BCE to The Suffragettes
1868: In a letter to an early sex-law reformer, Karl Maria Kertbeny is first known to have privately used the new terms “Homosexual” and “Heterosexual”, the words aren’t in print publicly until the following year. He derived it from the Greek homos (“the same”) and the Latin root sexualis. Kerbeny, a Hungarian-German doctor who is an early sympathizer of Ulrichs’, uses both “homosexual” and “heterosexual,” terms he has recently coined as part of his system for the classification of sexual types, as a replacement for the pejorative terms “sodomite” and “pederast” that were used in the German- and French-speaking world of his time. In addition, he called the attraction between men and womenheterosexualism
1882,
USA President Chester Alan Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which barred Chinese immigrants from the U.S. for 10 years (Arthur had opposed an earlier version with a 20-year ban).
1895, Italy – Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d’Antonguella(May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926), professionally known as Rudolph Valentino, was an Italian naturalized American actor who starred in several well-known silent filmsincluding The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle, and The Son of the Sheik. He was an early pop icon and a sex symbol of the 1920s who was known as the “Latin lover” or simply as “Valentino”.His death at 31 caused mass hysteria among his female fans and further propelled him to iconic status. From the time he died in 1926 until the 1960s, Valentino’s sexuality was not generally questioned in print. At least four books, including the notoriously libelous Hollywood Babylon, suggested that he may have been gay despite his marriage to Rambova. For some, the marriages to Acker and Rambova, as well as the relationship with Pola Negri, add to the suspicion that Valentino was gay and that these were “lavender marriages.”
1910,
Britain’s Edwardian era ended with the death of King Edward VII; he was succeeded by George V.
05-06-1925 – 05-29-2001 Hédi Temessy – Born in Budapest, Hungary. She was an actress that worked for over 50 years, on stage, in films, and television. She was married and had one child. After her divorce, she began a relationship with actress Hilda Gobbi (b. June 6, 1913) . Their relationship lasted from the late 1950s into the 1960s. Being gay in 1961 was no longer a crime in Hungary, but it was still considered a mental illness. After they broke up, Temessy became involved with writer, Erzsébet Galgóczi (b. August 27, 1930). Both women, that Temessy was involved with, were out lesbians. (Photo by Demeter Miklós from the film Ballagás, 1980)
1933:
In Berlin, young Nazis attack and destroy the Institute of Sexual Research. A few days later, the institute’s priceless collection of more than 20,000 publications and 5,000 photographs is burned in a public ceremony.
The Institute was founded by Magnus Hirschfeld (14 May 1868 – 14 May 1935), a German Jewishphysician and sexologist in Berlin-Charlottenburg. An outspoken advocate for sexual minorities, Hirschfeld founded the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee. Historian Dustin Goltz characterized this group as having carried out “the first advocacy for homosexual and transgender rights“. Under the more liberal atmosphere of the newly founded Weimar Republic, Hirschfeld purchased a villa not far from the Reichstag building in Berlin for his new Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute of Sexual Research), which opened on 6 July 1919. In Germany, the Reich government made laws, but the Länder governments enforced the laws, meaning it was up to the Länder governments to enforce Paragraph 175, which they simply didn’t do. After the Nazis gained control of Germany in the 1930s, the Institute and its libraries were destroyed as part of a Nazi government censorship program by youth brigades, who burned its books and documents in the street. On 28 June 1934 Hitler conducted a purge of gay men in the ranks of the SA wing of the Nazis, which involved murdering them in the Night of the Long Knives. This was then followed by stricter laws on homosexuality and the round-up of gay men. The address lists seized from the Institute are believed to have aided Hitler in these actions. Many tens of thousands of arrestees found themselves, ultimately, in slave-labor or death camps.
LGBTQ Institute in Germany Was Burned Down by Nazis …
1935,
USA- the Works Progress Administration began operating under an executive order signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1937,
the hydrogen-filled German airship Hindenburg caught fire and crashed while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey; 35 of the 97 people on board were killed along with a crewman on the ground.
The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code
1941,
Josef Stalin assumed the Soviet premiership, replacing Vyacheslav (VEE’-cheh-slav) M. Molotov.
Comedian Bob Hope did his first USO show before an audience of servicemen as he broadcast his radio program from March Field in Riverside, California.
05-06-1941 — 08-06-2015 Beth Brant – Born in Detroit Michigan, she had a Mohawk father and a Scottish-Irish mother. Even though she grew up off the
Tyendinaga Mohawk Reserve in Ontario, Canada, she maintained a deep link to her Mohawk heritage with her paternal grandparents where she learned the culture, language, and traditional stories. At seventeen she became pregnant and married the baby’s father. It was an abusive relationship and she divorced in 1973. Brant became active in the feminist community and announced her sexual orientation as a lesbian. In 1976, she met her life-partner, Denise Dorsz. At the age of forty, she starting writing. In 1983, she was chosen to edit a collection of Native American women’s writings. The book, A Gathering of Spirit (1988), was the first anthology of Native American’s women writing edited by another Native American woman. In 1985, her collection of short stories, poems, and creative nonfiction was published, titled Mohawk Trail. Her writing reflects her personal experiences of being a lesbian, having an abusive spouce, and her mixed blood heritage.
1947 – Jon Reed Sims (May 6, 1947 – July 16, 1984), is born. He was the founder of the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Marching Band and Twirling Corp, world’s first openly gay musical group. Simswas an American choir conductor born in Smith Center, Kansas.Sims studied music composition at Wichita State University, and received his master’s degree in music from Indiana University. Moving to San Francisco, he became a music teacher by profession, serving for a time as a high school band teacher in Daly City but soon became involved in the developing gay community.He formed the San Francisco band in response to Anita Bryant‘s anti-gay campaign in the late 1970s. Upon its founding in 1978, it became the first openly-gay musical group in the world. In successive years, Sims created the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, the Lesbian/Gay Chorus of San Francisco, Lambda Pro Musica orchestra (now defunct), and encouraged the formation of the Big Apple Corps GLBT band in New York by Nancy Corporon and The Great American Yankee Freedom Band of Los Angeles by Wayne Love. He died from complications of AIDS at the age of 37. As one friend said in Sims’ newspaper obituary, he gave gays “an alternative to the baths and the bars.”
05-06-1949 Olga Broumas – Born in Hermoupolis, Greece. She is a Greek poet and
now a resident in the United States. Broumas is an out lesbian. Her first collection of poems, Beginning With O, contains erotic poems toward her women lovers. She was the first non-native speaker of English to receive the Yale Younger Poets Series Award in 1977. Other honors have included a Guggenheim Fellowship and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Broumas has been Poet-in-Residence and Director of Creative Writing at Brandeis University since 1995. In the 1980s she founded and taught at a school for female artists called Freehand, Inc. located in Cape Cod.
1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex
1959 – The Cooper’s Donuts riot is the first documented LGBT uprising in the U.S. A group of drag queens and hustlers fought the police in the donut shop in downtown Los Angeles, furious that LAPD officers were arresting their friends for legally congregating in Cooper’s, a popular gay meeting place. Cooper’s was located on Main Street, the Los Angeles “gay ghetto” of the 1950s and ‘60s. The event is chronicled in detail in Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians,by Lillian Faderman (born July 18, 1940)and Stuart Timmons (January 14, 1957 – January 28, 2017) , a meticulously researched book that positions Los Angeles—and not New York—as the most influential gay city of modern times. By Harry Hay’s (April 7, 1912 – October 24, 2002)recollection, there were even earlier riots and uprisings in which gay and transgender Angelenos were instrumental in resisting police, but Cooper’s was the first such uprising specifically against police treatment of LGBT people.
The Civil Rights 60s: When the Boomers were under 30
May 6, 1960
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1960. Designed to deal with discriminatory practices in America’s segregated South, the act established federal inspection of voter registration rolls and introduced penalties for anyone who obstructed someone’s attempt to vote or register to vote.
05-06-1963 Paige Braddock – Born in Bakersfield, California. She spent her childhood in Mississippi. Her father’s job as a
forester caused the family move frequently. By the time she reached high school in Brevard, North Carolina, the family had moved 17 times. She is best known for her award-winning comic strip, Jane’s World, the first gay-themed comic work to receive online distribution by a media syndicate in the U.S. In 2015, Braddock began writing lesbian romance novels under the pen name, Missouri Vaun. In 2018, Braddock ended the comic strip after completing its 20-year run. As Vaun, she has won two Golden Crown Literary Society awards in 2019. Braddock and her wife, Evelyn, live in Northern California.
Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights
1971: The Gay Activists Alliance “Firehouse” – a combination gay community center and social club, meant as an alternative to New York’s bars and baths (many of which were operated by organized crime) – opens in SoHo at 99 Wooster Street.
1972
Elton John‘s “Rocket Man” is released. It will reach #6 in the US and #2 in the UK. In 2004, it was ranked #242 on the list of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
1976, Canada – Two Members of Ontario Provincial Parliament, Margaret Campbell (Liberal – St George – downtown Toronto) and Ted Bounsell (NDP – Windsor), introduce private members’ bills to amend Ontario Human Rights Code to include sexual orientation. The bills are defeated.
05-06-1978 Bengt Fredrick Federley – Swedish politician. He was born in Munktorp in Köping Municipality, Västmanland County but grew up in nearby Kungsör. In 2006, he was elected Member of Parliament.
He served from 2006 to 2010 and from 2010 to 2o14. As of 2014, he is in the European Parliament and a member of the Committee on EU Affairs. Federley was the first out gay leader of a political youth organization in Sweden when he was elected General Secretary in October 2002.
The Genderfuck Apathetics vs Yuppies : Aids the new STD on the list
90s: Listserves and Email distribution replaces telephone trees for activism
1992
Whitney Houston performed on her first network TV special, Whitney Houston—This Is My Life, on ABC-TV. The show was produced by her own Nippy Inc. production company. Nippy was her childhood nickname.
Actress Marlene Dietrich died of kidney failure at age 90. (Witness for the Prosecution, The Blue Angel, Judgment at Nuremberg, Destry Rides Again, Around the World in Eighty Days, A Foreign Affair, Pittsburgh, Kismet, Desire, The Devil Is a Woman, Touch of Evil, Blonde Venus)/singer (Falling In Love Again)
1994,
former Arkansas state worker Paula Jones filed suit against President Bill Clinton, alleging he’d sexually harassed her in 1991. (Jones reached a settlement with Clinton in November 1998.)
Noah Egidi Galvin (born May 6, 1994) is an American actor and singer. He is best known for playing Kenny O’Neal in the ABC sitcom The Real O’Neals and the titular role in the Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen. He came out as gay at the age of 14.
Post 9/11 – The Shock Decade From “gay and lesbian” to “lesbigay” to “Lgbt/Lgbtq/Lgbtq2”
2002
The Guinness Hit Singles book listed “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen as the UK’s favorite single of all time, followed by “Imagine” by John Lennon, “Hey Jude” by The Beatles, “Dancing Queen” by ABBA and “Like A Prayer” by Madonna.
2004,
President George W. Bush apologized for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by American soldiers, calling it “a stain on our country’s honor”; he rejected calls for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s resignation.
2008
Cher returned to the stage at the Las Vegas Coliseum for the first of 200 planned shows, however only 78 of the them were performed.
The Michigan Supreme Court rules that the state’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage also bars public sector employees from offering domestic partnership benefits.
2009: Maine governor John Baldacci legalizes same-sex marriage in that state, becoming the first governor in the nation to sign a same-sex marriage law. However, citizens vote to overturn that law when they go to the polls in November and Maine became the 31st state to ban marriage equality.
Human Rights in global conflict: Trans/Pans vs LGB/ vs Heterosexual women
2010,
a computerized sell order triggered a “flash crash” on Wall Street, sending the Dow Jones industrials to a loss of nearly 1,000 points in less than half an hour.
2012
2012 – The Family Equality Council hosted its first International Family Equality Day. All over the world, more and more children are growing up in families where one or both of their parents identify as LGBTQ. Yet, each of these “rainbow families” have very different lived equality experiences, often depending not only on what country they live in but what street they live on. In some countries, our families enjoy equal rights and social recognition but in far too many others both parents and their children face overt discrimination and have to live under a constant threat of violence. By celebrating IFED, Family Equality Council and our partners across the globe raise awareness among politicians and the general public about the need for equal treatment and recognition for all families, regardless of the sexual orientation or gender identity of their family’s members.
Biden: I’m ‘absolutely comfortable’ with gay couples having …
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May 6, 2012 — “The president sets the policy. I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women and heterosexual – men and …
2015
The results of the evolution of western pop music, spanning from 1960 to 2010, was published in The Royal Society Open Science Journal. The scientists who looked at more than 17,000 songs found three music revolutions – in 1964, 1983 and 1991. In 1964 the invasion of British bands introduced a radical new rocky sound. Synthesisers, samplers and drum machines, drove a second major style shift in 1983. The third, in 1991, came about when rap and hip-hop went mainstream. The team also refuted claims that pop music was starting to sound the same.
2020,
New York City began shutting down its subway system overnight to allow for additional cleaning and disinfecting of cars and stations amid the pandemic. President Donald Trump reversed course on plans to wind down his COVID-19 task force; he said the force would shift its focus toward rebooting the economy and developing a vaccine.
cited sources
Today in LGBT History by Ronni Sanlo
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https://wtop.com/back-in-the-day/2022/05/today-in-history-may-6-hindenburg-crash/
LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes:
To Each Decade it’s Age of Understanding, do not under consider differing geographies, nor the heterosexual clash of cultures – in particular – do not read backwards the words of humans now to earlier ages, to each own expression in culture and under legal conditions; and to all biology applies, regardless of what humans think is understood, rather than told, the why and when.
Sex the act of; is central to religion, war – who gets to what to who- vs which has had a no.
Understood as noting to be debated, quibbled nor negotiated.
Both in personal lives, in public and the workplaces, which were gender divided owing to sexual roles, across cultures and times.
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music and movie information from my previous blog
where I note, The Last Elvis Secret given what the Memphis Mafia wrote about Presley Parties, the only thing not officially and rarely luridly written about was the balance of probability Elvis Presley was bisexual, and was described by heterosexual men as being so attractive as to raise a question – including Jerry Reed, writer and performer. And given Larry Geller’s descriptions of being accused by other Memphis Mafia members of being gay with Elvis during the private hair cut sessions -rather makes it seem the Memphis Mafia were jealous, and with Larry having to point out that were they admitting Elvis was bisexual?
As if Geller, a Hollywood hairdress would have a problem and his challenge back to those accusers was were they admitting Elvis was bisexual with the accusation? the last Elvis secret, along with the suicide note left in 1977, all swore to not reveal.
And each Memphis Mafia Member book was all about the orgies and parties Elvis made them attend, as if that was not why they were his friends acquired over time, to Red West, who saved Elvis from high school bathroom beatings and haircuts.
from my original blog:
Books: Elvis My Best Man by George Klein and Genuine Elvis by Ronnie McDowel
Book: Baby Let’s Play House – Alanna Nash
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.
Nineties Dyke 