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LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes:

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

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

Understood as noting to be debated, quibbled nor negotiated.

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

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where I note, The Last Elvis Secret given what the Memphis Mafia wrote about Presley Parties, the only thing not officially and rarely luridly written about was the balance of probability Elvis Presley was bisexual, and was described by heterosexual men as being so attractive as to raise a question – including Jerry Reed, writer and performer. And given Larry Geller’s descriptions of being accused by other Memphis Mafia members of being gay with Elvis during the private hair cut sessions -rather makes it seem the Memphis Mafia were jealous, and 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 her/his-story May 30

BCE to The Suffragettes

1431 – Joan of Arc (Jan. 6,1412—May 30, 1431) is burned at the stake for heresy, dying at nineteen years of age. She is considered a heroine of France for her role during the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years’ War and was canonized as a Roman Catholic saint. Over the years it has been suggested that her “crimes” included cross-dressing and inappropriate relationships with women. Around the age of 12 or 13, she began hearing voices and experiencing visions which she interpreted as signs from God. During her trial, she testified that angels and saints first told her merely to attend church and live piously; later, they began instructing her to deliver France from the invading English and establish Charles VII, the uncrowned heir to the French throne, as the country’s rightful king. Joan’s trial was described as so “unfair” that the trial transcripts were later used as evidence for canonizing her in the 20th century.

May 30, 1539

Explorer Hernando de Soto landed nine ships carrying more than 620 men and 220 horses near present-day Bradenton, Florida. He then led an expedition northward in search of gold.

1593, UK – English poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe, (February 26, 1564 – May 30, 1593) is killed in a fight. Like William Shakespeare, Marlowe is occasionally claimed to have been gay. Others argue that the question of whether an Elizabethan was gay or homosexual in a modern sense is anachronistic. For the Elizabethans, what is often today termed homosexual or bisexual was more likely to be recognized as a sexual act rather than an exclusive sexual orientation and identity.

1866

Opera “Die Verkaufte Braut” premieres (Prague)

May 30, 1879

William Vanderbilt renamed New York City’s Gilmore’s Garden as the first of four venues in Manhattan to be called Madison Square Garden. This first Garden existed for 11 years, had no roof and was leased to P.T. Barnum.

05-30-1903 – 01-09-1946 Countee (pronounced Coun-tay) Cullen. Place of birth unknown. From the age of nine, he grew up in Harlem, New York. He was an

American poet, author, and scholar who was a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Cullen entered Harvard in 1925, about the same time his first collections of poems, Color, was published. The book included two of his most famous poems, Heritage and Incident. His work celebrated black beauty and deplored the effects of racism. Also, his homosexuality was central to his work, although most African-American scholars ignore or suppress it. His attitude to his homosexuality was as mixed as his attitude to his blackness: simultaneously affirmative and condemnatory, celebratory and troubled. He wrote poems for his lovers and dedicated poems to his closest gay friends. In 1927, Cullen went to France and had a succession of French boyfriends. His love letters to them and their replies are held by Tulane University, New Orleans. From 1937 to 1945 he had a secret affair with economist and activist, Edward Atkinson. Those correspondences are held by Yale University. Cullen did marry twice, the first one lasted only six months.

05-30-1926 – 05-03-1989 “Christine Jorgensen” – Born in The Bronx, New York City, New York. As an American transgender pioneer,was the first person to become widely known in the United States for having sex reassignment surgery in Copenhagen, Denmark obtained special permission to undergo a series of operations starting in 1951.

after graduating from high school in 1945, was drafted into the U.S. Army for World War II

Returned to the U.S. in the early 1950s where this transformation was the subject of a New York Daily News front page story. Jorgenson an instant celebrity, worked as an actress and nightclub entertainer and recorded several songs. Jorgensen said in 1989, , that had given the sexual revolution a “ good swift kick in the pants.” Died of bladder and lung cancer four weeks short of her 63rd birthday.

05-30-1932 – 11-24-2016 Pauline Oliveros – Born in Houston, Texas. She was an out lesbian and an American avant-garde composer. Oliveros was a major figure in the development of experimental and post-war electronic art music.

Oliveros was a founding member of the San Francisco Tape Music Center in the 1960s and served as its director. She taught music at Mills College, the University of California, San Diego, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In 1975 she met her lover, performance artist Linda Montano. Oliveros was the author of five books on music.

In Pop Culture

1933

At Chicago’s Century of Progress Exposition, Sally Rand introduced audiences to her fan dance.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

05-30-1950 Bertrand Delanoe – Born in Tunis, Tunisia. He is a French politician and the Mayor of Paris. One of the first major French politicians to announce that he was gay, during a 1998 television interview. This was before he was elected Mayor of Paris

. Delanoe was virtually unknown before the election of 2001, but soon gained fame for organizing new and unusual events in Paris, such as the “Paris Beach” on the banks of the Seine every summer in order to give Parisians who could not take a regular vacation a chance to relax, sunbathe and build sandcastles in the center of Paris. The program, especially popular with families with children, has been in place since 2002 and has since been copied by many other international cities. As mayor, Delanoe’s goals were to improve the quality of life, reduce pollution, and cut down vehicle traffic within the city. He was reelected in 2008 for a six-year term (2008-2014).

in pop culture

May 30, 1956

In “Time” magazine, an article entitled “Teener’s Hero” referred to Elvis Presley’s appeal. It said “his movements suggest, in a word, sex.”

Elvis attended the Humes and South Side High School graduations at Ellis Auditorium.

05-30-1958 Ann Hampton Callaway – Born in Chicago, Illinois. She is a multiplatinum singer, composer, lyricist, pianist, and actress. She is best known for writing and singing the

theme to the TV series The Nanny, writing songs for Barbara Streisand, and starring in the Broadway musical Swing! She has composed over 250 songs for television, Broadway, and off-Broadway. Her songs have been recorded not only by Barbara Streisand but also for Patti LuPone, Michael Feinstein, Blossom Dearie, Peter Nero, Karrin Allyson, Harvey Fierstein, and Carole King. The Cole Porter Estate officially recognized her as the only composer to have collaborated with Cole Porter, having sent her music to his posthumously discovered lyric, I Gaze in Your Eyes. She lives in Tucson, Arizona with her wife, Kari Strand.

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

05-30-1960 Micah Barnes – Born in Vienna, Austria. He is a Canadian pop singer-songwriter. He has performed both as a solo artist and with the bands Loudboy and The

Nylons. In 2003, he collaborated with the house music duo Thunderpuss on the hit dance track Welcome to My Head, which reached number one on the Billboard club charts. He is openly gay. He was the partner of dancer and actor René Highway, who died of AIDS-related causes in 1990.

May 30, 1963

then closeted Lesley Gore made her first television appearance on American Bandstand on ABC.

1966

University student Anne Murray signed a contract with the CBC-TV show, “Singalong Jubilee.” She was paid $71.50 for each appearance on the show, and $99 if she soloed.

Dolly Parton married Carl Dean in Ringgold, Georgia.

05-30-1967 Allison Adler – Born in California (city unknown). American television producer and writer, she is best known as the co-creator of The New Normal. In 2011 Adler joined the writing team of Glee, joining six other writers. In 2015, she worked on Supergirl with co-creator Greg Berlanti. The show is based on Superman’s female cousin, Kara Zor-El, and is one of the many strong female shows currently being started by CBS. From 2002 to 2011, she was in a relationship with actress Sara Gilbert. Since 2013, Adler has been dating producer and writer Liz Brixius.

1968 –. On Memorial Day of 1968, men and women gathered at the Griffith Park Merry-Go-Round for a “gay-in” to hear Mike Hannon, a policeman turned lawyer and Civil Rights activist, speak to the challenges of being gay in a homophobic society. Hannon, who was straight, expressed support for civil rights despite the given the leadership of the police department at the time. He showed that there was broad support to protect the rights of those who demonstrate in the streets. Hannon died at the age of 77 in 2014.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

May 30, 1975

On NBC-TV’s “The Midnight Special,” Joan Baez hosted Hoyt Axton and Kool & the Gang.

1977 – In an essay inNewsweek, applauding the efforts of Anita Bryant in Florida, columnist George Will condemns gay rights ordinances as “part of the moral disarmament of society,” and predicts that if the current trend continues, homosexual marriages will soon flourish across the United States and gay people will be allowed to adopt children.

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

1980 – After winning a suit against his high school, Aaron Fricke (born January 25, 1962)takes Paul Guilbert to his senior prom after winning a landmark lawsuit. The suit brought by Aaron Fricke against his school is considered a major milestone in the history of gay rights. Each year cases of young same-sex couples being discriminated against by their schools happen around the world, and when these cases are brought to court, the suit first brought by Aaron Fricke and Paul Guilbert is invariably cited by the plaintiff’s counsel.Aaron later wrote of his experience in a book, Reflections of a Rock Lobster: A Story about Growing Up Gay. He later collaborated with his father, Walter Fricke, on a book about their relationship and of the elder Fricke’s coming to terms with his son’s homosexuality. That book, Sudden Strangers: The Story of a Gay Son and His Father, was published shortly after Walter Fricke’s death from cancer in 1989.

Alaska state-wide human rights conference on sexual orientation is held, sponsored by the Alaska Women’s Resource Center. It lasts for three days and features a keynote by Miriam Ben-Shalom, (born May 3, 1948). Ben Shalom is an American educator, activist and former Staff Sergeant in the United States Army. After being discharged from the military for homosexualityin 1976, she successfully challenged her discharge in court and returned to military service in 1987, the first openly gay or lesbian person to be reinstated after being discharged under the military’s policy excluding homosexuals from military service. She served until 1990 when the Army succeeded in terminating her service after prolonged judicial proceedings.

1981

Forty members of the Edmonton Police service, six RCMP officers, and two crown attorneys stormed the Pisces Health Spa, a bathhouse used by gay men, on May 30, 1981, at around 1:30 AM. In the raid, 56 men were arrested and charged while an additional six men, owners and employees, were charged with being keepers of a common bawdy house. A local TV station ran the names of those found at Pisces outing the men publicly. In response to the raid, over 100 people rallied at city hall on June 3 to condemn the raid as a violation of civil rights, as well as a waste of money.

The raid drew groups within Edmonton’s gay community together and made it more vocal and public. It was also noted that the Edmonton police consulted with Toronto police on how to execute the raids. The outrage that Edmontonians felt after the raids led to a more accepted and public LGBTQ community and the lack of tolerance towards infringements of civil liberties in Edmonton.

1984 – The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down a New York state law that prohibits loitering in a public place for the purposes of soliciting for or engaging in “gay sex.

1986 – American fashion designerPerry Ellis (March 3, 1940 – May 30, 1986) dies of AIDS related diseases at the age of forty-six. In 1981, Ellis began a relationship with attorney Laughlin Barker (1948-Jan. 2, 1986). Later that year, Ellis appointed Barker as president of the licensing division of Perry Ellis International. They remained together until Barker’s death from AIDS in January of 1986. Ellis’ influence on the fashion industry has been called “a huge turning point” because he introduced new patterns and proportions to a market which was dominated by more traditional men’s clothing.

1987

David Bowie kicked off his 87-date Glass Spider world tour at the Feyenoord Stadium, Rotterdam, Holland. The tour’s set, described at the time as “the largest touring set ever,” was designed to look like a giant spider. It was 60 feet (18.3m) high, 64 feet (19.5m) wide and included giant vacuumed tube legs that were lit from the inside with 20,000′ (6,096m) of color-changing lights. A single set took 43 trucks to move.

Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys was arrested in Liverpool, England for assaulting a female fan during a riot at a Beastie Boys concert.

05-30-1988 Amanda Lourenço Nunes – Born in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. She is a

Brazilian mixed martial artist (full-contact combat sport) who currently fights for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). She is the UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion. Nunes is the UFC’s first Brazilian champion. She has been involved with UFC fighter Nina Ansaroff, who competes in the strawweight division, for the past four years. In 2016, she received the Equality Visibility Award from Equality California.

90s: Slurs Reclaimed: Act Up! Lesbian Avengers and Queer Nation

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

2009

Little Richard was inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame.

At a charity event in New Orleans that raises funds to rebuild schools and playgrounds damaged by Hurricane Katrina. 81-year-old music legend Fats Domino made a rare appearance and watched his old friends Little Richard, B.B. King and Chuck Berry hit the stage and waved at the 3,000-strong crowd.

Unnamed Common Oppressor VS: Heterosexual women VS Trans vs LGB/

2017

Ally Olivia Newton-John announced she was cancelling her June concert dates after learning that the recent back pain she had been suffering was caused by breast cancer that had metastasized to her sacrum. Newton-John was previously diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992.

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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:

#CyberBullying #MRABacklash #DomesticViolence #VAWG #RadicalFeminism #RadFem #Patriarchy #Misogyny #feminism #feminist #JohnnyDARVO #DeppAnon #DeppfordWives #MRA #FeministBacklash

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 May 29

BCE to The Suffragettes

05-29-1841 — 11-10-1917 Ella Wesner – Born in Pennsylvania, place unknown. She was the

most celebrated male impersonator of the Gilded Age of Vaudeville. Her career was with the vaudeville impresario Tony Pastor. Her career was briefly stopped when she left Pastor’s shows and ran off to Paris with the notorious Helen Josephine Mansfield, who had been the mistress of “Diamond Jubilee” Jim Fisk, as well as the mistress of his murderer, Edward S. Stokes. The event caused considerable scandal and it was reported in most of the major newspapers in the US. After the romance cooled, Wesner returned to the US and resumed her career with Pastor, winning ever larger audiences. She never married and preferred female lovers. She left instructions that when she died to be buried in male attire.

05-29-1894 – p1-20-1989 Beatrice “Bea” Lillie – Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She was a Canadian-born British actress, singer, and comedic performer. Lillie performed in Ontario with her mother and older sister, Muriel.

Eventually, her mother took the girls to London, England, where she made her West End début in the 1914 show Not Likely! In 1924 she made her Broadway début in André Charlot’s Revue, starring Gertrude Lawrence. She starred in her first film, Exit Smiling (1927), opposite Jack Pickford, the younger brother of Mary Pickford. After a 1927 tour on the Orpheum Circuit, Lillie returned to Vaudeville at the Palace Theatre in New York, performing there frequently in 1928. According to English critic Sheridan Morley, “Lillie’s great talents were the arched eyebrow, the curled lip, the fluttering eyelid, the tilted chin, the ability to suggest, even in apparently innocent material, the possible double entendre.” In 1953, she won a Tony Award for her revue An Evening with Beatrice Lillie. Lillie did marry in 1920 to Sir Robert Peel. She eventually separated from her husband, but the couple never divorced. They had a son that was killed in WWII. Lillie is known

to have had affairs with women, including Gertrude Lawrence, Tallulah Bankhead, and Katherine Cornell. In 1948, while touring in the show Inside USA, she met John Philip Huck. He was three decades younger, a former Marine, and became her friend and companion for the rest of her life. She retired from the stage due to Alzheimer’s disease. Thoroughly Modern Millie (filmed in 1966 and released in 1967) was her last film. Julie Andrews remembered that Lillie had to be prompted through her lines and was often confused on the set. Lillie died in 1989 in England. Huck died of a heart attack the next day, and the two were buried in the churchyard of St. Margaret’s in Harpsden, Oxfordshire, near Henley-on-Thames.

1913

Igor Stravinsky’s composition “The Rite of Spring” premiered in Paris.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

1942

Bing Crosby recorded the Irving Berlin song ‘White Christmas’. Crosby recorded the song with the John Scott Trotter Orchestra and the Ken Darby Singers in just 18 minutes. Crosby re-recorded “White Christmas” in 1947 and that is the version heard most often on the radio at Christmastime. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the version sung by Bing Crosby is the best-selling single of all time, with estimated sales in excess of 50 million copies worldwide. It was deemed the biggest selling single of all time, until 1997’s “Candle In The Wind (Princess Diana Tribute)” by Elton John.

05-29-1944 Helmut Berger – Born in Bad Ischl, Austria. He is an Austrian film and television actor. He

appears primarily in European cinema but has also acted in some American film, including The Godfather Part III. He was lovers with director Luchino Visconti from 1964 until Visconti’s death in 1976. Berger is openly bisexual.

05-29-1947 Bishop Gene Robinson – Born in Fayette County, Kentucky, In 2003 he became the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church.

Robinson was elected bishop coadjutor in 2003 and succeeded as bishop diocesan in March 2004. Before becoming bishop, he served as Canon to the Ordinary for the Diocese of New Hampshire. Robinson is widely known for being the first priest in an openly gay relationship to be consecrated a bishop in a major Christian denomination believing in the historic episcopate, a matter of significant controversy. After his election, many theologically conservative Episcopalians in the United States abandoned the Episcopal Church, formed the Anglican Church in North America(ACNA) and aligned themselves with bishops outside the Episcopal Church in the United States, a process called the Anglican realignment. Rev. Robinson’s story has appeared in print and film. After resigning as bishop of New Hampshire in 2013, Robinson moved to Washington, D.C. to join the Center for American Progress as a senior fellow and serve as bishop-in-residence at St. Thomas’ Parish. In 2014, Robinson and his husband Mark Andrew divorced. In 2017, Robinson was named Vice-President and Senior Pastor of the Chautauqua Institution, a center for arts, education, recreation and religion in upstate New York.

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

05-29-1959 Rupert Everett – Born in Burnham Deepdale, Norfolk, England. He is an English actor and writer. He first came to public attention in 1981, when he was cast in Julian Mitchell’s play and subsequent film Another Country (1984) as an openly gay

pupil at an English public school in the 1930s. He has since appeared in many other films, including My Best Friend’s Wedding, An Ideal Husband, The Next Best Thing, and the Shrek sequels. He is openly gay. In 2009, Everett told British newspaper The Observer that he wished he had never revealed his sexuality, he feels that it hurt his career and advised younger actors against such candor. Everett criticized the introduction of same-sex marriage, claiming, “I find it personally beyond tragic that we want to ape this institution that is so clearly a disaster.” In addition to his autobiography and the screenplay for the Wilde biopic, Everett has written several books, such as The Hairdressers of St. Tropez.

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

5-29-1960 – 03-30-2020 Lorena Borjas – Born in Veracruz, Mexico. She was a Mexican-American transgender and immigrant rights activist, known as the mother of the transgender Latinx community in Queens, New York.

Borjas emigrated to the US in 1981 with the goal of obtaining hormone therapy and transitioning to live as a woman. She became a legal permanent resident of the US in 1990. In 1995, Borjas made activism her life’s work. For decades, Borjas worked to protect transgender victims of human trafficking (which she herself had experienced), slavery, and violence. She hosted women who had been ostracized from their families in her own apartment until they were able to support themselves. Cecillia Gentili, a friend and a transgender leader, stated, “Needed a lawyer? Doctor? Housing? A job? She was there. Lorena was that person who, if you got arrested, you called her at three in the morning and she would answer. First thing in the morning she would be in court with a lawyer to get you out of jail.” She earned honors from former Mayor Dinkins, New York Attorney General, Letitia James, and Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz. In 2019, she was declared a New York Woman of Distinction in the State Senate. During the coronavirus pandemic, Borjas created and promoted a mutual aid fund to help transgender people who were impacted by the economic crisis. Borjas died at Coney Island Hospital from complication of COVID-19. Following her death, New York City Council member Francisco Moya announced plans to rename a street in his district, where Borjas lived, after her.

05-29-1960 Mike Freer – Born in Manchester, England. He is a British politician. A Conservative, he was elected as the Member of Parliament for the constituency of

Finchley and Golders Green at the 2010 general election. Freer is openly gay, which he revealed to fellow MPs during a speech in the debates over Marriage for Same-Sex Couples Act 2013. He lives with his husband Angelo Crolla. He and Crolla entered into a civil partnership in January 2007. On the eighth anniversary of their civil partnership, in January 2015, they got married.

05-29-1961 Melissa Etheridge – Born in Leavenworth, Kansas. She is an American rock singer, songwriter, and activist. Her self-titled debut album Melissa Etheridge released in 1988 became a hit. The album peaked at #22 on the Billboard 200, and its lead single, Bring Me Some Water, garnered Etheridge her first Grammy Award nomination for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female.

In 1993, she won her first Grammy award for her single Ain’t It Heavy from her third album. Later that year, she released what would become her mainstream breakthrough album, Yes I Am. The album featured three Top 40 hits, including Come to My Window, which won her a second Grammy Award. In 2007, she won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for I Need to Wake Up from the film An Inconvenient Truth. In September 2011, Etheridge received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She came out publicly as a lesbian in January 1993 at the Triangle Ball, a gay celebration of President Bill Clinton’s first inauguration. Since her coming out she has become famous as a rights activist. She is also a committed advocate for environmental issues.

May 29, 1962

Barbra Streisand appeared on CBS-TV’s “The Garry Moore Show.” She sang “When The Sun Comes Out,” a few bars of “Moanin’ Low,” and, for the first time in public anywhere, her classic slow-tempo version of “Happy Days Are Here Again.”

1965:

Ten men and three women participate in an ECHO (East Coast Homophile Organization) picket of the White House.

Organized by the East Coast Homophile Organizations, seven men and three women picket the White House. It was the first of a series of pickets held throughout the summer, which also targeted the Civil Service Commission, the State Department and The Pentagon. Although the June 28, 1969, Stonewall riots are generally considered the starting point of the modern gay liberation movement, a number of demonstrations and actions took place before that date. A favorite technique of early activists was the picket line, especially for those actions organized by such Eastern groups as the Mattachine Society of New York, the Mattachine Society of Washington, Philadelphia’s Janus Society and the New York chapter of Daughters of Bilitis, These groups acted under the collective name East Coast Homophile Organizations or ECHO.

05-29-1968 Hida Viloria – Born in Jamaica, Queens, New York to immigrated Colombian and Venezuelan parents. She is a Latinx American writer, author of Born Both: An Intersex Life. Viloria is an intersex and non-

binary rights activist and is Founding Director of the Intersex Campaign for Equality. Her father, a physician, and mother, an ex-school teacher, chose to register and raise her as female without subjecting her to medically unnecessary cosmetic genital surgeries. On Human Rights Day, 2013, Viloria became the first openly intersex person to speak at the U.N., by invitation, at the event “Sport Comes Out Against Homophobia”, along with tennis legend Martina Navratilova, and NBA player Jason Collins. In April, 2017, she became the second American recipient of an intersex birth certificate, issued by the city of New York. In 2019, Viloria was featured in the Smithsonian Channel documentary, The General was Female?, which explores compelling evidence that General Pulaski, the father of the American Cavalry, may have been intersex.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

05-29-1975 David Burtka – Born in Dearborn, Michigan. He is an American actor and chef. He is known for his acting roles in theatre and television shows such as How I Met Your Mother and The Play About the Baby. He graduated from Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts Pasadena in the summer of 2009. He and Neil Patrick Harris married in Italy in September 2014. They had been together since 2006 and have two children.

1976

then closted Barry Manilow remained at #10 with “Tryin’ To Get The Feeling Again” on the usa charts

1979: Los Angeles outlaws discrimination against homosexuals in private sector employment and in patronization of business establishments in its city. Mayor Thomas Bradley signs bills which go into effect July 2, 1979.

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

1987:

U.S. Representative Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts) becomes the second U.S. congressman to come out when he tells an interviewer from The Boston Globe that he is gay. Seventeen months later, he is reelected to Congress 70 percent to 30 percent

George Michael’s single “I Want Your Sex” was released.

1989

Madonna released her 18th single, “Express Yourself”.

Lisa Marie Presley gave birth to a baby girl. Danielle Riley was the daughter of Danny Keough. (pronounced KEE-oh). By the time she reached the age of 14, she was working as a fashion model and has since become an accomplished actress, co-starring in the 2010 film The Runaways with Dakota Fanning, Kristen Stewart and Tatum O’Neal.

90s: Slurs Reclaimed: Act Up! Lesbian Avengers and Queer Nation

1992

Concerned that some pupils were overly identifying with Freddie Mercury, the sacred heart School in Clifton New Jersey decided not to sing the Queen song ‘We Are The Champions’, at their Graduation Ceremony.

The FBI recovered 44 nude pictures of Madonna stolen from photographer Steven Meisel.

1997

The Manic Street Preachers won the best song award for ‘A Design For Life’ at the 42nd Ivor Novello awards. Other winners included The Spice Girls for Hit of the year with ‘Wannabe’, Elvis Costello for Outstanding contribution to music, George Michael won Songwriter Of The Year and Most Performed work for ‘Fastlove.’

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

2004: U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner (in Massachusetts) rules that stating that someone is homosexual does not libel or slander them, saying that “a finding that such a statement is defamatory requires this court to legitimize the prejudice and bigotry that for too long have plagued the homosexual community”. The ruling came in a lawsuit of James Albright against the singer Madonna: Albright’s name had appeared in a photo caption in a book by Andrew Morton about Madonna. Gertner said previous rulings that stating someone is homosexual is defamatory had relied on laws criminalizing same-sex sexual acts, and had to be reevaluated in light of more recent rulings that such laws are Constitutionally suspect.

2005

Bob Geldof and Elton John announce five July concerts that will make up Live 8 – a new initiative to raise awareness of poverty.

LGBtQ2 Blogger Nina Notes: Geldof’s Band Aid for Africa was to get a hit song for Geldof, and did not accomplish anything but perpetual awareness fundraisers with no accountability for funds distribution.

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2012

Lisa Marie Presley intervened to stop a letter written to her by ex-husband Michael Jackson from being auctioned. The handwritten note by the late King Of Pop was of a personal nature and was reportedly penned between 1993 and 1996. Auction house owner Darren Julien stated “We wanted to honor the request and continue our good relationship with Ms. Presley.”

2013 – Robert Hampton “Robbie” Rogers III (born May 12, 1987) is an American professional soccer player. On this day, he signed with the LA Galaxy, making him the first openly gay man to compete in a top North American professional sports league when he played his first match for the Galaxy. In February 2013, Rogers came out as gay, becoming the second male soccer player in Britain to do so after Justin Fashanu who came out in 1990.

2022

“In the 8 years I have been in this position, I have never seen anything like this.” “How dare us make fun and make light of someone who is sharing something very personal.
The outcome I am sure will be a very chilling effect.”
Ruth Glen CEO of NCADV (National Coalition against Domestic Violence)

How The ‘Memeification’ Of Amber Heard Affects Domestic Violence Survivors
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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 May 28

BCE to The Suffragettes

05-28-1913 – 12-04-1989 May Swenson – Born in Bethany Beach, Delaware. She was an American poet and playwright born in Logan Utah. Swenson was the eldest of ten children in a Mormon household where Swedish was spoken regularly and English was a

second language. As a lesbian, she was shunned by her family for religious reasons. She is considered one of the most important and original poets of the 20th century. She and her partner, Pearl Schwartz, became known for the parties they hosted in their Perry St. apartment. Swenson divided her parties into two types — the “literary” parties and the “gay” parties — although there was quite a bit of crossover among the guests. She sold her first book, Another Animal (1954), on her 40th birthday.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

May 28, 1957

The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) was established. The NARAS is known for organizing the Grammy Awards.

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

1960 – First U.S. public gathering of lesbians, at San Francisco’s Daughters of Bilitis national convention. Daughters of Bilitis formed in San Francisco in 1955 by Del Martin (May 5, 1921 – August 27, 2008)and Phyllis Lyon(born November 10, 1924)as a social alternative to lesbian barswhich were subject to raids and police harassment. The DOB endured for 14 years as an educational resource for lesbians, gay men, researchers and mental health professionals.Bilitis is the name given to a fictional lesbian contemporary of Sapphoby the French poet Pierre Louÿs in his 1894 work The Songs of Bilitisin which Bilitis lives on the Isle of Lesbos alongside Sappho.

05-28-1960 Corine Mauch – Born in Iowa City, Iowa. Swiss Social Democrat politician. She is the first female and first openly gay person to be elected mayor of Zurich. She was

elected mayor in March 2009, after ten years on the city council. Mauch is the daughter of Ursula Mauch, who led the Social Democratic Party in the federal parliament. Mauch grew up in the canton of Aargau. In 2012 Mauch began the procedure to renounce her United States citizenship. Her office confirmed media reports of the renunciation in April 2013.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

1977

The album Barry Manilow Live debuted at #10.

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

05-28-1981 Aaron Schock – Born in Morris, Minnesota. He is a former American politician who was Republican U.S. Representative for Illinois’s

18th congressional district from 2009 until 2015. Schock resigned from Congress in March 2015 amid a scandal involving his use of public and campaign funds for his own personal use. In 2016, a federal grand jury indicted him. He and the prosecutors reached a plea agreement. All charges were dropped in return for a period of good behavior and payment of $100,000 in restitution. Schock had a voting record of consistently opposing LGBT rights. He came out as gay in March 2020.

1987 – Barney Frank (D. Mass) (born March 31, 1940) is the first US Congressperson to come out. In July 2012, he married his long-time partner, James Ready, becoming the first sitting member of Congress to marry someone of the same sex.

1987: Prominent gay actor, director and playwright Charles Ludlam dies of AIDS at age 44.

1987

Whitney Houston released her second studio album, “Whitney,” in Canada. It was issued in the U.S. five days later.

1988

Faith by George Michael was #1 for a ninth week on the Album chart but the former #1 “Dirty Dancing” Soundtrack held strong at #2

Elton John and Bernie Taupin won an Ivor Novello Award for their tribute to Princess Diana–“Candle in the Wind ’97”.

1989 – The Leather Pride flag, designed by Tony DeBlase (1942-July 21, 2000), debuts at the International Mister Leather event in Chicago.

90s: Slurs Reclaimed: Act Up! Lesbian Avengers and Queer Nation

1990, Tallinn, Estonia – The Estonian Academy of Sciences History Institute sponsors the first international conference on homosexuality and other sexual minorities to be held in the USSR. Gay British historian Jeffrey Weeks (born 1945)and Dutch sociologist Gert Hekma are among the attendees.

1997, France – Ma Vie En Rose(My Life in Pink) is released, telling the story of a transgender child. Thefilm was directed by Alain Berlinerand depicts Ludovic’s family struggling to accept this transgressive gender expression. The film was selected as the Belgian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 70th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. In the United States the film received an R rating by the Motion Picture Association of America, an unusual decision because the film has minimal sexual content, minimal violence, and mild language. Those opposed to the rating believe that the rating was the result of transphobia. The film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Filmas well as the Crystal Globe award at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

1998: U.S. President Bill Clinton signs Executive Order 13087 to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation in the competitive service of the federal civilian workforce.

1999 – Yahoo! takes over GeoCities for $357 billion from GeoCities gay developer David Bohnett (born April 2, 1956). Bohnett launched NetZero, PlanetOut and other internet companies. In addition, he has donated computers and accompanying funds for college and university LGBT centers. The first campus David Bohnett Cyber Center was launched at UCLA in 2004.

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

2003: Rick Perry, governor of the U.S. state of Texas, signs the Texas Defense of Marriage Act. The act allows Texas to deny recognition of same-sex marriages and other forms of same-sex partnerships performed in other states.

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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 her/history May 27

BCE to The Suffragettes

05-27-1912 – 06-18-1982 John Cheever – Born in Quincy, Massachusetts. American novelist and short story writer. He is now recognized as one of the most important short fiction writers of the 20th century. Cheever’s most remembered short stories include The Enormous Radio, Goodbye, My Brother,The Five-Forty-Eight, The Country Husband, and The Swimmer. He also wrote four novels: The Washout Chronicle (National Book

Award, 1958), The Washout Scandal (William Dean Howells Medal, (1965), Bullet Park (1969) and a novella Oh What a Paradise It Seems (1982). A compilation of his short stories, The Stories of John Cheever, won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and a National Book Critics Circle Award, and its first paperback edition won a 1981 National Book Award. Cheever was an alcoholic and filled with sexual guilt and self-loathing. Cheever had many sexual encounters with men, including the photographer Walker Evans and the writer Calvin Kentfield. He also hired male prostitutes. In 1975 his wife, Mary, drove him to the Smithers Alcoholism Treatment and Training Center in New York. The treatment worked and on May 7th, when he left Smithers, he never drank again. In an interview by Rachel Cooke, Cheever’s widow, Mary, said she always knew, deep down, what her husband was. When asked if she ever thought of leaving him, she replied, “Oh, yes. Quite often. But I couldn’t leave the children, and how could I have supported them?” She was then asked if she missed him after he was gone. Mary said, “Yes! I lived with him all my life. We didn’t always get on badly.” Ben, their son, said, “You were very important to him, as someone to adore, and someone to despise.” Mary replied, “His whole life was about writing, and I believed in what he was doing, and I wanted to support that. I don’t think he would have lived as long without me. I kept him alive.” It was to Ben that his father came out two weeks before he died. “What I wanted to tell you, Cheever said bluntly, “is that your father has had his cock sucked by quite a few disreputable characters…”

1917, UK – Major Michael Augustus Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers (27 May 1917 – December 1999) was a West Country landowner who gained notoriety in Britain in the 1950s when he was put on trial for buggery. This trial was instrumental in bringing public attention—and opposition—to the laws against homosexual acts as they then stood.

1919, Germany –Berlin doctor Magnus Hirschfeld (14 May 1868 – 14 May 1935)co-founds the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft(Institute for Sex Research), a pioneering private research institute and counseling office. Its library of thousands of books was destroyed by the Nazis in May of 1933.

05-27-1925 – 08-20-1988 Jean-Paul Aron – Born in Strasbourg, France. He was a French writer, philosopher, and journalist. His most notable work is Les Modernes, which was published in 1984.

Aron was a close friend of philosopher Michel Foucault in the early 1950s, before a falling out over a lover. Like Foucault, Aron died of AIDS and is widely credited for giving the disease a human face and challenging the public perception of the disease. During his lifetime, he published several historical works that examined middle-class social practices.

05-27-1926 – 09-24-2016 Wenche Bryn Lowzow – Born in Oslo, Norway. She is a Norwegian politician in the Conservative Party of Norway. She was a member of the Norwegian parliament as a representative from Oslo between 1977-1985. When same-sex civil unions were accepted by Norwegian law in 1993, Lowzow and her partner, author, and activist Karen-Christine Friele were among the first to formalize their relationship.

In 1952 she wrote “Spring Fire,” the first lesbian paperback novel which was the beginning of the lesbian pulp fiction genre. Her publisher made her change its ending from happy to tragic. The book sold 1.5 million copies. Marijane used the pseudonym Vin Packer among others. Using her own observations of lesbians, she wrote a series of nonfiction books about lesbians under the pen name Ann Aldrich from 1955 to 1972. She died in 1995. She wrote a series of nonfiction books about lesbians under the pen name Ann Aldrich from 1955 to 1972. In 1972 she switched genres and pen names once more to begin writing for young adults, and became quite successful as M.E. Kerr, producing over 20 novels and winning multiple awards including the American Library Association‘s lifetime award for young-adult literature, the ALA Margaret Edwards Award. She was described by The New York Times Book Review as “one of the grand masters of young adult fiction.” As Mary James, she wrote four books for younger children. Meaker was involved romantically with author Patricia Highsmith for two years. She wrote about this relationship in the 2003 nonfiction memoir, Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950s, and discussed it and her own pulp fiction novels in interviews around the time of the book’s release. Meaker explained her reasons behind writing about their relationship: “I knew Pat when she was young and not yet so jaded and bigoted. The internet is filled with stories of her meanness, and prejudice, and also of herintroversion, of her being a loner. I met that Pat many years after we broke up.”Meaker died in 1995.

1933

The Century of Progress Exposition (World’s Fair) opened in Chicago. Originally designed to celebrate the city’s centennial, it came to symbolize hope for the future of Chicago, and America, in the midst of the Great Depression.

05-27-1935 Karen-Christine (Kim) Friele – Born in Fana in Bergen, Norway. She is a Norwegian gay rights and human rights activist, famous for being the first Norwegian to publicly acknowledge and advocate her sexuality, in June 1965. Friele is credited for having influenced the abolishment of criminalization of homosexual acts in 1972 and for declassifying homosexuality as a psychiatric condition in 1978. She and Wenche Lowzow, a noted politician in the Conservative Party were among the first to formalize their partnership when same-sex unions were allowed in 1993. She has written several books on gay and human rights starting in 1972. In 2000 Friele was appointed a Knight 1st Class of the Order of St. Olav. A bust of her was unveiled in 2005 and is now placed at the main branch of the Oslo Public Library.

1937 – Approximately 200,000 bridge walkers attend the opening day of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. The bridge was considered a symbol of the gay community.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

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

1960: In San Francisco, the Daughters of Bilitis sponsors a three-day national convention of lesbians, perhaps the first public gathering focused on the topic of lesbianism in the United States.

May 27, 1963

Ruth Brown appeared at the Cafe Tia Juana in Cleveland. Brown was once asked by a reporter, “At what point did rhythm & blues start becoming rock ‘n’ roll?” Without hesitation she fired back: “When the white kids started to dance to it.”

May 27, 1964

Eleven young boys were suspended from a school in Coventry, England for having Mick Jagger style haircuts.

1967

USA LP CHarts: The Soundtrack to “The Sound of Music” was #6 and still in the Top 10 after 115 weeks,

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

May 27, 1974

already become superstars all over the rest of the world; ABBA debuted with their first single, “Waterloo” on the U.S. charts.

Backstage after a Jackson 5 show at the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas, 6-year-old Lisa Marie Presley was introduced to 15-year-old Michael Jackson.

1977: Wyoming repeals its laws against homosexual acts between consenting adults.

“Even Now” by Barry Manilow, then closeted, was the new #1 Adult Contemporary song.

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

1983

The Smiths were at No.1 on the UK independent chart with their debut single ‘Hand In Glove.’ The Smiths recorded the track after their manager Joe Moss paid £250 for a one-day recording session at Strawberry Studios in Stockport, England.

1987:

Lambda Book Report, the first periodical devoted exclusively to lesbian and gay literature, makes its debut.

With wife Tammy Faye weeping at his side, disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker goes on ABC’s Nightline to publicly refute charges of his sexual indiscretions, as well as accusations that he mismanaged funds from his once-thriving television ministry. He is eventually sentenced to 45 years in federal prison. Tammy Faye divorced him while he was serving his sentence, remarried, and became a prominent gay rights activist up until her death from cancer in 2007. Their son, Jay Bakker, is a gay-rights affirming pastor with his own congregation, Revolution Church.

90s: Slurs Reclaimed: Act Up! Lesbian Avengers and Queer Nation

05-27-1990 Chris Colfer – Born in Clovis, California, he is an American actor, singer, and writer known for his portrayal of Kurt Hummel on the television series Glee, for which he won a 2011 Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor. Also nominated for a 2011 Emmy. In an interview that aired July 13, 2014, he confirmed that he has a boyfriend. Colfer is an active supporter of the It Gets Better Campaign and The Trevor Project. He is also outspoken about the importance of adopting animals from shelters.

1993,

Russia – President Boris Yeltsin publishes a decree decriminalizing consensual adult male sodomy.

05-27-1994 Shawnacy “Shawn” Barber – Born in New Mexico, he grew up in Kincardine, Ontario, Canada. He is a Canadian track and field athlete specializing in the pole vault. Barber won the 2015 World Championship in Beijing, China. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Barber placed tenth in wet and windy condition.

In 2017, Barber came out as gay. He came out publicly on Face Book on April 24, 2017, when he wrote: “Gay and proud! Thank you to my parents for being such a great support. I continue to grow as a person and have a great support group. My parents are my greatest support and have helped me through a lot recently. To my friends, you are always my friends and I love you too!”

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

2003

Liza Minelli sang an a cappella version of “Liza With a Z” with Luciano Pavarotti live via satellite for a charity show on Italian television. She had been hospitalized two days early after falling and breaking her right kneecap.

05-27-2005

Robbie Williams was voted into first place beating Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix and David Bowie to be named the best live solo artist. A UK nation-wide survey of 5,000 people saw the former Take That star beat music icons including Madonna, Michael Jackson and Bob Dylan. U2 were named best live band, ahead of Queen and Oasis, in a poll by Carling to celebrate the UK’s live music scene.

C.R.A.Z.Y. – Initial release date of the French-language Canadian film from Quebec. The film was directed and co-written by Jean-Marc Vallée. It tells the story of Zac, a young gay man dealing with homophobia while growing up with four brothers and a conservative father in Quebec during the 1960s and 1970s.

2006,

Russia – First attempt at Moscow pride. The march accompanying a gay rights forum was banned. Some activists try to march despite the ban. Neo-Nazi groups and Orthodox protesters threaten the gay activists and beat the marchers. About 50 marchers and 20 protesters are arrested. In 2016, arrests took place during Moscow’s 10th Gay Pride Parade, an event that officials have banned every year of its existence. In previous years, police quickly dispersed the demonstrations, and again protesters were quickly arrested and hauled into waiting vans.

Unnamed Common Oppressor VS: Heterosexual women VS Trans vs LGB/

2016

In Chicago, Beyoncé continued her Formation World Tour with a concert at Soldier Field.

2017

Cher’s ex husband, Gregg Allman, guitarist and keyboard player for The Allman Brothers Band died due to complications from liver cancer at the age of 69.

2018 – Connie Kurtz (1936-May 27, 2018) died in West Palm Beach, Florida. Ruthie Berman (born 1934) and Connie Kurtz are American LGBT rights activists. As a couple, they successfully sued the New York City Board of Education for domestic partner benefits, winning such benefits for all New York City employees. Both women were born in Brooklyn, Berman in 1934 and Kurtz in 1936. They met in the late 1950s and became friends, both married to men and had children at the time. Kurtz moved to Israel with her family in 1970, and when she returned to visit America in 1974, she and Ruthie fell in love. They divorced their husbands and became a couple. “Forty-two years we have been ‘significant others,’ we have been ‘life partners,’ we have been any name at the time fitting couples of the same sex,” Connie said. “We now are ‘spouses.’ ’’ They married on July 26, 2011 in New York City — two days after the state legalized same-sex marriage.Known in the gay world as “Ruthie and Connie,” they received the SAGE Pioneer Award in 2016, presented by Services & Advocacy For GLBT Elders, the country’s largest and oldest organization for LGBT seniors.The 2017 Ruthie and Connie LGBT Elder Americans Act was endorsed by SAGE USA, National Center for Transgender Equality, and National LGBTQ Task Force.In 2002 a documentary titled “Ruthie and Connie: Every Room in the House,” directed by Deborah Dickson, was made about their lives.. The film premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2002, and won six best documentary awards within a year. The Ruth Berman and Connie Kurtz Papers are held in the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College.

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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 Her/History May 26

BCE to The Suffragettes

May 26, 1835

The U.S. Congress passed a resolution declaring it had no authority over state slavery laws.

05-26-1877 – 09-14-1927 Isadora Duncan – Born in San Francisco, California. She was an American-French dancer known for her innovative dance and choreography, she’s known as “The Mother of Dance.”

Duncan was bisexual. She married Sergei Yesenin in 1922. They separated in 1923. Duncan had two children out of wedlock. In 1913, both children drowned while in the care of their nanny. Duncan spent several months recuperating in Corfu with her brother and sister. She then spent several weeks at the Viareggio seaside resort with the lesbian actress Eleonora Duse. Duncan had a relationship with the poet and playwright Mercedes de Acosta. Letters between the two document their affair. In one, Duncan wrote, “Mercedes, lead me with your little strong hands and I will follow you — to the top of a mountain. To the end of the world. Wherever you wish.” On September 14, 1927, in Nice, France, her scarf became entangled in the wheels and axle of the car in which she was riding and broke her neck.

May 26, 1913

In New York City, the Actors’ Equity Association was organized.

5-26-1925 – 02-06-2017 Alex McCowen – Born Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. He was an English actor known for his work in numerous film andstage productions.

Films include A Night to Remember (1958), Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy, Travels With My Aunt (1972, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe), and Never Say Never Again (1983). His partner, Geoffrey Burridge, died from AIDS complications in 1987.

McCowen died in 2017 at age 91.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

05-26-1944 – Emily C. Hewitt – Born in Baltimore, Maryland. Former Judge of United States Court of Federal Claims, appointed by President Clinton on October 22, 1998. In 2006, she was appointed by Chief Justice John Roberts to serve on the Financial Disclosure Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States.

President Obama designated Hewitt to serve as Chief Judge on March 11, 2009. She served as Chief Judge until October 21, 2013, when her 15-year term as judge of the Court ended. She was one of the first of eleven women ordained to the Episcopal priesthood in 1974. In addition to hundreds of legal opinions, Hewitt is the author and co-author of more than two dozen publications on legal and religious topics. She is married to Eleanor D. Acheson, who served as Assistant Attorney General of the United States during the Clinton Administration.

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

05-26-1951 – 07-23-2012 Sally Ride – Born in Los Angeles, California. She was the first United States woman astronaut. Ride joined NASA in 1978 and, at the age of 32, became the first American woman in space and still remains the youngest American astronaut to travel to space. After flying twice on the space shuttle Challenger, she left NASA in 1987. She worked for two years at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Arms Control, then the University of California, San Diego as a professor of physics.

She served on the committees that investigated the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters, the only person to participate in both. Ride was extremely private about her personal life. She married fellow NASA astronaut Steve Hawley in 1982; they divorced in 1987. After her death, her obituary revealed that Ride’s partner of 27 years was Tam O’Shaughnessy, a professor emerita of school psychology at San Diego State University. They were childhood friends and met when both were aspiring tennis players. O’Shaughnessy and Ride wrote six acclaimed children’s science books together. Ride died of pancreatic cancer on July 23, 2012. She is the first known Lesbian in space and known as the first woman to walk in space.

05-26-1954 Alan Hollinghurst – Born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. He is an English novelist, poet, short story writer, and translator.

In 1989 he won the Somerset Maugham Award and in 2004 he won the Booker Prize. From 1985 to 1990, he was The Times Literary Supplement‘s deputy editor.

Hollinghurst is openly gay.

1956

Liberace gave a three-hour solo piano performance for an audience of 16,000 at New York City’s Madison Square Garden.

05-26-1957 Ulrike Lunacek – Born in Krems an der Donau, Austria. She is an Austrian politician. She attended school in Vienna and in Boone, Iowa.

From 1999 to 2009she was a member of parliament and the Green group’s spokeswoman on foreign and development policy as well as equality for lesbians, gays and transgender persons. She was the first openly lesbian politician in the Austrian Parliament. In 2009 she was awarded the Grand Gold Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria. The Rosa Courage Award was given to her in 2013. She came out in 1980. Since 1994 she has been living with a woman from Peru.

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

May 26, 1972

Elton John released the album Honky Chateau in the United States (he had released the LP on May 19 in the U.K.)

1973

Elton John’s “Daniel” reached #3

May 26, 1975

Janis Ian released her poignant song “At Seventeen”.

1977 – Officers of the National Gay (later: and Lesbian) Task Force Bruce Voeller (1934-Feb. 13, 1994)and Jean O’Leary (March 4, 1948 – June 4, 2005) and other leaders-including Pokey Anderson, Charles Brydon, Charlotte Bunch (born October 13, 1944), Frank Kameny (May 21, 1925 – October 11, 2011), Cookie Lutkefedder, Mary Mendola, Elaine Noble (born January 22, 1944), Rev. Troy Perry July 27, 1940, Betty Powell, George Raya (born April 23, 1949), Myra Riddell (1927 -Jan. 11, 2008), and Charlotte Spitzer meet with President Carter aide Midge Costanza (November 28, 1932 – March 23, 2010). The meeting marks the first official discussion of gay and lesbian rights in the White House.

1978

Donna Summer co-hosted The Midnight Special.

1979

Bette Midler appeared on Saturday Night Live on NBC-TV.

USA song charts: Donna Summer was a solid #2 with “Hot Stuff”. While–“We Are Family” from Sister Sledge, which leapt from 13 to 6

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

1968 – born: Transgender Kim Coco Iwamoto would later run in Hawaii’s August 11, 2018, primary election as a Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor. Iwamoto has been recognized as an activist, editorialist, policymaker, advocate, and philanthropist, with recent positions including role as a commissioner on the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission and as a member of the Hawaii Board of Education. Iwamoto was also recognized as a Champion of Change by President Barack Obama. When elected to the Hawaii Board of Education, attained the highest ranking of an openly transgender elected official in the United States as well as the first openly transgender official to win statewide office

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

05-26-1987 Tooji (b. Touraj Keshtkar) – Born in Shiraz, Iran, moved to Norway when he was one year old. He is an Iranian-Norwegian singer, painter, model, and television host.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in child welfare. Tooji has worked in asylum reception centers helping children and teenage refugees and victims of human trafficking. In June 2015, he came out as gay to the Norwegian website Gaysir, stating that he hoped he could make it easier for young gay people by being open about his own sexuality. He is also a supporter of women’s rights.

1988

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical “Cats” opened in Moscow with a British and American cast.

Surgeon General C. Everett Koop oversees the first national education campaign regarding HIV/AIDS.The first mailing, Understanding Aids, is mailed nationally on this day. The mailing focused on debunking the myth that HIV/AIDS only affected males and the LGBT community.

90s: Slurs Reclaimed: Act Up! Lesbian Avengers and Queer Nation

1990

For the first time ever the Top five positions on the US singles chart were held by female artists; Madonna was at No.1 with ‘Vogue’, Heart were at No.2, Sinead O’Connor No.3, Wilson Phillips at No.4 and Janet Jackson was at No.5

1996

George Michael had the #1 album in the U.K. with Older.

1999

It was announced that the Backstreet Boys album “Millennium” had sold 1.13 million units in its first week of release.

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

2004

Celine Dion returned to Caesars Palace in Las Vegas after a neck injury forced her to postpone performances for two weeks.

2005

Mariah Carey registered her 16th #1 song, “We Belong Together”, leaving her two shy of Elvis Presley for #2 all-time to the Beatles.

2009: The California Supreme Court issues its ruling in Strauss v. Horton, upholding Proposition 8 by a 6–1 vote but ruling that the marriages performed before the measure took effect remain legal and valid.

Unnamed Common Oppressor VS: Heterosexual women VS Trans vs LGB/

2019, Kenya – The government of Kenya reaffirms imprisonment of 5 to 14 years of LGBT people. Nearly every country in Africa is vehemently anti-gay, some with calls for penalty of death. The exception is South Africa which has full inclusion of LGBT people.

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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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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 May 25

BCE to The Suffragettes

1895: Oscar Wilde is convicted of gross indecency and sentenced to two years’ hard labour. Gross indecency is a crime under the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1885, meaning homosexual acts not amounting to buggery. He was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London’s most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. Wilde is found guilty of gross indecency and is sentenced to two years’ hard labor. The international publicity given his trial brings awareness of the existence of homosexuality to a new high.

1913: Colonel Alfred Redl, former chief of Austrian counterintelligence, commits suicide when it becomes known that he has been blackmailed, on account of his homosexuality, into working for the Russians for the past year. Later in the century, the Redl affair will be cited by U.S. senators as evidence of the security risk homosexuals pose.

1927

At the Sam Harris Theatre in New York City, Movietone News was shown for the first time. These newsreels were produced for showing in theaters until 1967 when television competition led to their extinction.

05-25-1937 – 02-22-2019 Victor J. Banis – Born in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. He was an American author and has been called “the

godfather of modern popular gay fiction.” His first published work was a short story, Broken Record, that appeared in the Swiss gay publication Der Kreis in 1963. His novel, The Affairs of Gloria, a heterosexual romance with a few lesbian scenes was published in 1964 by Los Angeles publisher, Brandon House. The novel was indicted by a federal grand jury in Sioux City, Iowa, for conspiracy to distribute obscene materials. Banis was acquitted. In 1966, his gay novel, The Man from C.A.M.P. was published and was so successful, that he went on to write eight sequels. This was the first gay mystery series ever published. And the C.A.M.P. novels depicted the first openly out and joyfully unrestrained gay hero in American fiction. Banis was openly gay. He passed away in 2019 from liver cancer.

05-25-1939 Sir Ian McKellen, CH, CBE – English actor born in Burnley, Lancashire, United Kingdom. He is the recipient of six Laurence Olivier Awards, a Tony Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a BIF Award, two Saturn Awards, four Drama Desk Awards, and two Critics’ Choice Awards. He has also received two

Academy Award nominations and five Emmy Award nominations. McKellen’s work spans genres ranging from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction. His notable film roles include Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies as well as Magneto in the X-Men films. He was knighted in 1991 for services to the performing arts. McKellen and his first serious partner, Brian Taylor, a history teacher from Bolton, began their relationship in 1964 and ended in 1972. In 1978 he met his second partner, Sean Mathias, at the Edinburgh Festival. This relationship lasted until 1988. While McKellen had made his sexual orientation known to his fellow actors early on in his stage career, it was not until 1988 that he came out to the general public. He is very active in LGBT rights. He is a co-founder of Stonewall, an LGBT lobby group in the United Kingdom, named after the Stonewall riots. He is also patron of LGBT History Month, Pride London, GAY-GLOS, The Lesbian & Gay Foundation, and FFLAG where he appears in their video “Parents Talking.”

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

05-25-1959 Julian Clary – Born in Surbiton, Surrey, England. He is an English comedian, actor, presenter, and novelist. He began appearing on

television in the mid-1980s. In 2012, he was the winner of Celebrity Big Brother. Clary often performs comical renditions of musical numbers in his stage and television appearances. He released a music single in 1988, a humorous rendition of Leader of the Pack. It reached no. 60 in the UK Singles Chart. He is married to Ian Mackley. The couple have been together since 2005 and married on November 19, 2016. They live at Goldenhurst Farm, a seventeenth-century manor house once owned by Noël Coward.

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

05-25-1969 Stacy London – Born in New York City, New York. She is of Sicilian descent on the mother’s side and Jewish descent on the father’s side. She is an American stylist/fashion consultant, author, and magazine editor and is best-known as co-host on What Not to Wear, a reality TV show.

On December 31, 2019, she announced that she was in her first serious relationship with a woman, musician Cat Yezbak, for over a year. On her Instagram, she wrote, “So I used to date men. Now I date her.”

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

1977:

The San Francisco school board votes 7 to 0 to include materials on homosexuality in the sex education curriculum of the city’s public schools.

An early-morning fire at New York City’s Everard Baths leaves nine men dead and seven others critically injured. Fire officials later blame the blaze on a smoldering mattress in one of the baths’ cubicles, and on the absence of a working sprinkler system in the building.

1978:

More than fifteen thousand gay men and lesbians attend a special “Gay Night” at Disneyland to benefit the Los Angeles Gay Community Services Center. It is the largest private party the theme park has ever had. It represented one of the first times gay people congregated in these numbers outside a gay pride parade.The current “Gay Day” at Disney World in Orlando began in 1991 and is held on the first Sunday in June. The first documented event, in 1991, had 3,000 gays and lesbians from central Florida going to area theme parks on one day wearing red shirts to make their presence more visible. Disney does not sanction Gay Days and officially tells employees to treat it as any other summer day.

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

05-25-1981 Anette Trettebergstuen – Born in Hamar, Norway. She is a Norwegian politician. She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Hedmark in 2005,

representing the Labour Party. Trettebergstuen was the out openly lesbian politician in the Norwegian Parliament. In January 2008, the Norwegian website Gaysir named her Norway’s second most powerful lesbian.

1985

Wham!’s “Everything She Wants” hits #1 in the US, making them the first group since the Bee Gees to have three #1 hits from the same album.

05-25-1986 Neon Hitch – She is an English singer and songwriter. Born in Kingston-Upon-Thames, United Kingdom. Neon is her real name — her father is a lighting technician. When their house burned down, her mother, Irene Gardiner, bought a

caravan to live in. They then began street performing, making and selling jewelry and clothing around Europe. Consequently, Neon never attended school. By the age of four, she was traveling and performing with the Archaos circus. At age ten, she began writing poetry which led to her writing lyrics. Her family was featured in a BBC documentary. She has many tattoos including one that says “Gypsy” on her wrist, which represents her caravan upbringing and Romani ancestry. Hitch met Amy Winehouse at a party and told Amy that she was homeless. Amy took her in and helped her get her act together before she went to New York to record. Hitch said, “She was like a big sister to me. I owe her a lot for that. I am absolutely devastated about what happened. Her spirit will live on forever.” Hitch is openly bisexual.

90s: Slurs Reclaimed: Act Up! Lesbian Avengers and Queer Nation

1991

Billboard implements SoundScan technology on their Albums chart, replacing the decades-old system that relied on record stores to report sales figures. With SoundScan, the sales are tracked electronically, providing much more accurate data.

1994

– Barbra Streisand postponed the first night of a six-night stand in Anaheim, CA. She had come down with viral laryngitis.

1995: In Egan v. Canada the Supreme Court of Canada rules that sexual orientation is a prohibited ground of discrimination under Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, a part of the constitution. Section 15 does not explicitly list sexual orientation, but is designed to permit the addition of new grounds by the courts. The ruling will have a wide impact since Section 15 applies to all laws, including human rights laws that prohibit discrimination by all employers, landlords, service providers and governments.

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

2004

Nineteen-year-old Avril Lavigne releases her second album, Under My Skin, with the hits “Don’t Tell Me” and “My Happy Ending.” It sells 3 million copies in America.

Madonna cancelled three shows in Israel after terrorists threatened to kill her and her kids. A spokesperson said she was targeted because she symbolises the West and not because she practises the Jewish faith Kabbalah.

2007: Colorado and Iowa ban discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity in the private sector.

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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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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 May 24

BCE to The Suffragettes

1610: The Virginia Colony passes the first anti-sodomy law of the American colonial period.

05-24-1883 – 11-01-1963 Elsa Maxwell – Born in Keokuk, Iowa. She was

an American gossip columnist, author, songwriter, and professional hostess best known for her parties for royalty and the famous. She was raised in San Francisco. Maxwell had a gift for staging games and diversions at parties for the rich and famous and began making money by devising treasure-hunt parties, come-as-your-opposite parties, and more. In 1927, she had a scavenger hunt in Paris that created disturbances all over the city. In Venice in the early 1920s, her parties attracted stars like Cole Porter, Tallulah Bankhead, Noël Coward, and Fanny Brice. Cole Porter was a life-long friend and she is mentioned in several of his songs.

Following WWII, she had an audience of millions as a newspaper gossip columnist. Maxwell was responsible for the success of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen. She was a closeted lesbian who publicly condemned homosexuality despite having an almost fifty-year relationship with Scottish singer Dorothy Fellowes-Gordon. The two met in 1912 and remained together until her death in 1963.

1919: Anders als die Andern (“Different from the Others“), the first pro gay film, premieres in Berlin. Magnus Hirschfeld is a producer and makes a cameo appearance. The movie stars Conrad Veidt and is screened for members of the press at the Apollo Theater in Berlin. The film is about a romantic relationship between two men and intended to educate viewers of the hardships faced by homosexuals under Germany’s recently enacted anti-sodomy laws. It starred Conrad Veidtand Reinhold Schünzel. It was co-written by Richard Oswald and Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld(14 May 1868 – 14 May 1935)who also had a small part in the film and partially funded the production through his Institute for Sexual Science, with the aim of presenting the story as a polemic against the then-current laws under Germany’s Paragraph 175, which made homosexuality a criminal offense. The film was banned across Germany in 1920.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

05-24-1946 – 03-29-2013 Cheryl Chow – Born in Seattle, Washington, she was one of the most respected Asian-American leaders in Washington state.

From 1990 – 1997, she served as a Seattle City Council Member. In 2012 she revealed on KING-TV that she’s lesbian. – a secret she kept her whole life. She and her partner Sarah Morningstar had been together for more than 10 years.

She died of brain cancer at 66.

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

1953: A Mattachine Foundation circular estimates total membership in the society at over 2,000. There are almost 100 different discussion groups meeting in California from San Diego to the Bay Area.

May 24, 1956

The first Eurovision Song Contest was held in Lugano, Switzerland. The event was the brainchild of Marcel Baisoncon of the European Broadcasting Union. Seven countries participated and they were each allowed two songs. Both Luxembourg and the winner Switzerland used the same singer for both. Switzerland won with ‘Refrain’ by Lys Assia.

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

May 24, 1966

The original Broadway production of the musical “Mame,” starring Angela Lansbury, Bea Arthur, Jane Connell, Willard Waterman and George Coe, opened at New York’s Winter Garden Theatre for 1508 performances.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

05-24-1972 Greg Berlanti – Born in Rye, New York. He is an

American film and television writer, producer, and director. He is well known for his work on the television series Dawson’s Creek, Everwood, Political Animals, Arrow, The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow. Berlanti co-wrote and co-produced the DC Comics film Green Lantern. Berlanti has been in a relationship with LA Galaxy soccer player Robbie Rogers since mid-2013. On February 18, 2016, the couple welcomed their first son via surrogacy.

1974 – From the USSR comes a rare public acknowledgment of the country’s repressive policies against gay men and lesbians. American news services report that noted film director Sergei Paradzhanov (January 9, 1924 – July 20, 1990)has been given six years’ hard labor for crimes including “partial homosexuality” and “incitement to suicide.” In 1948 he was convicted of homosexual acts (which were illegal at the time in the Soviet Union) with a MGB officer named Nikolai Mikava in Tbilisi. He was sentenced to five years in prison, but was released under an amnesty after three months. He is one of all estimated 1,000 persons arrested each year on charges related to homosexuality.

David Bowie released his eighth studio album Diamond Dogs. The cover art features Bowie as a striking half-man, half-dog grotesque painted by Belgian artist Guy Peellaert. It was controversial as the full painting clearly showed the hybrid’s genitalia.

1976: Armistead Maupin’s serialized story, Tales of the City, premieres in The San Francisco Chronicle.

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

1980

Bette Midler remained at #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart for the third week with “The Rose”.

1988, UK – Section 28 is enacted. It states that local authorities “shall not intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality,” or teach of the acceptance “of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship.” It was repealed on June 21, 2000 in Scotland by the Ethical Standards in Public Life etc. (Scotland) Act 2000, one of the first pieces of legislation enacted by the new Scottish Parliament, and on November 18, 2003 in the rest of the United Kingdom by section 122 of the Local Government Act 2003.

“Greatest Love Of All” from Whitney Houston was #1 for the fifth straight week.

Whitney Houston continued to top the Album chart in its 61st week on the chart

05-24-1988 Billy Gilman (born William Wendell Gilman III) – Born in Westerly, Rhode Island. He is an American country music artist. In 2000, at the age of 11, he debuted with the single “One Voice”, a Top 20 hit on the country music charts. He is the youngest

singer to do so. An album of the same name was released later that year on Epic Records and was certified Double Platinum in the United States. In a video posted on November 20, 2014, Gilman came out as gay and stated that he had been with his current boyfriend, Chris Meyer, for five months. Gilman said he was “scared to death” of the announcement and the implications it could have on his career. “It’s difficult for me to make this video, not because I’m ashamed of being a gay male artist, or a gay artist or a gay person, but it’s pretty silly to know that I’m ashamed of doing this knowing that I’m in a genre and an industry that’s ashamed of me for being me.”

90s: Slurs Reclaimed: Act Up! Lesbian Avengers and Queer Nation

1993 – Open lesbian Roberta Achtenberg (born July 20, 1950) becomes Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development(HUD). She is the first openly lesbianor gaypublic official in the United States whose appointment to a federal position was confirmed by the United States Senate.

1997

faux lesbian marketed The Spice Girls went to No.1 on the US album chart with ‘Spice’, making them only the third all girl group to do so after The Supremes and The Go-Go’s and the first ever UK girl group to do so. The new single from that album Spice became one of the highest debuting songs of the rock era. “Say You’ll Be There” from the Girls entered the chart at #5.

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

1999

Queen singer Freddie Mercury, who died in 1991, was honoured on a new set of millennium stamps issued by the Royal Mail. Mercury, who featured on the 19p stamp, was a keen stamp collector, and his collection was bought by the Post Office in 1993. The stamp marked his contribution to the Live Aid charity concert in 1985, and caused controversy by featuring a small portion of Queen’s drummer, Roger Taylor, in the background – UK stamps by tradition only carry pictures of living persons who are members of the Royal Family.

David Bowie wrote and recorded the song “What’s Really Happening” during a live Webcast. The song appeared on the album “hours.”

2004

Madonna kicked off the North American leg of her Re-invention World Tour by playing three sold out nights at The Los Angeles Forum. The tour became the top grossing of the year, with ticket sales of nearly $125 million, with over 900,000 fans attending the 60 date tour. As a follower of the Kabbalah, Madonna didn’t play any Friday night gigs as the teaching of the religion forbids it.

2006

Elton John accepted 100,000 pounds ($188,000) in libel damages from London’s Daily Mail newspaper over allegations that he asked guests not to approach him at a charity ball.

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2011:

A judge in Wharton, Texas rules that a transgender woman is still legally male and invalidates a marriage to a biological male.

2019

Taiwan is the first country in Asia to legalize same–sex marriage.

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Understood as noting to be debated, quibbled nor negotiated.

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

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from my original blog:

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

see also:

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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

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.

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LGBTQ2 her/his story for May 23

BCE to The Suffragettes

1791, France – France creates a new law system where rape is the only punishable sex crime. Sodomy, a former capital offense, is not included, leading France to be the first country to decriminalize sex between men.

05-23-1904 – 06-18-1971 Libby Holman – Born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was an American Jewish torch singer and stage actress who also achieved notoriety for her personal life. Bisexual, she preferred the company of gay men. Two of her three most significant relationships were with self-proclaimed lesbians, the DuPont Heiress Louisa d’Andelot Carpenter and writer Jane Bowles. She also had an affair with

actress Jeanne Eagels. Her third most important relationship was with actor Montgomery Clift, although it is believed in most circles that they were just close friends. Holman was always involved with what became known as the Civil Rights Movement. During WWII, she tried to book shows for the servicemen with her friend, Josh White, but they were turned down on the grounds that “we don’t book mixed company.” (Josh White was African-American). In the 1940s, she and Josh White started rehearsals in a New York club. She arrived at the front door, Josh White was directed to the staff entrance. Libby waited until they were due to open after the owners had spent a vast amount on publicity, and told them that she was not going to sing until their club changed their racial door policy. She won. In 1959, she financed a trip to India for Martin Luther King, Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King, both of whom became close friends of Holman. Holman was also credited with inventing or wearing the first strapless gown.

05-23-1908 – 11-15-1942 Anne Marie Clarac-Schwarzenbach – Born in Bocken, near Zurich, Switzerland. She was a Swiss writer, journalist, photographer, and traveler. Her father was a wealthy businessman in the silk industry; her mother was the daughter of a Swiss general and descended from German aristocracy. From an early age, she began to dress and act like a boy, a behavior not discouraged by her parents, and which she retained all her life.

In 1930 she had a relationship with Erika Mann (the daughter of Thomas Mann). Although the relationship didn’t last long, they remained friends. She moved to Berlin and became friends with Klaus Mann (Erika’s brother) and she started using drugs. She led a fast life in the bustling, decadent, artistic city of Berlin towards the close of the Weimar Republic. Her androgynous beauty fascinated and attracted both men and women. Her lifestyle ended with the Nazi take-over in 1933. Tensions with her family increased when she refused to renounce her friendship with the Manns. Her circle of friends included Jews and political refugees from Germany. In 1935, while in Persia, despite being a lesbian, she married the French diplomat Claude Clarac, also gay. In 1937 and 1938 her photographs documented the rise of Fascism in Europe – she was a committed anti-Fascist. In 1939, in an effort to combat her drug addiction, she embarked on an overland trip to Afghanistan with ethnologist Ella Maillart. They were in Kabul when WW II broke out. The trip is described by Maillart in her book The Cruel Way, which was dedicated to Anne Marie. It was made into a movie, The Journey to Kafiristan, in 2001. Anne Marie is reported to have had affairs with the daughter of the Turkish Ambassador in Teheran and a female archaeologist in Turkmenistan. On September 7, 1942, in the Engadin (a long valley in the Swiss Alps), she fell from her bicycle and sustained a serious head injury. Following a mistaken diagnosis in the clinic where she was treated, she died on November 15. Because her mother disliked her friends, including her husband, she forbid them from visiting her during her final days. After her death, her mother destroyed all her letters and diaries. A friend of Anne Marie took care of her writings and photographs, which were later archived in the Swiss Literary Archives in Bern.

05-23-1910 – 11-13-1952 Margaret Wise Brown – Born in Brooklyn, New York. She was a prolific American writer of children’s books, including the picture book Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny. In the 1950s, she wrote several books for the Little Golden Book series. She had numerous

affairs with both men and women. Most notable was her long-term relationship with Blanche Oelrichs, the former wife of John Barrymore. In early 1952, she became engaged to James Stallman Rockefeller, Jr. Later that year, while on a book tour in Nice, France, she died unexpectedly of an embolism. By the time of her death, she had written over one hundred books.

1920 – Harvard establishes a committee to investigate homosexual activity on campus. The tribunal becomes known as the Secret Court of 1920. Records of the tribunal are discovered in 2002. Many of those interrogated were never charged and have not been identified. In 2002, a researcher from The Crimson, the school’s undergraduate daily newspaper, came across a box of files labeled “Secret Court” in the University Archives. After a protracted campaign on the part of the paper’s staff, the university released five hundred documents relating to the Court’s work. An article by Amit R. Paley in The Crimson’s weekly magazine Fifteen Minutes reported the 1920 events on November 21, 2002.

1921

“Shuffle Along” 1st black musical comedy, opens in NYC

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

05-23-1945 — 11-16-2017 Ben Dillingham III – Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, the descendant of a wealthy railroad and construction family. He

served as a Marine during the Vietnam War. In 1993, he became the first acknowledged gay elected official in San Diego, California, serving on the City Council. He became a top aide for San Diego Mayor Maureen O’Connor. As O’Connor’s gatekeeper, Dillingham had a reputation for toughness but he was also loyal to his co-workers, once taking a cut in pay so that others in his office could get raises. Dillingham later became a leader in community organizations dedicated to LGBT rights and to fight against AIDS, which claimed the lives of three of his partners. He once said, “Until we all come out of the closet, it will not be safe for any of us”. He died on November 16, 2017, from cancer.

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

1953 – When the Mattachine Society reconvenes to approve a constitution, it refuses to seat delegates associated with the Communist Party, including Chuck Rowland (Aug. 24, 1917-Dec. 27, 1990), one of the original 1950 Mattachine founders. For the remainder of the decade, the society pursues a low profile, non-confrontational approach to winning societal acceptance of lesbians and gay men. Rowland founded Celebration Theatre in Los Angeles. The Mattachine Society, founded in 1950, was one of the earliest LGBT (gay rights) organizations in the United States, probably second only to the short-lived Society for Human Rightsin Chicago (1923). Communist and labor activist Harry Hay(April 7, 1912 – October 24, 2002)formed the group with a collection of male friends including Chuck Rowland in Los Angeles to protect and improve the rights of gay men. Branches formed in other cities and by 1961 the Society had splintered into regional groups. In 2002, Mattachine Midwest was inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame. A new Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C. was formed in 2011 and is dedicated to original archival research of LGBT political history.

05-23-1958 Lea DeLaria – Born in Belleville, Illinois, DeLaria is an American comedian, actress, and jazz musician. She was the first openly gay comic to break the late-night-talk-show barriers with her 1993 appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show. On the show, DeLaria said, “It’s the 1990s…it’s hip to be queer, and I’m a bi-i-i-i-ig dike!” In December 1993 she hosted Comedy Central’s Out There, the

first all-gay stand-up comedy special. She has released two CD recording of her comedy, Bulldyke in a China Shop (1994) and Box Lunch (1997). She has also written a humorous book entitled Lea’s Book of Rules for the World. Since 2013, she has appeared in the Netflix Original Orange is the New Black as prison inmate Carrie ‘Big Boo’ Black. On February 14, 2015, DeLaria received the Equality Illinois Freedom Award for her work as “a cutting-edge performer who used her talent to entertain and enlighten millions of Americans,” said Bernard Cherkasov, CEO of Equality Illinois. DeLaria said, ”As an out performer for over 33 years who has made it her life’s work to change peoples perception of butch, queer, and LGBT, it is an honor for me to receive such recognition from my home state.”

05-23-1958 Pekka Haavisto – Born in Helsinki, he is a Finnish politician and minister representing the Green League. Haavisto was the first openly gay candidate and the first candidate to have served

in non-military service instead of the regular military service to make it to the second round of presidential elections in Finland. Haavisto lives in a registered partnership with Antonio Flores, who originally comes from Ecuador.

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

May 23, 1960

“Finian’s Rainbow” opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 12 performances

05-23-1961 Norrie May-Welby – Born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. She is a Scottish-Australian transgender person who pursued the legal

status of being neither a man nor a woman form 2010 to 2o14. The High Court of Australia ruled in April 2014 that the NSW Registry of Births, Deaths, and Marriages to record the sex of Norrie was ‘non-specific’. Norrie prefers the term androgynous and does not mind being referred to as she or her. In 2019 she published an autobiographical book, Ultrasex (Beyond Division).

1964

Dusty Springfield released the single “Wishin’ And Hopin’”.

05-23-1968 Guinevere Turner – Born in Boston, Massachusetts. She is an American actress, writer, and director. She is one of the most recognizable faces in lesbian cinema. Turner was producer, as well as star,

of the classic lesbian film Go Fish. She’s appeared in The L Word as Alice’s ex-girlfriend and has written numerous screenplays, including Blood Rayne, The Notorious Bettie Page, and American Psycho.

1969 – In this day’s issue of the American porno magazine Screw, a column appears by Jack Nichols and Lige Clarke using the term homophobiato refer to straight men’s fear that they might be gay. Screw is usually a straight man’s magazine. John Richard “Jack” Nichols Jr. (March 16, 1938 – May 2, 2005) was a gay rights activist who co-founded the Washington, D.C. branch of the Mattachine Society in 1961 with Franklin E. Kameny(May 21, 1925 – October 11, 2011). He and his partner Lige Clarke(February 22, 1942 − February 10, 1975), began writing the column “The Homosexual Citizen” for Screw magazinein 1968. It was the first LGBT-interest column in a non-LGBT publication. As a result of this column, Nichols and Clarke became known as “The most famous gay couple in America.”

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

1973 – Prescott Townsend (June 24, 1894 – May 23, 1973) was an American cultural leader and gay rights activist, from the 1930s through the early 1970s. In the 1950s, he held meetings at his home/bookstore, which he described as “the first social discussion of homosexuality in Boston”. He founded a Boston chapter of the Mattachine Societythough after the group grew, he was forced out. In talks in Boston and Provincetown he promoted his “Snowflake Theory” of human personality and sexuality, stating that the human mind is like a snowflake in that no two are alike, and each has six opposing sides: I/You, He/She, Hit/Submit. Townsend had been suffering from failing health brought on by Parkinson’s Disease.

1975:

May 23, 1975

Elton John’s “Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy” album was released, the first to be certified a million-seller on its first day of release and first album to debut at #1, where it stayed for seven weeks.

“As you no doubt expected, I am declining your invitation to participate in the celebration of ‘GAY PRIDE WEEK.’ While I support your organization’s constitutional right to express your feelings on the subject of homosexuality, I am obviously not in sympathy with your views on the subject. I would much rather celebrate ‘GAY CONVERSION WEEK,’ which I will gladly sponsor when the medical practitioners in this country find a way to convert gays to heterosexuals. Very truly yours . . . “
— Letter from L.A.’s notoriously homophobic police chief, Ed Davis, to Sharon D. Cornelison, President of Christopher Street West Association, the organizers of Los Angeles’ Gay Pride Week

1979

The Third Barry Manilow Special airs on ABC-TV.

Sister Sledge’s “We Are Family” goes Platinum. The album’s title track, a #2 hit last month, while it might have been a rallying call for baseball’s Pittsburgh Pirates, who will go on to win the 1979 World Series in October; the song is more known as a lesbian anthem.

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

1982

The Central London chapter of the British Musicians Union puts forth a resolution to ban synthesizers and rhythm machines from all recording sessions and live engagements. The proposal was defeated.

1985

It was “Aretha Franklin Appreciation Day” in the state of Michigan.

1987

The Beastie Boys and Run DMC opened their UK tour in London.

90s: Slurs Reclaimed: Act Up! Lesbian Avengers and Queer Nation

1992

The will of the late Freddie Mercury bequeathed the majority of the Queen singer’s $17 million estate to Mary Austin, his longtime companion.

1999

The UK’s Royal Mail issued a 19p stamp featuring Freddie Mercury to mark his contribution to the Live Aid charity concert in 1985. The late Queen front man was an avid philatelist whose collection was bought by the Post Office in 1993.

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

Unnamed Common Oppressor VS: Heterosexual women VS Trans vs LGB/

2012

Erasmus MC University Medical Center in the Netherlands announced they had drawn clear links between listening to loud music, smoking marijuana and having “risky” sex. The study, published in the Official Journal of the American Academy Of Pediatrics, revealed that young people who listened to loud music on their MP3 players were more likely to have sparked up a joint in the last month. The researchers, surveyed 944 students from inner-city vocational schools aged 15 to 25.

2013

The Boy Scouts of America’s national council votes to remove the ban against gay scouts, causing conflict with some faith-based supporters. The policy for adult leaders remained in place until July 27, 2015.

Blue Is the Warmest Color – French film shown at the Cannes Film Festival that unanimously won the Palme d’Or from the official jury and the FIPRESCI (Federation of International Film Critics) Prize. It’s the first film to have the Palme d’Or awarded to both the

director and the lead actresses. The two actresses join director Jane Campion as the only women to have won the award. The film is a coming-of-age romantic drama that revolves around a French teenager who discovers desire and freedom when a blue-haired aspiring painter enter her life. The film stars Lea Seydoux and Adele Exarchopoulos and was directed by Abdellatif Kechiche.

2014

Pride – British film released at the Cannes Film Festival.

The film is based on a true story of a group of lesbian and gay activist who raised money to help families affected by the British miners’ strike in 1984.

The film, written by Stephen Beresford and directed by Matthew Warchus, won the Queer Palm award.

2015

05-23-2015 Ireland voted overwhelmingly to legalize gay marriage in the world’s first national vote on the issue. Ireland is the first country in the

world to put marriage equality in their constitution and did so by popular mandate. Ireland is now a beacon of light to the rest of the world for liberty and equality for all.

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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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