this is the qmunity first divide. the one who are just like the heteros, and just happen to be LGBTQ2 and those who are queer openly different from heterosexual normatives.
those who can mainstream pass vs those who pass on mainstream
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Thomas A. Edison finished his first phonograph design and gave a sketch of the machine to his mechanic, former Swiss clock maker John Kruesi, to build. Thirty hours later the machine was finished, but Kruesi bet the inventor $2 that it would not work. Edison immediately tested the machine by speaking a nursery rhyme into the mouthpiece, âMary had a little lamb.â To his amazement, the machine played his words back to him. Kruesi would go on be involved in many of Edisonâs key inventions, including the quadruplex telegraph, the carbon microphone, the phonograph, and the incandescent light bulb and system of electric lighting.
12-06-1892 â 05-04-1969 Sir Osbert Sitwell, 5th Baronet â Born in London,
England. He was an English writer who devoted his life to art and literature. He grew up at Renishaw Hall in Derbyshire, England. It has been the home of the Sitwell family for over 350 years. His first poetry was written while in the trenches of France during WWI. Sitwell, with his brother, sponsored a controversial exhibition of works by Matisse, Utrillo, Picasso, and Modigliani. In the mid-1920s he met David Stuart Horner who was his lover and companion for most of his life.
12-06-1893 â 05-01-1978 Sylvia Townsend Warner â Born at Harrow on the
Hill, Middlesex, England. She was an English novelist and poet. In 1923 she met T.F. Powys, whose writing influenced her own and whose work she encouraged. It was at Powysâ home in 1930 that Warner met Valentine Ackland. The two women fell in love and settled in Frome Vauchurch, Dorset. They lived together from 1930 until Acklandâs death in 1969. In her novel, Summer Will Show (1936), the heroine, Sophia Willoughby, travels to Paris during the 1848 Revolution and falls in love with a woman.
12-06-1895 â 07-02-1952 HenriĂ«tte Bosmans â Born in Amsterdam. Holland. She was a Dutch composer and pianist. Bosmans had relationships
12-06-1900 â 04-30-1974 Agnes Moorehead â Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She was an American actress whose career of six decades
included work in radio, stage, film, and television. Moorehead is mostly remembered for her role as Endora on the television series Bewitched. She earned one Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe awards. In addition, she was nominated for four Academy Awards and six Emmy Awards. She was married twice. Her sexuality has been the subject of speculation. Paul Lynde, Mooreheadâs co-star on Bewitched, stated: âWell, the whole world knows Agnes was a lesbian â I mean classy as hell, but one of the all-time Hollywood dykes.â Moorehead is reported in an interview to have acknowledged her same-sex orientation while identifying a number of other Hollywood actresses who âenjoyed lesbian or bi relationships.â
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1939
Cole Porterâs musical comedy âDu Barry Was a Ladyâ opened on Broadway at the 46th Street Theatre.
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December 6, 1961
John Lennon, Paul McCartney,George Harrison and Pete Best met with Brian Epstein for further discussions about his proposal to manage them. Epstein wanted 25% of their gross fees each week. He promises that they will never again play for less than ÂŁ15, except for The Cavern lunchtime sessions, for which he will get their fee doubled to ten pounds. Lennon, as leader of The Beatles accepts on their behalf.
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12-06-1971 Carole Thate â Born in Utrecht, Netherlands. She is a Dutch former field hockey player. Thate was a member of the Holland team that won the bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics and once again at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She is married to Australian striker Alyson Annan.
12-06-1972 Heather R. Mizeur â Born in Blue Mound, Illinois. She is an American politician from Maryland. Mizeur was a member of
the Maryland House of Delegates from January 10, 2007, to January 14, 2015. She is openly lesbian and married her wife, Deborah, in 2005. They were legally married in California in 2008. She has been a vocal supporter of marriage equality. Her floor speech during the 2011 debate on the Civil Marriage Protection Act went viral after it was picked up by national LGBT blogs.
December 6, 1975
Rev. Charles Boykin, a preacher in Tallahassee, Florida, organized the burning of records by Elton John and The Rolling Stones, claiming they were sinful.
on the USA LP Charts # 4 Rock of the Westies from Elton John
December 06, 1976Barbra Streisand released the single âEvergreenâ.
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1980
On the USA song charts Queenâs âAnother One Bites The Dustâ, a #1 song in most markets by now, was third. Barbra Streisand had top 10 hit #30 with âWoman In Loveâ at #4.
Guilty by Barbra Streisand was the new #1 album at #6 Queen with The Game, and lesbian fave Pat Benatarâs amazing Crimes of Passion# 7
1986
 the Bangles had a monster smash with âWalk Like An Egyptianâ. at 8  âHumanâ by the Human League
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1993 â The Massachusetts State Senate approves a bill to protect lesbian and gay public school students from discrimination.
1994 â Delegates of the American Medical Association declare their opposition to medical treatments administered to âcureâ lesbians or gay men, urging ânonjudgmental recognition of sexual orientation.â
1995 â President Bill Clinton hosts the first White House Conference on AIDS, 14 years after the epidemic began. President Bill Clinton convened the first White House Conference on HIV and AIDS on this day. President Clintonâs active support for HIV and AIDS programs reversed the neglect by Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. By the end of 1995, more than 500,000 people in the U.S. had been diagnosed with AIDS. Partly as a result of a vigorous federal research effort that began after Reagan and Bush left office, the number of new AIDS/HIV infections and deaths every year declined dramatically.
1997
Elton John remained at #1 for the ninth week with âCandle In The Wind 1997â, tying âMack The Knifeâ by Bobby Darin,
1998 â The Sacramento Bee reports that for the past four years California Social Services director Eloise Anderson had refused an order from Gov. Pete Wilson to withdraw a directive she issued which allowed gay and lesbian couples to adopt children by saying that a stable home with good financial and emotional support is important for an adoptive child, regardless of the marital status of the parents. During her time in California, the Los Angeles Times referred to Anderson as âThe Queen of Responsibilityâ and âan outspoken champion of welfare reform.â
1998 â The Los Angeles Times published an editorial by Robert Scheer on conservative Michael Huffingtonâs (born September 3, 1947) recent decision to come out of the closet, saying it should come as no surprise that Republicans, even conservative members of the party, are gay. He is an Americanpolitician, LGBT activist, and film producer. He was a member of the Republican Party, and a congressman for one term, 1993â1995, from California. Huffington was married to Arianna Huffington, the Greek-born co-founder of The Huffington Post, from 1986 to 1997.
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2001, Israel â The film Trembling Before G-d, an American made documentary about lesbian and gay Orthodox Jews trying to reconcile their sexuality with their faith, is released in Israel. The film premiered at Sundance earlier in the year. It was directed by Sandi Simcha DuBowski (Sept. 16, 1970), an American who wanted to compare Orthodox Jewish attitudes to homosexuality with his own upbringing as a gay Conservative Jew. Dubowski is also the producer of Parvez Sharmaâs documentary A Jihad for Love (2007) which documents the lives of gay and lesbianMuslims. The US-based OUT Magazine named Sharma, one of the OUT 100 twice for 2008 and 2015- âone of the 100 gay men and women who have helped shape our culture during the yearâ. In 2016 a year after Larry Kramer, Sharma won the Monette Horowitz award given to individuals and organizations for their significant contributions toward eradicating homophobia.
2003: Houston, Texas, city council member Annise Parker defeats fellow council member Bruce Tatro as Houstonâs first lesbian city controller.
2004: Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco issues an executive order banning sexual orientation discrimination in the public sector.
2007
Elton John remained at #1 for the ninth week with âCandle In The Wind 1997â, tying âMack The Knifeâ by Bobby Darin,
2008Beyonce went to No.1 on the US album chart with âI Amâ Sasha Fierceâ, the singers third studio album. It debuted at No.1, making Knowles the third female artist this decade after Britney Spears and Alicia Keys to have her first three albums debut in the top spot.
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2011, Belgium â King Albert II names Elio Di Rupo (born 18 July 1951) Prime Minister of Belgium and, subsequently, the second openly-gay male head of government. He served from December 6, 2011 to October 11, 2014. From France, he was Belgiumâs first Prime Minister of non-Belgian descent.
12-06-2011 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers a historic speech on LGBT rights at U.N. in Geneva. In what LGBT equality advocates are heralding as a remarkable and historic speech, U.S.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today told diplomats from around the world that LGBT rights are universal human rights, equal to womenâs rights and racial equality, and that the United States, under the administration of President Barack Obama, will from now on take a countryâs treatment of its LGBT citizens into consideration when making decisions on awarding foreign aid to that country. Clinton delivered the speech before a gathering at the United Nations in Geneva, home of the U.N.âs human rights body. Clinton delivered her address shortly after the White House Press Office released a statement announcing that President Obama had sent out a presidential memorandum instructing U.S. diplomatic officers and agencies to âpromote and protectâ the rights of LGBT persons abroad.
12-06-2012 Washington State Gay Marriage: Same-sex couples
obtain Marriage Licenses for the first time. Among those getting marriage licenses on Thursday was gay rights activist Dan Savage, who married his partner on Sunday with other couples at Seattle City Hall.
12-06-2012 Maryland issues its first marriage licenses to gay couples, a month after voters upheld the stateâs same-sex marriage law, which went into effect Jan. 1, 2013.
1640, Ireland âJohn Atherton (1598 â 5 December 1640) is hanged for sodomy. He is the second man to be hanged for the âvice of buggeryâ in Ireland. He was the AnglicanBishop of Waterford and Lismore in the Church of Ireland. He and John Childe (his steward and tithe proctor) were both tried and executed for buggery in 1640.
1642 â A Massachusetts Bay servant is sentenced to be whipped for âunseemly practicesâ with another woman in the first documented example of legal prosecution in North America for same-sex relations between women.
12-05-1886 â 01-03-1960 Constance Spry â Born in Derby, United Kingdom. She
was a famous British educator. In 1928 she gave up teaching and opened her first floral shop. Spry caused a sensation in fashionable society with her arrangements. In 1936 she did the flower arrangements for the royal wedding of the Duke of Gloucester and the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. According to the biographer Diana Souhami, she had a romantic relationship with the lesbian painter Gluck.
12-05-1901 â 10-16-1965 Blyth Daly â Born in London, England. She was an actress who appeared on Broadway and was also in several silent and sound films. Daly is better known for her relationships and friendships in the lesbian acting community of both Hollywood and Broadway. She, along with Tallulah Bankhead, Estelle Winwood, and Eva Le Gallienne, was dubbed âThe Four Riders of the Algonquin.â Daly was bisexual and had affairs with actresses Ann Andrews, Estelle Winwood, and Tallulah Bankhead.
1932 â African American rock artist Little Richard(born December 5, 1932) is born. Richard Wayne Penniman, known as Little Richard, is an American musician, singer, actor, comedian and songwriter. An influential figure in popular music and culture for seven decades, Little Richardâs most celebrated work dates from the mid-1950s, when his dynamic music and charismatic showmanship laid the foundation for rock and roll. In 1995, Little Richard told Penthouse that he always knew he was gay, saying âIâve been gay all my lifeâ.
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12-05-1967 Amanda Lepore â Born in Cedar Grove,
New Jersey. She is a transgender pioneer. She underwent sex reassignment surgery at the age of 19 in Yonkers, New York. Lepore is an NYC transgender nightlife entertainer, American model, performance artist, and recording artist. She was part of the True Colors Tour 2007, a benefit tour sponsored by Logo channel, hosted by comedian Margaret Cho, and headlined by Cyndi Lauper.
12-05-1968 Margaret Cho â Born in San Francisco, California. She is a Korean-American comedian, actress, author, and
singer/songwriter. She is openly bisexual and an advocate and supporter of LGBT rights. She has won awards for her humanitarian efforts on behalf of women, Asians, and the LGBT community. Cho has written two books â Iâm the One That I Want and I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight. Cho married Al Ridenour in 2003 and filed for divorce in August 2015.
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12-05-1978 Micah Kellner â Born in Morristown, New Jersey. He is a New York Democrat; member of the New York State Assembly representing the 76th district serving until December 31, 2014.
Kellner is an advocate for the disabled (Kellner was born with cerebral palsy). He is openly bisexual and the first openly bisexual person elected to the New York State Assembly. In 2010 Kellner received the Brenda Howard Award, which ârecognizes an individual or organization whose work on behalf of the LGBT Community best exemplifies the vision, principles, and community service of the late bisexual rights activist Brenda Howard, and who serves as a positive and visible role model for the Bisexual Community.â
1979 â A TV critic reviewed the play Bent, saying that the play about two homosexuals who died in a concentration camp had ânothing at all to do with the real tragedy of the holocaust,â and called the playâs message insignificant. Bent is a 1979 play by Martin Sherman. It revolves around the persecution of gays in Nazi Germany, and takes place during and after the Night of the Long Knives. The title of the play refers to the slang word âbentâ used in some European countries to refer to homosexuals. The play starred Ian McKellen in its original 1979 West End production, and Richard Gere in its original 1980 Broadway production. In 1989, Sean Mathias directed a revival of the play, performed as a one-night benefit for Stonewall, featuring Ian McKellen, Richard E Grant, Ian Charleson, and Ralph Fiennes.
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1981
Physical from Olivia Newton-John was #8 on the USA LP charts
1984 â Berkeley, California becomes the first city in the United States to extend spousal benefits to âdomestic partnersâ of city employees.
1987
George Michael moved to 3 with âFaithâ on the usa song charts
Whitney Houston roared in from 16 to 8 with âSo Emotionalâ,
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1992
Lloyd Price, Little Richard, Little Eva, Bobby Vee, Duane Eddy, and Johnny Preston, among others, hit England on the Giants of Rock ânâ Roll concert at Wembley Arena in London.
Whitney Houston started a ten-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with âI Will Always Love Youâ. The longest ever run at No.1 for a female artist the Dolly Parton penned song was taken from the Bodyguard soundtrack.
1998 âThe bisexual pride flag, created by Michael Page, is unveiled. He wanted to give the bisexual community its own symbol comparable to the gay pride flag of the larger LGBT community. His aim was to increase the visibility of bisexuals, both among society as a whole and within the LGBT community. The first bisexual pride flag was unveiled at the BiCafeâs first anniversary party on December 5, 1998 after Page was inspired by his work with BiNet USA
Post 9/11 â The Shock Decade From âgay and lesbianâ to âlesbigayâ to âLgbt/Lgbtq/Lgbtq2â
2002
Elton John was a guest star on NBCâs âWill and Grace.â
2004
Sir Elton John received Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, D.C.
2005 â A New Jersey court rules that school districts have the same responsibility to stop harassment of students that employers have to prevent harassment of employees, ending, at least in NJ, a tougher standard of proof for student complainants than for adults in the workplace.
2009
In an interview with the UK daily newspaper The Guardian, George Michael said he had cut back on his cannabis intake and now only smoked âseven or eightâ spliffs per day instead of the 25 he used to smoke.
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12-05-2012 Mexicoâs Supreme Court has ruled that a law in southern Oaxaca state that bans same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, paving the way for same-sex couples to marry in that state and possibly in the rest of Mexico.
2016
A statue of David Bowie was set to go up in the town where he first performed as Ziggy Stardust following the success of a crowdfunding campaign. More than 650 people pledged sums totalling more than the ÂŁ100,000 goal, 19 hours before the deadline. The statue would be put up in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, where Bowie unveiled his Ziggy character.
12-04-1822 â 04-05-1904 Frances Power Cobbe â Born in Newbridge House in the family estate in what is now Donabate,
County Dublin, Ireland. She was an Irish writer, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist, and leading womenâs suffrage campaigner. Cobbe founded a number of animal advocacy groups, two of which are still active today. She was a member of the executive council of the London National Society for Womenâs Suffrage. She was the author of a number of books and essays. Cobbe was in what she considered a marriage with sculptor Mary Lloyd, whom she met in Rome in 1861. They lived together from 1864 until Lloydâs death in 1896. In letters and published writing, Cobb referred to Lloyd as âhusbandâ, âwifeâ, and âdear friend.â
12-04-1920 â 01-08-2013 Jeanne Manford â Born in Flushing, New York City, New York. In 1972, her gay son, Morty, had been beaten
while distributing flyers inside the 15th annual Inner Circle dinner, a political gathering in New York City. She was an American schoolteacher and became an LGBT activist. Manford co-founded the support group Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). In 2012, she was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal by President Obama.
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1947 â Yolanda Retter (December 4, 1947 â August 18, 2007) was an American lesbian librarian, archivist, scholar, and activist in Los Angeles. Retter attended Pitzer College in Claremont, California and graduated in 1970 with a degree in sociology. In the 1980s she completed masters degrees in library science (1983) and social work (1987) from the University of California, Los Angeles and in 1996 she received her Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Before becoming a librarian and archivist, Retter held a variety of jobs, some as a volunteer. She worked in prison and parole programs, as a director of a rape hotline, and original publisher of the Los Angeles Womenâs Yellow Pages. She then became the founding archivist of the Lesbian Legacy Collection at the ONE Archives and volunteered at the June Mazer Lesbian Archives. From 2003 to the time of her death, Retter served as the head librarian and archivist of the Chicano Studies Research Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. She died after a short battle with cancer surrounded by women she chose, including her partner of thirteen years Leslie Golden Stampler.
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12-04-1969 Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) â Born in Brooklyn, New
York City, New York. He is a straight ally. Jay-Z is an American rapper, record producer, entrepreneur, and occasional actor. In an interview with CNN, he stated, âWhat people do in their own homes is their business, and you can choose to love whoever you love. Thatâs their business. Itâs no different than discrimination against Blacks. Itâs discrimination, plain and simple.â In 2017, his mother, Gloria Carter, came out as a lesbian. On Jay-Zâs album, 4:44, the track âSmileâ is all about his mother. His mother ends the track with her own words: âLiving in the shadow feels like the safe place to be / No harm for them, no harm for me / But life is short, and itâs time to be free / Love who you love because life isnât guaranteed.â
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1976, Canada â In Vancouver, Canadian University Press approves a national boycott of CBC for refusing to air public service announcement for a Halifax gay group.
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1980
Prince played the first night of his 31-date Dirty Mind tour at Sheaâs Performing Arts Center in Buffalo, New York. After being told by his managers he couldnât wear spandex pants without any underwear, Prince began performing in a long trench coat, black high-heeled boots with leggings, and bikini brief trunks.
1981, James Webber is the first known victim of serial killer David Bullock. Most of Bullockâs victims were men he brought home for sex.
1986: The city council of New Orleans rejects a municipal gay rights ordinance.
1987
Madonna filed for divorce from actor Sean Penn. She changed her mind, but would file again in January 1988.
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1990
â Madonna appeared on âNightlineâ to defend her âJustify My Loveâ video. She denied the videoâs explicit contents were intended to stir up controversy and get her publicity. The video was banned by MTV.
1998 â A vigil is held for Rita Hester (30 November 1963 â 28 November 1998), an African American transgender woman, who was slain in Allston, Massachusetts on November 28th. The vigil from her death goes on to become the Transgender Day of Remembrance. In response to her murder, an outpouring of grief and anger led to a candlelight vigil held the following Friday (December 4) in which about 250 people participated. The community struggled to see Ritaâs life and identity covered respectfully by local papers, including the Boston Herald and Bay Windows, was chronicled by Nancy Nangeroni. Her death also inspired the âRemembering Our Deadâ web project and the Transgender Day of Remembrance which Gwendolyn Ann Smith founded in 1999.
Post 9/11 â The Shock Decade From âgay and lesbianâ to âlesbigayâ to âLgbt/Lgbtq/Lgbtq2â
2002
Whitney Houston admitted in an US TV interview that drink and drugs nearly killed her. Bobby Brownâs missus also admitted to being addicted to sex. She said her business is sex, drugs and rock ânâ roll, and got into the lifestyle after missing out on partying when her career kicked off aged 18.
Human Rights in global conflict: Trans/Pans vs LGB/ vs Heterosexual women
1892 â The Michigan Supreme Court rules that âemissionâ is required to complete an act of sodomy.
1925
âConcerto in F,â by George Gershwin, had its world premiere at New Yorkâs Carnegie Hall. Gershwin himself played the piano.
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1953,
UK â Alarmed by the rise in prosecutions for male-male sex (including several much publicized recent cases involving prominent Britons), two MPs first raise the issue of sex law reform in the House of Commons.
12-03-1953 â 05-13-1992 Patrick Angus â Born in North Hollywood, California. He was an American gay artist. He is known for his paintings depicting the young male erotic dancers at the
Gaiety Theater (gay burlesque theatre) in New York City. Because he chose to paint the gay strip clubs and the bathhouses, his work was disapproved by the gay establishment that thought his work as âpolitically incorrectâ and therefore his work was closed off to the commercial art market. In the 1980s, his work was introduced by Robert Patrick through the gay magazine Christopher Street. As a result, his work began to sell. The openly gay artist David Hockney bought five of his paintings. Angusâ work is unique in the history of art for their compassionate depiction of the longing and loneliness of some gay men. In the early 1990s, Angus was diagnosed with AIDS. In the last months of his life, three one-man shows were organized. On his death bed in 1992, when he saw the proofs for a book of his paintings, he said, âThis is the happiest day of my life.â
12-03-1955 Michael Musto â Born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York. He is an American journalist and a former columnist for The Village Voice. Musto was listed on Outâs 3rd Annual 100 Most
Eligible Bachelors (2013). He is published regularly in several LGBT publications. Musto has had bylines in The New York Times, W Magazine, and the Daily Beast. He appeared in drag in the all drag queen music video for Cyndi Lauperâs single Girls Just Want To Have Fun and as a reporter in the film Garbo Talks. In 2011, Musto was named one of the most influential LGBT personalities in the Out 100.
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December 3, 1961
Brian Epstein invited The Beatles into his office to discuss the possibility of becoming their manager. John Lennon, George Harrison and Pete Best arrived late for the 4pm meeting, (they had been drinking at the Grapes pub in Matthew Street), but Paul McCartney was not with them, because, as Harrison explained, he had just got up and was âtaking a bathâ.
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1973 â An Illinois appellate court upholds a public indecency conviction of a man for sex with another man in bushes where they could not be seen by others.
1973 â As a result of the case Society for Individual Rights v. Hampton, proceedings were held to determine under what circumstances sexual orientation may be considered in determining whether a person is suitable for employment in the U.S. Government.
1976
An estimated three and a half million people applied for ABBAâs forthcoming British Albert Hall concerts, there were just over 11 thousand tickets available.
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12-03-1985 Nina Ansaroff â Born in Weston, Florida. She is an American mixed martial
artist who is currently competing in the womenâs strawweight division of the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship). Raised in Florida, she is of Macedonian descent. Ansaroff is engaged to fellow UFC fighter and current womenâs bantamweight champion, Amanda Nunes.
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1990
Nightline aired Madonnaâs video for âJustify My Love.â The previous week MTV had banned the video.
1991, UK â OutRage held a zap of the Church of England in response to a press release condemning homosexuality.
1993:Â The state senate of Massachusetts passes a bill that protects the civil rights of lesbian and gay students in public schools.
1995 Prince opened the inaugural VH1 Fashion Awards.
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12-03-2000
the USA version of Queer as folk airs.
2003
A Los Angeles court ruled that the privacy of singer Barbra Streisand was not violated when a picture of her Malibu estate was posted on a website. Streisand had filed a $10m action against software entrepreneur Kenneth Adelman after he posted a photo of her home on his conservation site.
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12-03-2010
 I Love You, Philip Morris â American-French romantic comedy-drama film bases on the 1980s and â90s real-life story of con artist, impostor, and multiple prison escapee Steven Jay Russell.
2012 â Thai airlines recruits transgender flight attendants, called ladyboys, aiming at a unique identity to set itself apart from competitors as it sets out for the skies.
the blood industry failure to test when they did know and put the stigma on gay men who had money for health care so aids could be identified in the first place
“They’ve learned this trick in America from Trump and in the end culture wars will always pick on those who are slightly different and that means the gays, the Jews and the blacks and that’s always the list that crops up whenever a populist government gets into power.”
Asked for examples, he cited the government’s stance on transgender people and that they were “not prepared” to implement a “proper ban” on conversion therapy.
1899 â American Samoa is obtained by the United States. It has no law against sodomy, making it the only âfreeâ jurisdiction of the United States.
1909 â The Montana Supreme Court upholds the right of the state to prosecute attempts to commit sodomy under the general attempts statute.
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1946, Italy â Gianni Versace  (2 December 1946 â 15 July 1997), fashion designer is born. He was an Italian fashion designer and founder of Versace, an international fashion house, which produces accessories, fragrances, make-up, and home furnishings as well as clothes. He also designed costumes for the theatre and films. As a friend of Eric Clapton, Diana, Princess of Wales, Naomi Campbell, Duran Duran, Madonna, Elton John, Cher, Sting, and many other celebrities, he was one of the first designers to link fashion to the music world. Openly gay, Versace and his partner model and fashion designer Antonio DâAmico (born 20 January 1959) were regulars on the international party scene. Versace was murdered outside his Miami Beach home at the age of 50 by spree killer Andrew Cunanan, who used the same gun to commit suicide on a houseboat eight days later.Â
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12-02-1954 Dan Butler â Born in Huntington, Indiana. He is an American actor known for his role as Bob âBulldogâ Brisco on the TVÂ
series Frasier. He is openly gay. He wrote a one-man show, The Only Thing Worse You Could Have Told Me, which played in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and off-Broadway in New York and was his public coming out. The performance was nominated for the 1995 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show. He is married to producer Richard Waterhouse.
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1963 â Earl Kade, a prisoner at the Ohio Penitentiary is killed by another prisoner because he had solicited him. The grand jury refuses to indict the killer for murder, stating that the willful killing of a non-violent person from behind bars was justifiable if the person had solicited.
1964 â Four gay men and lesbians picket a New York City lecture by a psychoanalyst espousing the model of homosexuality as a mental illness. The demonstrators are given ten minutes to make a rebuttal.
December 02, 1966David Bowie released âRubber Bandâ, his first single on the Deram label. It was part of a three-track audition tape Bowieâs new manager Kenneth Pitt used to persuade the label to sign him. Despite some good reviews in the music press, the single was a flop, once more failing to break into the UK charts.
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1978:Â
Harvey Milkâs ashes are scattered by his friends over the Pacific Ocean.
Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisandâs âYou Donât Bring Me Flowersâ was at No.1 on the US singles chart. A radio station engineer had spliced together Neilâs version with Barbraâs version and got such good response, the station added it to their playlist. When Neil Diamond was told about it, he decided to re-record the song with Streisand herself, and within weeks of its release, the single went to No.1 in the US and No.5 in the UK. It didnât take long for âYou Donât Bring Me Flowersâ to reach #1âjust six weeks for Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond. Of course, they would go on to have many more great songs but at the time of their smash collaboration, they had a combined 65 hits with 15 Top 10âs and four #1âs.Â
on the LP charts,  the âGreaseâ Soundtrack was still at #5, Barbra Streisandâs Greatest Hits, Volume 2 debuted at #7,
12-02-1978 Jason Collins â Born in Northridge, California. He was an NBA center and the first professional male athlete to come outÂ
while sill playing. He played 13 seasons in the NBA. In February 2014, when he signed with the Nets, he became the first publicly gay athlete to play in any of the four major North American pro sports leagues. He retired from basketball on November 19, 2014. As of June 2014, Collins was in a relationship with producer Brunson Green.
1979: Martin Shermanâs Bent, about the Nazi persecution of homosexuals, starring Richard Gere and David Dukes, opens on Broadway. It runs for 241 perfs.
The Genderfuck Apathetics vs Yuppies : Aids the new STD on the list
12-02-1981   Britney Spears â Born in McComb, Mississippi and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana. She is anÂ
American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress. Her first two studio albums were global successes and made her the best-selling teenage artist of all time. She is a straight LGBT ally and on April 12, 2018, Spears was honored with the GLAAD Vanguard Award for her role in âaccelerating acceptance for the LGBTQ community.â She also released her first unisex fragrance, Prerogative, labelled as a fragrance for all. Spears regularly participates in Spirit Day to combat bullying of LGBT youth.Â
12-02-1987 Samuel Greisman â Born in Los Angeles, California. He is the gay son of Sally Fields and is publicly out. He attended NYU. In 2012 he introduced and presented his mother, Sally Field, HRCâs Ally for Equality Award. Greisman is a film director, writer, and producer. He is best-known as the writer and producer of the film Dinner with Jeffrey (2016).
90s: Listserves and Email distribution replaces telephone trees for activism
1994 â Transgender Terrie Ladwig  (April 13, 1966 â December 2, 1994), born in the Philippine, is killed. She was married to Steven Ladwig in July 1994. Steven considered his wife, who was born Larry Earl Thompson Jr., female. She was preparing to have gender-reassignment surgery. Her murder remains unsolved.
1997 â David Cantania (born January 16, 1968) becomes the first openly gay person to be elected to the Washington DC city council. He is an American independent politician and lawyer from Washington, D.C. He was formerly an at-large member of the Council of the District of Columbia, which he gave up to pursue an unsuccessful run in the 2014 mayoral election. Catania was the first openly gay member of the D.C. Council and one of a small number of openly gay Republican office-holders. This led to a conflict within his party when President George W. Bush spoke in favor of an amendment to the United States Constitution to ban same-sex marriage. Catania opposed the amendment and became a vocal opponent of Bushâs 2004 re-election. In response, the District of Columbia Republican Committee decertified him as a delegate to the 2004 Republican National Convention. Catania announced his endorsement of the Democratic presidential candidate, John Kerry, one week prior to the convention. In September 2004, Catania left the party and became an independent, citing his displeasure with its direction on urban and social issues. He was re-elected in 2006 and 2010 as an independent. He now works as a lawyer at the international law firm Greenberg Traurig, where he focuses his practice on healthcare, government law and strategy, and public policy. Catania married floral designer Bill Enright on August 5, 2017. They live in the Dupont Circle neighborhood.
1998, India â Over 200 right-wing activists, called Shiv Sainiks, storm two theaters and force managers to suspend the screening of Toronto director Deepa Mehtaâs internationally acclaimed film Fire, the first Indian film to focus on a lesbian relationship. Fire is a 1996 Indian-Canadian romantic drama written and directed by Deepa Mehta, and starring Shabana Azmi and Nandita Das. It is the first installment of Mehtaâs Elements trilogy; it is succeeded by Earth (1998) and Water (2005). The film is loosely based on Ismat Chughtaiâs 1942 story, Lihaaf (The Quilt). It was one of the first mainstream Bollywood films to explicitly show homosexual relations. After its 1998 release in India, certain groups staged several protests, setting off a flurry of public dialogue around issues such as homosexuality and freedom of speech. On December 2nd, more than 200 Shiv Sanaiks stormed a Cinemax theatre in suburban Goregaon in Mumbai, smashing glass panes, burning posters and shouting slogans. They compelled managers to refund tickets to moviegoers. On December 3rd, a Regal theatre in Delhi was similarly stormed. When attackers attempted to shut down a screening in Calcutta, however, ushers and audience fought back and the movie stayed open. Twenty-nine people were arrested in Mumbai in connection with these incidents.
1999: In the case of National Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality v Minister of Home Affairs, the Constitutional Court of South Africa extends spousal immigration benefits to partners in permanent same-sex relationships.
Post 9/11 â The Shock Decade From âgay and lesbianâ to âlesbigayâ to âLgbt/Lgbtq/Lgbtq2â
2002
Goliathâs Sauna and Texas Lounge, a gay bathhouse in Calgary was raided for being a common bawdy house in 2002. Authorities charged two bartenders with running a common bawdy house and 13 patrons as having no lawful excuse for being there. The Crown eventually stayed the charges citing changed community standards.
12-02-2005 Transamerica release date in U.S. A pre-operative male-to-female transsexual takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she fathered a son.
2008American singer, actress, guitarist, songwriter, and a civil and human rights activist Odetta died of heart disease age 77. She influenced many of the key figures of the folk-revival of that time, including Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mavis Staples, and Janis Joplin. Time magazine included her song âTake This Hammerâ on its list of the 100 Greatest Popular Songs. Martin Luther King Jr. called her the queen of American folk music.  Although never a mainstream Pop star; her powerful voice moved audiences and influenced fellow musicians for over 50 years, andshe was nominated for a Grammy Award three times.
2009Barry Manilow announced that he was preparing a new show slated to open at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel in March. The 63-year-old crooner was winding down his five year run at Las Vegas Hilton.
Human Rights in global conflict:Â Trans/Pans vs LGB/ vs Heterosexual women
2013 â This is the first official day that LGBTQ couples in Hawaii, both residents as well as tourists, may marry in the Aloha State
2013Roger Taylor and Brian May opened the Queen Studio Experience â Montreux, an exhibition of Queen memorabilia at Mountain Studios in Switzerland, where they had recorded many classic tracks spanning seven albums and where Freddie Mercury recorded his last vocal. The exhibition would open to the public a day later.
12-02-2014 Dale Scott comes out as MLBâs first openly gay umpire. He is the first active male official to come out in MLB, the NFL, NBA or NHL. Major League Baseball has always known he was gay. He has long been recognized as one of the best umpires in baseball.
A group of radical feminists in Brussels were attacked by trans rights activists on a march to protest against violence against women. Trans activists are now reporting the group’s social media accounts en masse.
1642 â The General Court of Connecticut adopted a list of 12 capital crimes, including âman lying with man.â The law was based on the Massachusetts Bay Colonyâs Liberties of 1641 law which was based on the Old Testament proscription in Leviticus.
1715, UK â An Oxford University student notes in his diary that sodomy is very common there. âIt is dangerous sending a young man who is beautiful to Oxford.â
1901, Mexico â El Universal, a Mexican newspaper, reports that police raided a party attended by single women. The article implied that the women were lesbians.
1927 â A California appellate court upholds the sodomy conviction of a man after a private investigator hid under his bed to catch him in consensual sexual relations with his partner.
The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code
1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex
1952 â New York Daily News front page: Ex-GI becomes blonde beauty, an article about Christine Jorgensen (May 30, 1926 â May 3, 1989), the first American recipient of sex-reassignment surgery.
December 1, 1954
Johnny Ace was named Most Programmed Artist of 1954 by Cash Box magazine while on tour with Willie Mae âBig Mamaâ Thornton of âHound Dogâ fame.
1955 â Rosa Parks (February 4, 1913 â October 24, 2005), the mother of the modern day civil rights movement, said NO in Montgomery, AL, refusing to give up her bus seat and sparking the year-long bus boycott. Her defiance amounted to an act of civil disobedience. It resulted in her arrest and conviction by a local court, which proved to be the spark for the Montgomery Bus Boycott and became an important symbol of the modern Civil Rights Movement.
December 1, 1956
âThe Girl Canât Help It,â starring Jayne Mansfield, Tom Ewell and Edmond OâBrien, opened in U.S. and Canadian movie theaters. The comedy features musical performances by Little Richard, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, the Platters, Fats Domino, Julie London, Ray Anthony,the Treniers, Abbey Lincoln, Freddy Bell & The Bell-Boys, Teddy Randazzo, Eddie Fontaine, and Nino Tempo.
December 1, 1958
The musical âFlower Drum Songâ Rodgers and Hammerstein opened on Broadway at the St. James Theatre.
The Civil Rights 60s: When the Boomers were under 30
December 1, 1961
The Beatles performed a lunchtime show at the The Cavern in Liverpool. That night they headlined a six-group Big Beat Session at the Tower Ballroom, New Brighton in Wallasey. Between 1961 -1963, The Beatles played at The Tower Ballroom on 27 occasions.
Brian Epstein met with Decca Records to discuss a deal for a hot new band he was interested in called the Beatles. This led to Decca A&R man Mike Smith going to the Cavern in Liverpool to hear the group, and an audition by a nervous young group of musicians with Decca on January 1, 1962. In one of the classic music blunders of all-time, Decca turned the group down after their audition in favor of Brian Poole and the Tremeloes, telling Epstein, âThe Beatles have no future in show business.â
December 1, 1963
The New York Times published an article about the growing phenomenon that was The Beatles and the music they made with guitars. Written by Frederick Lewislondon, it stated that âThe Beatles are four young men who play guitars and drums and sing pop songs they write themselves. This sounds like merely a minor accomplishment, but it isnât â not the way they do it, and the noise they make while they are doing it, and the spectacularly demented way they look while they are doing it. By comparison, Elvis Presley is an Edwardian tenor of considerable diffidence.â
1968
The Beatles White Album started a seven-week run at number one on the UK chart. The double set was the first on the Apple label,
Janis Joplin made her final appearance with Big Brother & the Holding Company in San Francisco, CA.
Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights
December 1, 1972Carly Simonâs âYouâre So Vainâ is released in the US where it will reach #1. The tune causes much speculation about who Carly was singing about, with popular guesses that included Mick Jagger (who sang unaccredited backing vocals on the song), Cat Stevens, Warren Beatty, Kris Kristofferson (with whom she had had brief relationships), her unfaithful fiance William Donaldson, and her ex-husband, James Taylor. At one point, Carly said she was singing about a composite of many men she had known, but later claimed that the song was about openly gay record producer David Geffen.
1974 â Gay activists Bernie Toal, Tom Morganti and Daniel Thaxton in Boston chose the purple rhinoceros as a symbol of the gay movement after conducting a media campaign. They selected this animal because, although it is sometimes misunderstood, it is docile and intelligent, but when a rhinoceros is angered, it fights ferociously. Lavender was used because it was a widely recognized gay pride color; the heart was added to represent love and the âcommon humanity of all people. The entire campaign was intended to bring gay issues further into public view. The rhino started being displayed in subways in Boston, but since the creators didnât qualify for a public service advertising rate, the campaign soon became too expensive for the activists to handle. The ads disappeared, and the rhino never caught on anywhere else.
1973
Elton John continued to pace the album chart for the fourth week with Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. on the songs, Elton Johnâs âGoodbye Yellow Brick Roadâ moved from 9-3
1974 â The Greek letter lambda was officially declared the international symbol for gay and lesbian rights by the International Gay Rights Congress in Edinburgh, Scotland. The lambda was selected as a symbol by the Gay Activists Alliance of New York in 1970.
1975 â Feminist writer Jill Johnston (May 17, 1929 â September 18, 2010) wrote an essay âAre Lesbians Gay?â in which she explained why she believed it was absurd for lesbians to align themselves with the gay movement. Johnston was an American feminist author and cultural critic who wrote Lesbian Nation in 1973 and was a longtime writer for The Village Voice. She was also a leader of the lesbian separatist movement of the 1970s. In 1993, in Denmark, she married Ingrid Nyeboe. The couple married again, in Connecticut, in 2009
December 1, 1975Bette Midler celebrates her 30th birthday with an emergency appendectomy.
1976 â In Florida, Willard Allen was released from a mental hospital 26 years after he was ordered by a judge to be held there for having sex with another man. His doctors had been recommending his release for almost 20 years.
December 1, 1976
The Sex Pistols, who have just released their first single, âAnarchy in the UKâ, appear on British TVâs Today Show as a last-minute replacement for Queen.
December 1, 1977
In New York City, Queen played Madison Square Garden.
1979
Barry Manilow remained at #9 with One Voice
The Genderfuck Apathetics vs Yuppies : Aids the new STD on the list
1980 â Anita Bryant is interviewed by âLadies Home Journalâ and notes that she no longer feels as âmilitantâ as she once did about gay rights.
1982 â The US House of Representatives votes to provide $2.6 million in funding to the Centers for Disease Control to fight AIDS.
1984
The âPurple Rainâ Soundtrack by Prince tied More of the Monkees for the fourth-most weeks at #1 on the Album chart to that time with 18.
1985 â âCosmopolitanâ article writes about AIDS noting, âIf ever there was a homosexual plague, this disease is it.â
1987,
Prince decided to cancel the release of âThe Black Album.â It was only a week away from release.
France -Author James Baldwin (August 2, 1924 â December 1, 1987) dies. He was an American writer and social critic. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son (1955), explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America. An unfinished manuscript, Remember This House, was expanded and adapted for cinema as the Academy Award-nominated documentary film I Am Not Your Negro. Baldwinâs novels and plays fictionalize fundamental personal questions and dilemmas amid complex social and psychological pressures thwarting the equitable integration not only of African Americans, but also of gay and bisexual men, while depicting some internalized obstacles to such individualsâ quests for acceptance. Such dynamics are prominent in Baldwinâs second novel, Giovanniâs Room, written in 1956, well before the gay liberation movement. In 1949 Baldwin met and fell in love with Lucien Happersberger (September 20, 1932 â August 21, 2010), aged 17, though Happersbergerâs marriage three years later left Baldwin distraught. Happersberger died on August 21, 2010, in Switzerland.
1988 â World AIDS Day, sponsored by the World Health Organization, on December 1st every year is dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection, and remembering those who have died of the disease. The United States was the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s, first noticed by doctors in young gay men in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco in 1981. Since then, 1.2 million people live with HIV, more than half of which are unaware of their infection. HIV is a silent disease when first acquired, and this period of latency varies. The progression from HIV infection to AIDS varies from 5â12 years. In the past, most individuals succumbed to the disease in 1â2 years after diagnosis.. However, since the introduction of potent anti-retroviral drug therapy and better prophylaxis against opportunistic infections, death rates have significantly declined. Government and health officials, non-governmental organizations and individuals around the world observe World AIDS Day with education on AIDS prevention and control.âšâš
90s: Listserves and Email distribution replaces telephone trees for activism
1990
Whitney Houston owned the top R&B songââIâm Your Baby Tonightâ
Whitney Houston owned the top R&B songââIâm Your Baby Tonightâ.Vanilla Ice started a four-week run at No.1 in the UK with the single âIce Ice Babyâ. The track sampled the bass intro to the Queen and David Bowie No.1 âUnder Pressureâ. âIce Ice Babyâ was initially released as the B-side to the rapperâs cover of âPlay That Funky Musicâ, and became the A-side after US DJâs started playing it.Bette Midler remained at #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart for the fifth consecutive week with âFrom A Distanceâ.
Whitney Houston was on fire with her eighth #1 and 11th Top 10 song out of just 15 releases. âIâm Your Baby Tonightâ took over from Mariah Careyâs âLove Takes Timeâ. Bette Midler had #5ââFrom A Distance
on the LP charts, Whitney Houston was up from 22-5 with Iâm Your Baby Tonight.
and the classic George Michael album Listen Without Prejudice at #10.1993Elton John suffered a rare flop when his album âDuetsâ failed to crack the top twenty-five on the US album chart. The effort, which featured Don Henley, Chris Rea, kd lang, Little Richard, Kiki Dee, Gladys Knight, Bonnie Raitt and Leonard Cohen, was received much better in the UK, topping out at number 5.
American rock singer-songwriter Ray Gillen died age 34 from an AIDS related disease in a New York Hospital. He was best known for his work with Badlands, in addition to his stint with Black Sabbath in the mid-1980s and recording most of the vocals on Phenomenaâs Dream Runner album.
1997-Keith Boykin (born August 28, 1965) of the National Black Lesbian Gay Leadership Forum participated in a meeting with President Clinton to encourage greater inclusion of African American gays and lesbians in the Presidentâs Initiative on Race.
1998
The gay rights ordinance will not be reinstated in Dade County until December 1, 1998, more than 20 years after the June 7, 1977 Singer and conservative Southern Baptist Anita Bryant leads a successful campaign with the “Save Our Children” Crusade to repeal a gay rights ordinance in Dade County, Florida. Bryant faces severe backlash from gay rights supporters across the U.S
1999 â Lavender Country was an Americancountry music band formed in 1972, whose self-titled 1973 album is the first known gay-themed album in country music history. Based in Seattle, the band consisted of lead singer and guitarist Patrick Haggerty, keyboardist Michael Carr, singer and fiddler Eve Morris and guitarist Robert Hammerstrom (the only heterosexual member).
Post 9/11 â The Shock Decade From âgay and lesbianâ to âlesbigayâ to âLgbt/Lgbtq/Lgbtq2â
2008
Whamâs Last Christmas was the most played festive track of the last five years. The Performing Right Society put the 1984 hit at the top of their chart of seasonal songs, just ahead of Band Aidâs Do They Know Itâs Christmas? The Pogues came third with Fairytale of New York, recorded with the late Kirsty MacColl and first released in 1987. Other featured artists include Slade, Mariah Carey and Bruce Springsteen.2009Little Richard asked fans to pray for his speedy recovery after undergoing hip surgery at a Tennessee hospital. The 76-year-old Rock ânâ Roll pioneer asked family friend Rev. Bill Minson to tell fans âto get ready to rock ânâ roll with him in the new year because heâs coming back strong.â
2009, Europe â The Treaty of Lisbon and Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union are amended to include sexual orientation protection
Human Rights in global conflict: Trans/Pans vs LGB/ vs Heterosexual women
2015
December 1: During debate in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta on the inclusion of gender identity as protected grounds in the provincial Human Rights Code, MLA Estefania Cortes-Vargas (formerly reported in media as a lesbian-identified woman) formally comes out as genderqueer, becoming Canada’s first transgender-identified holder of a major political office.
2021
Heterosexual women are being criminally charged for miscarriages..
pregnancy is not only heterosexual women. bisexual pansexual and lesbians – as well as observed female at birth, regardless of self identity or actual diagnosis who do not speak in womanly terms. butch, nonbinary and transmen are still observed females
and are not heterosexual men in women’s bodies are not nonmen
there is no one way to be a heterosexual women, so little surprise there are more than one way to be a bisexual, or lesbian.
are at risk of sexual violence primarily by heterosexual men, but also bisexual men and transwomen. which pregnancy risk includes
and there is no woman who has had an abortion that took it as a light decision
so the transwomen demanding transplants of internal women’s organs, which male bodies do not have the nervous system linkages, nor muscle ability to expand during pregnancy – who seek abortion rights as if an historic accomplishment – demonstrate poor custodianship of such an organ.
women miscarriage for many reasons, and to have that criminalized
it is women’s bodies that are subject to restrictive laws
and women’s experiences expressed in language, is more removal of rights – denial of women to speak in affirming and descriptive language
our gender is our whole person, not our parts nor body functions.
it is breast cancer, not chest cancer for majority of those diagnosed reasons.
breasts not chest feed the infant, which is observed and measured by doctors.
1642 â The General Court of Connecticut adopted a list of 12 capital crimes, including âman lying with man.â The law was based on the Massachusetts Bay Colonyâs Liberties of 1641 law which was based on the Old Testament proscription in Leviticus.
1715, UK â An Oxford University student notes in his diary that sodomy is very common there. âIt is dangerous sending a young man who is beautiful to Oxford.â
1901, Mexico â El Universal, a Mexican newspaper, reports that police raided a party attended by single women. The article implied that the women were lesbians.
1927 â A California appellate court upholds the sodomy conviction of a man after a private investigator hid under his bed to catch him in consensual sexual relations with his partner.
The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code
1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex
1952 â New York Daily News front page: Ex-GI becomes blonde beauty, an article about Christine Jorgensen (May 30, 1926 â May 3, 1989), the first American recipient of sex-reassignment surgery.
December 1, 1954
Johnny Ace was named Most Programmed Artist of 1954 by Cash Box magazine while on tour with Willie Mae âBig Mamaâ Thornton of âHound Dogâ fame.
1955 â Rosa Parks (February 4, 1913 â October 24, 2005), the mother of the modern day civil rights movement, said NO in Montgomery, AL, refusing to give up her bus seat and sparking the year-long bus boycott. Her defiance amounted to an act of civil disobedience. It resulted in her arrest and conviction by a local court, which proved to be the spark for the Montgomery Bus Boycott and became an important symbol of the modern Civil Rights Movement.
December 1, 1956
âThe Girl Canât Help It,â starring Jayne Mansfield, Tom Ewell and Edmond OâBrien, opened in U.S. and Canadian movie theaters. The comedy features musical performances by Little Richard, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, the Platters, Fats Domino, Julie London, Ray Anthony,the Treniers, Abbey Lincoln, Freddy Bell & The Bell-Boys, Teddy Randazzo, Eddie Fontaine, and Nino Tempo.
December 1, 1958
The musical âFlower Drum Songâ Rodgers and Hammerstein opened on Broadway at the St. James Theatre.
The Civil Rights 60s: When the Boomers were under 30
December 1, 1961
The Beatles performed a lunchtime show at the The Cavern in Liverpool. That night they headlined a six-group Big Beat Session at the Tower Ballroom, New Brighton in Wallasey. Between 1961 -1963, The Beatles played at The Tower Ballroom on 27 occasions.
Brian Epstein met with Decca Records to discuss a deal for a hot new band he was interested in called the Beatles. This led to Decca A&R man Mike Smith going to the Cavern in Liverpool to hear the group, and an audition by a nervous young group of musicians with Decca on January 1, 1962. In one of the classic music blunders of all-time, Decca turned the group down after their audition in favor of Brian Poole and the Tremeloes, telling Epstein, âThe Beatles have no future in show business.â
December 1, 1963
The New York Times published an article about the growing phenomenon that was The Beatles and the music they made with guitars. Written by Frederick Lewislondon, it stated that âThe Beatles are four young men who play guitars and drums and sing pop songs they write themselves. This sounds like merely a minor accomplishment, but it isnât â not the way they do it, and the noise they make while they are doing it, and the spectacularly demented way they look while they are doing it. By comparison, Elvis Presley is an Edwardian tenor of considerable diffidence.â
1968
The Beatles White Album started a seven-week run at number one on the UK chart. The double set was the first on the Apple label,
Janis Joplin made her final appearance with Big Brother & the Holding Company in San Francisco, CA.
Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights
December 1, 1972Carly Simonâs âYouâre So Vainâ is released in the US where it will reach #1. The tune causes much speculation about who Carly was singing about, with popular guesses that included Mick Jagger (who sang unaccredited backing vocals on the song), Cat Stevens, Warren Beatty, Kris Kristofferson (with whom she had had brief relationships), her unfaithful fiance William Donaldson, and her ex-husband, James Taylor. At one point, Carly said she was singing about a composite of many men she had known, but later claimed that the song was about openly gay record producer David Geffen.
1974 â Gay activists Bernie Toal, Tom Morganti and Daniel Thaxton in Boston chose the purple rhinoceros as a symbol of the gay movement after conducting a media campaign. They selected this animal because, although it is sometimes misunderstood, it is docile and intelligent, but when a rhinoceros is angered, it fights ferociously. Lavender was used because it was a widely recognized gay pride color; the heart was added to represent love and the âcommon humanity of all people. The entire campaign was intended to bring gay issues further into public view. The rhino started being displayed in subways in Boston, but since the creators didnât qualify for a public service advertising rate, the campaign soon became too expensive for the activists to handle. The ads disappeared, and the rhino never caught on anywhere else.
1973
Elton John continued to pace the album chart for the fourth week with Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. on the songs, Elton Johnâs âGoodbye Yellow Brick Roadâ moved from 9-3
1974 â The Greek letter lambda was officially declared the international symbol for gay and lesbian rights by the International Gay Rights Congress in Edinburgh, Scotland. The lambda was selected as a symbol by the Gay Activists Alliance of New York in 1970.
1975 â Feminist writer Jill Johnston (May 17, 1929 â September 18, 2010) wrote an essay âAre Lesbians Gay?â in which she explained why she believed it was absurd for lesbians to align themselves with the gay movement. Johnston was an American feminist author and cultural critic who wrote Lesbian Nation in 1973 and was a longtime writer for The Village Voice. She was also a leader of the lesbian separatist movement of the 1970s. In 1993, in Denmark, she married Ingrid Nyeboe. The couple married again, in Connecticut, in 2009
December 1, 1975Bette Midler celebrates her 30th birthday with an emergency appendectomy.
1976 â In Florida, Willard Allen was released from a mental hospital 26 years after he was ordered by a judge to be held there for having sex with another man. His doctors had been recommending his release for almost 20 years.
December 1, 1976
The Sex Pistols, who have just released their first single, âAnarchy in the UKâ, appear on British TVâs Today Show as a last-minute replacement for Queen.
December 1, 1977
In New York City, Queen played Madison Square Garden.
1979
Barry Manilow remained at #9 with One Voice
The Genderfuck Apathetics vs Yuppies : Aids the new STD on the list
1980 â Anita Bryant is interviewed by âLadies Home Journalâ and notes that she no longer feels as âmilitantâ as she once did about gay rights.
1982 â The US House of Representatives votes to provide $2.6 million in funding to the Centers for Disease Control to fight AIDS.
1984
The âPurple Rainâ Soundtrack by Prince tied More of the Monkees for the fourth-most weeks at #1 on the Album chart to that time with 18.
1985 â âCosmopolitanâ article writes about AIDS noting, âIf ever there was a homosexual plague, this disease is it.â
1987,
Prince decided to cancel the release of âThe Black Album.â It was only a week away from release.
France -Author James Baldwin (August 2, 1924 â December 1, 1987) dies. He was an American writer and social critic. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son (1955), explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America. An unfinished manuscript, Remember This House, was expanded and adapted for cinema as the Academy Award-nominated documentary film I Am Not Your Negro. Baldwinâs novels and plays fictionalize fundamental personal questions and dilemmas amid complex social and psychological pressures thwarting the equitable integration not only of African Americans, but also of gay and bisexual men, while depicting some internalized obstacles to such individualsâ quests for acceptance. Such dynamics are prominent in Baldwinâs second novel, Giovanniâs Room, written in 1956, well before the gay liberation movement. In 1949 Baldwin met and fell in love with Lucien Happersberger (September 20, 1932 â August 21, 2010), aged 17, though Happersbergerâs marriage three years later left Baldwin distraught. Happersberger died on August 21, 2010, in Switzerland.
1988 â World AIDS Day, sponsored by the World Health Organization, on December 1st every year is dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection, and remembering those who have died of the disease. The United States was the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s, first noticed by doctors in young gay men in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco in 1981. Since then, 1.2 million people live with HIV, more than half of which are unaware of their infection. HIV is a silent disease when first acquired, and this period of latency varies. The progression from HIV infection to AIDS varies from 5â12 years. In the past, most individuals succumbed to the disease in 1â2 years after diagnosis.. However, since the introduction of potent anti-retroviral drug therapy and better prophylaxis against opportunistic infections, death rates have significantly declined. Government and health officials, non-governmental organizations and individuals around the world observe World AIDS Day with education on AIDS prevention and control.âšâš
90s: Listserves and Email distribution replaces telephone trees for activism
1990
Whitney Houston owned the top R&B songââIâm Your Baby Tonightâ
Whitney Houston owned the top R&B songââIâm Your Baby Tonightâ.Vanilla Ice started a four-week run at No.1 in the UK with the single âIce Ice Babyâ. The track sampled the bass intro to the Queen and David Bowie No.1 âUnder Pressureâ. âIce Ice Babyâ was initially released as the B-side to the rapperâs cover of âPlay That Funky Musicâ, and became the A-side after US DJâs started playing it.Bette Midler remained at #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart for the fifth consecutive week with âFrom A Distanceâ.
Whitney Houston was on fire with her eighth #1 and 11th Top 10 song out of just 15 releases. âIâm Your Baby Tonightâ took over from Mariah Careyâs âLove Takes Timeâ. Bette Midler had #5ââFrom A Distance
on the LP charts, Whitney Houston was up from 22-5 with Iâm Your Baby Tonight.
and the classic George Michael album Listen Without Prejudice at #10.1993Elton John suffered a rare flop when his album âDuetsâ failed to crack the top twenty-five on the US album chart. The effort, which featured Don Henley, Chris Rea, kd lang, Little Richard, Kiki Dee, Gladys Knight, Bonnie Raitt and Leonard Cohen, was received much better in the UK, topping out at number 5.
American rock singer-songwriter Ray Gillen died age 34 from an AIDS related disease in a New York Hospital. He was best known for his work with Badlands, in addition to his stint with Black Sabbath in the mid-1980s and recording most of the vocals on Phenomenaâs Dream Runner album.
1997-Keith Boykin (born August 28, 1965) of the National Black Lesbian Gay Leadership Forum participated in a meeting with President Clinton to encourage greater inclusion of African American gays and lesbians in the Presidentâs Initiative on Race.
1998
The gay rights ordinance will not be reinstated in Dade County until December 1, 1998, more than 20 years after the June 7, 1977 Singer and conservative Southern Baptist Anita Bryant leads a successful campaign with the “Save Our Children” Crusade to repeal a gay rights ordinance in Dade County, Florida. Bryant faces severe backlash from gay rights supporters across the U.S
1999 â Lavender Country was an Americancountry music band formed in 1972, whose self-titled 1973 album is the first known gay-themed album in country music history. Based in Seattle, the band consisted of lead singer and guitarist Patrick Haggerty, keyboardist Michael Carr, singer and fiddler Eve Morris and guitarist Robert Hammerstrom (the only heterosexual member).
Post 9/11 â The Shock Decade From âgay and lesbianâ to âlesbigayâ to âLgbt/Lgbtq/Lgbtq2â
2008
Whamâs Last Christmas was the most played festive track of the last five years. The Performing Right Society put the 1984 hit at the top of their chart of seasonal songs, just ahead of Band Aidâs Do They Know Itâs Christmas? The Pogues came third with Fairytale of New York, recorded with the late Kirsty MacColl and first released in 1987. Other featured artists include Slade, Mariah Carey and Bruce Springsteen.2009Little Richard asked fans to pray for his speedy recovery after undergoing hip surgery at a Tennessee hospital. The 76-year-old Rock ânâ Roll pioneer asked family friend Rev. Bill Minson to tell fans âto get ready to rock ânâ roll with him in the new year because heâs coming back strong.â
2009, Europe â The Treaty of Lisbon and Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union are amended to include sexual orientation protection
Human Rights in global conflict: Trans/Pans vs LGB/ vs Heterosexual women
2015
December 1: During debate in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta on the inclusion of gender identity as protected grounds in the provincial Human Rights Code, MLA Estefania Cortes-Vargas (formerly reported in media as a lesbian-identified woman) formally comes out as genderqueer, becoming Canada’s first transgender-identified holder of a major political office.
2021
Heterosexual women are being criminally charged for miscarriages..
pregnancy is not only heterosexual women. bisexual pansexual and lesbians – as well as observed female at birth, regardless of self identity or actual diagnosis who do not speak in womanly terms. butch, nonbinary and transmen are still observed females
and are not heterosexual men in women’s bodies are not nonmen
there is no one way to be a heterosexual women, so little surprise there are more than one way to be a bisexual, or lesbian.
are at risk of sexual violence primarily by heterosexual men, but also bisexual men and transwomen. which pregnancy risk includes
and there is no woman who has had an abortion that took it as a light decision
so the transwomen demanding transplants of internal women’s organs, which male bodies do not have the nervous system linkages, nor muscle ability to expand during pregnancy – who seek abortion rights as if an historic accomplishment – demonstrate poor custodianship of such an organ.
women miscarriage for many reasons, and to have that criminalized
it is women’s bodies that are subject to restrictive laws
and women’s experiences expressed in language, is more removal of rights – denial of women to speak in affirming and descriptive language
our gender is our whole person, not our parts nor body functions.
it is breast cancer, not chest cancer for majority of those diagnosed reasons.
breasts not chest feed the infant, which is observed and measured by doctors.
1624 â in the Virginia Colony, Richard Cornish was hanged for sodomy for allegedly making advances on an indentured servant, William Couse. His conviction and execution, angrily contested by his brother and others, is the first to be recorded in the American colonies. In 1993 the William and Mary Gay and Lesbian Alumni created the Richard Cornish Endowment Fund for Gay and Lesbian Resource
1900, UK â Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 â 30 November 1900) dies. He was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of Londonâs most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. Wilde was initially buried in the CimetiĂšre de Bagneux outside Paris; in 1909 his remains were disinterred and transferred to PĂšre Lachaise Cemetery. In 2017, with the coming into force of the Policing and Crime Act 2017, Wilde was among an estimated 50,000 men who were pardoned for his offence of homosexuality , as it was no longer a crime in the UK
11-30-1924 â 10-25-2006 Elliott R. Blackstone â Born in Chinook, Montana. In 1949, he became a San Francisco police officer. He was a pioneer in what is now called community policing. In 1962, he was designated as the departmentâs first liaison officer with the LGBT community. Blackstone, a straight man, became a staunch supporter of the gay community and worked within the police department to change policy and procedures directed against the LGBT community, such as
entrapment of gay men in public restrooms. Blackstone worked with the Mattachine Society, Daughters of Bilitis, the Vanguard gay youth group, and other LGBT organizations. He even took up a collection at his church to buy hormones for transgender people, at a time when health clinics would not provide them. At his retirement dinner in 1975, he was recognized by LGBT community leaders for his advocacy and support. Blackstone was featured in the 2005 film Screaming Queens, a documentary about the 1966 Comptonâs Cafeteria riot. At the premiere at the Castro Theater, Blackstone received a standing ovation. An audience member asked why, as a straight man, he had worked so hard on behalf of LGBT rights. He said, âBecause my religion teaches me to love everybody.â In 2006, Blackstone died of a stroke.
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
11-30-1965 Ryan Patrick Murphy â Born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is an American film and television screenwriter, director, and producer. Murphy is best known for creating/producing a number of
television series including Popular (1999-2001), Nip/Tuck (2003-2010), Glee (2009-2015), American Horror Story (2011-present), The New Normal (2012-2013), Scream Queens (2015-present). and American Crime Story (2016-present). Murphy has been married to photographer David Miller since July 2012. The couple has two children. In October 2015, Murphy received the Award of Inspiration from the Foundation for AIDS Research for his contributions to TV and film as well as his work in the fight against AIDS.
November 30, 1969
The Rolling Stones played the final night on a 17 date North American tour at the International Raceway Festival, West Palm Beach, Florida. Also appearing, The Moody Blues, Ten Years After, King Crimson, Janis Joplin, The Band, Steppenwolf and Iron Butterfly.
Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights
1974
Elton Johnâs Greatest Hits moved from #47 to #1 on the Album chart. That bumped the Rolling Stones album Itâs Only Rock âN Roll from the top after just one week.
1978 â Clay Aiken (born Clayton Holmes Grissom; born November 30, 1978) is born. He is an American singer, songwriter, television personality, actor, author, politician and activist. Aiken was the 2014 Democratic nominee in the North Carolina 2nd congressional districtelection. After several years of public speculation, Aiken came out as gay in a September 2008 interview with People magazine. In April 2009, Aiken was honored by the Family Equality Council advocacy group at its annual benefit dinner in New York City.
1978 â San Francisco Examiner Headline is âTHE CITY WEEPS,â following and regarding the assassination of George Moscone and Harvey Milk.
The Genderfuck Apathetics vs Yuppies : Aids the new STD on the list
1985
Wham! Were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with âIâm Your Manâ, the duoâs third UK No.1, a No.3 hit in the US.
Wham! had the #1 song in the U.K. with âIâm Your Manâ.
1988 â National League Baseball president Bart Giamatti fires umpire Dave Pallone (born October 5, 1951) for being gay. Pallone is a former Baseball umpire who worked in the National League from 1979 to 1988. During Palloneâs career, he wore uniform number 26. He was âoutedâ in a New York Post article later in the year. Pallone later wrote his autobiography, Behind the Mask: My Double Life in Baseball, which became New York Times best-seller, and has been republished as an e-book. Pallone now does diversity training for corporations, colleges, universities and athletes with the NCAA. Pallone was part of the first class of inductees to The National Gay and Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame in 2013.
1989 â Columbus Ohio mayor Dana Rinehart signs a hate crimes bill which includes the term sexual orientation. Rinehart had asked the city council to remove the term sexual orientation, saying that itâs vague and does not belong in the ordinance. The council refused.
90s: Listserves and Email distribution replaces telephone trees for activis
11-30-1992 Nats Getty (Natalia Williams) â Born in Los Angeles, California. She is an American model,
socialite, designer, artist, and LGBT rights activist. She is the granddaughter of Sir John Paul Getty and uses her motherâs surname professionally. Her brother is fashion designer August Getty, who is gay. She, along with her mother and brother, have provided new infrastructures for the Los Angeles LGBT center and works closely with GLAAD. Getty is openly lesbian and as of March 2018, she is engaged to Canadian socialite Gigi Lazzarato.
1993 â President Bill Clinton signs a military policy directive that prohibits openly gay and lesbian Americans from serving in the military, but also prohibits the harassment of âclosetedâ homosexuals. The policy is known as âDonât Ask, Donât Tell.â It was repealed on September 20, 2011.
1995 â The first US. government-sponsored advertising targeting gay men debuts on the eve of World AIDS Day when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention releases a public service television announcement cautioning men to have âsmart sex.â
November 1995 – The Hate Crimes Sentencing Enhancement Act goes into effect as part of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. The law allows a judge to impose harsher sentences if there is evidence showing that a victim was selected because of the âactual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender, disability, or sexual orientation of any person.â
1996
Barbra Streisand and Bryan Adams hooked up for a fast-rising songââI Finally Found Someoneâ, up from 28 to 11.
1999
Billboard magazine announced that the Hot 100 chart would now take airplay into consideration as well as sales.
Elton John was blasted by the Boy Scout Association after he appeared on stage at Londonâs Albert Hall performing âItâs A Sinâ with six male dancers dressed as Boy Scouts. The dancers had peeled of their uniforms during the performance.
Post 9/11 â The Shock Decade From âgay and lesbianâ to âlesbigayâ to âLgbt/Lgbtq/Lgbtq2â
2006 â South Africa is the first African country to legalize same-sex marriage.
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2015
Sinead OâConnor was receiving medical treatment after a message about her taking an overdose was posted on her Facebook page. âI have taken an overdose. There is no other way to get respect,â the post read. The Irish singer was found safely in Dublin by Police.
Human Rights in global conflict: Trans/Pans vs LGB/ vs Heterosexual women
2021
Clothing has been regulated in law in every nation.
Like Hair length – is it one of those every decade of fashion fights between youth, the middle aged and the elderly
having uniforms and allowing customization, improves school morale and gives a belonging along with some individuality as balance.
School Uniforms matter more to demonstrate who does and does not belong on school property – to reduce brand name clothes peer pressure.
focus on keep out the drug dealers, kidnapper/predators and random people who shoot up schools from off the street
along with the internal school people to avoid bullying and in school shooters
heterosexual women also wear pants.. many cultures have skirts for men – Scotland and Turkey…
and for trans: clothes are not your gender – clothes are a personality expression.
from the article: Over the last several decades, the U.S. has been hemorrhaging queer female spaces. In the 1980s, over 200 lesbian-identified bars were scattered around the country. Today, only 21 are, according to the fundraising and advocacy initiative Lesbian Bar Project.
But while lesbian bars are disappearing, that need for safe community spaces is not. Queer women remain vulnerable
Nina Notes: yes, lesbians are being called queer women and erased as well as losing specific spaces
âEnding the HIV epidemic is within our reach, and we are committed to finishing this work,â Biden said. âOn World AIDS Day, we rededicate ourselves to building on the progress of the last 4 decades; upholding and advancing human rights; supporting research, science, and data-driven solutions; expanding access to housing, education, and economic empowerment; and fighting stigma and discrimination. No one living with HIV should suffer the undeserved guilt and prejudice that too many continue to experience.â
Biden, as the world recognizes World AIDS Day on Dec. 1, enumerates LGBTQ people as survivors in a paragraph acknowledging the coronavirus pandemic has presented new obstacles in efforts to beat HIV/AIDS.
Richard Dawkins tweeted a request to his followers, asking them to sign on to a declaration by UK-based anti-transgender advocacy group the Womenâs Human Rights Campaign (WHRC).
the article does not consider women’s rights at all and fails to connect gay and lesbian rights are being undermined by trans – who claim to be the most murdered and raped while then name calling those who do not date them and promoting rape culture by calling others genitally fixated while denying informed consent – and really sexually harassing every demographic by causing a public debate about trans genitals and where they do and do not belong
just dismiss any thing that is not pro trans as if others are not oppressed, marginalized, raped and murdered…
1628 â John Felton (c.â1595 â 29 November 1628) is hanged. He was a lieutenant in the English Army who killed George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham (28 August 1592 â 23 August 1628), and most probably the lover of King James I, in the Greyhound Pub of Portsmouth on August 23, 1628. Villiers was the last in a succession of handsome young favorites on whom the king lavished affection and patronage, although the personal relationship between the two has been much debated.
1915 â Jazz great Billy Strayhorn (November 29, 1915 â May 31, 1967) is born. Planet Out says, âAlthough Billy Strayhorn was considered by many to be Duke Ellingtonâs musical superior, his refusal to stay in the closet forced him to take a back seat. Central to the jazz movement, Strayhorn infused his compositions with complex harmonies and plenty of soul. His willful obscurity brought him much pain, but it also served to fuel his creativity and boundless talent.â He was an American jazz composer, pianist, lyricist, and arranger, best known for his successful collaboration with bandleader and composer Duke Ellington, lasting nearly three decades. His compositions include âTake the âAâ Trainâ, âChelsea Bridgeâ, âA Flower Is a Lovesome Thingâ, and âLush Lifeâ. Strayhorn was openly gay. His first partner was African-American musician Aaron Bridgers (January 10, 1918 â November 3, 2003), who was an African-American jazz pianist who moved to Paris, in 1947. He and Strayhorn were lovers from 1939 until Bridgersâ move to France.
1933: Close to bankruptcy after repeated Nazi raids and seizures of his publications and property, Adolf Brand (14 November 1874 â 2 February 1945) writes a letter to the Sexicology Society in London announcing the end of the Homophile movement he has led. He died in an Allied bombing raid in 1945. Adolf Brand, who began publishing one of the earliest gay publications in Berlin, said he was unable to continue. Nazi raids and seizures had left him financially ruined. Brand was a German writer, individualist anarchist, and pioneering campaigner for the acceptance of male bisexuality and homosexuality.
The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code
1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex
The Civil Rights 60s: When the Boomers were under 30
1965
The Soundtrack to âThe Sound of Musicâ was #1 on the U.K. Album chart, followed by the Soundtrack to âMary Poppinsâ.
11-29-1968 Jonathan Knight â Born in Worcester, Massachusetts. He is an American singer. He was part of the group New Kids On
The Block. In 2011 he stated, âI have lived my life very openly and have never hidden the fact that I am gay. Apparently, the prerequisite to being a gay public figure is to appear on the cover of a magazine with the caption âI am gayâ. I apologize for not doing so if this is what was expected!â Knight has been in a relationship with Harley Rodriquez since 2008. The two participated in the 26th season of the reality show The Amazing Race, which aired on CBS in early 2015, where they placed 9th.
Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights
1975
Elton John scored his 13th Top 10 and seventh in a row with âIsland Girlâ, which was at #3, and Natalie Cole with her first hit âThis Will Beâ at 8
11-29-1979 Simon Amstell â Born in Gants Hill, London, UK. He is an English comedian, TV presenter, screenwriter, and actor. He is openly gay and Jewish, which occasionally figures in his work. He is best known for his roles as the former co-host of Popworld, and host of Never Mind the Buzzcocks. He was also co-writer and star of the sitcom Grandmaâs House, commissioned by BBC2. In 2014 he went on tour, titled To Be Free.
1979, Canada â A Quebec Superior Court judge rules that the Montreal Catholic School Commission did not have justifiable grounds to refuse to rent space to gay rights group ADGQ and therefore was not exempt from the Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms. The ruling overturns the provinceâs human rights commissionâs second opinion in 1978 and becomes the first legal victory against discrimination since adoption of the gay rights clause in Canadaâs Charter of Rights and Freedoms of the Constitution in December 1977.
The Genderfuck Apathetics vs Yuppies : Aids the new STD on the list
1980
ABBA scored their ninth and last UK No.1 single with âSuper Trouperâ, the groupâs 25th Top 40 hit in the UK. The name âSuper Trouperâ referred to the gigantic spotlights used in stadium concerts.
Barbra Streisand was still at 2 after owning the previous #1ââWoman In Loveâ, while Queen was still at #4 with âAnother One Bites The Dust
Guilty by Barbra Streisand remained second on the USA lp charts and at 5 The Game by Queen.
1981
Actress Natalie Wood drowned at age 43. (West Side Story, Rebel Without a Cause, Splendor in the Grass, Brainstorm, Miracle on 34th Street, Gypsy, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, The Great Race, Sex and the Single Girl, Penelope, Inside Daisy Clover, The Candidate, Love with a Proper Stranger). The case has been reopened decades later with Robert Wagner and Christopher Walken the persons to question.
1984: West Hollywood, the first city in the U.S. to have a city council with a majority of LGBTQ members, is incorporated in Los Angeles County. Less than a month after being established as a city, West Hollywood approves a gay rights ordinance.
1984
Band Aid released the single âDo They Know Itâs Christmasâ,
1986
The Human League dropped with âHumanâ while Madonna peaked at 3 with âTrue Blue
1989 â Randy Kraft, a serial killer who murdered at least 61 gay young men, is sentenced to death in California. He was arrested in 1983 and remains in a California prison waiting for his sentence to be carried out.
90s: Listserves and Email distribution replaces telephone trees for activism
1990 â Pres. G.H.W. Bush Signs an Immigration Bill Ending the Gay Ban
1997
Whitney Houston pulled out of a concert sponsored by the Moonies two hours before she was due on stage after finding out the event was a mass wedding for over 1,000 Moonie coupleâs. The religious group said they had no intention of suing providing the singer returned the $1m fee she had received.
Celine Dionâs Letâs Talk About Love was the #1 album in the U.K.
âPerfect Dayâ performed by various artists including Elton John, Bono, Tom Jones & David Bowie went to No.1 on the UK singles chart. Originally written and recorded in 1973 by Lou Reed, this new collaboration of 29 major artists was a fund raiser for the BBC Children In Need charity.
Higher Ground from Barbra Streisand debuted as the #1 album, her eighth #1 and 25th Top 10. The best of the other new entries in the Top 10 was Yourself or Someone Like You from Matchbox 20.
Elton John held on to #1 for the eighth straight week with âCandle In The Wind 1997â.
Post 9/11 â From âgay and lesbianâ to âlesbigayâ to âLgbt/Lgbtq/Lgbtq2â
2003
Beyonce, Bono of U2, Peter Gabriel, the Eurythmics, the Corrs, Jimmy Cliff and the surviving members of Queen performed at a concert at Greenpoint Stadium to raise awareness of AIDS in Cape Town, South Africa.
2004: Without comment, the Supreme Court of the United States refuses to hear arguments appealing the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling that same-sex marriage must be allowed in that state, in essence letting the ruling stand.
2007:
Uruguay becomes the first Latin American country to pass a national civil union law.
Viet Nam â First same-sex wedding in Hanoi between two men takes place though it is not legally recognized. The grooms, Dinh Cong Khanh and Nguyen Thai Nguyen, now live in Canada
Control, the biopic about late Joy Division singer Ian Curtis scooped five prizes at the British Independent Film Awards. The black-and-white film, which featured The Killers, David Bowie and New Order on the soundtrack, was shot for just ÂŁ3m.
Morrissey was set to sue UK music weekly the NME after it failed to apologise for an article focusing on his views on immigration. The magazine had criticised the 48 year old singer and former Smiths star for allegedly telling a reporter Britain had lost its identity due to high levels of immigration.
Human Human Rights in global conflict: Trans/Pans vs LGB/ vs Heterosexual women
religion is all about bigotry – who is in the “good group” and who is out – and religion is why people were illegal or property
the right to an idea is a good idea, but the contents of the idea matter
1862, Germany âKarl Heinrich Ulrichs (28 August 1825 â 14 July 1895), , a pioneer of the early LGBT civil rights movement, writes a letter to his family reconciling his spirituality and his sexuality. He wrote, âGood God has given me love oriented towards men. Asking Him to change that would be extremely anti-Christian.â Ulrichs was a German writer who is seen today as the pioneer of the modern gay rights movement.
11-28-1898 â 01-21-1993 Lotte Laserstein â Born in Preussisch Holland, German Empire (now PaslÄk, Poland) into a Jewish family (her father was half Jewish).
She was a German-Swedish painter and portraitist. She studied at the Berlin Academy of Arts and won the schoolâs highest honors. With the rise of the Nazis, in 1933, she was profiled as âa 3/4 Jewâ and prohibited from exhibiting her work and was fired from her position on the executive committee of the National Arts Association. By 1937, things became so difficult for her that she moved to Sweden. She was successful in getting her sister out of Germany, but her mother died in RavensbrĂŒck concentration camp (her father had already died). In 1938, she married a Swedish man, Sven Marcus, in order to obtain her Swedish citizenship. The couple never lived together as husband and wife since Laserstein was a lesbian, but they remained friends throughout their lives. In 2003 an exhibit of Lasersteinâs work was held in Berlin. An exhibition catalog was written by Anna-Carola Krausse titled, Lotte Laserstein: My Only Reality. It was published in English in October 2004.
11-28-1928 â 07-30-2002 A.E. Dyson (Tony Dyson) â Born in Paddington, London, England. He was a British literary critic, university lecturer, educational activist, and gay
rights campaigner. In 1958, he formed the Homosexual Law Reform Society (HLRS) to repeal the law regarding homosexuality (The law was repealed in 1967). It was during this time that Dyson met Cliff Tucker, a senior executive at British Petroleum, a Labor Party councilor and a magistrate. They lived together for 35 years until Tuckerâs death in 1993. Dyson followed Tuckerâs final wishes and bequeathed the proceeds of their Hampstead home to Tuckerâs alma mater, the University of Wales, Lampeter. As a result, there is now a scholarship and lecture theatre which is named after Tucker and a Fellowship in Poetry named for Dyson. In July 2002, Dyson died from leukemia.
The MGM movie musical âMeet Me in St. Louis,â starring Judy Garland opened in New York.
1944 â Rita Mae Brown (born 28 November 1944), is born. She is an American writer, activist, and feminist, best known for her first novel Rubyfruit Jungle. Brown is also a mystery writer and screenwriter. Starting in 1973, Brown lived in the Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles. In 1978, she moved to Charlottesville, Virginia where she lived briefly with American author, screenwriter and actor, Fannie Flagg (born September 21, 1944), whom she met at a party hosted by Marlo Thomas. They later broke up due to, according to Brown, âgenerational differences.â In 1979 Brown met and fell in love with tennis champion Martina Navratilova (born October 18, 1956). In 1980 they bought a horse farm in Charlottesville where they lived together until their breakup over Navratilovaâs then concern that coming out would hurt her application for US citizenship. Brown still lives on the estate in Charlottesville.
1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex
Winifred Atwell was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with âLetâs Have Another Party.â Atwell was the first black artist to reach No.1 in the UK and the first black artist to sell a million records.
The Civil Rights 60s: When the Boomers were under 30
1964
People by newcomer Barbra Streisand was the #1 album for a fifth week on the USA charts, The Great Songs From âMy Fair Ladyâ and other Broadway Hits by Andy Williams was seventh and Hello, Dolly! by Louis Armstrong cracked the Top 10.
11-28-1969 Colman Domingo â Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is an American actor, playwright, television and stage director. He received an Obie Award in 2008 as part of the ensemble of Passing Strange and was later in the film version directed by Spike Lee. He starred as Billy Flynn in Chicago, the longest-running revival on Broadway. Domingo had a recurring role on AMCâs zombie series, Fear the Walking Dead. He also directed an episode in Season 4. At the age of 22, Domingo came out to his mother, Edith, while she was visiting him in San Francisco. The two ended up drinking in a gay bar. He also came out to his brother, who took it all in stride. Domingo said in an interview with Metro UK, âItâs an experience Iâd like to add to the chorus, that these blue-collar, macho men, like my older brother, had the capacity to say: âI donât care, I love you anyway.â There are young kids thinking: âIâll never come out because itâs too hard in our communities.â But Iâm saying maybe your story can be similar to mine.â His one-man autobiographical play, A Boy and His Soul, about a young black inner-city gay boy and his complex family, won a GLADD Award for New York Theater: Broadway & Off-Broadway, and a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Solo Show.
Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights
November 28, 1974Elton John was joined on stage by John Lennon at Eltonâs Madison Square Garden concert. They performed three numbers together, âWhatever Gets You Through the Nightâ, âLucy in the Sky With Diamondsâ and âI Saw Her Standing Thereâ. Lennon had promised the flamboyant rocker that he would make a stage appearance with him if his âWhatever Gets You Through the Nightâ became a #1 hit, which it did two weeks earlier. It would be Lennonâs last ever concert appearance, and that same night, Lennon and his estranged wife Yoko Ono reconciled backstage after being separated for a year.
1977 â Aspen becomes the first city in Colorado to pass a gay rights ordinance.
1978 â San Francisco Examiner Headline is âTHE CITY WEEPS,â following the assassination of George Moscone and Harvey Milk.
11-28-1978 Siri Hall ArnĂžy â Place of birth unknown. She is a
former Norwegian politician. ArnĂžy was a member of Parliament from 2001 to 2005. From October 2005 to January 2006, she was the political advisor for the Minister of Finance and a deputy representative for the term 2005 â 2009. She is openly lesbian. In 2012, she earned a Ph.D. from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
The Genderfuck Apathetics vs Yuppies : Aids the new STD on the list
1980 â The National Coalition of Black Gays holds its second national conference in Philadelphia
1981
Barry Manilow took over at #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart with âThe Old Songsâ.
11-28-1983 Rostam Batmanglij â Place of birth unknown. He grew up in Washington D.C. His parents are both Iranian and
arrived in D.C. in 1983. He is an American songwriter, musician, producer and is a multi-instrumentalist. He was with the group Vampire Weekend and electro-soul group Discovery. He is openly gay and talked about his sexual orientation in the magazine Out. He was on Outâs 3rd Annual 100 Most Eligible Bachelors (2013).
11-28-1983 Omar Sharif Jr. â Born in Montreal, Canada to a
Jewish mother and Muslim father. He is a model, writer, and activist. He is the grandson of Omar Sharif. He received international attention from his ads for Calvin Klein and Coca Cola. In 2013, shortly after the Muslim Brotherhood was elected to parliament in Egypt, Omar published an open letter in The Advocate, in which he came out as gay and half-Jewish and questioned the new Egyptian governmentâs commitment to basic human rights and diversity. He is the first public personality to come out as openly gay in the Arab world. He faced an onslaught of condemnation, criticism, and threats of violence. Omar was on Outâs 3rd Annual 100 Most Eligible Bachelors (2013). From 2013 to 2015, Omar served as Eastern National Spokesperson for GLADD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation). Omar stated, âMy grandfather didnât care that Iâm gay. Before anything, in the eyes of my grandparents, I was a grandson.â
11-28-1983 Tyler Glenn â Born in Temecula, California. Glenn was raised a Mormon. He is an American vocalist and
keyboardist for the American alternative rock band Neon Trees. He came out as gay in the March 24, 2014 issue of Rolling Stone magazine. He discussed keeping his sexuality a secret throughout his life. Glenn says heâs known he was gay since he was a child. In 2014, he was featured as lead vocalist on Born to Run, a song on Afrojackâs debut studio album, Forget the World.
1984
Princeâs âI Would Die 4 Uâ became the fourth single from the album âPurple Rain.â
11-28-1986 Daniel Mallory Ortberg â Place of birth unknown. He grew up in northern Illinois and then in San Francisco. His parents are evangelical
Christian pastors. Ortberg is an American author, editor, and co-founder of the feminist site The Toast. His books include Texts from Jane Eyre (2014) and The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror (2018). Ortberg identifies as queer and in February 2018, has come out as transgender. In November 2018, he and partner Grace Lavery, Associate Professor of English at UC Berkeley, announced their engagement. (Photo courtesy of kellywritershouse CC 2.0)
1987
David Bowie played the second of four sold-out nights during his Glass Spider Tour in Australia and New Zealand at the Kooyong Stadium in Melbourne.
on the USA charts, songs: George Michael and the title track from Faith was #6
LPS: The âDirty Dancingâ Soundtrack was still perched at #1 on the Album chart and Whitney, the second album from Whitney Houston at #8
1988 â A Dallas judge sentences the killer of two gay men to 30 years in prison instead of a life sentence because, as he later tells the Dallas Times Herald, âI donât much care for queers cruising the streets.â The Dallas Gay Alliance joins political leaders across the country in protesting the judgeâs decision.
1989 â A judge in Texas was censured for giving a light sentence to a teenager who murdered two gay men. He explained the sentence by saying that he couldnât give a life sentence to a teenage boy âjust because he killed a couple of homosexuals.â
1989
Princeâs song âScandalous,â from the Batman Soundtrack, was released.
90s: Listserves and Email distribution replaces telephone trees for activism
1992
Celine Dion had the fastest mover as her great song âLove Can Move Mountainsâ advanced from 95 to 65.
Whitney Houston moved from #12 to #1 on this date, the third-highest leap to the top of the Rock Era, for the first week at #1 with âI Will Always Love Youâ.
1993
Whitney Houstonâs ââI Will Always Love Youâ reached #1 R&B for eleven weeks and #1 pop for fourteen weeks, a single from the soundtrack for the movie The Bodyguard, Kevin Costner, Houstonâs costar in The Bodyguard, suggested she record it. It would become her biggest hit.
1998 â In Allston, Massachusetts, transgender woman of color Rita Hester (30 November 1963 â 28 November 1998) is murdered. The ensuing candlelight vigil a few days later was attended by 250 people and inspired the Transgender Day of Remembrance, observed each November 20th worldwide.
Post 9/11 â From âgay and lesbianâ to âlesbigayâ to âLgbt/Lgbtq/Lgbtq2â
2000
David Bowie was crowned the musicianâs musician. Bowie beat The Beatles and alternative rockers Radiohead in a survey by the NME that asked hundreds of top rock and pop stars to name their biggest musical influence.
About nine million people watched a Madonna concert over the Internet. The 29-minute, six-song event was performed at Londonâs Brixton Acedemy in front of about 2,800 people. According to MSN.com the show set a record for such events.
2001
Elton John sets a new record for hosting the most concerts at New Yorkâs Madison Square Garden when he plays his 53rd gig there. That feat breaks the previous record set by The Grateful Dead. He has since gone on to add to the record with shows like âElton 60,â which celebrated his 60th birthday.
2007
Billy Joel and Elton John had a concert grudge match into 2015:
it is homophobic of trans to bash on gay men and lesbians for not dating them, being bothered by same gender dating and insisting on reverse gender role compulsory heterosexuality
it is not transphobic to not date a trans person, not attracted to is not the same as bigotry
and bisexuals vs pansexuals is a bizarre battle as well.
trans and pans do not get to invalidate lesbians, bisexuals, gay men and heterosexuals.
think of the children – who need to be protected from adults
111, Italy â Antinous (November 27, 111 â 30 October 130) is born in Bithynia. The Roman Emperor Hadrian (76-138 CE) was smitten with the 15 year old boy at first glance. From that time on Antinous never left the emperorâs side. On a trip to Egypt he drowned in the Nile. Some say it was because of a prophecy that had declared the Hadrian would die unless a sacrifice were made to the river.
Itâs been suggested that he drown accidentally or that he was an intentional human sacrifice. After his death, he was deified and worshiped in the Greco-Roman world. Hadrian founded the city of Antinopolis close to where Antinous died and started games in commemoration of Antinous that took place both in Athens and Antinopolis. He became associated with homosexuality in Western culture, appearing in the work of Oscar Wilde and the Portuguese poet, Fernando Pessoa.
1700 â A new law concerning sodomy passes in the Pennsylvania assembly. If committed by a white man, sodomy was punishable by life in prison and, at the discretion of the judge, a whipping every three months for the first year. If married, the man was castrated and his wife was granted a divorce. If committed by a black man, the punishment for sodomy was death.
1784, UK â The UK Morning Herald newspaper publishes the rumor that the famous novelist William Beckford (1 October 1760 â 2 May 1844) was sleeping with William âKittyâ Courtney (c. 1768 â 26 May 1835), the 9th Earl of Devon, calling the two men âthe lowest class of brutes in the most preposterous rites,â and leading to Beckfordâs ostracism. Beckford was an English novelist, a consummately knowledgeable art collector and patron of works of decorative art, a critic, travel writer and sometime politician, reputed at one stage in his life to be the richest commoner in England. Courtenay was in his time considered a notorious homosexual and attracted infamy for the affair with Beckford. As a youth, âKittyâ Courtenay was sometimes named by contemporaries as the most beautiful boy in England.
1835, UK â John Smith (1795â1835) and James Pratt (1805â1835) are the last Englishmen to be executed for sodomy. Under the 1828 Offenses Against the Person Act which had replaced the 1533 Buggery Act. They are hanged at Newgate prison.
11-27-1877 â 11-20-1965 Katharine Anthony â Born in Roseville, Lagan County, Arkansas. She was an American biographer best
know for The Lambs (1945), a controversial study of the British writers Charles and Mary Lamb. Anthony lived in Manhattan with her life partner, Elisabeth Inwin (1880-1942), the founder of the Little Red School House, with whom she raised several adopted children.
1931, Germany â The film âMadchen in Uniformâ (Girls in Uniform) is released. It portrays a sensitive girl in an all-girls boarding school where she develops a romantic attachment to a female teacher. Itâs one of the earliest narrative films to explicitly portray homosexuality. The German feature-length film was based on the playGestern und heute (Yesterday and Today) by Christa Winsloe (23 December 1888 â 10 June 1944) and directed by Leontine Sagan with artistic direction from Carl Froelichwho also funded the film. Winsloe also wrote the screenplay and was on the set during filming. The film remains an international cult classic. It was almost banned in the US, but Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11, 1884 â November 7, 1962) spoke highly of the film, resulting in the film getting a limited release in the US in 1932-33. Prints of the film survived the war, but it was heavily censored until the 1970s, and not shown again in Germany until 1977 when it was screened on television there. Winsloe was a member of the SPD (the German Social Democrats, then largely reform Marxist in orientation), and was open about her sexuality.
11-27-1922 â 08-23-2009 James Lord â Born in Englewood, New
Jersey. He was an American writer and wrote critically acclaimed biographies of Alberto Giacometti and Pablo Picasso. Lord appeared in the documentary films Malthus Through the Looking Glass (1996) and Picasso: Magic, Sex, Death (2001). He served in the United States Army during WWII, keeping his homosexuality hidden.
The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code
11-27-1942 Marilyn Hacker â Born in Bronx, New York, the only child of Jewish immigrant parents. She is an American poet, translator, and critic.
Her books of poetry include Presentation Piece (1974), which won the National Book Award. While attending the Bronx High School of Science, she met science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany. They married in Detroit, Michigan because of age-of-consent laws and because he was African-American and she was Caucasian. At the time there were only two states where they could legally wed. In 1974, the couple had a daughter. Hacker and Delany did separate, divorced in 1980, but remained friends. Hacker identifies as lesbian, and Delany has identified as a gay man since adolescence. Hacker served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2008 to 2014. In a review of Hackerâs 2019 collection Blazons, A.M. Juster states that âthere is no poet writing in English with a better claim for the Nobel Prize in Literature than Marilyn Hacker.â
11-27-1943 Nicole Brossard â Born in Montreal, Canada. She is a leading French Canadian poet and novelist. Her writing shows her commitment to feminist consciousness, as well as lyrical descriptions of lesbian desire. She has published more than 30 books. Brossard founded a feminist newspaper and a publishing house. She also wrote a play, Le Nef Des Sorceress, first performed in 1976. She is an out lesbian.
1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex
A South African self-described doctor named Laurenz Johannes Griessel Landau made a pass at Elvis Presley during a facial treatment – resulting in a Military Investigation. Presley had contacted Landau after seeing magazine ads and Landau tried to blackmail Presley.
The Civil Rights 60s: When the Boomers were under 30
11-27-1963 John Aravosis â Born in the United States, place unknown. He is a former American Democratic political consultant,
writer, gay activist, and blogger. Aravosis is also a first-generation Greek-American and has written about the influence his Greek heritage has had on his political work. In 2011, Aravosis received a tip that British oil giant BP was posting falsified photos to its website during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. He analyzed the photos, then published an article on AMERICAblog proving that the images were doctored electronically. The story received widespread coverage in the media. He is out gay.
1967
Aretha Franklin released the single âChain Of Foolsâ.
Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights
1970 â Marty Robinson (1942-1992) and Arthur Evans (October 12, 1942 â September 11, 2011) of the Gay Activist Alliance appeared on the Dick Cavett Show. Evans was an early gay rightsadvocate and author, most well-known for his book Witchcraft. He was a co-founder of Gay Activists Alliance. Robinson was an organizer for gay-rights causes for 27 years who was known for his provocative protests.
1970, UK â The London Gay Liberation Front mounts its first public demonstration, a torch-lit protest march on Highbury Fields.
November 27, 1971
Sonny & Cher owned the top Easy Listening song with âAll I Never Need Is Youâ.
11-27-1974 Menaka Guruswamy â Born in India. She is a Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court of India. She is known for having played a significant role in many landmark cases before the Supreme Court, including
challenging the constitutionality of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (1860). The petition was the first time that LGBT Indians actually filed writ petitions alleging violation of their fundamental rights. On September 6, 2018, the Court ruled unanimously that Section 377 was unconstitutional âin so far as it criminalizes consensual sexual conduct between adults of the same sex.â The Court also called for equality and condemned discrimination, stating that the protection of sexual orientation lies at the core of the fundamental rights and that the rights of the LGBT population are real and founded on constitutional doctrine. In 2019, in an interview with CNN Fareed Zakaria, Guruswamy revealed that she was in a relationship with lawyer Arundhati Katju. She stated that the decriminalization of Section 377 was not just a professional win but a personal win as well.
1976
on the USA LO charts, Blue Moves by Elton John was third
1978, Canada â Parents of Gays form in Canada.âš
1978 â Harvey Milk is assasinated. Conservative Dan White, after discovering that he would not be re-appointed to his seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, took a gun and extra ammunition and goes to City Hall. He enters through a lower level window to avoid the metal detectors and goes to the office of Mayor George Moscone, who was supportive of the gay community, and fires four shots, two to the head. Those who heard the gunshots did not realize what they were hearing, giving him time to reload his gun and go to the office of Supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected in a major American city, and fires five shots. Both men are pronounced dead. Tens of thousands gather for a spontaneous vigil. White is convicted on the reduced charge of âvoluntary manslaughterâ and sentenced to six years in prison. He is released after serving 5 1â2 years and commits suicide soon after returning to his family.
11-27-1979 Blue Hamilton â Born in California, city unknown. He is an American former music publishing executive turned singer/songwriter. On January 6, 2013 it was announced that he is engaged to actor Matt Dallas. The couple married on July 5, 2015.
The Genderfuck Apathetics vs Yuppies : Aids the new STD on the list
1980 â âBosom Buddies,â a sitcom about two young broke New York men who dress in drag to live in a low rent, all-girl hotel, premieres on ABC. It stars Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari.
1981
The British Phonographic Industry, with the endorsement of Rock stars like Elton John, Gary Numan, Cliff Richard, 10cc and the Boomtown Rats, places advertisements in the British press claiming that âHome taping is wiping out music.â
1982
ABBA owned the top album in the U.K. with The Singles: The First 10 Years.
on the USA song charts, Toni Basil moved to #3 with âMickeyâ
90s: Listserves and Email distribution replaces telephone trees for activism
1991
Freddie Mercuryâs funeral service was conducted by a Zoroastrian priest, for 35 of his close friends and family, with Elton John and the remaining members of Queen among those in attendance. Mercury was cremated at Kensal Green Cemetery, West London, England.
1998, Zimbabwe â Former Zimbabwean President Canaan Banana (5 March 1936 â 10 November 2003) is convicted of eleven counts of sodomy and indecent assault. He served as the first President of Zimbabwe from 18 April 1980 until 31 December 1987. A Methodist minister, he held the largely ceremonial office of the presidency while his eventual successor, Robert Mugabe, served as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe. During his lifetime, Banana brought together two of the countryâs political parties, the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) and the Zimbabwe African Peopleâs Union (ZAPU), became a diplomat for the Organization of African Unity, and headed the religious department of the University of Zimbabwe. His later life was complicated by charges of sodomyâa crime in Zimbabweâwhich he denied and for which he was later imprisoned. Banana was found guilty of eleven charges of sodomy, attempted sodomy and indecent assault in 1998. He denied all charges, saying that homosexuality is âdeviant, abominable and wrongâ, and the allegations made against him were âpathological liesâ intended to destroy his political career.His wife Janet Banana later discussed her husbandâs alleged homosexuality and confirmed it, even though she considered the charges against him to be politically motivated.
1999, New Zealand â Georgina Beyer (born November 1957) is the first transgender member of the New Zealand Parliament and also the first openly transgender mayor in the world. She is also among a very small number of former sex workers to hold political office.
Post 9/11 â From âgay and lesbianâ to âlesbigayâ to âLgbt/Lgbtq/Lgbtq2â
2021
The government will also continue to reform the criminal justice system and policing. This is the moment to rebuild for everyone. The government will continue to invest in the empowerment of Black and racialized Canadians, and Indigenous peoples. It will also continue to fight harmful content online, and stand up for LGBTQ2 communities while completing the ban on conversion therapy.
A customer of the Old Ox Brewery in Ashburn, where the incident took place on its outdoor grounds, made a video of the incident with his cell phone and sent a copy of the video to the Blade.
The video, which includes an audio recording, shows a man using a hand-held flame-throwing device to ignite the rainbow poster, which was hanging from a cable and appeared to be mounted on cardboard or a thin sheet of wood. Bystanders can be heard laughing and cheering as the poster is set on fire.
The poster consisted of a variation of the LGBTQ Pride rainbow flag that included the word âloveâ configured from an upper white stripe on the rainbow symbol.
The customer who took the video, who has asked not to be identified, thought the decision to set the poster on fire was a sign of disrespect if not hatred toward a longstanding symbol of LGBTQ equality and pride.
Netflix is not the first entity that Baranets has flagged for investigation. Just this week, she also called for a Moscow school to receive administrative charges under the same law because a teacher allegedly instructed fifth grade students to draw rainbows as symbols of Pride.
Studies show LGBTQ people at higher risk of eating disorders, self-harm | Pennsylvania Capital-StarResearch shows that eating disorders, thoughts of self-harm and suicide attempts are higher among LGBTQ+-identified individuals.www.penncapital-star.com
Pete Buttigieg’s faith was as much a part of his profile as being LGBT. Is it a model for others?Biden announced he will nominate Pete Buttigieg to be his secretary of transportation, which is a big deal for LGBTQ+ representation in any administration.www.nbcnews.com
New Book “Jersey Queens” Celebrates A Thriving LGBTQ Bar Scene In New Jersey During The 1950s and 1960s/PRNewswire/ — In June 2021 the State of New Jersey released a series of enforcement actions by which it targeted gay and lesbian bars during the mid-20th…www.prnewswire.com
Anti-bullying page, including pro-LGBTQ links, removed from Education Department websiteDOE removed the anti-bullying page following an inquiry about the site’s LGBTQ resources.floridapolitics.com
Man Arrested For Threatening To Shoot And Bomb LGBTQ GroupsRobert Fehring allegedly threatened to use âfirepowerâ against partygoers at the 2021 New York City Pride March that would make the 2016 Orlando Pulse Nightclub mass shooting âlook like a cakewalk.âwww.buzzfeednews.com
Trying to find acceptance as both a Jew and LGBTQ member is hardMoving to England, the writer was fully accepted as an LGBTQ member but not as a Jew.www.jpost.com
AEW Star Kisses Boyfriend In Front Of Anti-Gay Protesters – Wrestling Inc.Anthony Bowens posts a photo of him kissing boyfriend Michael Pavano in front of several anti-gay protesters.www.wrestlinginc.com
QWI 200: The top LGBTQ pro wrestlers of 2021, #110-81 – OutsportsThe QWI 200 cracks the top 100 LGBTQ pro wrestlers of 2021 on day four.www.outsports.com
Benedetta Review: These Lesbian Nuns Don’t Earn Their ControversyBenedetta review: Paul Verhoeven’s new film about lesbian nuns reveals the limits of the straight male gaze.www.autostraddle.com
Italian Olympic boxer Irma Testa comes out as queerItalian Olympic boxer Irma Testa, who competed at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, has publicly come out as queer in a brand new interview.www.gaytimes.co.uk
Cyberpunk 2077 Should’ve Had Bisexual Romance OptionsThough Cyberpunk 2077’s romances are meaningful, especially Panam and Judy, having more options of varying sexualities would have been more realistic.gamerant.com
If abortion rights go, so could gay marriage / LGBTQ NationThe Supreme Court might just overturn 50 years of precedent. If they can end Roe, they can end anything…www.lgbtqnation.com
10 Queer Christmas Movies to Make the Yuletide Gay – PasteHallmark, Lifetime, and other holiday movies of their ilk are often far too heterosexual. We’ve gathered up some LGBTQ Christmas movies to help celebrate a queer holiday.www.pastemagazine.com
4400 Queer Recap: Everything You Need to Know About CW’s Sci-Fi Hit4400 Queer Recap: Queer, Black and Incredibly Dope â Here’s EVERYTHING you need to know about the CW’s breakout hit.www.autostraddle.com
Leading LGBT activist Gal Uchovsky questioned by police over alleged sexual assault | The Times of IsraelStatement on behalf of screenwriter says he will cooperate, denies he committed any offense; three men have anonymously but publicly accused him of misconductwww.timesofisrael.com
Bringing Brooklyn’s Russian-Speaking Queer Community TogetherThree years after leaving Moscow, Leo Allenby is organizing a holiday celebration for the Russian-speaking queer community.bkreader.com
‘Harlem’ star says show expands the vision of what’s possible for Black queer womenAfter earning her master’s degree in fine arts from the American Conservatory Theater in 2019, Jerrie Johnson decided to move from San Francisco to Los Angeleswww.nbcnews.com
Woolbright says she’d filed complaint about Black LGBT memoir to support parents’ rights | Palm Coast Observer‘There need to be guidelines, policies and procedures, and transparency’ about how the district selects books for school media centers, she said.www.palmcoastobserver.com
I wrote a book about Black queer joy and pain. It’s already been banned in 10 statesMy fight is one of tradition, not of chance.www.mic.com
Why Viktor OrbĂĄn is fighting a war against âLGBT ideologyâ | The SpectatorâDo you support the unrestricted presentation of sexual media content that influences the development of underage children?â
Queer Films Earn Oscar Buzz as âPower of the Dogâ and âFleeâ Gain Love | IndieWireFrom Jane Campion’s Western to subtler themes in “Spencer” and “Passing,” the Oscars could easily honor multiple queer films this year.www.indiewire.com
Kim Petras’s Coconuts Marks Her Pop Star ArrivalThe songwriter has been making gay anthems for years. Now she’s ready for her big label moment â on her terms.www.buzzfeednews.com
PSNI reviewing its partnership with controversial LGBT charity StonewallThe PSNIâs partnership with Stonewall is in doubt after Chief Constable Simon Byrne said the force was consulting stakeholders over its membership of the charityâs diversity scheme.www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
Transgender name, gender marker change clinic sees overwhelming demand | Regina Leader PostOffered in Regina and Saskatoon, organizers say high demand for the free service was unexpected and som
First lesbian sex robots may be coming soon as sexbots start being programmed to be gayTHE first lesbian sex robots may be coming soon as sexbots start being programmed as gay. American adult toy and robotics company RealDoll are attempting to enter the LGBTQ market with their upcomiâŠwww.thesun.co.uk
Mariah Carey Loves ‘Feeling the Acceptance’ From Her Queer FanbaseOut chats with the music legend about her new Apple TV+ special Mariah’s Christmas: The Magic Continues.www.out.com
Queer K-Pop Group Lionesses Is Ready to Roar | NewNowNextThe trailblazers discuss their masks, the “K-Closet,” and their new single, “Christmas Miracle.”www.newnownext.com
Trans swimmer breaks U.S. college women’s records, sparks backlash | Toronto SunA trans swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania, who previously competed as a man, has been breaking women’s records at the university.torontosun.com
Canada ignoring concerns about early access to drugs and surgery for transgender teens: critics | National PostOther countries have taken a step back and the criticsâ concerns are unexpectedly being shared by some leading figures in the transgender medical world itselfnationalpost.com
Saved by the Bell Bisexual Teen Love Story Is Teen Iconic | AutostraddleWhat did I tell you about Saved by the Bell, BISEXUAL! LATINA! DORKS! IN! LOVE!!! Also, Josie Totah is a standout as trans teen queen Lexie.www.autostraddle.com
Zoe Ballâs son Woody reveals famous mum’s surprised reaction when he told her he was bisexualZOE Ballâs son Woody has claimed his famous mum was surprised he was bisexual after he came out to her. The 20-year-old student said the radio presenter, 51, questioned whether he was in factâŠwww.thesun.co.uk
Every ‘comfortable’ man who is single at 35 years is bisexual – Princess Shyngle allegesPrincess Shyngle describes single men above age 35 as bisexualswww.ghanaweb.com
Infections have been stagnant since 2010 for gay and bisexual Black and Latino MenInfections have been stagnant since 2010 for gay and bisexual Black and Latino Menwww.theroot.com
Movie Review: Paul Verhoevenâs Lesbian Nun Drama âBenedettaâMovie Review: Dutch provocateur Paul Verhoevenâs latest is a fact-based drama about Benedetta Carlini, a lesbian nun in a 17th-century Tuscan convent who rose to the position of abbess while having mystic visions and indulging in a lesbian affair.www.vulture.com
At Long Last, Onscreen Portrayals of Lesbian Relationships Are Getting Complex – The New York TimesThe shift comes after decades of stories that minimized romantic love between women as fruitless, or as some kind of phase.www.nytimes.com
Blood Services to recommend ending ban on donations from gay men – National | Globalnews.caCanadian Blood Services says it plans to submit its recommendation to end the gay blood ban to Health Canada within the next two weeks.globalnews.ca
I now feel less safe as a gay man – MP Chris Bryant – BBC NewsThe Labour MP accuses the government of stoking a culture war that will harm anyone “slightly different”.www.bbc.com
Two German bishops question church’s teaching on LGBT relationships | National Catholic ReporterTwo Catholic bishops in Germany, Franz-Josef Overbeck of Essen and Heinrich Timmerevers of Dresden, have called for major changes in the churc…www.ncronline.org
Lewis Hamilton wants ‘uncomfortable discussions’ in Saudi Arabia over LGBTQ+ rightsSeven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton said he wants to do everything in his power to be a force for positive change in Saudi Arabia ahead of the country’s first race.www.espn.com
Canada’s House of Commons approves bill to ban LGBT conversion therapy | ReutersCanada’s House of Commons on Wednesday voted unanimously to ban LGBT conversion therapy, which seeks to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity and has been condemned by medical professionals.www.reuters.com
‘Single All the Way’ marks Netflix’s first gay holiday romantic comedyNetflix’s first gay holiday romantic comedy “Single All the Way” is here to lift holiday spirits and further queer up a heterosexual genre.www.usatoday.com
Neo-Nazis Attack Gay Bar While Screaming âWhite Powerâ & Antigay SlursEarlier in November, more than 100 people gathered at the same bar and chanted similar slurs.www.advocate.com
Ex-soccer player attacks Premier Leagueâs Rainbow Laces in anti-gay rant – OutsportsHe calls homosexuality a âdangerous ideology that is becoming nasty.âwww.outsports.com
Phyllis Christopher: Photos of San Francisco’s hedonistic lesbian community in the 90s – i-DPhyllis Christopher documented a sexually-charged city celebrating queer identity despite the AIDS epidemic.i-d.vice.com
CSRWire – Logitech Donates $100,000 to Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against DefamationGLAADâs Social Media Safety Index provides recommendations for the industry at large and reports on LGBTQ user safety across social platforms that include Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok.www.csrwire.com
Benedetta review: Paul Verhoeven’s controversial lesbian nun dramaPaul Verhoeven’s controversial new film is as lurid but more spiritual than you’ve heardwww.avclub.com
Lesbian Christmas rom-com Happiest Season is getting a sequel | DazedItâs a Christmas miracle!www.dazeddigital.com
TERF inmates sue California for placing transgender women in female prisons / LGBTQ NationThe two “women’s groups” behind the lawsuit have previously partnered with a rabidly anti-LGBTQ hate group…www.lgbtqnation.com
Qatar 2022 chief’s LGBTQ comments are against what World Cups representThe FIFA World Cup, a football competition in principle, but in practice, a month-long event that represents so much more.www.football-espana.net
JoJo Siwa, Bella Thorne & Miranda Cosgrove: The 30 Under 30 Hollywood Class Of 2022 Breaks The RulesTinseltownâs youngest and brightest prove that success is made by choosing their own adventures.www.forbes.com
From Supermanâs bisexual son to Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy, LGBTQ+ representation is increasing in mainstream comics | The Seattle TimesWhat do the son of Superman, Batwoman and one of the Robins, practically every member of the latest Guardians of the Galaxy team have in common? LGBTQ+ storylines as mainstream…www.seattletimes.com
New online LGBTQ+ glossary fails to include ‘bisexual’ and ‘pansexual’ | TheHillâWe are keenly aware of bi-erasure and the persistent confusion around bisexual identity.âthehill.com
‘Real Housewives of Miami’ will make history with first out lesbian housewife | TheHillFormer Russian model Julia Lemigova, who is married to the professional tennis player Martina Navratilova, will join the main cast when the series premieres Dec. 16.thehill.com
Rejected gay marriage proposal interrupts live TV broadcast / LGBTQ NationHold your horses, was that a “no…www.lgbtqnation.com
Atheist Richard Dawkins Swings to Anti-Trans Right in Grasp at Broader Intellectual Relevance | Religion DispatchesYesterday, Richard Dawkins tweeted a request to his followers, asking them to sign on to a declaration by UK-based anti-transgender advocacy group the Womenâs Human Rights Campaign (WHRC).
The Tyranny of the LGBT Community – The Media LineAn alarming debate is taking place in Australia [âŠ]themedialine.org
LGBT Community Forced Into Sex Work As Taliban Rule SolidifiesAs the Taliban’s rule solidifies across Afghanistan, members of the LGBTQ+ community are being forced into sex work.radaronline.com
From Zoom latkes to a sold-out drag show: How the queer Jewish community is celebrating its second pandemic Hanukkah | The StarLGBTQ+ at the J, a community building program from the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre, is promoting the most queer-centred Hanukkah events since …www.thestar.com
Elliot Pageâs new Instagram thirst trap has Twitter drooling / LGBTQ NationThe actor’s shirtless selfie has everyone talking about how jacked he is now…www.lgbtqnation.com
Is this cheese lesbian? How a feta at S.F.âs Rainbow Grocery turned into an unlikely queer iconLesbian feta at Rainbow Grocery Cooperative has a bright sheepâs milk tang and an…www.sfchronicle.com
Corrections officer that has endured anti-gay discrimination & was almost raped is suing / LGBTQ Nation“They torture my soul. Iâm being persecuted for who I am when I serve with dignity, honor and respect…. Iâm treated like trash,” the officer said…www.lgbtqnation.com
Gay Men’s Delayed “Coming Out” Stories“I realized I could still give my beautiful wife of 17 amazing years the life she deserved, with a man that wasnât living a divided life.”www.buzzfeed.com
Joy Behar called out for telling gay people to âjust come outâ at Thanksgiving / LGBTQ Nation“Just come out! See what happens,” The View’s Joy Behar told LGBTQ people in her audience for Thanksgiving. Was that “irresponsible…www.lgbtqnation.com
Trudeau Liberals to reintroduce bill banning gay conversion therapy for adults | CP24.comThe federal government is set to table a new bill to ban conversion therapy on Monday, which if passed would outlaw practices that seek to change someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity.www.cp24.com
Legendary gay composer & Broadway genius Stephen Sondheim passes at 91 / LGBTQ NationFrom “West Side Story” to “Sweeney Todd” and everything in between, the public searches hopelessly for words that encapsulate the incomparable creative…www.lgbtqnation.com
Halifax’s only gay men’s chorus is performing live again after 2 years | CBC NewsHalifax’s only gay men’s chorus is performing live again after two years and after already selling 1,200 tickets, they say, it’s clear, people in HRM are ready and eager for more queer entertainment.www.cbc.ca
Stephanie Beatriz: âBisexuals are so often presented to be super promiscuousâ | The IndependentThe âBrooklyn Nine-Nineâ actor has hung up her handcuffs to play a magical teen in new animation âEncantoâ. She talks to Annabel Nugent about queering telly, her struggle with typecasting and playing the Disney princess she never saw herself to be when growing upwww.independent.co.uk
LGBT is shorthand for lesbian, homosexual and transgender. The âLGBâ in this term relates to intimate orientation. – AdotasLGBT is shorthand for lesbian, homosexual and transgender. The âLGBâ in this term relates to intimate orientation. Sexual positioning means a typically enduring design of mental, romantic and/or sexual tourist attractions of men to lady or females to males (heterosexual), of women to people or people to males (homosexual), or by women or men to âŠwww.adotas.com
Cameroon Says Citizens Abuse LGBTI PeopleCentral African stateâs government made comment this week after Human Rights Watch reported degrading treatment of LGBTI people and called on Cameroon to hold perpetrators accountablewww.voanews.com
Time to Unite for LGBT Rights in ThailandA foreign correspondent asked me earlier this week why itâs taking so long to achieve same sex marriage in Thailand and why we are not yet there.www.khaosodenglish.com
Seattle’s Michael Failla became a lifeline for LGBTQ people in the Middle East – CNNThe callers reach out to him in their darkest moments — sometimes when they’re contemplating suicide — and Michael Failla always answers. He’s devoted his life to helping LGBQT people facing persecution in their home countries.www.cnn.com
Family Acceptance Project launches online resource to help LGBTQ youthFirst of Its kind online resource for LGBTQ+ youth & families to help decrease isolation, family rejection & mental health riskswww.losangelesblade.com
RHP choir director nominated for LGBT* award – Winnipeg Free PressBrittany Mielnichuk is the artistic director of Rainbow Harmony Project (RHP), Winnipegâs LGBTQ2*community choir. Recently, she was nominated for a Manitoba LGBT* Chamber of Commerce award as âan individual who is making a significant contribution to MBâs LGBTQ2* communities.www.winnipegfreepress.com
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