Your Song”. Also appearing were Jeff Beck, Black Eyed Peas, Alicia Keys and Carrie Underwood.

2011

Montana District Judge Jeffrey Sherlock rules against same-sex couples seeking to force the state to extend the benefits of marriage to them, finding that the state’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage and the separation of powers between the courts and the legislature prevents it.

2014

Robin Thicke’s controversial hit single Blurred Lines was named the UK’s most-downloaded song of all time. The song had sold 1.54 million copies since it was released in May 2013, despite criticisms of its explicit lyrics. About 20 university student unions banned the track, saying it promoted “date rape culture”, an accusation Thicke consistently denied.

04-21-2014 US Postal Service unveil its new stamp honoring Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official to be featured on a US stamp.

2016

Prince, the singer / songwriter and multi-instrumentalist died at the age of 57 after suffering flu-like symptoms for several weeks. Born Prince Rogers Nelson, he had 32 Billboard Top 40 entries between 1979 and 1999 including “Little Red Corvette”, “When Doves Cry”, “Purple Rain” and “Sign ‘O’ The Times”. Over the course of his career he sold over 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling artists of all time. He won seven Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe and an Academy Award and was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 2004, the first year of his eligibility.

2022

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Today in LGBT History – APRIL 21 | Ronni Sanlo https://ronnisanlo.com › today-in-lgbt-history-april-21-2Apr 21, 2019 — Today in LGBT History – APRIL 21. 1946 – John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes(5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946) died on this day.

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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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music and movie information from my previous blog

from my original blog:

Books: Elvis My Best Man by George Klein and Genuine Elvis by Ronnie McDowel

see also: