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May 17th | Calgary Gay History

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LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes:

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

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

Understood as noting to be debated, quibbled nor negotiated.

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

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music and movie information from my previous blog

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

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

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

from my original blog:

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

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However:

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

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

Was There A Dark Side to Elvis and Gladys?

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

A) women and other men

B) men and women

C) heterosexual men, heterosexual women and LGBTQ2

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

Extra Credit:

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

LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes:

Most of the above is copied from one of the sites cited as sources in the daily post and as linked at the end of every post.

the history of nonheterosexuals and different historical eras views are such that there is a there is a danger to apply current decadish of time, in 2021 to past decades and centuries; particularly without application of complete history.

There is a difference between adopting male attire in the era when clothing was spelled out in law, and lesbians who passed in public, differ from those who only change clothing for personal sexual gratification, in private “cross dressors” in the language of this same era.

Laws regarding clothing exist in many nations, including capitol punishment, this is why sexual orientation is a demographic, That heterosexual women continue to be denied reproductive rights, education and professions, even where won at court; that women are a demographic. That male and female persons who are ethnically different from the majority population and with differing experiences being merged into colour blind visible minorities are differing demographics.

the farther back in time the given individual is, and why on this blog, there is a under theme of Elvis Presley, as the most prominent modern era person of the 1900s Current Era; who was photographed almost every day of his adult life., and who’s number of days on this planet have resulted in his being one of the most recognizable individuals across all cultures on the planet, which in 1950s was 1 billion people, and by his death almost 4 billion, to the 8 billion currently existing on earth.

LGBQ2 Her/History May 16

HONOR OUR LGBT ELDERS DAY – May 16

Honor Our LGBT Elders Day on May 16 recognizes the thousands of people in the LGBT community who have paved the way for access and social acceptance.

BCE to The Suffragettes

218, Italy – Elagabalus (203 – 11 March 222)is declared the 25^themperor of the Roman Empire. He was married tro five women and a male athlete named Zoticus whom he wed in a public ceremony. However, his most stable relationship seems to have been with his chariot driver, a blond slave from Caria named Hierocles, to whom he referred as his husband. Herodian commented that Elagabalus enhanced his natural good looks by the regular application of cosmetics. He was described as having been “delighted to be called the mistress, the wife, the queen of Hierocles” and was reported to have offered vast sums of money to any physician who could equip him with female genitalia. He was assassinated at the age of 18. Elagabalus has been characterized by some modern writers as transgenderor transsexual.

05-16-1882 – 11-15-1971 Roland Vaughan Gwynne – Born in Eastbourne, United Kingdom. He is a British politician. He was the 46th Mayor of Eastbourne, Sussex, from 1928 to 1931. He was also a patient and close

friend of the suspected serial killer Dr. John Bodkin Adams. Gwynne was homosexual and he constantly had financial problems, caused on the one hand by his extravagant lifestyle (he was famous for the wild parties he held at Folkington Manor, attended by, among others, Freeman-Thomas, Viceroy of India and Rudyard Kipling) and on the other, by his sexuality, which made him a prime target for blackmail. It was well known by those close to him that his butler, Wilde, was one such person extorting money from him. After Gwynne’s death, love letters from various local jockeys were found among his papers. Gwynne never married but he developed a close friendship with John Bodkin Adams, an Eastbourne general practitioner, and suspected serial killer, with whom he went on frequent shooting holidays to Scotland and Ireland. He would visit Adams every morning at 9 a.m. During the police investigation into Adams, a note written by a journalist was uncovered linking Adams sexually to a member of the local police and a local magistrate. The police officer is strongly suspected to have been the Deputy Chief Constable of Eastbourne, Alexander Seekings, and the magistrate to have been Gwynne. Despite the illegality of homosexual sex in 1956/57, the matter was not investigated further by the police. On February 12, 1957, just before the Adams’ trial began, Gwynne was knighted. Adams was sensationally acquitted of one murder charge and another was withdrawn controversially by the Attorney General.

05-16-1919 – 02-04-1987 Liberace (Wladziu Valentino Liberace) – Born in West Allis, Wisconsin. He was an American pianist and entertainer. At the height of his fame from the 1950s to the 1970s, Liberace was the highest-paid entertainer in the world. He lived in Las Vegas and had an international touring schedule.

Liberace embraced a lifestyle of flamboyant excess both on and off stage. He was known as “Mr. Showmanship”. Liberace was recognized during his career with two Emmy Awards, six gold albums and two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He never admitted to being gay. In a 2011 interview, actress and close friend Betty White stated that Liberace was, indeed, gay and that she often served as a “beard” to counter the rumors of the musician’s homosexuality.

He performed 21 sold out shows at Radio City Music Hall which set box office records a few months before his death in Palm Springs, California on February 4, 1987.

Liberace’s death was controversial because there had been rumors prior to his death that he had contracted HIV, which his management, publicist, friends, and even Liberace himself had vehemently denied. Against the wishes of his estate, the Riverside County coroner ordered an official autopsy and determined that Liberace had died of an AIDS-related illness, making his the second major celebrity after Rock Hudson to officially succumb to the illness during the early days of the media frenzy surrounding the disease.

In 1982, Scott Thorson, Liberace’s 22-year-old former chauffeur and live-in lover of five years, sued the pianist for $113 million in palimony after he was let go by Liberace

05-16-1929 – 03-27-2012 Adrienne Rich – Born in Baltimore, Maryland. She was an American poet, essayist, and feminist. She was called “one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century,” and was credited with bringing “the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse.”

She did marry in 1953 and had three children. She said of her marriage: “I married in part because I knew no better way to disconnect from my first family…I wanted what I saw as a full woman’s life, whatever was possible.” The couple separated in mid-1970. In 1976, Rich began her partnership with Jamaican-born novelist and editor Michelle Cliff, which lasted until her death.

She was called “one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century”, and was credited with bringing “the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse.” In 1976, Rich began her partnership with Jamaican-born novelist and editor Michelle Cliff(2 November 1946 – 12 June 2016), which lasted until her death. In her controversial work Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution, published the same year, Rich acknowledged that, for her, lesbianism was a political as well as a personal issue, writing, “The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.”

1929

The first Academy Awards ceremony was held at the Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

1946

The Irving Berlin musical, “Annie Get Your Gun,” opened at New York’s Imperial Theatre for the first of 1,147 performances.

05-16-1947 Cheryl Clarke – born in Washington, D.C. She is a lesbian poet, essayist, educator, and a Black feminist community activist. She lives in

Jersey City, New Jersey, and Hobart, New York with her life partner, Barbara Ballet. Clarke is the author of four collections of poetry, as well as Living as a Lesbian (1986), Humid Pitch (1989) and Experimental Love (1993).

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

05-16-1954 Jonina Leosdottir – Born in Iceland. She is an Icelandic novelist, playwright, and former journalist. Leosdottir is the author of a dozen plays, seven novels, two biographies and a collection of articles she wrote for a women’s magazine. She is married to the former Icelandic Prime

Minister Johanna Siguroardottir, who was the first openly lesbian head of government in modern history. They were one of the first same-sex couples in Iceland to get married. The law took effect in 2010 and while Johanna was in office. The couple has been together since 1985 when they both left their husbands to be together. In an interview by The Telegraph (UK), Jonina said, “ It hasn’t been an easy ride. We lived in a very different time. There were no gay laws or no rights to a civil partnership or anything. It was the stone ages compared to now.” For almost half of their relationships, they kept it a secret because they were worried about Johanna’s career as an MP. It was only in 2000 that they moved in together and found that there was no real reaction. Jonina thinks that the “non-reaction” was because they are both white women and she was a grandmother. She stated,” I think people see white women grandmas as rather harmless so maybe it’s not so threatening.”

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

05-16-1966 Janet Jackson – Born in Gary, Indiana. She is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and dancer. She is the

youngest child of the Jackson family. Having sold over 180 million records, Jackson is one of the world’s best-selling music artists of all time. She has been a long-term ally of the LGBT community. On her 1997 album, The Velvet Rope, she spoke out against homophobia and embraced same-sex relations and was given the GLAAD Media Award of Outstanding Music Album. In 2005, Jackson received the Humanitarian Award from the Human Rights Campaign and AIDS Project Los Angeles in recognition of her involvement in raising funds for AIDS Charities. At the 19th GLAAD Media Awards in 2008, she received the Vanguard Award. Jackson was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

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

1981:

More than twenty people marching in a gay rights demonstration in Helsinki, Finland, are arrested by the police and charged with “encouraging lewd behavior.”

The Fifth BiNational Lesbian Conference in Vancouver draws women from across Canada and organizes the first known lesbian pride march in the world.

1985

A royalty check for $6.5 million from sales of “We Are The World” was handed over to the USA for Africa Foundation by Columbia Records. The total raised would eventually exceed $50 million. Blogger Nina recalls -None of the charity was effective and corrupt governments and military groups took the money and the food aid.

1986:

Top Gun opens nationwide in the U.S. and is applauded for years as a homoerotic fantasy.

05-16-1986 Megan Fox – Born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. She is an American actress and model. In 2004, she made her film debut in Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen. She was also cast in a regular role on the ABC sitcom Hope & Faith. In 2007, Fox won the lead female role in the live-action film Transformers. Fox was also in the Transformers sequels.

She was married to actor Brian Austin Green. The couple have three sons. Their divorce was finalized in 2021. In June 2020, she was in a relationship with Machine gun Kelly and on January 12, 2022, Fox announced that the two were engaged. She has been openly bisexual since September 2008. In May 2009, she confirmed her bisexuality, stating: “I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I’m also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who was bisexual., because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I’d never want to sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.” Fox told InStyle in July 2021: “A girl would come up to me and be like: ‘You had a lot to do with me, like identifying and understanding that I was gay or understanding that I was bisexual…’ And that, of course, is by far, like, the most moving, rewarding thing that I have experienced in my life! To be a part of something that helped people figure that out, or helped people deal with that, or feel better about that. One of my favorite things that I get called, is being like, a bi icon and that is one of the things I am the most proud of!”

1987 – HIV-Positive people are banned from entering the United States by the U.S. Public Health Service. President Obama lifts the ban in 2009.

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

1991, Bahamas – Same-sex sexual activity is legalized in the Bahamas.

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

2000

The Artist Formerly Known As Prince reverts back to the name Prince. Because his publishing contract expired December 31, 1999, Prince says his birth name was emancipated from “long-term restrictive documents,” and he could stop using the unpronounceable symbol he used to identify himself when he was committed to what he called “undesirable relationships.”

Britney Spears released her sophomore album, Oops!… I Did It Again. It included tracks like “Stronger” and “Lucky” as well as a cover of The Rolling Stones classic “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” and a recording of “Don’t Let Me Be the Last to Know” co-written by Canada’s Shania Twain.

2005, Hong Kong – The First Gay Pride Parade takes place.

2007, Baltic Region – Pride events in the Baltic region faced threats of violence and attempts to be banned by local authorities. In 2006, an LGBT Pride march in Riga was banned because of security threats against the participants. On this day in 2007, the Pride march was allowed to go ahead, but inside an enclosed park. Outside of the park, crowds of counter-demonstrators shouted abuses at the Pride marchers and threw two devices which exploded in the park. Amnesty International has been supporting Pride events in the Baltic region through campaigning, participation and monitoring since 2008.

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

2013,

Puerto Rico – Senate approves a non-discrimination bill 15-11.

George Michael suffered minor injuries in a strange incident in London. The pop star reportedly fell out of the passenger seat of a Range Rover.

2016

Irish singer Sinead O’Connor was found safe two days after being reported as missing in Chicago. Her brief disappearance came six just months after a similar incident in November 2015 when she posted a dire note on Facebook where she threatened to commit suicide. Recently, O’Connor accused Arsenio Hall of being Prince’s longtime drug dealer, an accusation that resulted in a $5 million lawsuit from the late-night host.

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LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes:

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

Understood as noting to be debated, quibbled nor negotiated.

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

~~~~

music and movie information from my previous blog

from my original blog:

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

see also:

However:

Was There A Dark Side to Elvis and Gladys?

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

A) women and other men

B) men and women

C) heterosexual men, heterosexual women and LGBTQ2

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

Extra Credit:

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

LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes:

Most of the above is copied from one of the sites cited as sources in the daily post and as linked at the end of every post.

LGBTQ2 her/history May 15

BCE to The Suffragettes

1855 – Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) registers “Leaves of Grass” with the US Copyright agency. The collection is considered an expression of homosexuality and leads to years of controversy.

1858

Royal Italian Opera opens in Covent Garden, London

1871, Germany – Paragraph 175 is added to the German Criminal Code. It made homosexualacts between males a crime. The Nazis broadened the law in 1935 and gay men were forced to wear a pink triangle to indicate their homosexuality. In the prosecutions that followed, thousands died in Nazi concentration camps. It was repealed on March 10, 1994.

05-15-1930 Jasper Johns – Born in Augusta, Georgia. He is an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker whose work is associated with abstract

expressionism, New-Dada, and Pop Art. Johns has held the title of most paid for a work by a living artist. In 1990, he received the National Medal of Arts and in 2011, President Obama presented him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 1954, Johns went to New York and met his life-partner, artist Robert Rauschenberg. Working together they explored the art scene and began to express their own ideas. Johns was strongly influenced by the gay couple Merce Cunningham (choreographer) and John Cage (composer). “Flags” are Johns’s most famous works. The artist painted his first American flag in 1954-54, which is now at MoMA.

05-15-1938 – 06-25-2014 Nancy Garden – Born in Boston, Massachusetts. She was an American writer of fiction for children and young adults, best known for her lesbian novel Annie On My Mind. The first author for young

adults to create a lesbian love story with a positive ending. Annie On My Mind was awarded the Lee Lynch Classic Award by the Golden Crown Literary Society in 2014, cited as one of the most important classics in lesbian literature. Garden opens a window through which the readers can find the courage to be true to themselves. She spent many years living between Massachusetts and Maine, with partner Sandy Scott, their golden retriever, Loki, and their cats. Nancy Garden died of a heart attack on June 23, 2014.

05-15-1939 – 03-16-2019 Barbara Hammer – Born in Hollywood, California. She

is an American filmmaker known for being one of the pioneers of lesbian film. In her forty-year career, she is known for creating films dealing with women’s issues. Her first feature film, Nitrate Kisses, in 1992 was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival. In 2010, her autobiography, HAMMER! Making Movies Out of Sex and Life was published. She currently teaches film at The European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. After years of short-term relationships, she got married to human rights advocate Florrie Burke. They were together, until Hammer’s death, for thirty-one years. Hammer died of ovarian cancer on March 16, 2019.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

05-15-1940 Lainie Kazan – Born in Brooklyn, New York. She is an American singer, actress, and LGBT straight ally. Kazan made her Broadway

debut in 1961 with the musical The Happiest Girl in the World. The following year she appeared in the musical, Bravo Giovanni, and understudied Barbra Streisand for the lead role of Fanny Brice in Funny Girl (1964). In 1970, she posed nude for the October issue of Playboy. Hugh Hefner opened two nightclubs, called “Lainie’s Room West” (Los Angeles) and “Lainie’s Room East” (New York). She guest-starred on Dean Martin’s variety show twenty-six times. Kazan has been in

many films and television shows, including the role of Maria Portokalos in My Big Fat Greek Wedding and My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2. She was married a short time to director-arranger Peter Daniels and had 1 child. In 2008, Kazan appeared to raise money for the New York LGBT Community Center, where she sang The Gal Who Got Away. In 2014, she made a YouTube in support of gay rights stating, “Everyone has a right to be who they are.” Beginning in 2012, Kazan became an adjunct professor at UCLA. She has also served on the board of AIDS Project LA.

1941

Nazi occupiers in Netherlands forbid Jewish music

05-15-1945 – 03-30-2016 Bill Rosendahl – Born in Los Angeles, California. He was the first out gay man elected to the Los Angeles City Council. Rosendahl was in office from July 1, 2005, to July 1, 2013. Before he was

elected, Rosendahl was an educator and television broadcaster. In 2013 he retired to fight stage-four cancer. Towards the end of his time in office, he was an ardent supporter of medical marijuana, which he used to fight the side effects of his cancer treatments. He died on March 30th, 2016.

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

05-15-1954 Boze Hadleigh (aka George Hadley-Garcia) – Born in Syria, city unknown. He is an American journalist writer of celebrity gossip and

entertainment. As of 2015, he has published 19 books and has written for more than 100 magazines in the U.S. and abroad, including TV Guide,Playboy, and Us Weekly. He won $16,400 as a contestant on the March 20, 1998 episode of the game show Jeopardy. Six of his books are exclusively about the LGBT presence in and contributions to entertainment. Hadleigh himself is gay.

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

1969, Canada -The House of Commons votes to decriminalize private same-sex acts between consenting adults. The new law goes into effect in August.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

1977 – CBS’ 60 Minutes broadcasts a segment on child pornography, concentrating on “adult homosexuals who prey on small boys.” As a result, teenagers from a conservative New York Catholic high school go on a bashing spree, beating one victim to death. They are later sentenced to 35 and 40 years in prison.

1979, Canada – Teacher Don Jones is dismissed by the Smeaton, Saskatchewan because of a complaint to school board that he is gay.

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

1981: In the midst of Lesbian/Gay Awareness Week, at the University of Florida, a fraternity-circulated petition asserting, “Homosexuals need bullets-not acceptance” draws the signatures of almost fifty people. “We don’t have anything else to do,” says one of the petition’s organizers. “We’re just out here having a good time. I don’t believe in queers.

05-15-1981 Spencer Chandra Herbert – Born in Vancouver, Canada. He is a Canadian politician who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British

Columbia. He was in office 2008 and 2009. Openly gay, he married his partner, Romi Chandra, in March 2010. Both Spencer and Romi have been active in supporting causes within the LGBT community.

1988: Having tied up, tortured, and robbed one gay man the night before, two Hartford, Connecticut, teenagers — Sean Burke and Marcos Perez — go out drinking and looking for someone else gay “to beat up.” They find their victim when they meet thirty-three-year-old Richard Reihl at a downtown gay bar. After talking with Reihl for a few minutes, they all agree to go back to his apartment where the two teenagers knock Reihl in the head with a fireplace log, bind him up with duct tape, and then, despite his begging and pleading, bludgeon him to death with blows to the head and chest. Despite attempts by the defense to portray the two teenaged assailants as star athletes and “All-American boys” who deserve leniency and compassion, a judge sentences them to forty and thirty-five years in prison, respectively, for the killing.

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

05-15-1990 Stella Maxwell – Born in Brussels, Belgium to Northern Irish parents.

She is a Belgian-Irish fashion model and since 2015 has been modeling for Victoria’s Secret. Maxwell has appeared in advertising campaigns for Versace, Alexander McQueen, Max Factor, and others. She dated singer Miley Cyrus in 2016. Since late 2016, she has been dating actress Kristen Stewart.

05-15-1991 Mollee Gray – Born in Orem, Utah. She is an actress and

Disney channel star, known for Teen Beach Movie (2013), Teen Beach 2 (2015), and The Reliant (2018). On September 9, 2017, she married long-time girlfriend, Jeka Jane (born January 19, 1987).

1996 – The Episcopal Church court rules that there is no “core doctrine” against ordaining a gay man as a deacon, the clergy rank below that of priest.

1998

1998: Sonny and Cher received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1999

Sarah Michelle Gellar hosted NBC-TV’s “Saturday Night Live” with musical guests the Backstreet Boys.

post 9/11 -Gay and lesbian” to “lesbigay” to “Lgbt/Lgbtq/Lgbtq2”

2001

In Washington, DC, Lisa Marie Presley attended a protest against the use of mind-altering medications for children.

2008: The California Supreme Court rules that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry. By November 3rd, 2008 more than 18,000 same-sex couples have married. On November 4, California voters approve a ban on same-sex marriage called Proposition 8.

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

2010, Greenland – The country’s first LGBT Pride parade takes place. It’s the second largest public gathering in Greenland with over 2% of the country’s population attending.

2013 – Dr. Saul Levin was named the new chief executive officer and medical director of the American Psychiatric Association, making him the first known openly gay person to head the APA.Levin was born in South Africa and received his medical degree from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1982. He then moved to the United States to complete a residency in psychiatry at UC Davis Medical Center. He completed a master’s degree in public administration at the John F. Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University in 1994.

05-15-2015 Xavier Bettel, Prime Minister of Luxembourg, married his civil partner, Belgian architect Gauthier Destenay. He is the first serving leader in the European Union to wed someone of the same sex.

05-15-2015 Pitcairn Island passes law allowing same-sex marriage. Pitcairn Island in often considered the world’s smallest country by population. It is the home of 48 people. First settled in 1790 by the mutineers of the British navy vessel Bounty and their Tahitian companions. The law was passed unanimously by the local council.

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LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes:

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

Understood as noting to be debated, quibbled nor negotiated.

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

~~~~

music and movie information from my previous blog

from my original blog:

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

see also:

However:

Was There A Dark Side to Elvis and Gladys?

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

A) women and other men

B) men and women

C) heterosexual men, heterosexual women and LGBTQ2

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

Extra Credit:

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

LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes:

Most of the above is copied from one of the sites cited as sources in the daily post and as linked at the end of every post.

LGBTQ2 her/history May 14

BCE to The Suffragettes

1881 – Julian Eltinge (May 14, 1881 – March 7, 1941), is born. Hewas an Americanstageandscreen actor and female impersonator. After appearing in the Boston Cadets Revue at the age of ten in feminine garb, Eltinge made his first appearance on Broadway in 1904. As his star began to rise, he appeared in vaudeville and toured Europe and the United States, even giving a command performance before King Edward VII. Eltinge appeared in a series of musical comedies written specifically for his talents starting in 1910 with The Fascinating Widow, returning to vaudeville in 1918. In 1917 he appeared in his first feature film, The Countess Charming. By the time Eltinge arrived in Hollywood, he was considered one of the highest paid actors on the American stage. Aside from the graceful femininity he exhibited onstage, Eltinge used a super-masculine facade in public to combat the rumors of his homosexuality. But with the arrival of the Great Depression and the death of vaudeville, Eltinge’s star began to fade. He continued his show in nightclubs but found little success. On February 25, 1941, Eltinge fell ill while performing at Billy Rose‘s Diamond Horseshoe nightclub. He was taken home and died in his apartment ten days later on March 7th. He leaves a legacy as one of the greatest female impersonators of the 20th century.

1897: In Germany, Magnus Hirschfeld founds the Scientific Humanitarian Committee to organize for homosexual rights and the repeal of Paragraph 175.

05-14-1868 – 05-14-1935 Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld – Born in Kolobzeg, Poland. He was a gay German Jewish physician and sexologist. He was an outspoken advocate for sexual minorities. Hirschfeld founded the Scientific Humanitarian Committee, an organization that was the first advocacy for homosexual and transgender rights. Hirschfeld co-wrote and acted in the

1919 film Anders is die Andern (Different From Others), where Conrad Veidt played one of the first homosexual characters ever written for cinema. The film had a specific gay rights law reform agenda. In 1904, he joined the Bund für Mutterschutz (League for the Protection of Mothers), the feminist organization founded by Helene Stöcker. He campaigned for decriminalization of abortion, and against policies that banned female teachers and civil servants from marrying or having children. When the Nazis took power, they attacked Hirschfeld’s Institute on May 6, 1933, and burned many of its books as well as its archives. By the time of the book burning, Hirschfeld had long left Germany for a speaking tour that took him around the world. He never returned to Germany and lived the rest of his life in France. On his 67th birthday, Hirschfeld died of a heart attack in his apartment in Nice. American Henry Gerber, attached to the Allied Army of Occupation following WWI, became impressed by Hirschfeld and absorbed many of his ideas. Upon returning to the United States, Gerber was inspired to form the short-lived Chicago-based Society for Human Rights in 1924, the first known gay rights in the nation. In turn, a partner of one of the former members of the Society communicated the existence of the society to Los Angeles resident Harry Hay in 1929; Hay would go on to help establish the first long-term national homosexual rights organization in the United States, the Mattachine Society, in 1950.

1910, Germany – In Berlin, Magnus Hirschfeld (14 May 1868 – 14 May 1935) publishes his ground-breaking study of gender variant people Die Transvestiten, a title which literally translates as ‘The Transvestites.’ The term is used by Hirschfeld to denote a much wider understanding of sexual and gender variation than the cross-dressing which the term often implies today.

1919, Germany – In Berlin, Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld(May, 14 1868 – May, 14 1935) co-founds the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft(Institute for Sex Research), a pioneering private research institute and counseling office. On July 20, 1932, the Chancellor Franz von Papen carried out a coup that deposed the Braun government in Prussia, and appointed himself the Reich commissioner for the state. A conservative Catholic who had long been a vocal critic of homosexuality, Papen ordered the Prussian police to start enforcing the anti-gay Paragraph 175 and to crack down in general on “sexual immorality” in Prussia. The Institut für Sexualwissenschaftremained open, but under Papen’s rule, the police began to harass people associated with it. On January 30, 1933, President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler as chancellor. Less than four months after the Nazis took power, Hirschfeld’s Institute was ransacked. On the morning of May 6th, a group of university students belonging to the National Socialist Student League stormed into the institution, shouting “Brenne Hirschfeld!” (“Burn Hirschfeld!”) and began to beat up the staff and smash up the premises. That afternoon, the SA came to the institute, carrying out a more systematic attack, removing all volumes from the library for a book-burning event four days later. In the evening, the Berlin police arrived to announce that the institution was now closed forever.Its library of thousands of books was destroyed by the Nazis.

05-14-1921 – 08-08-1984 Richard Deacon – Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was an American television and film actor. His best-known roles are Mel Cooley on CBS’s The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-1966) and Fred

Rutherford on Leave it to Beaver (1957-1963). Deacon co-starred as Tallulah Bankhead’s butler in a classic episode of The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour called The Celebrity Next Door. He was also in over 50 films. Deacon never said he was gay publicly. Bill Totten said that he was at a West Hollywood gay bar and saw Richard Deacon, Paul Lynde, and Nancy Walker. It was well known in the Hollywood community that Deacon was gay and he is listed in IMDb: Gay Actors Who Have Passed. Deacon was a gourmet chef. In the 1970s and 1980s, he wrote a series of cookbooks and hosted a Canadian television series on microwave cooking. He died from cardiovascular disease in 1984 at the age of 63.

5-14-1930 María Irene Fornés – Born in Havana, Cuba. She is a Cuban-American avant-garde playwright and director and was a leading figure of the Off-Off-Broadway movement in the 1960s. Her themes focused on poverty and

feminism, and on a personal level, her lesbian identity has been central to her art. Fornés became known in both Hispanic-American and experimental theatre in New York, winning a total of nine Obie Awards. She was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize with her play And What of the Night? (1990) She was lovers with Harriet Sohmers and Susan Sontag. Until she was stricken with Alzheimer’s disease in 2002, she continued to direct, teach, and mentor younger playwrights. Gay playwright and Pulitzer Prize winner, Nilo Cruz studied with her.

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May 14, 1963

At A&R Studios in New York City, with Quincy Jones as producer, Lesley Gore recorded “Judy’s Turn To Cry.”

1969: Canada decriminalizes homosexual acts between consenting adults with the passage of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1968-69. It receives royal assent on June 27. One day before the Stonewall Riots took place in New York.

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1970 – The American Psychiatric Association meeting in New York City includes a presentation advocating the use of electro-convulsive therapy as a “cure” for homosexuality. Three years later it rules that homosexuality is not an illness. The Gay Liberation Front activists ZAP a special session of the American Psychiatric Association dealing with “sex problems.” The activists protest an Australian doctor’s paper on the use of electroshock aversion therapy to “treat” homosexuality.

1974: The first federal gay civil rights bill, extending antidiscrimination protection to gay men and lesbians under the 1964 Civil Rights Act, is introduced in Congress. Among the bill’s initial sponsors are New York Congresswoman Bella Abzug and Congressman Edward Koch.

1976: Montreal police begin a systematic series of raids aimed at harassing and closing down local gay bars and bathhouses. The raids are part of an attempt to “clean up” the city before the opening of the summer Olympics in August. Club Baths decides to permanently close its Montreal facility as a result of the raids.

05-14-1977 Sophie Anderton – Born in Bristol, United Kingdom. She is an English model and reality television personality. From 2004 until 2007,

Anderton was a Patron of the original Action on Addiction in London, a charity and addiction research center investigation drug and alcohol dependence. She is openly bisexual.

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1981 – The Reagan administration cancels the White House subscription to The Advocate.

1983 –

Gay serial killer Randy Kraft is arrested. He is known as “the Scorecard Killer” and “the Freeway Killer.” Kraft is described as one of the “deadliest and most depraved serial killers” in the California’s history, He murdered 61 young men before being caught on this day. He is currently on death row in California.

1983

Spandau Ballet scored their first and only UK No.1 album with ‘True.’ The title track from the album spent four weeks at No.1 on the UK singles charts and reached No.2 in the US. Other singles from the album included ‘Gold’ (a No.2 UK hit and a Top 30 hit in the U.S.), ‘Lifeline’, and ‘Communication’.

They first sang together in a group called the Tourists from 1977-1980. They formed a duo and on this date, the Eurythmics debuted on the chart with their first single. They were a handful of artists to go all the way to #1 with their debut. They had 15 hits in the 1980’s, but none bigger than their first–“Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)”.

on the usa pop chart David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” was #2 aThomas Dolby’s “She Blinded Me With Science#5

1988

Faith by George Michael regained the #1 spot on the Album chart ten weeks after it had fallen from the top. The Soundtrack to “Dirty Dancing” slipped to second.

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1996 – Blake Brockington (May 14, 1996– March 23, 2015) was an American trans manwhose suicide attracted international attention. He had previously received attention as the first openly transgender high school homecoming king in North Carolina, and had since been advocating for LGBT youth, the transgender community, and against police brutality.Brockington was enrolled at University of North Carolina at Charlotte, majoring in music education. At the time of his death, he was on medical leave and not attending classes. He stated that his plans were to become a band director and composer.Brockington died on March 23, 2015 after being struck by several vehicles on the outer loop of Interstate 485 near Pavilion Boulevard in Charlotte. The incident was considered a suicide and was similar in nature to the suicides of Ash Haffner (1999-Feb. 26, 2015) and Leelah Alcorn(November 15, 1997 – December 28, 2014).

1998

George Michael pled no contest in the Beverly Hills Municipal Court to committing a lewd act in a park restroom. He was fined $810, given 80 hours of community service, and ordered to undergo counseling.

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2002

The musical We Will Rock You opened in the West End of London, England at the Dominion Theatre. The musical was written by British comedian and author Ben Elton in collaboration with Queen members Brian May and Roger Taylor. The musical tells the story of a group of Bohemians who struggle to restore the free exchange of thought, fashion, and live music in a distant future where everyone dresses, thinks and does the same. Musical instruments and composers are forbidden, and rock music is all but unknown. WWRY has since become the longest-running musical at the Dominion Theatre.

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05-14-2013 The Justice’s National Council of Brazil legalized same-sex

marriage for the entire country in a 14-1 vote. The ruling was published on May 15th and took effect on May 16, 2013.

05-14-2014 Arkansas Judge Chris Piazza ruled that the 2004 voter-approved amendment to the state constitution violates the rights of same-sex couples. The judge stated

that the state had “no rational reason” for preventing gay couples from marrying. He did not put his ruling on hold and opened the door for same-sex couples in Arkansas to get their marriage licenses.

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1767

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart‘s first opera “Apollo et Hyacinthus”, written when he was 11 years old, premieres in Salzburg

05-13-1850 – 01-02-1916 Modest Tchaikovsky – Born in Alapayevsk, Perm Governorate, Russian Empire. He was a Russian dramatist, opera librettist, and

translator. Brother of Peter Tchaikovsky, Modest was relatively open about his homosexuality and lived with his boyfriend Nikolai Hermanovich Konradi, a deaf and dumb boy whom Modest tutored. The two lived together for almost seventeen years.

05-13-1867 – 06-06-1954 Caroline Pratt – Born in Fayetteville, New York. She was an American social thinker and progressive educational reformer whose ideas were influential

in educational reform, policy, and practice. In 1914, she founded the City and Country School in Greenwich Village, which is still going and has adhered to her original vision. Her book, I Learn from Children (1948) was reprinted in 1990 and republished by Grove Atlantic in May 2014. While in Philadelphia, she met Helen Marot, a feminist, social investigator, and writer. The couple moved to New York City in 1901, settling in Greenwich Village. They lived together until 1940, when Marot died from a sudden heart attack.

05-13-1907 – 04-19-1989 Dame Daphne du Maurier (Lady Browning) – Born in London, England. She was a novelist and many of her stories were

successfully adapted into films, including the novels, Rebecca and Jamaica Inn, and the short stories, The Birds and Don’t Look Now. On meeting Tallulah Bankhead, she was quoted as saying that the actress was the most beautiful creature she had ever seen. She married Major Frederick Browning in 1932 and had three children. After her death in 1989, references were made to her reputed bisexuality. She had an affair with Gertrude Lawrence, as well as Ellen Doubleday, the wife of her American publisher Nelson Doubleday. She died at the age of 81 at her home in Cornwall.

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05-13-1944 – 04-25-1988 Carolyn Franklin – Born in Memphis, Tennessee. She was an American singer/songwriter, best known as the younger sister of Aretha Franklin. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in music from Marygrove College in Detroit. The two sisters were close and collaborated together.

Carolyn Franklin also sang backup and appeared in the 1980 movie The Blues Brothers. In David Ritz biography, Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin, Carolyn’s sister, Erma, is quoted saying of Carolyn, “I consider her a great woman…She went her own way, lived her own life, and found freedom in her individuality. She had no shame about her sexual preference and spoke the unvarnished truth.” Carolyn’s sexuality was not the focus of the book, but Ritz mentions a few times that Carolyn was a lesbian. The song Ain’t No Way, written by Carolyn Franklin in 1967, is the last stand in a hidden romance and told from the perspective of a woman, but Carolyn’s subject is also a woman. The song is on Aretha: Lady Soul album. Carolyn Franklin died of breast cancer in 1988.

05-13-1944 Armistead Maupin, Jr. – Born in Washington, D.C. He is an American writer who wrote Tales of the City, a series of novels set in San Francisco. Tales of the City began as a newspaper serial. In 1978, Tales of the City was published as a novel. The series was followed by five more novels in the 1980s, ending with the last book, Sure of You, in 1989. In 2007, Michael Tolliver Lives was published. It continued some of the characters from Tales of the City. 2014 ended the series with the publication of The Days of Anna Madrigal. In Babycakes, published in 1983, Maupin was one of the first writers to address the subject of AIDS. Maupin knew he was gay since childhood but did not have sex until he was 26 and in 1974 he decided to come out publicly. On February 18, 2007, Maupin married website producer and photographer, Christopher Turner in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

1954

“Pajama Game” opens at St James Theater NYC for 1063 performances

May 13, 1955

Elvis performed at the Jacksonville Baseball Park (renamed Wolfson Park) Florida.

Elvis Presley‘s performance in Jacksonville, Florida is the first Presley show at which a riot ensues: At the end of his performance Elvis said to the audience: “Girls, I’ll see you backstage”. This became a riot with fans pursuing Elvis into his dressing room and tearing off his clothes and shoes.

Reportedly, Tom Parker was convinced of the magnitude of Elvis’ popularity.

1956

Elvis performed at the St. Paul, MN St. Paul Auditorium at 3.00 p.m.

May 13, 1957

Jailhouse RockPrincipal photography began on the jailhouse dance sequence.

05-13-1957 Alan Ball – Born in Marietta, Georgia. He is an American screenwriter, director, and producer for television, film, and theatre. He is particularly notable for writing American Beauty and True Blood, and for creating Six Feet Under, which earned him an Academy Award, an Emmy, and

awards from the Writers, Directors, and Producers Guilds. Ball has discussed his Buddhist faith in numerous interviews, noting how it has influenced his film making. He has also discussed how his Buddhism has shaped themes in Six Feet Under and True Blood. Ball is out gay and has been called “a strong voice” for the LGBT community. In 2008, he made Out magazine’s annual list of the 100 most impressive gay men and women. He lives with his partner, Peter Macdissi in Los Angeles.

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05-13-1966 Alison Goldfrapp – Born in London, England. She is an English musician and record producer, best known as the vocalist of British electronic music duo Goldfrapp. In 2009, she was awarded an Honorary

Doctor of Music degree by the University of Portsmouth. The duo (comprised of Goldfrapp and composer/musician Will Gregory) has released seven albums. The multi-platinum pair has been nominated for the Mercury Prize, multiple Grammy Awards, and won an Ivor Novello for Strict Machine. Goldfrapp scored the films My Summer of Love and Nowhere Boy. As of February 2010, Goldfrapp confirmed she was dating film editor Lisa Gunning. In an interview with The Sunday Times, she stated, “I think of everything as being about a person and a relationship, and I am in a wonderful relationship with a wonderful person. It just happens to be a lady…It’s something I’ve thought about for a long time and it concurs with my philosophy on life and sexuality.” She went on to say, “My sexuality is the same as my music and my life. Why does it need a label?”

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1971

Media coverage of Elvis Backstage at Caesar’s Palace, or in Tom Jones’ suite in Las Vegas with Merv Griffin, Tom Jones and Norm Crosby on the evening of Sunday May 9, 1971

Merv Griffin died a closeted homosexual | Reuters

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1974 –

Cher released the single “Dark Lady.”

Time Magazine reports of “The New Bisexuals.” The magazine says “bisexuals, like homosexuals before them, are boldly coming out of their closets, forming clubs, having parties and stalking out discotheques.” The article cites Kinsey and feminism as causes for the rise in visibility.

1976, Canada – Montreal police raid gay clubs including the Taureau d’Or, Studio One, the Stork Club, the Crystal Baths, and Jilly’s, a lesbian bar.

May 13, 1977

Dolly Parton made her New York City debut with a performance at the Bottom Line. Olivia Newton-John, Bruce Springsteen, Mick Jagger, Candice Bergen, and John Belushi are among those in the audience.

1978

With Yvonne Elliman’s “If I Can’t Have You” reaching the top of the chart, Barry Gibb became the first songwriter in history to have written four consecutive #1 singles on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart. In 1974, she had sung background vocals for Eric Clapton’s “I Shot The Sheriff”

“If I Can’t Have You” by Yvonne Elliman became the fourth song from Saturday Night Fever to reach #1 on this date. It finally toppled “Night Fever” by the Bee Gees, which fell to #5 after eight consecutive weeks at the top. The Bee Gees also set a Rock Era record by writing four songs that were consecutive #1’s for 15 weeks. They were “Stayin’ Alive”, “(Love Is) Thicker Than Water” for Andy Gibb, “Night Fever” and finally the #1 for Elliman.

#7 John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John had already moved on with “You’re the One That I Want” from the great Grease Soundtrack

The count was up to 17 weeks at #1 for the Soundtrack to “Saturday Night Fever”.

1979, Canada – In London, Ontario, the Ontario division of Canadian Union of Public Employees, at its annual conference, opposes discrimination on basis of sexual orientation and urges local affiliates to include it in non-discrimination clauses of collective agreements.

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05-13-1982 Casey Stoney, MBE ( Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) – Born in Basildon, United Kingdom. She is an English footballer who

plays for FA WSL club Arsenal Ladies. A versatile defender, she has appeared more than 100 times for the England women’s national football team since making her debut in 2000. She was the captain of Team Great Briton for the 2012 London Olympics. In November 2012, Stoney was named 50th on The Independent newspaper’s Pink List of influential lesbian and gay people in the UK. On February 10, 2014, she publicly acknowledged that she was gay. She is in a relationship with former teammate Megan Harris. In May 2015, the University of Essex announced that it would be awarding Stoney an honorary degree.

1984

“The Fantasticks” became the longest-running musical in theatre history with performance number 10,000. The show opened on May 3, 1960.

1986:

Vanessa Redgrave stars as Renee Richards in the CBS
made-for-TV movie, Second Serve.

Second Serve is a 1986 American made-for-television biographical film starring Vanessa Redgrave as retired eye surgeon, professional tennis player, and transgender woman Renée Richards. The film is based on her 1983 autobiography Second Serve: The Renée Richards Story that was written with John Ames.

05-13-1987 Matt Doyle – Place of birth unknown. He graduated from Redwood High School in Larkspur, California. He is an American actor and

singer-songwriter. He is best known for his work in the films Spring Awakening and War Horse and on Broadway, The Book of Mormon. He was on Out’s 3rd Annual 100 Most Eligible Bachelors (2013). Doyle is out gay.

1989

Kylie Minogue was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with her second solo No.1 ‘Hand On Your Heart.’ The song was written and produced by Stock, Aitken & Waterman.

on the USA pop charts “Like A Prayer” fell to #2 for Madonna. Jody Watley remained at 3 with “Real Love”, while Paula Abdul’s #4 “Forever Your Girl” was destined for the top. Cher & Peter Cetera came in at 6 with “After All” and Bette Midler moved from 19-10 with “Wind Beneath My Wings”.

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05-13-1991 Jake Borelli – Born in Columbus, Ohio. He is an American actor best known for his roles as Wolfgang on the series The Thundermans (2015-2018) and Dr. Levi Schmitt on Grey’s Anatomy (2017 – present). Borelli publicly came out as a gay man in November 2018, moments after the airing of the 6th episode of Grey’s Anatomy where his character, Dr. Levi Schmitt, came out as gay.

1993

The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bette Midler and Barry White were guest voices on the season finale of the “The Simpsons.” The episode was entitled “Krusty Gets Kancelled.”

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

05-13-2003 Mambo Italiano – Film was shown at the Cannes Film Festival on this date. It’s a Canadian comedy-drama directed by Emile Gaudreault based on the play by the same name.

Plot: Angelo Barberini shocks his immigrant parents when he reveals he’s gay. His boyfriend, policeman Nino Paventi, isn’t ready to come out of the closet — especially to his Sicilian mother, Lina.

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2013 – Sex-sex marriage is legalized in Minnesota becoming the twelfth state to do so.

05-13-2014 U.S. District Magistrate Judge Candy Dale ruled that Idaho’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. She wrote in the

decision that Idaho’s laws banning same-sex marriage unconstitutionally deny gay and lesbian citizens their fundamental right to marry. The laws wrongly stigmatize gay and lesbian couples and relegate their families to second-class status with our sufficient reason.

Openly gay American Idol entertainer Clay Aiken wins 40% of the Democratic primary for a North Carolina congressional seat.

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LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes:

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

Understood as noting to be debated, quibbled nor negotiated.

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

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music and movie information from my previous blog

from my original blog:

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

see also:

However:

Was There A Dark Side to Elvis and Gladys?

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

A) women and other men

B) men and women

C) heterosexual men, heterosexual women and LGBTQ2

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

Extra Credit:

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

LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes:

Most of the above is copied from one of the sites cited as sources in the daily post and as linked at the end of every post.

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1812 – Edward Lear (12 May 1812–29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, and is known now mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularized. His principal areas of work as an artist were threefold: as a draughtsman employed to illustrate birds and animals; making colored drawings during his journeys, which he reworked later, sometimes as plates for his travel books; as a (minor) illustrator of Alfred, Lord Tennyson‘s poems. As an author, he is known principally for his popular nonsense collections of poems, songs, short stories, botanical drawings, recipes, and alphabets. He also composed and published twelve musical settings of Tennyson’s poetry. Lear’s most fervent and painful friendship was with Franklin Lushington. He met the young barrister in Malta in 1849 and then toured southern Greece with him. Lear developed an infatuation for him that Lushington did not wholly reciprocate. Although they remained friends for almost forty years, until Lear’s death, the disparity of their feelings constantly tormented Lear. Indeed, Lear’s attempts at male companionship were not always successful; the very intensity of Lear’s affections may have doomed these relationships.

05-12-1820 – 08-13-1910 Florence Nightingale – She was born into a rich, upper-class, well-connected British family at the Villa Colombia in Florence,

Italy. An English social reformer and the founder of modern nursing, she came to prominence while serving as a manager of nurses trained by her during the Crimean War. The British Military Hospital in Turkey was a sickening, unsanitary, overcrowded, vermin-infested rat-hole death trap with a mortality rate of 50%. Fighting the doctors who disdained women’s interference, she gradually took over and cleaned the place up. Working tirelessly around the clock and endearing herself to the sick and wounded, she became known as “The Lady of the Lamp.” After Florence took over, the mortality rate dropped to 2.2%. Faced by family opposition to her independence, Florence fell ill, and was nursed by her aunt. The two became devoted to each other, and Florence described their relationship as “like two lovers.” Florence also loved a cousin, Marianne Nicholson. “I have never loved but one person with passion in my life, and that was her,” Florence wrote. But Marianne’s brother had fallen in love with Florence, and when Florence finally declined his proposal of marriage, the two women had a falling out. She clearly was emotionally devoted to women, never to men, and adamantly refused all offers of marriage. In 1883, she was awarded the Royal Red Cross by Queen Victoria. In 1904, she was appointed a Lady of Grace of the Order of St. John. In 1907, she became the first woman to be awarded the Order of Merit. In the 1870s, Florence mentored Linda Richards, “America’s first trained nurse,” and enabled her to return to the USA with adequate training and knowledge to establish high-quality nursing schools. Linda Richards went on to become a great nursing pioneer in the USA and Japan.

05-12-1907 – 06-29-2003 Katharine Hepburn – Born in Hartford, Connecticut. She was an American actress and a leading lady in Hollywood for more than 60 years. In 1999, Hepburn was named by the American Film Institute as the greatest female star of Classic Hollywood Cinema. She was outspoken, assertive, athletic, and wore trousers before it was fashionable for women to do so.

She was married once and is mostly remembered paired with Spencer Tracy. In Scotty Bower’s 2012 book Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars, he talks about his years as a procurer for the personalities in Hollywood and Beverly Hills. He spells out in stark terms the specifics to which gay rumors had only just alluded. Names are named, including Katharine Hepburn. He claims to have arranged over 150 hook-ups for the Oscar winning actress and claims her famed relationship with Spencer Tracy was a sham. Cynic, truth-seeker Gore Vidal insisted that Bower’s stories hold up. In a 2017 documentary, columnist Liz Smith, who was a close friend, confirmed that Hepburn was a lesbian.

1937, Luxembourg – Heinz Neddermeyer (April 20,1914-1984), the first great lover of Christopher Isherwood (26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986), is expelled from Luxembourg. The couple lived together in Berlin until they were forced to flee due to the rise of the Nazis. The day after he was expelled from Luxembourg, Heinz was arrested by the Gestapo. He was sentenced to three and a half years of forced labor and military service. He survived the forced labor and was conditionally free if he married. He married a woman named Gerda in 1938 and had a son named Christian, his only child, in 1940. He died in 1984.

05-12-1937 – 10-14-2006 Gerry Studds – Born in Mineola, New York, he is an American Democratic Congressman form Massachusetts who served from

1973 until 1997. He was the first out gay member of Congress. Studds and partner Dean T. Hara (they had been together since 1991) were married in Boston on May 24, 2004, one week after Massachusetts became the first state in the country to legalize same-sex marriage. Studds died on October 16, 2006, at age 69, several days after suffering a pulmonary embolism. Due to the federal ban on same-sex marriage, Hara was not eligible to receive the pension provided to surviving spouses of former members of Congress. Hara later joined a federal lawsuit, Gill v. Office of Personnel Management, that successfully challenged the constitutionality of section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act.

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05-12-1940 Joan Nestle – Born in the Bronx, New York City, New York. She is a Lambda Award winning writer and editor, and the co-founder of Lesbian History Archives.

which holds, among other things, everything she has ever written. She is openly lesbian and sees her work of archiving history as critical to her identity as “a woman, as a lesbian, and as a Jew”. After the Stonewall riots in 1969, gay liberationbecame a focus of her activism. She joined the Lesbian Liberation Committee in 1971 and helped found the Gay Academic Union (GAU) in 1972. The following year, she and other members of the GAU began to gather and preserve documents and artifacts related to lesbian history. This project became the Lesbian Herstory Archives, which opened in 1974 in the pantry of the apartment she shared with her then-partner Deborah Edel, and later with her family friend Mabel Hampton(May 2, 1902 – October 26, 1989), then moved it to a brownstone in Park Slope, Brooklyn in 1992. Today its holdings include more than 20,000 books, 12,000 photographs, and 1,600 periodical titles.

She is out gay and sees her work of archiving history as critical to her identity as “a woman, as a lesbian, and as a Jew.” After the Stonewall riots in 1969, gay liberation became a focus of her activism.

She joined the Lesbian Liberation Committee in 1971 and helped found the Gay Academic Union (GAU) in 1972. The following year the GAU began to gather documents and artifacts related to lesbian history. Today its holdings include more than 20,000 books, 12,000 photographs, and 1,600 periodical titles. The Lesbian Herstory Archives in located at 484 14th St. in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York. Nestle’s life was the subject of a 2002 documentary by Joyce Warshow entitled Hand on the Pulse.

1945

Known as Lady Day, Billie Holliday charted R&B (#5) with “Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)” It was her first and only R&B Hit but her last of thirty-nine pop hits that started in 1935.

05-12-1949 Ross Bleckner – Born in New York City, New York. He is an

American artist. Bleckner is openly gay and some of his work in the 1980s and 1990s are reflective of the AIDS crisis. In 1995, the Guggenheim Museum had a major retrospective of his works from the last two decades. His work has also been exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and the Carnegie Museum of Art. He was one of the youngest artists to be featured the Guggenheim.

05-12-1949 Michael Bronski – Gay American writer. Wrote A Queer History of the United States. He has been

involved with LGBT politics since 1969 as an activist and organizer. Bronski was the partner of American poet Walta Borawski, who died in 1994. Currently, Bronski is a Professor of the Practice in Media and Activism in the Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University.

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

May 12, 1950

After 34 years, the American Bowling Congress abolished its white males-only membership restriction.

05-12-1950 Linda Ketner – Born in Faith, North Carolina. She is a business consultant, philanthropist, and community activist in Charleston, South

Carolina. In what looked like as one of the most unlikely outcomes of the 2008 election cycle, Democrat Linda Ketner came within two percentage points of beating entrenched establishment wing nut Henry Brown in a gerrymandered South Carolina district specifically drawn to be an easy win for Republicans. She is an out lesbian.

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

1960, UK – The first public meeting of the Homosexual Law Reform Society is attended by more than 1,000 people.

1964

The Grammies Album of the Year is “The Barbra Streisand Album

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

1973

“Daniel” hit #1 for Elton John on the Adult Contemporary chart and #9 on the Pop Chart

05-12-1975 Jared Polis Schutz – Born in Boulder, Colorado. He is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and U.S. Representative for

Colorado’s 2nd congressional district, serving since 2009. Member of the Democratic Party and the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Polis is the first openly gay parent in Congress. He and his partner, Marlon Reis, have two children.

1975 –

1975: Elite guitarist Brian May of Queen collapsed onstage after a performance at the Uris Theatre in New York City. The group had to cancel the rest of their tour, and May flew back to London on May 16. He was later diagnosed with hepatitis.

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

1982, Canada – Police once again raid The Body Politic, the country’s leading gay and lesbian newspaper, on charges of publishing allegedly obscene material.

05-12-1987 Robbie Rogers – Born in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. He was an American professional soccer player who played for the LA Galaxy. He also represented the U. S. men’s national soccer team. In February 2013, Rogers came out as gay, becoming the second male footballer in Britain to do so, after Justin Fashanu in 1990. In May 2013, he became the first out gay man to compete in a top North American professional sports league when he played his first match for the Galaxy. On November 7, 2017, Rogers retired due to a series of injuries that forced him to miss the entire season.

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

1992

Robert Reed (October 19, 1932 – May 12, 1992), best known as Mike Brady on the sitcom The Brady Bunch, dies of AIDS-related causes. Reed was gay but kept this fact private, choosing to marry a woman instead. He feared news of his sexual orientation would damage his career. In July 1954, Reed married fellow Northwestern student Marilyn Rosenberger. The couple had one daughter, Karen, before divorcing in 1959.Shortly before his death, Reed appeared in the touring production of Love Letters, opposite Betsy Palmer and taught classes onShakespeareatUCLA. He died on May 12, 1992 at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, California, at age 59.

1994

Elton John released the single “Can You Feel The Love Tonight”.

1998

British media reported that Elton John had split with his manager of 30 years, John Reid. Reports said the two had argued over John’s career and financial matters.

1999 – William Daro “Billy” Bean (born March 29, 1962), former outfielder and left-handed hitter for the Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Dodgers, and San Diego Padres, becomes the second baseball player to publicly come out, three years after his retirement. As a closeted pro athlete, he struggled to juggle his secret and his career. He divorced his wife in 1993 and secretly moved in with his first lover. When his lover died of AIDS, Bean didn’t attend the funeral because he was too frightened that his secret would be revealed. Since 2014, he has served as Major League Baseball’s first Ambassador for Inclusion. He is currently a real estate agent in Miami. Glenn Burke (November 16, 1952 – May 30, 1995)was the first baseball player to come out to his teammates and employers during his playing days, though Burke did not come out to the public at large until his career was over. Burke died from AIDS-related causes in 1995.

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

2003

In London, Lisa Marie Presley performed at a nightclub. She performed songs from her debut album “To Whom It May Concern.”

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

2013, Israel – Israel’s Supreme Court allows same-sex parental rights with a court order only, without the lengthy adoption process.

2017 – Jon Penton-Robicheaux (1978 -May 12, 2017), the lead plaintiff in a case that challenged Louisiana’s ban on same-sex marriages, dies at a New Orleans hospice of liver failure after a battle with bacterial meningitis. He was 39. “Though Jon was a very beloved figure in the gay community, he was low-key. He wasn’t a big publicity person at all. But he is definitely part of history now,” said Frank Perez, a tour guide and chronicler of the city’s gay history. His husband, Derek Penton-Robicheaux, was by his side. Together they founded the nonprofit called Louisiana Equality Foundation to further their gay-advocacy work.

2018 – Raquel Pennington (born September 5, 1988)faced Amanda Nunes (born May 30, 1988) on May 12, 2018 at UFC 224 in a UFC Women’s Bantamweight Championshipbout. Pennington lost the fight via TKO in the fifth round. This was the first event in UFC history to be headlined by two openly gay fighters. Nunesis a Brazilian mixed martial artist who currently fights for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) where she is the reigning champion in both the women’sBantamweightand Featherweight divisions.Pennington (born September 5, 1988) is an American mixed martial artist who competes in Ultimate Fighting Championship women’s bantamweight division

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Understood as noting to be debated, quibbled nor negotiated.

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

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

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Today in LGBT History- May 11th – the Montrose Center

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Was There A Dark Side to Elvis and Gladys?

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

A) women and other men

B) men and women

C) heterosexual men, heterosexual women and LGBTQ2

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

Extra Credit:

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

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LGBTQ2 Her/History May 11

BCE to The Suffragettes

1739 & 1755, UK – Eleanor Butler (11 May 1739 – 2 June 1829) and Sarah Ponsonby (May 11, 1755 –December 9, 1831)celebrated joint birthdays and shared their lives for a half century. The “Ladies of Llangollen” were two upper-class Irish women whose relationship during the late 18th and early 19th century scandalized and fascinated their contemporaries.The subject of several excellent books, they seem to have impressed their neighbors as well as London high society. Eleanorwas a member of the Butlers, the Earls (and later Dukes) of Ormond. Considered an over-educated bookworm by her family, she resided at the Butler family seat Kilkenny Castle. She was educated in a convent in France. Her mother tried to make her join a convent because she was remaining a spinster. Sarah lived with relatives in Woodstock, County Kilkenny, Ireland. She was a second cousin of Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough, and thus a second cousin once removed of his daughter Lady Caroline Lamb. Eleanor’s and Sarah’s families lived two miles apart. They met in 1768 and quickly became close. Over the years they formulated a plan for a private rural retreat. Butler and Ponsonby lived together for over 50 years. Eleanor Butler died in 1829 at the age of 90. Sarah Ponsonby died two years later. They are buried together at St Collen’s Church in Llangollen.

05-11-1866 – 08-02-1962 Clare ‘Tony’ Atwood – Born in Richmond, United Kingdom. She was a British painter of portraits, still life, landscapes, interiors, and decorative flower

subjects. Atwood lived in a ménage à trois with the dramatist Christabel Marshall and the actress, theatre director, and producer, Edith Craig from 1916 until Craig’s death in 1947. The three of them were friends with many artists and writers including lesbian novelist Radclyffe Hall. In 1920, she was commissioned for four paintings by the British Imperial War Museum. Atwood died of heart failure in 1962 and is buried alongside Marshall at St. John the Baptist’s Church, Small Hythe, Kent, England. Photo is of Edith Craig (left), Clare Atwood (middle), and Christabel Marshall (right) at Smallhythe Place, the home of Victorian actress Ellen Terry.

1927

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the brainchild of Louis B. Mayer, head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), was founded.

1933 – Mychal Judge (May 11, 1933 – September 11, 2001) is born. Father Judge was a self-identified gay man though celibate due to Catholic restrictions for priests. A long-term supporter of Dignity (a Catholic LGBT activist organization advocating for change in the Catholic Church’s policies/teachings on homosexuality), he was well known and beloved in New York City. He considered himself an “agent of change in both church and society”. He died while administering last rites to a fallen firefighter at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. In 2002, the United States Congress passed The Mychal Judge Police and Fire Chaplains Public Safety Officers Benefit Act into law. The law extended federal death benefits to chaplains of police and fire departments, and also marked the first time the federal government extended equal benefits for same-sex couples by allowing the domestic partners of public safety officers killed in the line of duty to collect a federal death benefit. This act was signed into law on June 24, 2002, but was retroactive only to September 11, 2001.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

05-11-1942 Pam St. Clement – Born in Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, England. She

is an English actress, best known for playing Pat Butcher in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders from 1986 until 2012, becoming one of the program’s longest-serving cast members. She is openly bisexual. St. Clement is also an animal lover and a conservationist. She supports several charities, including the Global Wildlife Fund.

05-11-1949 When Charles Baudelaire published Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil) six of his poems on lesbianism were removed by the French government. He, his publisher, and the printer were successfully prosecuted for creating an offense against public morals. On this day, Baudelaire was vindicated, the judgment reversed, and the six banned poems were reinstated in France.

05-11-1945 – 06-13-1993 Rand Schrader – Born in Los Angeles, California. Schrader was an AIDS and gay rights activist. He was also one of the first openly gay judges in California. Appointed to the Los Angeles Municipal

Court in 1980 by Governor Jerry Brown. Shortly before his death, in May 1993, the 5P21 HIV/AIDS clinic at Los Angeles County – USC Medical Center was named in honor of Rand Schrader. Schrader had previously advocated for the establishment of the clinic. Schrader’s long-time partner was entrepreneur David Bonnet, they had been together for 10 years at the time of Schrader’s death. Schrader died of AIDS.

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

1957

Jailhouse Rock pre-production with Elvis Presley – who visited Russ Tamblyn, the star of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and a friend of Nick Adams.

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

1963

While she was singing at a hotel in Manhattan, New York, she was heard by Quincy Jones. Quincy got her a recording contract and on this date, Lesley Gore debuted on the chart with her first single. It went on to reach #1, one of 19 hits in her career.

05-11-1964 Billy Beane – Born in Orlando, Florida. Beane is a former Major League Baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as an outfielder for the Detroit Tigers (1987-1989), Los Angeles Dodgers (1989), and San

Diego Padres (1993-1995), as well as the Kintetsu Buffaloes of Nippon Professional Baseball (professional league in Japan) in 1992. He came out as gay in 1999. He was the second major league baseball player to come out. Bean was appointed MLB’s first “Ambassador for Inclusion” on July 15, 2014. He is also a board member of the Gay and Lesbian Athletics Foundation.

05-11-1968 Eliad Cohen – Born in Acre, Israel. Cohen is an Israeli producer, actor, and model, entrepreneur, and event promoter. Cohen is the co-founder of Gay-ville, a gay-friendly vacation rental service headquartered in Tel Aviv. He

became a prominent Israeli gay personality after being chosen as the cover model of the Spartacus International Gay Guide for the 2011-2012 issue, which led to various magazine covers around the world. He was on Out’s 3rd Annual 100 Most Eligible Bachelors for 2013. Cohen is openly gay, after coming out to his parents when he was twenty years old.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

1972

David Bowie played at Assembly Hall, Worthing, England.

1978

Queen concluded their News of the World tour with three sold-out shows at Wembley Arena in London.

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

1982: Voters in Lincoln, Nebraska, go to the polls to decide whether or not to accept a proposed gay rights ordinance for the city. Leading the fight against the initiative is local psychologist Paul Cameron who has asserted, among other things, that gay and lesbian teachers are forty-three times more likely to molest a child than are heterosexuals. Among his other statements:

“Most murderers commit a crime and are punished, but gays are promiscuous and do bad deeds constantly, and as such, are worse than murderers.”
“We practice the Christian faith in our family and if my son was gay, it would be one fore most horrible rings that could happen. If it had happened, my son would be disowned.”

The ordinance goes down in defeat, 78 percent to 22 percent, and Cameron — soon to be disbarred for unethical conduct from the American Psychological Association and placed under investigation by the American Sociological Association for “falsifying and distorting” scientific studies on homosexuality — launches a new career for himself as an expert witness as head of the antigay Family Research Institute (which has been classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.”

1984: The United Methodist Church votes to ban the ordination and appointment of avowed homosexuals as ministers.

1985

Whitney Houston charted solo for the first time on the pop charts with “You Give Good Love,” reaching #3 and becoming her first of eight R&B #1s. Whitney is the daughter of Cissy Houston and cousin of Dionne and Dee Dee Warwick.

Madonna’s fourth Top 10 in a row became her second #1–“Crazy For You”.

#8 Wham scored another Top 10 with “Everything She Wants” and Tears for Fears exploded into the Top 10 with “Everybody Wants To Rule The World”.

1987

The UK indie chart had The Smiths at number one on with “Sheila Take A Bow,” number two, The Cult, “Lil’ Devil. The CD chart, David Bowie a the top spot with Never Let Me Down, Raindancing by Alison Moyet stood at number two

1988

On his 100^th birthday, songwriter Irving Berlin was serenaded by fans singing his songs outside his New York City apartment. That night at Carnegie Hall, Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Isaac Stern, and Leonard Bernstein saluted the composer with a program of his hits.

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

1990: After several months on the festival circuit, the film “Longtime Companion” opens to the public in New York City and is the first major studio release about AIDS. Bruce Davison receives a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his work in the film.

1994

The first Broadway revival of the musical “Grease,” starring Ricky Paull Goldin, Sam Harris, Marcia Lewis, and Rosie O’Donnell, opened at New York’s Eugene O’Neill Theatre for 1,505 performances.

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

2001

Egypt – Fifty-two men were arrested on a floating gay nightclub called the Queen Boat. Most of them were charged with “habitual debauchery” and “obscene behavior”. The trials last 5 months, after the men had been imprisoned for a year prior, and have been subjected to horrible abuse. Fifty of the men, now known as the Cairo 52, were acquitted of all charges. The United Nations publicly condemned Egypt’s justice system for this act, and with news of a possible re-trial, most of the men fled to different countries.

2003 – African-American New Jersey high school sophomore Sakia Gunn (May 26, 1987 – May 11, 2003)wasmurdered after trying to get a man to leave her and her friends alone by explaining that they were lesbian. Gunn was returning from a night out in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, with her friends. While waiting for the #1 New Jersey Transit bus at the corner of Broad and Market Streets in downtown Newark, Gunn and her friends were propositioned by two African American men. The women rejected their advances and declared themselves to be lesbians. The men attacked; Gunn fought back, and one of the men, Richard McCullough, stabbed her in the chest. Both men immediately fled the scene in their vehicle. After one of Gunn’s friends flagged down a passing driver, she was taken to nearby University Hospital, where she died.Gunn’s death sparked outrage from the city’s gay and lesbian community. The community, in conjunction with GLAAD, rallied the mayor’s office, requesting, among other things, the establishment of a gay and lesbian community center, that police officers to patrol the Newark Penn Station/Broad Street corridor 24-hours a day, the creation of a LGBT advisory council to the mayor, and that the school board be held accountable for the lack of concern and compassion when dealing with students at Westside High School (which Gunn attended) immediately following the murder. The Newark Pride Alliance, an LGBT advocacy group, was founded in the wake of Gunn’s murder.In 2008 a documentary was released about Gunn’s murder, titled Dreams Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project.

2006

George Michael was involved in his second minor car crash in a month after a tabloid photographer found Michael asleep in his parked car in central London. The singer crashed into a bollard after he woke up and was driving away.

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

2015

The Fox network announced that they were canceling their TV talent show, American Idol after the 2016 season.

2016

05-11-2016 Italy’s Parliament gives final approval to a bill

establishing civil unions for same-sex couples. The bill passed by a vote of 371 – 51, with 99 members abstaining. The Senate had approved it in February. Franco Grillini, the honorary president of LGBT rights group Arcigay, said, “The wall erected mostly by the Vatican against civil rights in this country has fallen, so it is a historically and politically important moment.”

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May 11, 2016 — However, in the wee hours of the morning on May 11, 2001, Fifty-two men were arrested on a floating gay nightclub called the Queen Boat.

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

Understood as noting to be debated, quibbled nor negotiated.

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

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music and movie information from my previous blog

from my original blog:

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

see also:

Magnus Hirschfeld | Holocaust Encyclopedia

However:

Was There A Dark Side to Elvis and Gladys?

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

A) women and other men

B) men and women

C) heterosexual men, heterosexual women and LGBTQ2

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

Extra Credit:

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

LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes:

Most of the above is copied from one of the sites cited as sources in the daily post and as linked at the end of every post.

LGBTQ2 her/history May 10

BCE to The Suffragettes

320 BC, Greece – Theocritus is born in Syracuse. He developed the verse form known as the pastoral, a stylized and artful form usually about shepherds or cowherds who sing of love and friendship. They were highly homoerotic.

1888

THE MARRIAGE RECORD OF CHESSER AND BURTON, DATED MAY 10, 1888.

According to a July 13, 1888 article in Springfield Daily Republic of Springfield, Ohio, ” A white man named Chesser was arrested for disorderly conduct Monday at the Houston of a colored man named George Burton.” At Chesser’s trial, it came to light that he was married to Burton. Sadly, upon this discover, both were lodged in jail on the charge of sodomy. Their marriage is thought to be the first official records of where one man was duly married and living with another.

05-10-1904 – 04-26-1995 Frieda Belinfante – Born in Amsterdam, Netherlands. She was a Dutch cellist, conductor, a prominent lesbian, and a member of the Dutch Resistance during WWII. In 1937, she was artistic director and conductor of a chamber orchestra and in 1939,

she was awarded first prized over 12 professional male conductors by German conductor, Hermann Scherchen. The Nazi occupation interrupted Belinfante’s musical career, which she did not resume until after the war. During the war, she joined the Dutch Resistance Council, led by openly gay artist, Willem Arondeus. She personally forged documents for Jews and together with Arondeus and others, blew up the populations registry in Amsterdam on March 27, 1943, which destroyed thousands of files and hindered Nazi attempts to compare forged documents with documents in the registry. Belinfante was forced into hiding and disguised herself as a man to escape the Gestapo. Many of the resistance were arrested, including Arondeus, and were executed. The resistance helped her cross the border to Belgium and France, where the French Underground helped her get to Switzerland by crossing the Alps by foot. She returned to the Netherlands after the war. In 1947, she emigrated to the U.S., settling in

Laguna Beach, California and joining the music faculty of UCLA in 1949. In 1954, she became the founding artistic director and conductor of the Orange County Philharmonic Society. Her involvement with the Orange County Philharmonic came to an abrupt end in 1962 when it was discovered that she was romantically involved with a woman. She then established a private studio in Laguna Beach where she taught numerous musicians and for more than 20 years, she acted as a booking agent and artistic advisor to the Laguna Beach Chamber Music Society. In 1987, the Orange County Board of Supervisors and the City of Laguna Beach both declared February 19 “Frieda Belinfante Day”, honoring her many musical contributions to the area. Belinfante firmly believed that “all human conflict could be resolved peacefully and that great art, music, in particular, was a tool that could help achieve that end.” She died in 1995 from cancer.

05-10-1906 – 01-25-1963 Betty Knox – Born in Salina, Kansas. She was an American vaudeville dancer and journalist.

As a teenager, she eloped with her boyfriend, Donald Knox. She did have a daughter, but the marriage (if there was one) was short lived. In 1928, she joined a vaudeville act that became known as Wilson, Keppel and Betty. The trio moved to the UK in 1932 and début at the London Palladium. When she retired from dancing, she became a journalist for the London Evening Standard and was a war correspondent in Normandy and a reporter at the Nuremberg trials. Knox had a thrice-weekly column. Her first column featured an interview with novelist John Steinbeck, who was a war correspondent with the US Navy.

She was supposed to cover the war from a woman’s point of view but often bent the rules, hitching a ride with the French Resistance to go Nazi hunting. During this time she worked closely with fellow was correspondent Erika Mann (daughter of Thomas Mann) with whom she became romantically involved. After the war, Knox stayed in Germany reporting from the Nuremberg trials. She spent her final years with her mother and daughter in Düsseldorf, Germany, dying in 1963 from emphysema and pulmonary trouble.

1924

J. Edgar Hoover was appointed head of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, where he remained until his death in 1972.

1933

Germany’s Institute of Sex Research’s library archives are publicly hauled out and burned in the streets. There were many other books burnings throughout Germany on this day as well. Student groups at universities across Germany carried out a series of book burnings of works that the students and leading Nazi party members associated with an “un-German spirit.” The largest of these book bonfires occurred in Berlin, where an estimated 40,000 people gathered to hear a speech by the propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, in which he pronounced that “Jewish intellectualism is dead” and endorsed the students’ “right to clean up the debris of the past.”

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

05-10-1951 Steve Gunderson – Born in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. He is a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Wisconsin’s 3rd district from January 3, 1981, to January 3, 1997. In 1994, Gunderson was

outed as gay on the House floor by conservative Bob Dornan (R-CA) during a debate over federal funding for gay-friendly curricula., making him one of the first openly gay members of Congress and the first openly gay Republican representative. In 1996, Gunderson was the only Republican in Congress to vote against the Defense of Marriage Act, and he has been a vocal supporter of gay rights causes since leaving Congress.

05-10-1958

Arthur “Art” J. Feltman – Born in Paterson, New Jersey.

Feltman was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from the 6th district from January 1997 to January 2009. He is openly gay.

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

05-10-1960 – 06-22-2020 Angela Madsen – Born in Xenia, Ohio. She joined the Marine Corps and, at 6’1”, became a member of the women’s Marine Corps basketball team.

In 1980, she fell on the court and another player stepped on her back, rupturing two discs in her spine. Errors in her back surgery left her permanently disabled. Madsen turned her life around when she was introduced to wheelchair basketball. Her basketball sponsor invited her to a learn-to-row event in Dana Point, California. She came out as gay in 1981, while in the US military. Madsen met her wife, Debra, in 2006. In 2007, she became the first woman with a disability to row across the Atlantic Ocean. Madsen wrote an autobiography, Rowing Against the Wind, published in 2014.

In 2015, she was a grand marshal for the Long Beach Pride Parade. She held six Guinness World Records and was working toward another (as the oldest woman and first paraplegic to row across the Pacific alone) at the time of her death. Madsen was found dead nearly halfway into her solo row from Los Angeles to Honolulu on June 22, 2020. The journey was being filmed by Soraya Simi. Madsen was a voice for disability rights and an LGBT activist. (Bottom photo of Angela Madsen with her wife, Debra Bogan Madsen)

1964

Dusty Springfield makes her TV debut on The Ed Sullivan Show, singing “I Only Want To Be With You”. Gerry And The Pacemakers and Bobby Rydell also appear on the program.

1966

Janis Joplin was invited to San Francisco by her friend Chet Helms. Helms wanted her to audition for a group he was managing–Big Brother and the Holding Company.

05-10-1967 Scott A. Brison – Born in Windsor, Nova Scotia. Brison is a Canadian businessman, investment banker, and politician.

Brison came out as gay in 2002, saying that he is “not a gay politician, but a politician who happens to be gay.” He became the fourth sitting Member of Parliament to do so after Svend Robinson, Réal Ménard, and Libby Davies. As well, he was the first openly MP to sit as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. He and his partner, Maxime Saint-Pierre were married on August 18, 2007.

May 10, 1969

Janis Joplin and the Kozmic Blues Band played Cobo Hall in Detroit, with Country Joe & the Fish and Teegarden & Van Winkle as the opening acts.

The Soundtrack to “Hair” by the Original Cast was #1 on the Album chart for a third week,

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

1970, David Bowie was awarded an Ivor Novello Award for Best Original Song ‘Space Oddity’ which he performed that night accompanied by the Les Reed Orchestra. The event was transmitted live via satellite to venues in America, France, Spain, Australia, Holland and Venezuela. Bowie would later revisit his Major Tom character in the songs ‘Ashes to Ashes’, ‘Hallo Spaceboy’ and ‘Blackstar’.

1975

In Japan, Sony introduced the Betamax videocassette recorder.

on the USA LP Charts, Have You Never Been Mellow from Olivia Newton-John was #4, #6 Soundtrack to “Funny Lady”, the Soundtrack to “Tommy” at #7,

05-10-1977 Denise Ho (also known as HOCC) – Born in Hong Kong and educated in Canada. She emigrated with her family to Montreal, Quebec at

the age of eleven. She is the first mainstream female singer in Hong Kong to come out of the closet. She announced her sexual orientation on stage at the “Dare To Love” event at the Hong Kong Pride Parade, 2012. In 2014, Ho became a columnist for Apple Daily and was recognized for her activism for equal LGBT rights in Hong Kong. She has been a high-profile supporter of the 2014 Hong Kong protests, and a protester herself.

05-10-1978 Todd Gloria – Born in San Diego, California. He is an American politician. Elected official in San Diego, California. He served as the interim Mayor of San Diego after the resignation of Bob Filner in August 2013. His

term as interim mayor concluded on March 3, 2014, when mayor-elect Kevin Falconer was sworn in. When Gloria became interim mayor, it made San Diego the second largest city in the United States (after Houston) to have an openly gay mayor. Gloria is also a former chairman of the San Diego LGBT Community Center. On April 7, 2015, Gloria announced that he will run in 2016 for the California State Assembly seat held by Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins, who will be termed out. He was easily elected on November 8, 2016.

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

1985

All girl group The Go-Go’s announced they were breaking up. The members went on to enjoy solo success, (Belinda Carlisle and Jane Wiedlin) and the group reformed in the late 90s.

1986

Falco was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Rock Me Amadeus.’ Falco became the first-ever Austrian act to score a UK and US No.1 hit single and the first German speaking artist to achieve a No.1 on the US charts. Falco died of severe injuries received on 6 February 1998, when his Mitsubishi Pajero collided with a bus in the Dominican Republic. It was later determined that the bus driver was speeding, for which the driver served three years in prison. His estate claims he has sold 20 million albums and 15 million singles, which makes him the best selling Austrian singer of all time.

The Pet Shop Boys went to No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘West End Girls’, the duo’s first US No.1, also a No.1 in the UK.

Whitney Houston was #3 with “Greatest Love Of All”

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

1990, UK – OutRage!, the British LGBTQ rights group, is formed by a broad based group of queers committed to radical, non-violent direct action and civil disobedience. OutRage! was an all-volunteer, non-hierarchical grassroots, democratic movement, with no officers, leaders or paid staff. Weekly meetings were open to any LGBT person to attend, speak and vote. It was funded entirely by donations from activists and supporters. It lasted for 21 years, disbanding in 2011.

05-10-1991 Shaun Ross – Born in The Bronx, New York City, New York. He is an

American model, actor, and dancer. Ross is the first male albino professional model. His modeling includes fashion publications British GQ,Vogue, and Another Man. He has also modeled for Alexander McQueen and Givenchy. Ross is of African-American descent and dealt with a lot of discrimination as well as being frequently bullied by his peers. He was called names such as “Powder,” “White-Out,” and “Casper.” At the age of 16, he was discovered on YouTube and entered the fashion industry. He considers himself pansexual and is an advocate for LGBT rights. He has funded the campaign, Free to Be Me, in which people from the LGBT community are not afraid to be themselves. (Photograph Manfred Werner/Tsui CC by 3.0 Life Ball 2014)

1991

Eight months after its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, the documentary “Madonna: Truth or Dare” opened in North American theaters. chronicling the life Madonna during her 1990 Blond Ambition World Tour, premiered in Los Angeles.

LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina recalls: Madonna was dating Sandra Bernhardt during the documentary.

1994

Barbra Streisand began her first concert tour in almost 30 years.

Serial killer John Gacy, is executed for the murders of 33 young men and boys

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

2003

#1 Billboard Album: Madonna‘s American Life

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

05-10-2014 The NFL St. Louis Rams drafted the first openly gay player, Michael Sam. The Rams cut him at the end of training camp.

2016

Today in LGBT History: May 10th – the Montrose Center

https://www.montrosecenter.org › today-in-lgbt-history…

May 10, 2016 — Records were examined that found that on May 10th James Chesser procured a license to marry George Ann Holly, also known as George Burton, …

2018

A publication called Business Insider Singapore named the 1,000 most wealthy people in Britain. The richest musicians were led by Paul McCartney, followed by the band U2, Elton John, Mick Jagger, Keith Richrds, and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Other rockers in the Top 20 included Sting, Rod Stewart, Eric Clapton and Roger Waters, as well as Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne.

Queer Canadian History Timeline – Pre-Colonization to Present

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(2018, May 10). Canadian Queer History Presentation. The Canadian. Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity, Ottawa, ON. 2. Armstrong, J.

2019

The #FreeBritney movement gains traction as supporters gather outside the Los Angeles courthouse where Britney Spears speaks to a judge about her conservatorship. Spears has been under the conservatorship, a legal maneuver typically used to protect the elderly or mentally incompetent, since 2008, with her father, Jamie Spears, conservator.

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LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes:

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

Understood as noting to be debated, quibbled nor negotiated.

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

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music and movie information from my previous blog

from my original blog:

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

see also:

Backstage at Caesar’s Palace, or in Tom Jones’ suite in Las Vegas with Merv Griffin, Tom Jones and Norm Crosby on the evening of Sunday May 9, 1971

However:

Was There A Dark Side to Elvis and Gladys?

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

A) women and other men

B) men and women

C) heterosexual men, heterosexual women and LGBTQ2

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

Extra Credit:

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

LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes:

Most of the above is copied from one of the sites cited as sources in the daily post and as linked at the end of every post.

LGBTQ2 her/history May 9

BCE to The Suffragettes

1726, UK – Gabriel Lawrence, William Griffin, and Thomas Wright are hanged at Tyburn following a raid on Margret Clap’s molly house. A molly house in 18^th century England was a tavern or private room where men could meet other men with shared interests such as cross-dressing or potential sex partners.

1860, Scotland – James M. Barrie (9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937), the creator of Peter Pan, was born in Kirriemuir, Scotland. Married, he never consummated the union and preferred to spend his time with a group of young boys. Before his death, he gave the rights to the Peter Pan works to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, which continues to benefit from them.

May 9, 1887

Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West show began the first of its eight tours of Europe.

1914

05-09-1914 – 12-16-1948 Denham Fouts – Born in Jacksonville, Florida. He was an American male prostitute, socialite, and literary muse. He was the inspiration for characters by Truman Capote, Gore Vidal, Christopher

Isherwood, and Gavin Lambert. Capote considered him the “Best-Kept Boy in the World.” Fouts was allegedly the lover of numerous notable figures, including Prince Paul of Greece (later King), and French actor Jean Marais. Another of his lovers was Evan Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar. Fouts died in 1948, in Rome, at the age of 34 of a “hypoplastic aorta and hypertrophy of left ventricle (heart disease).”

05-09-1934 Alan Bennett – Born in Armley, Leeds, Yorkshire, England. He is an English actor, author, playwright, and screenwriter. His play, The History Boys, won three Laurence Olivier Awards in 2005, and in 2006, the play won six Tony Awards on Broadway, including best play. A film version of The History Boys was released in the UK in 2008. Bennett ’s life-partner is Rupert Thomas, the editor of The World of Interiors magazine. Bennett also had a long-term relationship with his former housekeeper, Anne Davies, until her death in 2009. In the autobiographical sketches which form a large part of the book, Bennett wrote openly for the first time about his bisexuality. Previously Bennett had referred to questions about his sexuality as like asking a man who has just crawled across the Sahara desert to choose between Perrier or Malvern mineral water.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

05-09-1943 – 05-10-2000 Kiyoshi Kuromiya – Born in Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Wyoming. He was a Japanese-American author and civil and social justice advocate. He was a committed civil right and anti-war activist and was also one of the founders of Gay Liberation Front – Philadelphia. Kuromiya served as an openly gay delegate to the Black Panther Convention (1969) that endorsed the gay liberation struggle.

From 1978 to 1983, he traveled worldwide with Buckminster Fuller and collaborated on his last 6 books. Kuromiya was also an assistant of Martin Luther King Jr. and took care of King’s children immediately following his assassination. He was involved in all aspects of the AIDS movement. He is best known as the founder of the Critical Path Project, which brought the strategies and theories of his associate/mentor Buckminster Fuller to the struggle against AIDS. The CRITICAL PATH newsletter, one of the earliest and most comprehensive sources of HIV treatment information, was mailed to thousands of people living with HIV all over the world. Kuromiya was the leading plaintiff in the Supreme Court case, Kuromiya vs. The United States of America, calling for the legalization of marijuana for medical uses (1999). He died due to complications from AIDS.

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

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

May 9, 1960

The U.S. became the first country to use the oral birth control pill legally.

May 9, 1961

U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Newton Minow criticized current television as being a “vast wasteland.”

May 9, 1962

Brian Epstein met with EMI producer George Martin who signed the Beatles to record demos on June 4, 1962. It was the Beatles’ first recording contract.

1964

“Hello, Dolly!” by Louis Armstrong ended the Beatles’ 14-week monopoly at #1. The Beatles were still second with “Do You Want to Know A Secret” while the Beatles’ former #1–“Can’t Buy Me Love”, was fifth.

The Beatles’ Second Album continued to top the chart with Meet the Beatles! coming in second. Hello, Dolly! remained at #3 on the LP Charts

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

1970 –

In Washington, DC, nearly 100,000 Vietnam War protesters staged a demonstration in front of the White House.

1971

May 9, 1971

Merv Griffin was closeted during his career

1972 , Canada – The first issue of The Other Woman is produced in Toronto. It is a combination of several feminist newspapers with input is from lesbian feminists.

1977, Canada – In Ottawa, Private Barbara Thornborrow is confronted by officials in the Canadian Armed Forces about her lesbianism. She decides to go public and fight before she is fired. She later challenged the decision, becoming the first person who was discharged based on their sexual orientation to do so publicly. In honor of her role as a significant builder of LGBT culture and history in Canada, a portrait of Thornborrow by artist Barbara Augustine is held by the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives in its National Portrait Collection.^[

1978

The original Broadway production of the musical “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” starring Nell Carter, André De Shields, and Charlaine Woodard, opened at New York’s Longacre Theatre for 1604 performances.

05-09-1978 Daniel Franzese – Born in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York. He is an American actor, comedian, and LGBT activist. After coming out as

gay in 2014, Franzese became active in the fight for civil and human rights in the LGBTQ community. In 2015 he became an ambassador for the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation. He is also an ambassador for Lambda Legal, which is dedicated to decreasing the stigma associated with people with AIDS.

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

05-09-1980 Kate Richardson-Walsh – Born in Withington, Manchester, United Kingdom.

She is an English field hockey player and captain of her team. Kate has twice been the winner of the Hockey Writers Club UK Player of the Year. In 2003, she married teammate Helen Richardson and both adopted the surname Richardson-Walsh. In 2016, the British women’s field hockey teams won gold at the Olympics and because both women were on the team, it made them the first same-sex couple to win Olympic medals. Kate was also one of 49 out LGBT athletes at the 2016 Summer Olympic Games at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

1981

Adam and the Ants were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Stand And Deliver.’ The song enjoyed a five-week run at No.1.

1982

Called “9 to 5” in Europe, Dolly Parton sued Sheena Easton for the song title in the US, thus “Morning Train” by Sheena Easton remained at #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart.

1984

Nudie Cohn, who designed decorative rhinestone-covered suits and other elaborate outfits for some of the most famous celebrities of his era, died at the age of 81.

Stars Who Rocked The Nudie Suit | Billboard

Nudie Cohn: Rhinestone cowboy tailor reinvented rodeo – CNN

The Story of Elvis Presley’s Gold Lamé Suit – Elvis History Blog

A Touch Of Gold Lamé (Elvis and Nudie Cohn) | Elvis – Echoes Of The Past

1987

USA Song charts: Jody Watley was #2 with “Looking For A New Love”, #4 “La Isla Bonita” from Madonna and Aretha Franklin & George Michael slid to #10 with “I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)”.

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Human Rights – Official Jody Watley WebsiteOfficial Jody Watley Websitejodywatley.net

LP Charts: Licensed To Ill by the Beastie Boys was at 2; Sign ‘O’ the Times by Prince at #6, Trio from Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris at #7,

1988

Several US department stores refuse to stock the newly released Prince album “Lovesexy” because of its cover photo, which features a nude picture of him.

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

1990

Irish singer Sinead O’Connor refuses to perform on NBC-TV’s Saturday Night Live after shock comedian Andrew Dice Clay is named as host.

Two years later, O’Connor would do some shocking of her own when she ripped up a picture of the Pope on the same show, sending her career into ruins.

Meanwhile

1995: Elton John won the Polar Music Prize in Sweden.

1998

The Soundtrack to “Titanic” was #1 on the Album chart for the 16th week in a row while Let’s Talk About Love by Celine Dion was #4

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

2009:

Anne Murray received an honorary degree from University of Prince Edward Island in Canada.

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

2010

Cyndi Lauper is the ninth contestant booted off Season 9 of The Celebrity Apprentice

2011

Actress (Glen or Glenda)/songwriter (Rock-A-Hula Baby) Dolores Fuller died at age 88.

Interview with Dolores Fuller | Elvis Articles – Elvis Australia

Elvis Songwriter, Dolores Fuller has passed away | Elvis Articles

For Elvis CD Collectors • Ed Wood – Elvis Connection: Dolores Fuller

Dolores Fuller, Ed Wood Star and Elvis Songwriter, Dead at 88

2012

USA- In an ABC interview, Barack Obama becomes the first sitting U.S. president to publicly support the freedom for LGBT couples to marry. It marks a reversal from his 2008 campaign when he said he opposed same-sex marriage but favored civil unions as an alternative. His announcement came one day after voters in North Carolina passed a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage as well as civil unions for gay and lesbian couples.

Argentina – Gender Identity Law 26,743 is approved. Transgender people may register by their chosen name and gender identity.

2013

The RIAA starts counting streaming toward its Gold and Platinum awards, with 1,500 album streams equal to one album sale (a “unit”), and 150 song streams counting for one song sale.

Cher‘s mother, 86-year-old Georgia Holt, made her Billboard chart debut when her LP “Honky Tonk Woman” entered the Heatseekers Albums Chart at #13 and the Top Country Albums Chart at #43.

David Bowie’s latest video, which starred Gary Oldman and Marion Cotillard, was temporarily pulled from YouTube over its graphic content. “The Next Day” featured heavy religious imagery, including Cotillard bleeding from stigmata marks. The video sees Bowie performing in a basement bar, surrounded by religious figures, while Oldman, dressed as a priest, punches a beggar before dancing with a prostitute, played by Oscar-winner Cotillard. YouTube admitted making the “wrong call” in removing the video, and reinstated it with an adult content warning.

2017

Harry Styles channels Elvis Presley during performance of his single Sign of the Times ahead of album release

2020

Little Richard of bone cancer at the age of 87. Over the course of his legendary career he recorded some of America’s most recognizable songs, including “Tutti Frutti,” “Long Tall Sally,” and “Good Golly Miss Molly.” Placing just nine songs in the Billboard Top 40 between 1956 and 1958, he nonetheless influenced dozens of prominent musicians and set the standard for showmanship with his pompadour hairdo, over the top makeup, and glass-beaded shirts. A pioneer of rock n roll, Little Richard was torn between rock and religion and was closet gay for his active career.

Little Richard interview: ‘If I had been white, there never would …

Telegraph.co.uk–May 9, 2020

Little Richard interview: ‘If I had been white, there never would have been an Elvis Presley‘. In this interview from 1999, the late rock’n’roll star …

Little Richard, ‘Queen of Rock’n’roll’, dies at 87
In-Depth–The Times–May 9, 2020

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

Understood as noting to be debated, quibbled nor negotiated.

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

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music and movie information from my previous blog

from my original blog:

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

see also:

https://www.britannica.com › … › Mental Disorders

However:

Was There A Dark Side to Elvis and Gladys?

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

A) women and other men

B) men and women

C) heterosexual men, heterosexual women and LGBTQ2

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

Extra Credit:

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

LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes:

Most of the above is copied from one of the sites cited as sources in the daily post and as linked at the end of every post.

LGBTQ2 her/history May 8

On this north american hallmark holiday: Happy Mothers Day

understand; word flipping MOM WOW; From Hollow to Horror; from the dictionary:

dead name

Learn to pronounce

verb

verb: deadname

call (a transgender person) by their birth name when they have changed their name as part of their gender transition.”he was addressed with the wrong pronouns and dead-named”
Further gleaning

It’s pretty safe to say that Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, is behind the concept of daddy/mummy issues. Dr Krupka says it probably stems from his Oedipus complex (the theory that as children we’re attracted to the parent of the opposite sex and jealous of the parent who’s the same sex as us).Aug 20, 2021

What are ‘daddy/mummy issues’? – The Hook Up – triple j – ABC

Oedipus complex | Definition & History – Encyclopedia Britannica

Oedipus complex, in psychoanalytic theory, a desire for sexual involvement with the parent of the opposite sex and a concomitant sense of rivalry with the …

Reversing Roe vs Wade would shatter women’s rights

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3 days ago — It is hard to overstate the magnitude of the leaked Supreme Court draft majority opinion to overturn Roe vs Wade. The landmark decision has …

Global study on homicide – UNODC

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464,000 people estimated to have been victims of intentional homicide in 2017 · An average global homicide rate of 6.1 victims per 100,000 population was …

BCE to The Suffragettes

1541

the first documented European to discover the Mississippi River.

1828, Swtizerland – Jean-Henri Dunant (8 May 1828 – 30 October 1910) is born. He was a Swiss businessman and social activist, the founder of the Red Cross, and the first recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. The 1864 Geneva Convention was based on Dunant’s ideas. In 1901 he received the first Nobel Peace Prize together with Frédéric Passy, making Dunant the first Swiss Nobel laureate. His birthday, 8 May, is celebrated as the World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day. Following his death his family burned his personal papers in an effort to suppress the fact he was a bisexual.

May 8, 1886

Jacob’s Pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia was the first establishment to offer pharmacist John Stith Pemberton’s recent invention, Coca-Cola. A non-alcoholic version of French Wine Coca, it was initially sold as a patent medicine. Pemberton claimed Coca-Cola cured many diseases, including morphine addiction, dyspepsia, neurasthenia, headache, and impotence.

LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina includes the above as a techno-social change, where medicine and myths blur and truth in advertising laws would result.

05-08-1920 – 11-07-1991 Tom of Finland (Touko Laaksonen) – Born in Kaarina, Finland. He was a Finnish artist who was one of the first artists to depict gay men as healthy, happy people having sex. Over the course of four

decades, he produced 3500 illustrations, mostly featuring men with exaggerated primary and secondary sex traits with tight or partially removed clothing. His best known works depict homomasculine archetypes such as lumberjacks, motorcycle policemen, sailors, bikers, and leathermen. In April 2014 Finland published a set of first class stamps that included two drawings by Tom of Finland. The stamp set became a hit with its popularity surprising the Finland Post Office which received pre-orders from 178 countries around the world.

He is a sex-positive artist who went from the pornography underground in the 1950s to the mainstream present. His handsome, outrageously virile and endowed men challenged the perception that all homosexuals were effeminate, at the same time allowing that all types coexisted in the same sexual and social landscape. The nation of Finland issued stamps celebrating his art in 2014.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

1945

It was Victory in Europe Day, or V-E Day. World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich. The surrender agreement had been signed the previous day by German envoys in a schoolhouse at Rheims, France.

LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes: #LESTWEFORGET

05-08-1946 Andre Boulerice – Born in Joliette, Canada. He is a Quebec,

Canada politician and gay rights activist. Elected in the Sainte-Marie-Saint Jacques riding in 1989, Boulerice was reelected in 1994, 1998, and 2003. He helped introduce civil union for same-sex couples. He resigned in September 2005. Boulerice is out gay.

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

May 08, 1954

Britain’s BBC bans the song “Such a Night” by Johnnie Ray after listeners complain about its ‘suggestiveness’. Ray’s animated stage persona included pounding on his piano, writhing on the floor and even crying, which earned him the nicknames “Mr. Emotion”, “The Nabob of Sob”, and “The Prince of Wails”.

05-08-1954

Kwame Anthony Appiah – Born in London, England. He is a British-born Ghanaian-American philosopher, cultural theorist, and novelist. University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, he is out gay

and lives with his husband, Henry Finder, in an apartment in Chelsea, Manhattan. They also have a home in Pennington, New Jersey. Appiah has written about what it was like growing up gay in Ghana.

May 8, 1958

In Lima, Peru, U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon was shoved, stoned, booed and spat upon by protesters.

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

May 8, 1960

on CBS-TV’s “The Ed Sullivan Show.” Nina Simone, Bess Myerson, Ford and Hines, Gordon and Shiela MacRae, and Noonan and (Peter) Marshall, The Browns and Canada’s Wayne and Shuster performed.

May 8, 1962

Beatles manager Brian Epstein had a chance meeting with engineer Ted Huntly at a London record store. After Epstein related his discouragement about the Decca label rejecting the band, Huntly suggested he send a demo recording of the Beatles to EMI and, in particular, to one of their producers, George Martin.

May 8, 1964

Little Richard performed on the British TV show, Ready, Steady, Go! along with Carl Perkins and the Swinging Blue Jeans.

The Beatles had held the No.1 position on the US singles chart for fourteen weeks with three No.1’s in succession. ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’ for seven weeks, ‘She Loves You’ for two weeks and ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’, for five weeks.

May 8, 1969

John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr signed a business management contract with Allen Klein and his company ABKCO, but Paul McCartney refused to sign, continuing to let the Eastmans represent his interests.

LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes: The Beatles did not really survive Brian Epstien’s death. Elvis Presley might have lived had he outlived his manager, Col Tom Parker.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

May 8, 1970

The Beatles twelfth and final album, Let It Be was released, (it was recorded before the Abbey Road album, and was originally to be called ‘Get Back’). The album came in a deluxe-boxed edition with a ‘Get Back’ book.

05-08-1972 Darren Hayes – Born in Brisbane, Australia. He is a UK-based Australian singer-songwriter. He was the frontman and singer of the pop duo Savage Garden, whose 1997 album Savage Garden peaked at No. 1 in Australia, No. 2 in the United Kingdom, and No. 3 in the United States.

Savage Garden sold more than 23 million albums worldwide before parting ways in 2001. Hayes has had a successful solo career. At school, Hayes was bullied, and physically and verbally abused. He married a childhood sweetheart, makeup artist Colby Taylor, in 1994. They separated in 1998 and were divorced in 2000. Hayes started coming out as gay to friends and the head of his label, Sony, in the early 2000s. He married (via a civil partnership) his boyfriend of 2 years, Richard Cullen, on June 19, 2006, in London. Hayes and Cullen applied for a marriage license in California and were married on July 15, 2013, to show their support for those fighting for same-sex marriage rights. Hayes and Cullen currently live in the United States.

1976

Olivia Newton-John made her New York City debut with a concert at the Metropolitan Opera House.

ABBA scored their third UK No.1 single with ‘Fernando’, the song went on to become ABBA’s biggest selling single, with sales over 10 million. And also on day Abba started a nine-week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with their ‘Greatest Hits’ album.

1978, Canada – The trial begins of those in Montreal Truxx Bar raid, charged with being keepers of a common bawdyhouse (house of prostitution). In 1976 the City of Montréal launched a pre-Olympic cleanup of gays and prostitutes, a new wave of persecution that shocked the gay community out of its complacency, both francophone and anglophone, and whole-scale organizing started up again, energized by the simple exigency of self-defense. The police responded in October 1977 by swooping with machine-guns into the Stanley Street bar Truxx, and made the largest mass arrest since the October Crisis. 146 men were forcibly given VD tests, crammed incommunicado all night into tiny cells with standing room only, and charged the next day under the familiar vague and discriminatory bawdy-house and gross indecency laws. That night, 3000 protesters blocked the streets of what was then the West End Peel-Stanley gay ghetto for several hours, and as the Journal de Montréal headline screamed, “Les Homos et la police: c’est la guerre!” No more than 300 demonstrators had ever shown up for a gay lib demo before, and two months later an embarrassed and still idealistic PQ government (only one year in office) passed Loi 88, the first human rights legislation protecting lesbians and gays anywhere in the world (Norway joined Quebec in 1981). The charges hung over the heads of the accused for several years thereafter before finally being dropped.

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

1981 – Tennis great Billie Jean King (November 22, 1943) becomes the first prominent professional athlete to come out as a lesbian when her relationship with her secretary, Marilyn Barnett, becomes public in a May of 1981 “palimony” lawsuit filed by Barnett. As a result, King loses all of her endorsements. King is an advocate for gender equality and has long been a pioneer for equality and social justice. In 1973, at age 29, she won the “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match against the 55-year-old Bobby Riggs. King was also the founder of the Women’s Tennis Association and the Women’s Sports Foundation.

05-08-1981 Stephen Amell – Born in Toronto, Canada. He is a Canadian actor who portrays Oliver Queen/Arrow in the television series Arrow. He

is married to actress and model Cassandra Jean. A straight ally, Amell is a supporter of marriage equality. In 2013, the actor posted a message to more than 85,000 fans on his official Facebook page in support of gay rights and urged the Supreme Court to rule in favor of marriage equality. He stated, “Some of the most loving, powerful relationships I’ve witnessed have been same-sex couples.

05-08-1985 Sarah Vaillancourt – Born in Sherbrooke, Canada. She is a Canadian women’s ice hockey player. She is a member of the Canada women’s national team and a member of the Montreal Stars. She is a 2-time Olympic Gold Medallist (2006 & 2010)/World Championships Gold/4-time World Championships Silver/Clarkson Cup Champion (2010-11). From 2003 to 2009 Vaillancourt played 88 international games for Team Canada and scored 36 goals adding 39 assists. She is an out lesbian.

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

1990: Fitness trainer and former model Paul Barresi “outs” actor John Travolta in an interview in the National Enquirer, claiming that Travolta first propositioned him in the showers of a health club and that over the next two years they “had sex dozens of times while [Travolta] was dating girl stars.” Barresi later apologizes for the story claiming that he sold the interview to the tabloid because he needed the money.

1996,

South Africa – South Africa becomes the first country in the world to adopt language in its constitution protecting the civil rights of lesbians and gay men (Section 2 of the State Duty to Protect Human Rights) and, that same day, anti-apartheid campaigner Edwin Cameron (born 15 February 1953) becomes the world’s first openly gay Supreme Court judge. Cameron is well known for his HIV/AIDS and gay-rights activism and was hailed by Nelson Mandela as “one of South Africa‘s new heroes”.

LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes, it could have been Canada in the 1980s. South Africa had copied Canada’s Indian Act and named it Apartheid. Canada’s laws being a blend of British and French did not have marriage equality until 2003.

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

2005

CBS aired the first part of the new four-hour mini-series “Elvis.” The second part aired on May 11. Jonathan Rhys Meyers played the part of Elvis – it was the first Elvis biography to use Elvis recordings and also the first portrayal of Elvis as bisexual in entirely subtext, along with ignoring major romances: before Priscilla: Anita Wood and June Juanico, Producer Priscilla finally acknowledges Ann-Margaret yet leaves out Post-Priscilla: Linda Thompson and Ginger Alden – Nick Adams is also left out…

2006

Apple Computers won a lengthy legal battle over the right to sell music via the Internet without violating the trademark of the Beatles’ record label Apple.

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

2010, Lithuania – Baltic Pride parade takes place amid violence by anti-gay protestors. With the number of police officers in the street almost outnumbering the participants the Latvian capital of Riga hosted its most successful and peaceful Gay Pride Parade. Police presence was heavy as religious groups and some Neo-Nazis had announced their resistance to the Baltic Pride in Riga ahead of the event. But the counter demonstrators were not to be seen and between 300 and 400 people marched through the cobblestone streets of the Latvian capital.

2010 – Chaz Salvatore Bono’s (born March 4, 1969) new name is legally recognized by the court. He is an American advocate, writer, musician and actor. His parents are entertainers Sonny Bono and Cher. Bono is a transgender man. In 1995, several years after being outed as lesbian by the tabloid press, he publicly self-identified as such in a cover story in a leading American gay monthly magazine, The Advocate, eventually going on to discuss the process of coming out to oneself and to others in two books. Family Outing: A Guide to the Coming Out Process for Gays, Lesbians, and Their Families (1998) includes his coming-out account. The memoir The End of Innocence (2003) discusses his outing, music career, and partner Joan’s death from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Between 2008 and 2010, Bono underwent female-to-male gender transition. A two-part Entertainment Tonight feature in June 2009 explained that his transition had started a year before. In May 2010, he legally changed his gender and name. A documentary on Bono’s experience, Becoming Chaz, was screened at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and later made its television debut on the Oprah Winfrey Network. A year after his name change, he appears on the 13th season of the U.S. version of Dancing with the Stars. This was the first time an openly transgender man starred on a major network television show for something unrelated to being transgender.

2012: North Carolina bans same-sex marriages, civil unions and domestic partnerships.

2018

Health Canada announces on May 8 that they will lower the blood donation deferral period, clearing gay and bisexual men to donate blood after abstaining from sex with other men for three months, instead of one year. They still refuse to eliminate the ban.

2019

Queer California – rare photos capture hidden LGBT history

https://www.theguardian.com › us-news › may › 08 › q…

May 8, 2019 — A new exhibition gathers photos, video and contemporary art to showcase 200 years of California’s LGBTQ history.

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LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes:

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

Understood as noting to be debated, quibbled nor negotiated.

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

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

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