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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:

The last elvis fan screamed at by the Memphis mafia

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.

July 12, 2022

BCE to The Suffragettes

07-12-1866 – 01-29-1929 La Goulue (b. Louise Weber) – Born into a Jewish family from Alsace, France. The family moved near Paris, where her mother worked in a laundry. Weber loved to dance as a young girl. At the age of 16, she would “borrow” a customer’s dress and sneak off to the dance halls. Dancing at small clubs around Paris, Weber became a popular personality, liked for both her dancing skills, charm, and audacious behavior. Because of her habit of picking up a customer’s glass and quickly downing the contents while dancing past his table, she was affectionately nicknamed La Goulue (The Glutton). Weber became the dance partner of Valentin le Désossé, a wine merchant

who danced in his spare time. When the Moulin Rouge opened in Montmartre they performed the cancan. Weber stole the show and was booked as a permanent headliner. She was the highest-paid entertainer of her day and one of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s favorite subjects. Her lover was La Môme Fromage (The Cheesy Girl), another famous cancan dancer at the Moulin Rouge. In 1895, she left the Moulin Rouge and invested in a show of her own, which failed. Weber became depressed and drank heavily. In 1928, alcoholic and destitute, she ending up selling peanuts, cigarettes, and matches near the Moulin Rouge. Few recognized the severely overweight and haggard former Queen of Montmartre. She died a year later.

1908

Milton Berle, Mr Television, born. He died in 2002. Often in drag for comedy, Uncle Milty was known as having the biggest penis on TV, until Patrick Stewart of Star Trek Next gen.

Elvis Presley was twice on his popular network TV show in 1956 – one broadcast in colour not black n white, as most tvs were.

Often in drag for comedy, Uncle Milty was known as having the biggest penis on TV, until Patrick Stewart of Star Trek Next gen.

07-12-1934 – 02-27-2013 Van Cliburn (Harvey Lavan “Van” Cliburn Jr.) Born in Shreveport, Louisiana. He was an American pianist who achieved worldwide recognition in 1958, at the age of 23, when he won the International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition

in Moscow at the height of the Cold War. Van Cliburn toured domestically and overseas. He played for royalty, heads of state, and every U.S. president from Harry S. Truman to Barack Obama. In 1998, Cliburn was named in a lawsuit by his domestic partner of seventeen years, mortician Thomas Zaremba. Zaremba claimed entitlement to a portion of Cliburn’s income. The lawsuit was rejected because palimony suits are not permitted in Texas unless the relationship is based on a written agreement. On August 27, 2012, Cliburn’s publicist announced that the pianist had advanced bone cancer. Cliburn died in 2013. His obituary lists as his only survivor his “friend of long-standing,” Thomas J. Smith. It was well known in the music world that Van Cliburn was gay.

07-12-1918 Doris Grumbach – Born in New York City, New York. She is an American novelist, biographer, literary critic, and essayist. She taught at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York. In 1971, after raising her children, Grumbach left her husband. In

1972, she divorced her husband and began a relationship with Sybil Pike, who became and remains her life partner. Among the books she has written is The Ladies, published in 1984. It’s the true story of Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, who defied all conventions of their eighteenth-century Irish homeland and eloped to Llangollen, Wales, where they lived as a married couple. Grumbach was also the literary editor of The New Republic for several years. She taught creative writing at the Writer’s Workshop at the University of Iowa. Since 1985, she and her partner, Sybil Pike, own and operate their bookstore, Wayward Books, in Sargentville, Maine. In 2009, they sold their house and bookstore and moved to a Quaker retirement community in Pennsylvania. Grumbach continues to write, contributing pieces of memoir and articles on old age to the American Scholar. She turned 100 years old.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

07-12-1948 Richard Simmons – Born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is an American fitness personality and actor. Simmons is well known for his weight-loss aerobic videos Sweatin’ to the Oldies and

for his eccentric, flamboyant, and energetic personality. Simmons had a four-year period playing himself on the American soap opera General Hospital. He had his own television show, The Richard Simmons Show, which he focused on personal health, fitness, exercise, and healthy cooking. He has never publicly discussed his sexuality. It is accepted that he is gay.

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

July 12, 1957

Alan Freed‘s show The Big Beat debuts on ABC-TV with guests The Everly Brothers, Frankie Lymon, Buddy Knox and Connie Francis. The show was later canceled by episode 13, in which Frankie Lymon was seen dancing with a White girl, which reportedly offended the management of ABC’s local affiliates in the southern states.

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

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1969

The Ballad of John and Yoko” was banned by many radio stations because they found the line “Christ, you know it ain’t easy” to be offensive.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

July 12, 1970

Janis Joplin debuted with her new group, the Full Tilt Boogie Band, before 4,000 people in Louisville, Kentucky. Less than three months later, she would be dead from a heroin overdose.

pop culture

Johnny Cash presented an autographed gold record of “A Boy Named Sue” to South Dakota judge Sue Hicks, who was the inspiration for the song.

07-12-1970 Jaason Simmons – Born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He is an Australian actor best known for the role of

Logan Fowler on the TV series Baywatch. He came out in March 2008 issue of Australian New Idea magazine with his fiancé, Irish actor John O’Callaghan.

1971

13,000 people packed the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh to see the first authorized staging of “Jesus Christ Superstar.” The work was the brainchild of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice and made its debut as a record album, which became the top seller of 1971. Scores of unlicensed concert productions sprang up in the U.S. in the wake of the album’s success, so Webber and Rice came up with their own concert and theatrical versions, one of which opened on Broadway in October 1971.

1972:

At the Democratic National Convention, Madeline Davis, representing the Mattachine Society of the Niagara Frontier, and Society for Individual Rights leader Jim Foster are the first speakers to advocate lesbian and gay rights at a national political convention.

Michael Jackson released the single “Ben”. A love song to a rat who can read, from a movie sequel to Willard.

1975

Elton John’s song “Someone Saved My Life Tonight” rose from 51 to 25 on this date.

Olivia Newton-John had control of the Adult Contemporary chart with “Please Mr. Please”.

07-12-1975 Cheyenne Jackson – Born in Spokane, Washington. He is an American actor and singer-songwriter. His credits include leading roles in Broadway musicals and other stage roles, as well as

film and television roles, concert singing, and music recordings. He appeared in the 2006 Academy Award-nominated film United 93, in which he portrayed Mark Bingham. In concert, Jackson has sold out Carnegie Hall twice. Jackson is an LGBT rights supporter. He is an international ambassador for amfAR (The Foundation for AIDS Research) and is also a national ambassador and spokesperson for the Hetrick-Martin Institute, a non-profit organization devoted to serving the needs of LGBT youth. In October 2013, Jackson announced he was dating actor Jason Landau. They were married in September 2014.

07-12-1976 Kyrsten Sineman – Born in Tucson, Arizona.

She is an American Democratic politician and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Arizona’s 9th district. She is openly bisexual.

07-12-1978 Michelle Rodriquez – Born in San Antonio, Texas. She is an American actress, screenwriter, and disc jockey.

She is known for her role as Letty Ortiz in the blockbuster film The Fast & Furious (2001), reprising her role in its sequels Fast & Furious (2009), Fast & Furious 6 (2013), and Furious 7 (2015). In October 2013, she came out as bisexual during an interview with Entertainment Weekly.

in Pop Culture: This was when Heterosexuals stopped copying gay men

1979

Chicago disc jockey Steve Dahl held the infamous Disco Demolition between games of a baseball doubleheader at Comiskey Park in Chicago. Dahl burned Disco records brought by fans who received discount admission. Some of those fans decided to start their own fires and a mini-riot ensued, forcing the White Sox to forfeit the second game.

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

1980

Olivia Newton-John and the Electric Light Orchestra had the UK No.1 single with ‘Xanadu’, taken from the film of the same name. It gave Olivia Newton-John her third UK No.1 single.

the Soundtrack to “Urban Cowboy” which starred John Travolta and Debra Winger was #9 on the LP USA Charts

1984:

Walter Mondale chooses New York congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate, the first female vice-presidential candidate on a major party ticket

1986

“Culture Club” lead singer Boy George was charged in London with possession of heroin. Following raids earlier in the week, four people, including the singer’s brother, Kevin O’Dowd, were charged with conspiring to supply Boy George (born George O’Dowd) with the drug. Boy George, who said he was under treatment for heroin addiction, was later fined $500.

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

Homophobe, do not care if self loathing “op culture”

1992

“Guns N’ Roses” singer Axl Rose was arrested at New York’s JFK International Airport on a warrant from St. Louis prosecutors. Rose was wanted on charges stemming from a riot during a 1991 “Guns N’ Roses” concert. He was released on $100,000 bond.

1993

Prince performed a concert at his Paisley Park Studios in Minneapolis, Minnesota to benefit a community radio station.

1994

thousands of people gathered in New York’s Times Square as the finale of Barbra Steisand’s Madison Square Garden concert was shown live on a huge TV screen. Her closing number was “Somewhere” from “West Side Story.”

the faux lesbian marketed pop culture:

1998

The Spice Girls backed out of a promise to perform a free concert at Toronto’s City Hall, choosing instead to appear on the Canadian television show Much Music.

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

2002

Canada – The road to Marriage equality began on July 12, 2002, when Justice LaForme, for a unanimous Ontario Superior Court of Justice, released a landmark decision that would pave the way towards gay marriage in Ontario and across North America. The Ontario Superior Court ruled that prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying is unconstitutional and violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The court gave Ontario two years to extend marriage rights to same-sex couples.

As a result of the Ontario ruling, the Alberta government passes a bill banning same-sex marriages and defines marriage as exclusively between a man and a woman. The province says it will use the notwithstanding clause to avoid recognizing same-sex marriages if Ottawa amends the Marriage Act.

2003

After coming out as gay and leaving the leather metal band, Rob Halford of Judas Priest announced he had rejoined the group for their first album and tour in 13 years.

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

2019

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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:

The last elvis fan screamed at by the Memphis mafia

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.

L, G, B & T Stories July 11

BCE to The Suffragettes

07-11-1895 – 04-10-1941 Dolly Wilde – Born in London, England. She was the niece of Oscar Wilde. In

1914, she went to France and drove an ambulance during WWI. During that time, around 1917 or 1918, she had an affair with Standard Oil heiress Marion “Joe” Carstairs. Although she attracted to both men and women, she was primarily a lesbian. Her longest relationship was with out lesbian American writer, Natalie Clifford Barney, starting in 1927 until her death in 1941. In 1939 she was diagnosed with breast cancer. The following year, with the Germans approaching Paris, she fled to England. She died in 1941 of “causes unascertainable,” according to the coroner’s inquest—possible cancer or a drug overdose.

07-11-1931 – 07-08-2018 Tab Hunter (born Arthur Andrew Kelm) – Born in New York City, New York, he grew up in Long Beach, California. He was an American actor, singer, and

author who has starred in over 40 films. Hunter had a 1957 hit record with the song Young Love, which was number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart for six weeks. In 1958, Hunter starred in the musical Damn Yankees. Hunter was Warner Bros.’ top money-grossing star from 1955 through 1959. In the 1980s he became a cult star appearing in Lust in the Dust, Polyester, and Grease 2. In his autobiography, Hunter acknowledged that he is gay. A 2015 documentary about his life, Tab Hunter Confidential, was directed by Jeffrey Schwarz and produced by Hunter’s partner, Allan Glaser. It’s available on Netflix. If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend it. On July 8th, he passed away due to a blood clot. He is survived by his husband, studio executive, Allan Glaser.

1934, Italy – Giorgio Armani (July 11, 1934) is born. He is an Italian fashion designer, particularly noted for his menswear. He formed his company, Armani, in 1975, and by 2001 was acclaimed as the most successful designer that Italy has produced. Armani is an intensely private man, but has publicly identified as bisexual. He had a longstanding relationship with architect Sergio Galeotti, who died of AIDS-related complications in 1985.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

07-11-1946 – 10-12-1999 Martin Wong – Born in Portland, Oregon. He was a U.S. painter of the late twentieth century. He was

active in the San Francisco Bay area art scene, including set designer for the performance art groups, The Cockettes, and Angels of Light. Two of Wong’s paintings are in the collection of the Whitney Museum in NYC. He was openly gay. He died in San Francisco from an AIDS-related illness in 1999.

1946 – Vito Russo (July 11, 1946 – November 7, 1990) is born. When he published the first edition of The Celluloid Closet in 1981, there was little question that it was a groundbreaking book. Today it is still one of the most informative and provocative books written about gay people and popular culture. Russo was diagnosed with HIV in 1985, and died of AIDS-related complications in 1990. His work was posthumously brought to television in the 1996 HBO documentary film The Celluloid Closet, co-executive produced and narrated by Lily Tomlin.

1946 – Jack Wrangler, born John Robert Stillman (July 11, 1946 – April 7, 2009) is born. Billed professionally as Jack Wrangler, he was an American gay and straight pornographic film actor, theatrical producer, and director and writer. Open about his homosexuality and adult film work throughout his career, Wrangler was considered an icon of the gay-liberation movement.

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

July 11, 1959

Joan Baez made her first recording. It was a duet with Bob Gibson which was recorded live at the Newport Folk Festival.

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

1964

“People” by Barbra Streisand remained #1 for the third week on the Adult chart. and dropped to #7 on the pop chart

1966 – Oklahoma County Attorney Curtis Harris revealed that 26 teachers and school administrators in Oklahoma City had resigned following a six-month investigation into “alleged homosexual activity.”

07-11-1968 Esera Tuaolo – Born in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is a former American professional football player. He was a defensive tackle in the NFL for nine years. Tuaolo is of Samoan ancestry. In 2002, after retiring from football, he came out as gay on HBO’s

Real Sports. He has since worked with the NFL to combat homophobia in the league and is a board member of the Gay and Lesbian Athletics Foundation. He also appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2004, to share his coming out story. Tualolo’s autobiography, Alone in the Trenches: My Life As a Gay Man in the NFL, was released in 2006.

July 11, 1969

‘Space Oddity’ by David Bowie was released in the UK for the first time. It was timed to coincide with the Apollo moon landing but had to be re-released before it became a hit, later in the year in the UK (but not until 1973 in the US). Bowie would later revisit his Major Tom character in the songs ‘Ashes to Ashes’, ‘Hallo Spaceboy’ and possibly the music video for ‘Blackstar’.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

07-11-1971 Leisha Hailey – Born in Okinawa, Japan to American parents, she grew up in Bellevue, Nebraska. She is an American

actress and musician. Hailey is known for playing Alice Pieszecki in the Showtime series The L Word. As a musician, she was in the pop duo The Murmurs and has continued her music career as part of the band Un Huh Her. She co-wrote the Shakira hit song Don’t Bother. At 17, she came out as gay. Hailey dated k.d. lang for nearly five years until the relationship ended in 2001.

1977: Diversions and Delights, a one-man play starring Vincent Price as Oscar Wilde, has its world premiere in San Francisco. Nine months later, it moves to Broadway.

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

1984: Boston Mayor Ray Flynn approves a gay rights ordinance that prohibits job and credit discrimination against lesbians and gay men.

1986, New Zealand – The NZ Homosexual Law Reform Act of 1986 decriminalizes consensual sex between men. Homosexual male sex had been illegal in NZ since 1840.

07-11-1986 Sharnee Zoll-Norman – Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is an American WNBA point guard for the

Chicago Sky team. Although she had mentioned her wife, Serita Norman, in previous interviews, she never formally came out until a June 2013 interview with the Windy City Times, stating “If I was straight, I wouldn’t have to come out and say that I was straight. So I’ve never had an official coming-out or something where I felt I had to announce that I was gay. But everyone knows. I wear my wedding ring proudly.”

1987 — Dr. Tom Waddell (November 1, 1937 – July 11, 1987) dies on this day. He was a gay American sportsman and competitor at the 1968 Summer Olympics who founded the Gay Olympics in 1982 in San Francisco. The international sporting event was later renamed the Gay Games after the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) sued Waddell for using the word “Olympic” in the original name. The Gay Games are held every four years. Waddell was a father, a versatile athlete and a physician. He died of complications from AIDS.

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

1990:

Hong Kong repeals its sodomy laws.

Muscatine, Iowa’s public library board held a meeting to discuss the possible removal of books about gays and lesbians from the shelves. The proposal was defeated, and of the 75 residents who attended the meeting only one was in favor of the proposal.

1994

Michael Jackson’s spokesman, Lee Solters, denied that Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley were married, but they were.

1995

George Michael signs a two-album deal split among two labels: Virgin in the UK and Dreamworks SKG in America. As part of the deal, Sony Records is paid $40 million to release Michael from his contract; after releasing his 1990 album Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1, he refused to record for the label and filed a lawsuit seeking release from his contract, which he lost.

1998,

Italy – The Vatican condemns a decision by municipal authorities in Pisa, Italy to recognize a lesbian marriage. The women had been together for eleven years.

MTV premiered the special “Beastiography” about the Beastie Boys.

07-11-1999

Aimee and Jaguar – Film shown on this date at the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. Directed by Max Faberbock, it is a German drama set in Berlin during WWII based on the actual lives of Lily Wust and Felice Schragenheim during that time. It’s a great film . The music score is wonderful. The Book is better.

Adulting out of Puetro Rico’s Official Boy Band, Menudo – Ricky Martin started a three week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Livin’ La Vida Loca’. A US No.1 for 5 weeks. The song was the first No.1 song to be recorded, edited, and mixed totally on a DAW (digital audio workstation).

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

2003,

UK – Britain’s House of Lords repeals the notorious anti-gay Section 28, the Thatcher era law that banned any mention of homosexuality in schools.

2003

AOL Music’s “First View” began ‘airing’ the worldwide exclusive premiere of Lisa Marie Presley’s video for the single “Sinking In.”

2004

Bobby Brown turned himself in to Georgia police to face assault and battery charges against wife, Whitney Houston.

2006 – The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago orders Southern Illinois University to officially recognize the Christian Legal Society, a student group that excludes membership to gays and people who support LGBT issues, while a lawsuit against the university proceeds. The injunction allows the group to use university facilities and receive funding from the public institution even though the school’s own policies and state law bars discrimination against gays.

2007 – Florida state Rep. Bob Allen (Republican), a co-chair of John McCain’s Florida presidential campaign, was arrested for trying to charge a cop $20 for oral sex in a park restroom in Titusville, FL. During his time in the Florida legislature, Allen was a staunch supporter of anti-gay legislation.

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

2012 – Jane Lynch, Billie Jean King, Chicago Cubs co-owner Laura Ricketts, LGBT leader Urvashi Vaid and other influential lesbians form their own political action group to fundraise and lobby on issues that impact lesbians in the U.S. LPAC provides financial backing to pro-lesbian candidates, whether Democrats or Republicans, male or female, gay or straight. Laura Ricketts is the daughter of Joe Ricketts, a Republican businessman who had donated large sums to an anti-Obama super PAC. His daughter, however, was a major donor to President Obama. While there are already women’s and LGBT groups — such as EMILY’s List and the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund — LPAC bills itself as the first super PAC to specifically target lesbians, who are generally a small subset of these two communities.

2012 – Stacy Offner became the rabbi of Temple Beth Tikvah in Madison, Connecticut. Offner is an openly lesbian American rabbi and the first to be hired by a mainstream Jewish congregation, as well as the first female rabbi in Minnesota. She also became the first rabbi-elected chaplain of the Minnesota Senate, the first female vice president of the Union for Reform Judaism, and the first woman to serve on the national rabbinical pension board. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Kenyon College and earned an M.A. in Hebrew Literature from Hebrew Union College in New York. She also has an honorary degree from Hebrew Union College, where she was ordained in 1984.That year she became the first female rabbi in Minnesota but she was fired from her job as associate rabbi when she came out as a lesbian in 1987. She left with some of her congregants and in 1988 they founded Shir Tikvah, a Reform congregation in Minneapolis.

07-11-2014 The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied Utah’s bid to further block legal recognition of about 1,300 same-sex weddings performed after the state’s gay marriage ban was briefly lifted.

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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:

The last elvis fan screamed at by the Memphis mafia

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.

L, G, B and T stories July 9

BCE to The Suffragettes

1550, Italy – Jacopo Bonfadio (c. 1508 – July 1550) is tried and beheaded for sodomy, most likely because he published gossipy accounts of wealthy Genoese families. He was an Italian humanist and historian. Several humanists were tried for sodomy during this time as well, but Bonfadio is one of few to be executed.

1775, UK – Matthew Gregory Lewis (9 July 1775 – 16 May 1818) is born. He was an English novelistand dramatist, often referred to as “Monk” Lewis because of the success of his 1796 Gothic novel, The Monk. Silly, stilted, and great fun to read, the genre was the high camp of its day. His most famous work was Ambrosio, The Monkwritten in 1795. Like most Gothic novels, it takes place in a Latin country. In this case in a monastery where Ambrosio, the head of the order, meets Matilda. She sneaks into his bed disguised as a man and quickly reveals she is a woman. After humping him into a frenzy he turns into a satyr and can’t get enough. In real life, Lewis was in love with a 14-year-old boy who brought him nothing but misery.

07-09-1893 – 01-30-1961 Dorothy Thompson – Born in Lancaster, New York. She was an American journalist and radio broadcaster. In 1939, Time magazine recognized her as the second most influential woman in the United States next to Eleanor Roosevelt. While stationed in Berlin as a journalist, in 1932, she met and fell in love with Christa Winsloe. Thompson wrote, “So it has happened to me again, after all these years.” She remembered two earlier times when she had been attracted to a woman. Thompson saw herself as heterosexual and wondered how to explain that once again she felt “the strange, soft feeling…of being at home, and at rest; an enveloping warmth and sweetness.” Yet, she wrote, “I love this woman.” During the next two years, the women became inseparable companions. Although Thompson’s volatile marriage to Sinclair Lewis continued during this relationship, many friends viewed the two women as a couple: “If you asked Dorothy to dinner, you asked Christa, too,” one recalled. Winsloe’s letters remained in her files for the rest of her life. She made no attempt to censor or explain them. Thompson did marry a third time. In 1934, she was expelled from Nazi Germany. She wrote about the dangers of Hitler gaining power. Thompson is regarded as the “First Lady of American Journalism.”

07-09-1908 – 06-24-1976 Minor White – Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was an American photographer, theoretician, critic, and educator. White made thousands of black-and-white and color

photographs of landscapes, people and abstract subjects. He had a strong sense of light and shadow. White taught at the California School of Fine Arts and other schools. He lived much of his life as a closeted gay man, afraid to express himself publicly for fear of loss of his teaching jobs. Some of his most compelling images are of men whom he taught or had relationships. White helped start photography magazine Aperture and was also editor as well for many years. After his death in 1976, White was hailed as one of America’s greatest photographers.

07-09-1915 – 06-13-2005 David Diamond – Born in Rochester, New York. He was an American composer of classical music. His most popular piece is Rounds (1944). Among his other works are eleven

symphonies, a number of concertos, as well as chamber music, piano pieces, and vocal music. He composed the musical theme heard on the CBS Radio Network broadcast Hear It Now (1950-51) and its TV successor See It Now (1951-58). Diamond was openly gay long before it was socially acceptable, and believed his career was slowed by homophobia and antisemitism. He died at his home in Brighton, New York, from heart failure.

1926, Italy – Mathilde Krim (July 9, 1926 – January 15, 2018) is born. She was a medical researcher and the founding chairman of AMFAR,American Foundation for AIDS Research.She devoted her life to the fight against HIV/AIDS, in particular raising the public’s awareness of the devastating disease. In 1950, she married David Danon, an Israeli man she met at University of Geneva School of Medicine. Krim died at home in Kings Point, New York on January 15, 2018, aged 91.

07-09-1926 — 01-15-2018 Mathilde Krim – Born in Como, Italy to a Swiss Protestant

father and Italian Roman Catholic mother. In 1950, she married David Danon, an Israeli she met at the University of Geneva School of Medicine. She received her Ph.D. in Biology in 1953. Krim and her husband moved to Israel where she converted to Judaism and had a daughter. After divorcing her husband, she moved to New York. In 1958, she married Arthur B. Krim, a New York attorney, head of United Artists, and an active member of the Democratic Party. Both she and her husband were very active in the American civil rights movement and the gay rights movement. In 1981, after the first cases of what would later be called AIDS were reported, Krim recognized that this new disease raised grave medical questions and might also have socio-political consequences. She dedicated herself to increasing the public’s awareness of AIDS and to understanding the disease itself. With Elizabeth Taylor, she founded the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmfAR). In 2000, President Clinton awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her “extraordinary compassion and commitment”. She died at home on January 15, 2018, at the age of 91. (Photo 1998 Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery)

07-09-1933 – 08-30-2015 Oliver Sacks – Born in London, England. He was a British neurologist, writer, and amateur chemist who was a Professor of Neurology at New York University School of Medicine. Between 2007 and 2012, he was a professor of neurology

and psychiatry at Columbia University. Sacks was the author of numerous best-selling books. His 1973 book Awakenings, was adapted into the Academy Award-nominated film of the same name in 1990 starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro. He had a relationship with New York Times contributor Bill Hayes beginning in 2008. He addressed his homosexuality for the first time in his 2015 autobiography On the Move: A Life. In February 2015 Sacks announced that he had cancer. Measuring his anticipated remaining time in “months”, he expressed his intent to “live in the richest, deepest, most productive way I can.”

07-09-1936 – 06-14-2002 June Jordan – Born in Harlem, New York. She was a Jamaican-American bisexual poet and activist. Jordan attended Barnard College and wrote in her book Civil Wars: “No one ever presented me with a single Black author, poet, historian, personage, or

idea for that matter. Nor was I ever assigned a single woman to study as a thinker, or writer, or poet, or life force. Nothing that I learned, here, lessened my feeling of pain or confusion and bitterness as related to my origins: my street, my family, my friends. Nothing showed me how I might try to alter the political and economic realities underlying our Black condition in white America.” Jordan taught at the City College of New York starting in 1967. Between 1968 and 1978 she taught at Yale University, Sarah Lawrence College, and Connecticut College. From 1989 to 2002 she was a full professor at the University of California Berkeley. Jordan self-identified as bisexual in her writing.

07-09-1937 David Hockney – Born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. He is an artist and major contributor to the Pop Art movement of the 1960s. He is considered one of the most

influential British artists of the 20th century. Hockney is openly gay and unlike Andy Warhol, whom he befriended, he openly explored the nature of gay love in his portraiture. In We Two Boys Clinging (1961), named after a poem by Walt Whitman, the work refers to his love of men. Hockney was a founder of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in 1979. Beverly Hills Housewife (1966-67), a 23-foot-long acrylic sold for $7.9 million at Christie’s in New York in 2008, a record price for a Hockney at the time. In November 2018, Hockney’s 1972 painting Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) sole for $90 million, becoming the most expensive work by a living artist sold at auction.

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1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

07-09-1955 – 06-14-2021 Lisa Banes – Born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. She was an American actress known for more than 80 film and television roles, as well as stage appearances on Broadway. Banes lived in Los Angeles with her wife, Kathryn Kranhold. On June 4, 2021, she was struck by a scooter in a hit-and-run collision on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Banes died from traumatic brain injury on June 14, 2021.

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July 9, 1956

After the June 30th trouble at Asbury Park, Bill Haley And His Comets are denied permission to play at the Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City. A city ordnance was passed that read: “Rock and roll music encouraged juvenile delinquency and inspired young females in lewd bathing suits to perform obscene dances on the city’s beaches.”

07-09-1957 Kelly McGillis – Born in Newport Beach, California. She is an American actress. McGillis is best known for her roles in the 1980s including her roles as Rachel Lapp in Witness (1985), Charlie in Top Gun (1986), and Kathryn Murphy in The Accused

(1988). McGillis came out as a lesbian in April 2009 during an interview with SheWired. She said that coming to terms with her sexual orientation has been an ongoing process since the age of 12, and she was long convinced that God was punishing her for being homosexual. She had a two-year relationship with Melanie Leis. They broke up in 2012. McGillis currently lives in Hendersonville, North Carolina. She teaches acting at The New York Studio for Stage and Screen in Asheville.

07-09-1957 Marc Almond – Born in Southport, Lancashire, England. He is a British singer-songwriter and musician. Almond

first began performing and recording in the synthpop/new wave duo Soft Cell. He has also performed and recorded solo. In 2015 he released The Velvet Trail, an album of original material produced by Chris Braide. Almond has stated that he dislikes being pigeon-holed as “a gay artist”. He has been with the same partner for over 20 years.

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1965 – Courtney Michelle Love (July 9, 1964) is born. She’s an American singer, actress, writer, and visual artist. Prolific in the punk and grunge scenes of the 1990s, Love has enjoyed a career that spans four decades. Love has drawn public attention for her uninhibited live performances and confrontational lyrics, as well as her highly publicized personal life following her marriage to Kurt Cobain. Love has consistently advocated for LGBT rights,and identifies as a feminist. She has been noted as a gay icon since the mid-1990s,and has jokingly referred to her fan base as consisting of “females, gay guys, and a few advanced, evolved heterosexual men.”

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July 9, 1967

On a US tour supporting The Monkees, The Jimi Hendrix Experience appeared at the Convention Hall, Miami, Florida. After it became plainly apparent that the group is not suited to teenybopper audiences, the tour’s promoter Dick Clark and Hendrix’s manager Chas Chandler concoct a story saying that the conservative Daughters of the American Revolution group had complained at Jimi’s act and so the Experience left the tour after just six shows.

1969: The Mattachine Society of New York invites activists to gather in Greenwich Village for the first “gay power” meeting.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

July 9, 1971

David Bowie started recording sessions at Trident Studios in London, for what would become the concept album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars. The character of Ziggy was initially inspired by British rock ‘n’ roll singer Vince Taylor, whom Bowie met after Taylor had had a breakdown and believed himself to be a cross between a god and an alien.

1977

Barbra Streisand had her 23rd hit but only her fifth Top 10 with “My Heart Belongs To Me”.

Barry Manilow gave a hint of what he could do live with the release of his live album at #2,

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1983

Wham! went to No.1 on the UK album chart with their debut release ‘Fantastic!’, which went on to spend 116 weeks on the chart. David Bowie at 5 with Let’s Dance, Prince’s fine 1999 album was up to #9 after 34 weeks

7-09-1985 DeRay Mckesson – Born in Baltimore, Maryland. He is an American civil rights activist and educator. Mckesson is a member of the Black

Lives Matter movement. He is one of the founders of Campaign Zero, a policy platform to end police violence. In November 2015, Mckesson spoke at the GLAAD Gala, where he discussed his life as a gay man and asked LGBT people to “come out of the quiet.”

1986:

New Zealand repeals its laws prohibiting homosexual acts between consenting adults.

Queen performed at St. James’ Park in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

1988

Faith from George Michael was hanging around at 3 and the Soundtrack to “Dirty Dancing” was #4 Tracy Chapman’s debut was beginning to be discovered at #9 and More Dirty Dancing from the movie was #10.

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

1994

Elton John moved into the Top 10 with “Can You Feel The Love Tonight”, his 60th career hit and 26th Top 10 song.

1999

Elton John had a pacemaker fitted in an operation at a London hospital following reports about his ill health. Sir Elton was forced to cancel a series of concerts.

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

2001

The Backstreet Boys temporarily stopped their “Black & Blue World Tour 2001.” The tour had to be put on hold because A.J. McLean entered a treatment center for depression and alcohol abuse. The tour resumed on August 24th.

2004

David Bowie was forced to cancel a string of European shows after emergency heart surgery. The 57 year-old singer had an operation last month in Germany, where he was on tour, to treat “an acutely blocked artery”. The star’s cancellation last month of 11 European dates was originally attributed to a shoulder injury.

2008:

Croatia – The Croatian parliament approves new law prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity and expression in all areas.

The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Thomas Cook v. Robert Gates upholds the constitutionality of the U.S. military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy that bans gays and lesbians from serving openly in the U.S. armed forces.

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2013

Elton John told the British tabloid The Sun that he considered himself lucky to be alive after unknowingly battling appendicitis. The Rocket Man played through the pain during a series of concerts before seeking medical attention. He told the press, “I’m lucky to be alive. I was a ticking time bomb. I guess I could have died at any time.

7-09-2014

District Court Judge C. Scott Crabtree stuck down Colorado’s ban on same-sex marriage, stating it violates the state and federal constitutions.

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2015

Transport for London, the government body that runs the metro rail system in the UK, banned posters promoting The Rolling Stones’ forthcoming exhibition, ‘Exhibitionism’, at London’s Saatchi gallery, because of its artwork. The neon advert showed Rolling Stones iconic tongue and lips design plastered over a woman’s bikini bottoms.

2018 – Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz (1945 – July 9, 2018) was a Jewish-American essayist, poet, academic, and political activist against racism and for economic and social justice. She later added Kantrowitz to her name to honor her Jewish roots. Kaye/Kantrowitz was active in the Harlem Civil Rights Movement as a teenager. When she was 17, she worked with the Harlem Education Project. About this she said “It was my first experience with a mobilizing proud community and with the possibilities of collective action.” In 1990, she served as a founding director for Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ), a progressive Jewish organization focused mostly on anti-racist work and issues of economic justice. Kaye/Kantrowitz served on the JFREJ board from 1995 to 2004. Of her work with JFREJ, Kaye/Kantrowitz said: “Though Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz taught the first women’s studies course at the University of California, Berkeley, she also taught at Hamilton College, Brooklyn College/CUNY, Vermont College, and Jewish studies, history and comparative literature at Queens College. Kaye/Kantrowitz died on July 9, 2018, of Parkinson’s disease, aged 73.

2018 – Tab Hunter (July 11, 1931 – July 8, 2018) was an American actor, pop singer, film producer, and author. He starred in more than 40 films and was a well-known Hollywood star of the 1950s and 1960s. Hunter’s autobiography, Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star (2005), co-written with Eddie Muller, became a New York Times best-seller as did the paperback edition in 2007. Hunter had long-term relationships with actor Anthony Perkins(April 4, 1932 – September 12, 1992)and champion figure skater Ronnie Robertson(September 25, 1937 – February 4, 2000) before settling down with his partner of over 35 years, film producer Allan Glaser.A little after midnight on Monday July 9, 2018, the Tab Hunter Confidential Facebook page announced that Hunter had died. A cause of death was not immediately announced. He would have been 87 on July 11.

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BCE to The Suffragettes

07-10-1640 – 04-16-1689 Aphra Behn – Born in Canterbury, United Kingdom. She was a British playwright, poet, translator, and fiction writer. Behn was one of the first women to earn her living

writing. She broke cultural barriers and served as a literary role model for generations of women authors. Homoeroticism is often found in Behn’s verse, including male to male relationships or in portrayals of her own attractions to women. Behn was married and widowed early, and as a mature woman, her primary publicly acknowledged relationship was with John Hoyle, who was gay. She is famously remembered in Virginia Woolf’s, A Room of One’s Own: “All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn which is, most scandalously but rather appropriately Westminster Abbey, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.”

07-10-1871 – 11-18-1922 Marcel Proust – Born in Auteuil, France. Proust was a novelist, essayist, and critic. He was a closeted homosexual. He was one of the first European novelists to mention homosexuality openly and at length. In Search of Lost Time, he discusses homosexuality and features several principal characters, both males and females, that are either homosexual or bisexual.

1909 – The book Road to Oz, the fifth in the Oz series by L. Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) is published. In gay slang, a “friend of Dorothy” is a term for a gay man. While the precise origin of the term is unknown, some believe it is derived from this book. The book introduces readers to Polychrome who, upon meeting Dorothy’s traveling companions, exclaims, “You have some queer friends, Dorothy,” and she replies, “The queerness doesn’t matter, so long as they’re friends.” More commonly, “friend of Dorothy” refers to the film “The Wizard of Oz” because Judy Garland, who starred as the main character Dorothy, is a gay icon. In the early 1980s, the Naval Investigative Service (NIS) was investigating homosexuality in Chicago. Having heard gay men refer to themselves as “friends of Dorothy,” the NIS went on a futile search for the elusive woman clearly at the center of a homosexual ring.

07-10-1931 – 12-26-2019 Jerry Herman – Born in Manhattan and raised in Jersey City, New Jersey by middle-class Jewish parents. At the age of seventeen, he was introduced to songwriter Frank Loesser, who urged him to continue composing. Herman is best remembered for the musicals Hello Dolly, Mame, and La Cage aux Folles. He is the only composer/lyricist to have had three original productions open on Broadway at the same time. In 1982 he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 1985 Herman was diagnosed HIV-positive. His life-partner at the time, Martin Finkelstein, died of AIDS in 1990. In 1996, Herman’s memoir, Showtune, was published. Herman was openly gay and at the time of his death was with real estate broker, Terry Marler.

1932 – American actor Nick Adams (July 10, 1931 – February 7, 1968) is born on this day. The blonde actor usually played neurotics or comic sidekick roles (such as Andy Griffith’s friend Ben in No Time For Sergeants). Before he got into acting, Adams was a well-known Hollywood hustler with reputation for having the biggest man-part in town. He was the roommate of James Dean (February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955) and friend of Elvis Presley. . and his reported drug consumption made his private life the subject of many reports and assertions by some writers who have claimed Adams may have been gay or bisexual. Adams tragically took his own life at age 36 in 1968, shortly after Elvis’ marriage and birth of daughter Lisa Marie.

1936

Billie Holiday recorded “Billie’s Blues

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

1950

The US music show Your Hit Parade premiered on NBC-TV. The program, which featured vocalists covering the top hits of the week, had been on radio since 1935. It moved to CBS in 1958 but was canceled the following year, unable to cope with the rising popularity of Rock ‘n’ Roll.

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1954

New York radio station WINS announced the hiring of pioneer Rock disc jockey Alan Freed to be the host of their Rock ‘n’ Roll Party. As he did on his earlier Moondog’s Rock ‘n’ Roll House Party Show on WJW in Cleveland, Freed programmed records by Black R&B artists that many White teenagers had never heard before. Freed is often credited with popularizing the term “Rock and Roll”, although the phrase was first used in 1942 by Billboard magazine columnist Maurie Orodenker to describe upbeat recordings.

07-10-1954 Neil Tennant – Born in North Shields, Northumberland, England. He is an English musician, singer, songwriter, journalist, and co-founder of the duo Pet Shop Boys. In the 80s, he wrote for the magazine Smash Hits and was an assistant editor for a while. Tennant has been openly gay since 1994, coming out publicly in an interview with Attitude magazine. He is also a patron of the Elton John AIDS Foundation. (2013 photo by Henry Laurisch – Berlin)

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

July 10, 1963

“Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport” by Pedophile: Rolf Harris had a hold on #1 on the Easy Listening chart.

1965

Sonny & Cher debuted on the chart, “I Got You Babe”. They would score 20 hits over the next eight years.

07-10-1965 Alec Mapa – Born in San Francisco, California. He is an American-Filipino actor, comedian, and writer. His first professional break was when he was cast for the role of Song Liling

in the Broadway production on M. Butterfly. He later gained notoriety for the roles of Adam Benet in Half & Half and Suzuki St. Pierre in Ugly Betty. Mapa is also known for his recurring role as Vern in Desperate Housewives. He is openly gay and lends his support to various projects supporting the LGBT and Asian American communities. In 2008, he married Jamison Hebert. They had been dating since 2002.

07-10-1965 Dominic Hannigan – Born in Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland. He is an Irish politician. Hannigan was Senator from July 2007 to February 2011. In the 2011 general election, he topped the poll in Meath East. In doing so

he became one of the first of two openly gay people to be elected to Dáil Éireann (the lower house and principal chamber of the Irish legislature). In January 2012, Hannigan was elected Chairman of the Joint Committee on EU Affairs. Hannigan also became the first member of the Irish legislature to enter a same-sex marriage, although he had to travel to London to do it. He married his partner of over two decades on New Year’s Eve, 2014.

1965 – Actor/comedian Alec Mapa (born July 10, 1965) is born. He is a Fillipino-American actor, comedian and writer. He got his first professional break when he was cast to replace B. D. Wong for the role of Song Liling in the Broadway production of M. Butterfly. He gained recognition for roles such as Adam Benet on Half & Half, Suzuki St. Pierre on Ugly Betty and Vern on Desperate Housewives. Mapa recurred as Renzo on Switched at Birth. Mapa co-hosted the Logo network reality dating game show Transamerican Love Story with Calpernia Addams in 2008. In 2013, he debuted in his own one-man show, Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy, which was made into a concert film and premiered on Showtime in 2015. Mapa is gay and lends his support to various projects supporting the gay, lesbian, and Asian American communities. In 2008, Mapa legally married Jamison “Jamie” Hebert, after dating since 2002. On the TV series The Gossip Queens, Mapa stated in the opening episode that he and his husband had adopted a 5-year-old boy.

07-10-1969 Alexandra Hedison – Born in Los Angeles, California, She is an American photographer, director, and actress. She has appeared on television, including

Showtime’s The L Word (she was the character, Dylan Moreland). Her photographs are represented in public and private collections worldwide. She has had solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout the US and Europe. Hedison was in a relationship with Ellen DeGeneres from 2001 to 2004. In April 2014, she married actress Jodie Foster.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

1970 – The Austrian Parliament decriminalizes homosexual acts between consenting adults.

The national organization of Daughters of Bilitis is disbanded. Local chapters are free to continue as independent entities. The Daughters of Bilitis was the first lesbian rights organization in the United States. The organization, founded in 1955 by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon in San Francisco, was conceived as a social alternative to lesbian bars which were subject to raids and police harassment. As the DOB gained members, their focus shifted to providing support to women who were afraid to come out. The DOB educated them about their rights and about gay history. The historian Lillian Faderman declared, “Its very establishment in the midst of witch-hunts and police harassment was an act of courage, since members always had to fear that they were under attack, not because of what they did, but merely because of who they were.” The Daughters of Bilitis endured for 14 years, becoming an educational resource for lesbians, gay men, researchers and mental health professionals. Bilitis is the name given to a fictional lesbian contemporary of Sappho by the French poet Pierre Louÿs in his 1894 work The Songs of Bilitis in which Bilitis lives on the Isle of Lesbos alongside Sappho.

1971: The Austrian Parliament decriminalizes homosexual acts between consenting adults.

1972:

Ann Arbor, Michigan, passes the first comprehensive gay and lesbian municipal rights ordinance.

Jim Foster and Madeleine Davis are the first openly gay and lesbian people to address a major party presidential nominating convention, the Democratic National Convention, held in Miami Beach, Florida. They called upon the party to add a gay rights plank to the platform. The plank was defeated. Jim Foster (November 19, 1934 – October 31, 1990) was an American LGBT rights and Democratic activist. He became active in the early gay rights movement when he moved to San Francisco following his undesirable discharge from the Army in 1959 for being homosexual. Foster co-founded the Society for Individual Rights (SIR), an early homophile organization, in 1964. U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein credits SIR and the gay vote with generating her margin of victory in her election to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1969. Madeleine Davis (born 1940) is a noted gay rights activist. In 1970 she was a founding member of the Mattachine Society of the Niagara Frontier, the first gay rights organization in Western New York. In 1972, Davis taught the first course on lesbianism in the United States. She was also a founding member of HAG Theater, the first all-lesbian theater company in the US.

1974

David Bowie played the first of five dates at The Tower Theatre in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, the recordings of which made up the David Live album released later that year. The album catches Bowie in transition from the Ziggy Stardust/Aladdin Sane glam-rock era of his career to the ‘plastic soul’ of Young Americans.

July 10, 1975

Cher filed for a divorce from Gregg Allman of the Allman Brothers Band, only 10 days after their marriage. She would change her mind a few days later, but the pair eventually split for good in 1979.

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1985 –

“Given a choice between sharing a park with homosexuals or a bunch of white-sheeted, racist, hate-peddling losers, we think we would prefer homosexuals.” This quote is from an editorial in the Texas Daily News regarding an upcoming anti-gay rally by the Ku Klux Klan.

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07-10-1991 Angel Haze – Born Raykeea Raeen-Roes Wilson in Detroit, Michigan. Her father was African-American, her mother is a Native American Cherokee. She is an American rapper and singer. She raps homophobia, rape culture, and racism. Wilson is pansexual and genderqueer. In a 2016 interview with

BuzzFeed, she stated, “I sound like four people when I get written about as ‘they’. It drives me crazy. If you call me ‘him’ or ‘her’ it doesn’t matter to me. I don’t consider myself of any sex. I consider myself an experience.” Wilson is self-taught in Cherokee language and celebrates her multiracial heritage. In 2014, she was in a relationship with Ireland Baldwin. They broke up a year later.

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

2002

Dolly Parton began a tour, her first major tour in 10 years, at the Irving Plaza in New York City.

2007

Arista Records announced a September release date for Barry Manilow‘s next album, “The Greatest Songs of the Seventies”. This was his third volume of decade-driven, covers albums, the first two of which sold nearly 1.7 million copies in the United States combined.

2009 – Michael Herrera, 26, brutally murders Cesar Torres, 39, in El Paso, Texas. Herrera is charged with murder and receives a 25-year prison sentence. Torres was transgender.

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

see also:

The last elvis fan screamed at by the Memphis mafia

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.

LGB and T his/her story July 8

BCE to The Suffragettes

1864 – Fred Holland Day (July 8, 1864 – November 12, 1933) is born. He was an American photographer and publisher, and the first to advocate that photography should be considered a fine art. Day’s life and works had long been controversial since his photographic subjects were often nude young men. Since the 1990s, Day’s works have been included in major exhibitions by museum curators, notably in the solo Day retrospective at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 2000/2001 and similar shows at the Royal Photographic Society in England and the Fuller Museum of Art. Art historians are once again taking an interest in Day, and there are now significant academic texts on Day’s homoerotic portraiture, and its similarities to the work of Walter Pater and Thomas Eakins.

07-08-1886 – 12-16-1973 Frances M. Witherspoon – Born in Meridian,

Mississippi. She was an American writer and activist. She and her life-partner, Tracy Dickinson Mygatt, founded the New York Bureau of Legal Advice, a forerunner of the American Civil Liberties Union. Both women were graduates if Bryn Mawr College. For over sixty years, the women lived and worked together. They were both against war and were charter members of the Episcopal Pacifist Fellowship when it was founded in 1939. In 1961, they were recognized jointly with the War Resisters League Peace Award. In her eighties, Witherspoon organized a campaign among Bryn Mawr alumnae against the Vietnam War. Witherspoon and Mygatt died within a month of each other. The couple’s papers were donated to the Swarthmore College Peace Collection.

07-08-1906 – 01-25-2005 Philip C. Johnson – Born in Cleveland, Ohio. He was an American architect. In 1930, he

founded the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In 1961, he was elected into the National Academy of Design. In 1978, he was awarded an American Institute of Architects Gold Medal. He is especially known for his postmodern work. In 1993, he came publicly came out as gay. Johnson died in his sleep at his Glass House retreat in 2005 and was survived by his partner of 45 years, David Whitney, who died later that year at age 66.

07-08-1933 – 05-30-2010 Peter Orlovsky – Born in New York City, New York. He was an American poet and actor. His work

has appeared in The New American Poetry (1945-1960), The Beatitude Anthology (1965), as well as the literary magazines Yugen and Outsider. Orlovsky also appeared in four films, including Andy Warhol’s Couch (1965). Orlovsky was the lifelong partner of Allen Ginsberg.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

1947

New Mexico’s Roswell Daily Record reports an alien aircraft has crashed near a local ranch with the headline “RAAF Captures Flying Saucer In Roswell Region.” In the coming decades, extraterrestrials and flying saucers invade several songs, including David Bowie’s “Starman,” Megadeth’s “Hangar 18,” and Radiohead’s “Subterranean Homesick Alien.”

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

1950 – Harry Hay (April 7, 1912 – October 24, 2002) and Rudi Gernreich (August 8, 1922 – April 21, 1985) meet and later found the Mattachine Society, one of the earliest homophile organizations in the U.S. Hay was a prominent American gay rights activist, communist, labor advocate, and Native American civil rights campaigner. He was a founder of the Mattachine Society, the first sustained gay rights group in the United States, as well as the Radical Faeries, a loosely affiliated gay spiritual movement. Gernreich was an Austrian-born American fashion designer whose avant-garde clothing designs are generally regarded as the most innovative and dynamic fashion of the 1960s. He purposefully used fashion design as a social statement to advance sexual freedom, producing clothes that followed the natural form of the female body, freeing them from the constraints of high fashion.

07-08-1958 Hemming Andreas Carlgren – Born in Västra Ryd, Stockholm County, Sweden.

He is the first openly gay Swedish cabinet minister.

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

07-08-1960 Bettina Herlitzius – Born in Bad Salzuflen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She is a German politician,

specifically a Green Party representative in the Bundestag. She is a committed environmentalist. Herlitzius is openly lesbian and has championed equal rights for LGBT couples since the 1990s. She lives with her partner in a civil union and has one son.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

07-08-1970 Sylvain Gaudreault – Born in Chicoutimi, Quebec. He is a Canadian politician and teacher. He was one of two LGBT ministers in the National Assembly of Quebec.

1978 – A group of men attacked homosexuals in Central Park, injuring several with baseball bats, including former Olympic and world champion ice skater Dick Button (born July 18, 1929)

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

1980 – The Democratic Rules Committee states that it will not discriminate against homosexuals. At their National Convention on August 11-14, the Democrats become the first major political party to endorse a homosexual rights platform.

1981, Canada – In Montreal the owner of Sauna David is found guilty of keeping a common bawdyhouse. The charges were the result of a police raid on bathhouse April 26, 1980.

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

2006

Queen guitarist Brian May made a “substantial” donation to save hedgehogs from slaughter in the Outer Hebrides. Although the exact amount was not revealed it was said to be enough to pay for the rescue of hundreds of hedgehogs from the Uists, where Scottish Natural Heritage has been culling the animals for the past four years. May’s money would go towards funding cash rewards for islanders so hundreds more hedgehogs can be saved.

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

2010 –

United States District Court Judge Joseph L. Tauro rules in two separate cases that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional. In Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. United States Department of Health and Human Services Tauro says that the definition of marriage enacted by Congress for federal purposes violates the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and “encroaches upon the firmly entrenched province of the state” by treating some couples with Massachusetts marriage licenses differently than others. In Gill v. Office of Personnel Management brought by Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, he says the law violates the equal protection of the law guaranteed by the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

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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:

The last elvis fan screamed at by the Memphis mafia

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.

LGB & T Her/His stories July 7

BCE to The Suffragettes

07-07-1899 – 01-24-1983 George Cukor – Born in the Lower East Side, New York City, New York. He was an American film director. Cukor directed The Philadelphia Story (1940), Born Yesterday (1950), A Star Is Born (1954), My Fair Lady (1964), and

many other films. It was an open secret in Hollywood that Cukor was gay, although he was discreet about his sexual orientation and “never carried it as a pin on his lapel,” as producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz put it. His luxurious home was the site of weekly Sunday afternoon parties attended by closeted celebrities and the attractive young men they met in bars and gyms. At least once, in the midst of his reign at MGM, he was arrested on vice charges, but studio executives managed to get the charges dropped, all records of it expunged, and the incident was never published by the press. The PBS series American Masters produced a comprehensive documentary about his life and work titled On Cukor directed by Robert Trachtenberg in 2000.

07-07-1911 – 02-01-2007 Gian Carlo Menotti – Born in Cadegliano-Viconago, Italy. He was an Italian-American composer and librettist. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship. He wrote the classic Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors. He won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Consul (1950) and for The Saint of Bleecker Street (1955). In 1984 Menotti was awarded a Kennedy Center Honor for achievement in the arts. He was in a relationship for over forty years with American composer Samuel Barber.

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

July 7,1965

Sonny And Cher perform their new single “I Got You Babe” on US TV’s Rock and Roll show, Shindig.

1967

Dusty Springfield begins a three-week residency at New York’s Copacabana nightclub.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

July 7, 1971

26-year-old pop star Bjorn Ulvaeus and 21-year-old Agnetha Faltskog married in Verum, Sweden. 3000 ABBA fans arrived and in the chaos a police horse stepped on the brides foot, causing her slight injury. They would divorce in 1979.

07-07-1972 Kirsten Vangsness – Born in Pasadena, California. She is an American actress and writer. She stars as FBI Technical Analyst Penelope Garcia on the CBS drama

series Criminal Minds. Vangsness says that she is “as queer as a purple unicorn singing Madonna.” She began dating film and television editor Melanie Goldstein in 2006. They were engaged but separated in 2013. In April 2015, she revealed on smashinginterviews.com that she had entered into a relationship with a new boyfriend and was examining that aspect of her sexuality. In November 2015, it was reported that she was engaged to her boyfriend, actor-writer Keith Hanson. Although Vangsness doesn’t like to label herself as bisexual, she is attracted to both men and women.

1974, Canada -The Quebec Charter of Human Rights is adopted by the National Assembly without legal protection for gays.

1975

A Gay Caucus is formed at the national convention of the New Democratic Party, marking the first LGBT-oriented committee within a mainstream political party in Canada.

07-07-1975 Andre Oktay Dahl – Born in Lørenskog, Norway. He was a Norwegian politician from 1999-2006. During his time in parliament, he focused on fighting homophobia, fighting for female rights, anti-corruption, and fighting against child abuse. After leaving the Norwegian Parliament, Dahl took the position as an account director in Norway’s biggest consultancy firm. He is still active in public debates, especially those involving child abuse, human rights, and LGBT issues. Dahl is also a highly skilled clarinet player. He served as a solo clarinet player in his Majesty’s Kings Guards band when he served in the Norwegian Army. Dahl is a former victim of child sexual abuse and he is openly gay.

1979

USA Lp charts Sister Sledge at #7 with We Are Family,

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

07-07-1980 Deidre Downs – Born in Alabama, city unknown. She is an American

physician, former Miss Alabama (2004), and Miss American (2005). In March 2008, she married her college sweetheart, Andrew Gunn. They had a son in 2010 and later the couple divorced. In a private ceremony at the Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, Alabama, she remarried. Her wife, Abbott Jones, is an attorney and writer. Downs is the first former Miss America national titleholder to enter a same-sex marriage. (Photo was taken at the Jimmy Carter Work Project – June 2005)

1984

“Relax” by Frankie Goes To Hollywood becomes the biggest selling single of all time in Great Britain, replacing Paul McCartney’s “Mull Of Kintyre” for that honor.

However, the band was lip syncing and the song is tainted

07-07-1988 Jen Kish – Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She is a Canadian professional

rugby player. Kish won a gold medal at the 2015 Pan American Games as a member of the Canadian women’s rugby team. In 2016, she was named to Canada’s first-ever women’s Olympic rugby team. She and the team won the Bronze Medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Kish is one of 49 out LGBT athletes at the 2016 Olympic Games.

1989

It was announced that for the first time compact discs were out selling vinyl albums. The dominance of CDs virtually wiped out the 45 RPM single format, as nothing ended up replacing them. The 3 1/2 inch CD single would die out after record companies refused to offer them at a reasonable price.

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”

2007

Live Earth took place. The 24-hour, 7-continent series of concerts featured more than 100 music artists. The concerts were organised by former US Vice-President Al Gore, as part of his campaign to “heal the planet”. Rock stars from around the world performed to hundreds of thousands of fans to highlight climate change. Concerts were held in Washington, Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg, London, Hamburg, Tokyo, Shanghai and Sydney. Madonna brought London’s Live Earth concert to a close, playing a song she had written for the event. Other major acts who appeared included; Snow Patrol, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Genesis, The Beastie Boys, James Blunt, The Foo Fighters, Duran Duran, UB40, Snoop Dogg, Enrique Iglesias, Crowded House & Joss Stone. with The Police closing the days events in New Jersey.

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

2010, Sweden – Tobias Billstrom (born 27 December 1973) is the first openly bisexual person elected to the Swedish government. He is the Minister of Migration Affairs.

2011

George Michael expressed his delight after learning that English tabloid News of the World was shutting down. As a constant target of the paper, Michael declared that the announcement is “a fantastic day for Britain.”

2014 – The first White House LGBT Innovation Summit takes place to discuss ways in which technology can help the LGBT community’s challenges. Speakers included Tim Gill, founder of Quark publishing software and transgender activist and model; Geena Rocero, founder of transgender rights group Gender Proud; and Leanne Pittsford, founder of Lesbians Who Tech, an organization dedicated to increasing the number of women and lesbians in technology. This was the first summit of its kind held at the White House, with nearly 180 people attend.

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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:

The last elvis fan screamed at by the Memphis mafia

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.

LGB and T: Her/his story July 6

BCE to The Suffragettes

1750, France – Bruno Lenoir and Jean Diot, 18 and 20 years old, are caught having sex. They are strangled and burned in the Place de Greve by “seven wagons of brushwood, two hundred faggots (bundles of wood sticks), and straw.” This is the last execution in France for consensual sodomy. In October, 2014, a memorial plaque was unveiled the Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo to remember them.

1907 — Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954) is born. Inspired by Mexican popular culture, she employed a naïve folk-art style to explore questions of identity, post-colonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society. Kahlo was bisexual and a polio survivor. She married Diego Rivera twice, had an affair with Leon Trotsky, and had affairs with several women as well. La Casa Azul, her home in Coyoacán, was opened as a museum in 1958, and has become one of the most popular museums in Mexico City. In the United States, she became the first Hispanic woman to be honored with a U.S. postage stamp in 2001,and in 2012 was inducted into the Legacy Walk, an outdoor public display in Chicago that celebrates the LGBThistory and people.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

1943 — Leonard P. Matlovich (July 6, 1943 – June 22, 1988) is born. During three tours of duty in Viet Nam, he would earn, among other honors, a Bronze Star, a Purple Heart, and an Air Force Commendation Medal. Sgt. Matlovich was discharged when he came out as gay. He died of AIDS in June, 1988, at the age of 45. Matlovich was the first gay service member to purposely out himself to the military to fight their ban on gays, and perhaps the best-known gay man in America in the 1970s next to Harvey Milk. His fight to stay in the United States Air Forceafter coming out of the closet became a cause célèbre around which the gay community rallied. His case resulted in articles in newspapers and magazines throughout the country, numerous television interviews, and a television movie on NBC. Matlovich was the first named openly gay person to appear on the cover of a U.S. newsmagazine – of the September 8, 1975, issue of Timemagazine, making him a symbol for thousands of gay and lesbian service members and gay people generally. According to author Randy Shilts(August 8, 1951 – February 17, 1994), “It marked the first time the young gay movement had made the cover of a major newsweekly. To a movement still struggling for legitimacy, the event was a major turning point.” His tombstone, meant to be a memorial to all gay veterans, does not bear his name. It reads, “When I was in the military, they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.”

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

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

1966 – Glenn Christopher Scarpelli (born July 6, 1966) is an American former child actor and singer. He is best known for his role as Alex Handris from 1980 to 1983 on the sitcom One Day at a Time. Scarpelli came out as gay in adulthood. He resides in Arizona, where he and his then-partner Jude Belanger established the Sedona Now Network, a community television station, in 2003.Scarpelli and Belanger were married in California in 2008, but filed for divorce in 2012.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

July 6, 1972

David Bowie appeared on the UK music show Top Of The Pops playing his new single ‘Starman’, his first hit since 1969’s ‘Space Oddity’ three years before. The single peaked at No.10 and stayed on the charts for 11 weeks.

1973:

Infuriated and disgusted by “all those young punks who have been beating up” gay men in San Francisco, a gay Pentecostal Evangelist, the Rev. Ray Broshears, founds the so-called Lavender Panthers, a group of street vigilantes who patrol the city’s gay meeting areas to ward off potential attacks from “fag-bashers.” Shortly after their founding, the Panthers also begin holding classes in self-defense skills for gay men.

JIn the UK, Queen release their self-titled debut album, along with their first single, “Keep Yourself Alive.” The album is released in America on September 4.

1979 –

Billy S. Jones, Darlene Garner, and Delores P. Berry co-found the National Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays in Washington, D.C. Bisexual and transgender people are included in bylaws, mission and outreach. The National Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays (formerly The National Coalition of Black Gays) was the United States‘ first national organizationfor African American and Third World gay rights.While many Washington, D.C.-based gay rights organizations opposed the 1979 National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, NCBG’s support for the march smoothed the way for the event. The organization was to provide a national advocacy forum for African American gay men and lesbians at a time when no other organization existed to express their views. The organizers, also including Louis Hughes, Gil Gerald, Rev. Renee McCoy, and John Gee, were motivated by a belief that existing gay and lesbian organizations did not represent the views and experiences of African Americans. In 1984, NCBG added Lesbian to its name to become the National Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays. The organization’s headquarters moved to Detroit, Michigan briefly in the mid-1980s. By 1986, several key leaders left the organization, and eventually the group (without any official announcement) faded out of existence.By 1990, formal operations ended for the organization. As founding member A. Billy S. Jones described, “We just faded away. Some board members refused to acknowledge that it was time to say goodbye but folks just burned out and faded away.”

The B-52s release their self-titled debut album, featuring one of their signature songs in “Rock Lobster.”

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

1981: A federal judge rules that a Houston ordinance prohibiting men from cross-dressing is unconstitutional.

1989: A New York court rules that for the purpose of defining rent-control regulations a gay couple may be considered a “family,” and that William Rubenstein may remain in the Manhattan apartment he and his late lover shared for ten years.

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

1990: Bay Area television reporter Paul Wynne dies of AIDS in San Francisco at the age of forty-seven. Wynne had chronicled the development of his disease and his feelings as he neared death in a weekly video diary that aired for nearly seven months on KGO, the local ABC affiliate. “This is the face of AIDS,” he told viewers, in a close-up of his gaunt face during the diary’s premiere on January 11, 1990.

1992 – Some 50 activists in New York City attend the first public meeting of the Lesbian Avengers, a direct action group focused on issues vital to lesbian survival and visibility.” Dozens of other chapters quickly emerged worldwide, a few expanding their mission to include questions of not heteronormative gender, race, and class. The Lesbian Avengers was founded by Ana Maria Simo, Sarah Schulman, Maxine Wolfe, Anne-Christine D’Adesky, Marie Honan, and Anne Maguire, six longtime lesbian activists who were involved in a variety of LGBT groups from the Medusa’s Revenge lesbian theater to ACT-UP and ILGO (the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization). Lesbian Avenger Ann Northrop underlined the point. “We’re not going to be invisible anymore … We are going to be prominent and have power and be part of all decision making.” Her assumptions were largely proved in interviews with Avengers in the 1993 documentary film, Lesbian Avengers Eat Fire, Too edited by Su Friedrich and Janet Baus. Some members, though, joked they also joined to meet women.

Nina Notes: meeting other lesbians is partly why protests were organized

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

2001

A pair of Sir Elton John’s sandals was set to become the most expensive shoes in history when they went under the hammer for charity. Offers over £20,000 were invited for the Salvatore Ferragamo sandals to raise funds for Elton’s Aid Trust.

2007, Hungary – Gábor Szetey (born January 6, 1968) is a Hungarian former politician and former Secretary of State for Human Resources in the Gyurcsány government, a role he held from July 2006 to April 2009. He was the first openly gay Hungarian government member. On this day, he publicly declares that he’s gay at the opening night of the Budapest LGBT film festival, making him the first out LGBT person in Hungarian government. He currently lives in Spain.

2009: The District of Columbia recognizes same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions.

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

2019

With 13 weeks at #1, “Old Town Road” by Lil Nas X breaks the record for longest-running hip-hop song on the Hot 100. “Lose Yourself,” “Boom Boom Pow” and “See You Again” all had runs of 12 weeks.

2020

Global Pride draws more than 57 million viewers

Washington Blade–25 minutes ago

Laverne Cox, Olivia Newton–John, Pabllo Vittar and Kesha. The event also highlighted the Black Lives Matter movement and the response to …

2022

Found – Dal News – Dalhousie University

https://www.dal.ca › News & Events › July 2022 › 06

Archiving Dal’s history. Jennifer Lambert – July 6, 2022 … records in Nova Scotia pertaining to lesbian history in particular, the LGBT Archive developed …

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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:

The last elvis fan screamed at by the Memphis mafia

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.

LGB & T: her / his story July 5

BCE to The Suffragettes

1842 – Andrew George Scott (July 5, 1842 – January 20, 1880), also known as Captain Moonlite, is born. He was an Irish-born Australian bushranger and folk figure. Bruun, a young man whom he had befriended was forced to open the safe. Bruun described being robbed by a fantastic black-crepe masked figure who forced him to sign a note absolving him of any role in the crime. The note read “I hereby certify that L.W. Bruun has done everything within his power to withstand this intrusion and the taking of money which was done with firearms, Captain Moonlite, Sworn.” He gathered a band of thieves together and became especially close to one James Nesbit. Nesbit was to die in a shoot-out after which Scott was imprisoned. While there he wrote letters that declared his undying love for Nesbit in terms that were extravagant and uncompromising.

1853 – Cecil Rhodes (July 5, 1853 – March 26, 190) is born in Hertfordshire, England. He was a British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa, who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896.The owner of the Kimberley Diamond Mines, he was a multi-millionaire whose De Beers diamond company, formed in 1888, retains its prominence into the 21st century. Rhodes never married, pleading, “I have too much work on my hands” and saying that he would not be a dutiful husband.Some writers and academics have suggested that Rhodes may have been homosexual and had relationships with Leander Starr Jameson and Henry Latham Curry. Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) is named for him. He also started the Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford.

07-05-1879 – 08-16-1959 Wanda Landowska – Born in Warsaw, Poland to Jewish parents. She was a Polish-French harpsichordist. Her performances, teaching, recordings, and writings played a large role in

reviving the popularity of the harpsichord in the early 20th century. In 1933, she was the first person to record Bach’s Goldberg Variations on the harpsichord. In 1938, she became a naturalized French citizen. She lived in Paris and frequented the salon of open lesbian Natalie Clifford Barney. When the Nazi Army invaded France, she fled with her lover Denise Restout. The couple made their way to the United States and arrived in New York on December 7, 1941, the day Pearl Harbor was bombed. From New York they settled in Lakeville, Connecticut in 1949 where she re-established herself as a performer and teacher. Upon her death at the age of 80, her estate was inherited by life partner.

07-05-1889 – 10-11-1963 Jean Cocteau – Born in Maisons-Laffitte, France. He was a novelist, poet, artist, and filmmaker. He is best known for his novel Les Enfants Terribles (1929). and the films Blood of a Poet (1930), Beauty and the Beast (1946) and Orpheus (1949). Cocteau had a few minor affairs with women, but it was men he was attracted to and with whom he had many affairs. His muse and lover for over 25 years was actor Jean Marais

07-05-1904 – 02-27-1994 Harold Acton (Sir Harold Mario Mitchell Acton CBE) – Born into a prominent Anglo-Italian-American family at Villa La Pietra, his parents’ house outside of Florence, Italy. He was a British writer and scholar. He is known for

being the inspiration for the character of “Anthony Blanche” in Evelyn Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited (1945). The American writer, David Plante, wrote about Acton’s years in China during the 1930s, mentioning that his predilection for young boys caused him to be described in a classified government document as a “scandalous debauchee” and prevented him from serving in China in the intelligence service when war broke out. The author A.N. Wilson remarked: “To call him homosexual would be to misunderstand the whole essence of his being” and that “He was more asexual than anything else.”

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

07-05-1968 Jillian Armenante – Born in Patterson, New Jersey. She is an American television and film actress, best known for playing the role of Donna Kozlowski on the TV show Judging Amy. With Alice Dodd, her wife, Armenante co-produced, co-directed, and

co-wrote Laura Comstock’s Bag-Punching Dog and In Flagrante Gothicto at the Circle X Theatre Company. Laura Comstock’s Bag-Punching Dog won the Theatre L.A. Ovation Award for “Best New Musical” and “Best Musical Production.” In Flagrante Gothicto received the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards for writing, directing and production. and the LA Weekly Theatre Award for playwriting and comedy ensemble. She has appeared in feature films, including North Country and Girl, Interrupted. Her television appearances include Shameless, The Closer, Grey’s Anatomy, ER, Six Feet Under, and The West Wing. She is openly lesbian.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

07-05-1970 Wayne Besen – Born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He is an America gay rights advocate. He is a former investigative journalist for WABI-TV, a former spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign, and the founder of Truth Wins Out. When Besen came out to his parents, they gave him a DVD that could supposedly hypnotize

people and turn them straight. It was that and the invitation by President George W. Bush of ex-gay leader Alan Chambers to the White House that led him to start the Truth Wins Out organization. In September 2000, Besen photographed ex-gay activist John Paulk, then Chairman of Exodus International (ex-gay therapy Christian group), in a Washington D.C. gay bar called Mr. P’s. Paulk said he was simply there to use the washroom, but Besen and other witnesses alleged he was drinking and flirting for over 20 minutes. Besen went public with the story and wrote about it in his book Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth. The book was nominated for two Lambda Awards in 2003. In June 2003, Exodus International reversed its positions on reparative therapy, apologized to the gay community to the “trauma” and “hurt” the organization had wreaked on them, and disbanded the organization.

1974

David Bowie played at the Coliseum in Charlotte, North Carolina.

1975

Olivia Newton-John join the Top 10 with “Please Mr. Please” at 10.

Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy by Elton John was #1 on the Album chart, where it had been every week since its release back on June 7.

1978,

Canada – In Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, an hour-long “Gay News and Views” begins on a local station. It is the first regularly scheduled gay radio program in Canada.

Canada – The Quebec Human Rights Commission decides that Montreal Catholic School Commission’s refusal to rent facilities to gay group is discriminatory. It is the first such finding by the commission since the inclusion of “sexual orientation” in the provincial Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

07-05-1979 Amelie Simone Mauresmo – Born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France. She was a professional tennis player and a former World No. 1. She won two Grand Slam

singles titles at the Australian Open and at Wimbledon. She also won a Silver Medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Mauresmo came out as lesbian at the Australian Open in January 1999 at the age of 19. After beating top-ranked Lindsay Davenport, Mauresmo announced that her success had to do with finding love and coming to terms with her sexuality. She retired from playing tennis in December 2009. From June 2014 to May 2016, she coached English tennis star Andy Murray.

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1980, Canada – The national convention of the Liberal Party of Canada adopts a resolution to include sexual orientation in the Canadian Human Right Act.

1981

At the “Rock Werchter” festival in Belgium, The Cure play a 9-minute version of “A Forest” when they are told to hurry off stage so Robert Palmer can begin his set.

07-05-1985 Megan Rapinoe – Born in Redding, California. She is an American professional soccer midfielder and Olympic gold medalist. She plays for Seattle Reign FC

in the National Women’s Soccer League. She is also a member of the United States women’s national soccer team. During the 2012 London Olympics, she scored three goals and tallied a team-high four assists to lead the United States to a gold medal. On July 2, 2012, Rapinoe came out as a lesbian in an interview with Out magazine. She is an advocate for numerous LGBT organizations. Rapinoe is sponsored by Nike, Samsung, and DJO Global, and has appeared in multiple promotional pieces for clothing company Wildfang, as well as for Nike. She is included in Time Magazine‘s 100 Most Influential People of 2020.

1986

Billy Ocean went to #1 on the US singles chart with “There’ll Be Sad Songs, (To Make You Cry)”, a #12 hit in the UK.

Billy Ocean held down the #1 song with There’ll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)”.

on the LP charts, Whitney Houston after 67 weeks at #1, drops to #3. the Soundtrack to “Top Gun” moving into the Top 10 at #8,

1987 – James H. Donovan (November 12, 1923 – August 31, 1990) was a New York state senator. On this day, he suggests that giving teens rosary beads would prevent the spread of AIDS more effectively than the distribution of condoms. (seriously???)

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1993

Whitney Houston opened her world tour at the James L. Knight Center in Miami, Florida.

Björk releases her first post-Sugarcubes solo album, titled Debut. Featuring the tracks “Human Behaviour” and “Big Time Sensuality,” it sets the stage for her rise as a solo star.

1997

Organized by Sarah McLachlan, the all-female Lilith Fair tour kicks off with a show in The Gorge Amphitheatre in Washington State. The lineup includes Jewel, Suzanne Vega and Paula Cole, with Emmylou Harris, Sheryl Crow and Fiona Apple joining on subsequent stops.

2008

Katy Perry‘s “I Kissed a Girl” hits #1 in the US, where it stays for seven weeks. Perry’s first chart-topper, it’s a startling turnabout from just seven years earlier, when she was a gospel singer recording under her real name: Katy Hudson.

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2011, Serbia – The Serbian parliament approves a law to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation.

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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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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

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Thea Spyer (DOB unknown) – Wife of Edie Windsor. They had a 44-year relationship. Their relationship began at a party in 1962, a time when gay people were largely

regarded as criminals and diagnosed as mentally ill. After dating a short time, Spyer proposed to Windsor in 1967, they finally married 40 years later, in Canada in 2007. Spyer’s health deteriorated over the years, and she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at age 45, a disease that didn’t stop the couple from dancing, even when Spyer was stricken to a wheelchair. Spyer died in 2009. On June 26, 2013, in the landmark case of United States v. Windsor, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Defense of Marriage Act was unconstitutional – a victory that made Edie Windsor’s marriage to Thea Spyer, legally recognized by the federal government. This case benefited every gay person in America. A film was made on their relationship – Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement. (Photo: Thea is on the left, Edie is on the right)

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1826 – Composer Stephen Foster (July 4, 1826 – January 13, 1864), born in Pittsburgh and known as “the father of American music,” was famous for his parlor and minstrel music. Foster wrote over 200 songs; among his best-known are “Oh! Susanna“, “Hard Times Come Again No More“, “Camptown Races“, “Old Folks at Home,” “Swanee River”, “My Old Kentucky Home“, “Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair“, “Old Black Joe,” and “Beautiful Dreamer“. He likely abandoned his wife for fellow composer George Cooper. There are many biographers who have published works on the life of Stephen Foster, but details differ widely. Foster wrote very little biographical information himself. His brother destroyed much of the information about Stephen that he judged to reflect negatively upon the family.

1828

“Hail to the Chief” is performed by the United States Marine Band for President John Quincy Adams during the groundbreaking ceremony for the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.

07-04-1844 – 09-17-1907 Edmonia Lewis – Born in Greenbush, New York. She was an American sculptor who worked most of her career in Rome, Italy. She is the first woman of African-American and Native American heritage to achieve international fame and recognition

as a sculptor. Her work is known for incorporating themes relating to black and American Indian people into the Neoclassical style. She never married and while in Rome, was included in the lesbian circle of actress Charlotte Cushman and sculptor Harriet Hosmer. She also dressed in an androgynous style. Lewis is believed to have been involved romantically with other women. She returned to the United States in 1874 with great success. In 1876, she was one of a few women sculptors invited to exhibit at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. In 1877, she was commissioned by former U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant to sculpt a bust of his likeness. In 1901, she moved to London, England. She died in England in 1907.

1855 – First edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grassis published. It’s considered the clearest expression of the author’s homosexual desires.

1895 – “America the Beautiful” is published. Its author, Katharine Lee Bates (August 12, 1859 – March 28, 1929), was a professor at Wellesley College “who lived as ‘one soul together’ with Katharine Coman (November 23, 1857 – January 11, 1915)who was a history and political economy teacher and founder of the Wellesley College School Economics department. The pair lived together for twenty-five years until Coman’s death in 1915.

07-04-1898 – 09-06-1952 Gertrude Lawrence – Born in London, England. She

was an English actress, singer, dancer and musical comedy performer known for her stage appearances in the West End of London and on Broadway. In 1948, Lawrence returned to Britain (she had been in the United States) to star in September Tide, a play written specifically for her by Daphne du Maurier. According to an article written by Kate Kellaway in The Guardian dated April 14, 2007, du Maurier had her most passionate lesbian affair with Gertrude Lawrence. Their affair is also mentioned in biographies of Daphne du Maurier.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

1942

The Irving Berlin musical, “This is the Army”, opened at New York’s Broadway Theatre.

1945 – 08-14-1995 (DOB unknown) – Dr. Robert H. Eichberg – He was a psychologist who co-founded National Coming Out Day along with Jean O’Leary in 1988. He also wrote the

book Coming Out: An Act of Love. Eichberg dedicated his life on bridging the gap between gay and nongay communities, allowing people to discover who they are, and encouraging them to go out and do something with that knowledge. National Coming Out Day is observed on Oct. 11th. He was openly gay. In an interview in 1993, Dr. Eichberg said, ” It is imperative that we come out and let people know who we are and disabuse them of their fears and stereotypes.” He died of complications from AIDS.

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

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

1964

Barbra Streisand spent a second straight week at the top of the Easy Listening chart with “People” and was #5 pop chart

Louis Armstrong’s Hello, Dolly! was the #1 album with the Soundtrack to the movie #2. Funny Girl from Barbra Streisand was #3 followed by the Beatles’ Second Album and The Third Album from Streisand.

1965 – Organized by ECHO, The East Coast Homophile Organizations, demonstrators picket at Independence Hallin Philadelphia. Picketers returned each year through 1969 for what came to be known as the Annual Reminder. It was the beginning a new era in Philadelphia LGBT culture as a presence in the community. A small group of conservatively dressed lesbians and gay men picket Independence Hall in in one of the first public demonstrations for gay rights. Among those marching is Barbara Gittings (July 31, 1932 – February 18, 2007).The picket isto call public attention to the lack of civil rights for LGBT people. The gatherings continues annually for five years. The Daughters of Bilitis and Mattachine Society members participate in the fifth and final picket in 1969.

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Daughters of Bilitis and Mattachine society members picket Independence Hall in Philadelphia for the fifth and last time.

Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, Johnny Winter, Delaney and Bonnie, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Canned Heat, Joe Cocker, Blood Sweat & Tears, Chuck Berry, Spirit, Chicago and Paul Butterfield all appeared at the two-day Atlanta Pop Festival, Byron, Georgia.

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1970 – The General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association becomes the first mainstream religious group in the US to recognize publicly the existence of gay, lesbian, and bisexual clergy and laity among its members and to demand “an end to all discrimination against homosexuals.”

1973 – The Seattle Lesbian Separatist Group (later the Gorgons) issues The Amazon Analysis, a manifesto and handbook of lesbian separatism. The paper’s nearly 100 mimeographed pages are passed among lesbians across the country.

1975, Canada – In Winnipeg, the New Democratic Party Gay Caucus is formed at the NDP national convention.

1976 –

Dykes on Bikes is founded as a group of lesbians on motorcycles who come together to lead the San Francisco Pride Parade. In 1976 a small group of 20 – 25 women motorcyclists gathered at the head of the San Francisco Pride Parade and, unbeknownst to them, a tradition began. One of these women coined the phrase “Dykes on Bikes®” and the San Francisco Chronicle picked it up and ran with it Chapters of the club have been leading Pride Parades around the world ever since.

Elton John and Kiki Dee release their No. 1 duet, “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart.”

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07-04-1988 Michelle Heyman – Born in Shellharbour, NSW, Australia. She is a

professional soccer player. On July 9, 2015, Heyman signed with the US Western New York Flash. She was one of 49 open LGBT athletes to participate in the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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1999

Sir Elton John, 52, collapses. Tests show that he has an irregular heartbeat. John soon has a pacemaker fitted at a London hospital.

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

2001

All 80,000 tickets to Madonna’s concerts at London’s Earl’s Court arena sell out in just four hours.

2002

George Michael took part in a live phone interview on US news channel CNN, defending his new single ‘Shoot The Dog’. Americans were upset by the controversial video, which had President Bush in bed with Tony Blair.

2008

All four members of ABBA were at the premiere of the movie Mamma Mia! in Stockholm, Sweden.

2010

George Michael was arrested after he crashed his car into the front of a Snappy Snaps store in Hampstead, North London. The singer was returning home from a Gay Pride parade when the incident was spotted on CCTV. He was arrested on suspicion of being unfit to drive and charged with possession of cannabis and with driving while unfit through drink or drugs.

2012

Bonhams of London announced that Freddie Mercury’s black and white harlequin stage costume had sold for £22,500 at their Entertainment Memorabilia sale. The harlequin costume was one of Freddie’s most recognisable stage designs, which he wore at a number of high-profile concerts in the 1970s. Also a pair of Freddie’s ballet pumps exceeded the pre-sale estimate of £1,500 – 2,000, selling for £4,000 to an overseas internet bidder. Freddie had worn the white leather ballet shoes during Queen’s legendary Hyde Park performance in 1976.

Barry Manilow sang “Let Freedom Ring” and Neil Diamond belted out “Sweet Caroline” in celebration of The Fourth Of July at the National Mall in Washington D.C.

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2013

Barry Manilow sang “Let Freedom Ring” and Neil Diamond belted out “Sweet Caroline” in celebration of The Fourth Of July at the National Mall in Washington D.C.

2019

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2020

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

Understood as noting to be debated, quibbled nor negotiated.

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

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from my original blog:

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

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