The United States Supreme Court handed down a ruling stating that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities were legally unenforceable.
1952
Kitty Wells recorded ‘It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels’ – as an answer song to Hank Thompson’s ‘The Wild Side of Life’. It became the first No.1 Billboard country hit for a solo female artist. In the 1970’s Elvis expanded on these songs with “There’s a Honky Tonk Angel(Who’ll Take Me Back In)” 1988 saw Nashville Producer Owen Bradley’s final session with Canada’s k.d. lang’s Shadowland LP, which included Kitty Wells, Loretta Lynn and Brenda Lee with k.d. doing “Honky Tonk Angels Medley”
May 3, 1959
Mexicans riot at a movie theatre playing “King Creole”
A false racist quote that continues to be attributed to Elvis inspired the protest, but more than that – Elvis was called a homosexual in the Mexican mainstream press and called out for his colorful clothes.
Four days of demonstrations by anti-war protesters began in Washington, DC.
May 3, 1973
The New York Times revealed that the mother’s face pictured on packages of Ivory Soap was that of porn actress Marilyn Chambers.
1976
David Bowie played the first of six sold out nights at Wembley, his first UK gig in three years.
1986
Dollywood (Dolly Parton’s theme park) opened in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.
1989
Actress/night club entertainer Christine Jorgensen, the first widely-known person to have sex reassignment surgery (in her case, male to female), died of lung and bladder cancer at 62.
For the first time in “Billboard” chart history, five singles were in both the pop and the R&B top 10. Little Richard’s “Long Tall Sally,” was number three twice.
1972
U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation Director J. Edgar Hoover died after a heart attack at age 77.
May 2, 1977
The first Broadway revival of the musical “The King and I,“ starring Yul Brynner and Constance Towers, opened at New York’s Uris Theatre for 695 performances.
The movie “Citizen Kane,” directed by and starring Orson Welles, co-starring Joseph Cotton, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick, Ray Collins, and Everett Sloane, premiered in New York.
1950
Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize. She was honored for her book of poetry, “Annie Allen.”
May 1, 1963
Lesley Gore lip-synced “It’s My Party” on ABC-TV’s “American Bandstand.”
1979
Elton John becomes the first Pop music star to perform in Israel. In three weeks time he’s the first Western solo pop performer to tour Russia.
1982
Barry Manilow scored his first UK #1 album when “Barry Live In Britain” went to the top of the chart. The LP was recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall in London in January and would go on to reach Platinum status.
1993
George Michael, Queen and Lisa Stansfield went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘The Five Live EP’ which was recorded at the Freddie Mercury tribute concert held in April 1992, at Wembley Stadium, London.
2001
Lisa Marie Presley sold her waterfront mansion in Clearwater, FL, to Kirstie Alley.
Elvis Presley recorded “Jailhouse Rock” arguably the first gay/bisexual rock n roll number 1 song.
1966
Cher “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)” was #7 1977
Natalie Cole’s biggest hit, “I’ve Got Love On My Mind”, at 9 1983
David Bowie with “Let’s Dance at 6 at at 8 Thomas Dolby had “She Blinded Me With Science” 1987 Madonna’s “La Isla Bonita” became her 11th consecutive Top Five single. 1988
Canadian 20 year old Celine Dion helps Switzerland win its first ever Eurovision Song Contest with her rendition of “Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi”. 1992 Madonna’s bustier was stolen from Fredrick’s Of Hollywood. A $1,000 reward was offered for its return. 1993 Elton John’s single “Simple Life” entered Billboard‘s Top 40, breaking Elvis Presley’s longstanding record with 24 consecutive years of Top 40 hits. 1997 An estimated 42 million viewers were tuned in as ABC-TV aired the “coming out” episode of the sitcom “Ellen,” in which the title character, played by Ellen DeGeneres, admitted she was a lesbian. 1999 The three former members of Spandau Ballet lost a court case against band songwriter Gary Kemp. They had claimed they were owed £1 million in lost royalties. The Judge said he had become a fan of the bands during the case. 2003 Madonna was #1 on the Album chart with American Life.
The original Broadway production of the musical “Hair,” starring Diane Keaton, Melba Moore, Lynn Kellogg, and Ronnie Dyson, opened at New York’s Biltmore Theatre for 1,750 performances.
1978 Barry Manilow remained in the #3 position with “Can’t Smile Without You” and at number 9: Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta teamed for a Top 10 smash with “You’re The One That I Want”
1989
Madonna had the #1 song with “Like A Prayer”,
At the Dollywood theme park in Tennessee, Porter Wagoner joined Dolly Parton on stage for the first of four sold-out shows, marking the first time they had performed together since their split in 1976.
2008
The Madonna album “Hard Candy” was released in the U.S.
April 28, 1956 Little Richard earned a third week at #1 on the R&B chart with “Long Tall Sally”.
April 28, 1965 Barbara Streisand‘s first TV special aired on CBS. It was titled “My Name is Barbara”.
1968
The Broadway musical ‘Hair’ opened at the Biltmore Theatre in New York City. The show featured the songs ‘Aquarius / Let the Sunshine In’, ‘Good Morning Starshine’ and the title song. The production ran for 1,729 performances, finally closing on July 1st, 1972.
1973
the Soundtrack to “Lady Sings the Blues” by Diana Ross falling to #8,
April 28, 1974 Olivia Newton-John released the single that would jump-start her career–“I Honestly Love You”.
1978 Dolly Parton’s “Here You Come Again” album was certified Platinum.
1979
Donna Summer titled her new song right as “Hot Stuff” was up from #79 to #29 on this date.
1980 Elton John released the single “Little Jeannie”.
1990
Sinead O’Connor remained at #1 with “Nothing Compares 2 (sic) U (sic)”.
1994 Lisa Marie Presley announced her separation from first husband Danny Keough after 5½ years of marriage and two children. The divorce became final eight days later. Lisa Marie would soon be married to Michael Jackson.
2004 George Michael was named as the most-played artist on British radio over the previous two decades.
queer for april 27 April 27, 1667 Poet John Milton, blind and impoverished, sold the copyright for his epic poem “Paradise Lost” for £10 April 27, 1957 Little Richard took over at #1 on the R&B chart with his classic “Lucille”. 1958On CBS-TV’s “The Ed Sullivan Show.” The Everly Brothers sang “All I Have To Do Is Dream,” which two weeks later went to #1 on the singles chart and stayed there for five weeks. Teresa Brewer, Sal Mineo, Georgia Gibbs, and Jack Carter also performed on the program. April 27, 1970 Elton John released his first single–“Border Song”. April 27, 1976 David Bowie was detained at the border between Poland and Russia while customs officials confiscated some Nazi memorabilia he had collected. Bowie claimed that the material was being used for research on a movie project about Nazi propaganda leader Joseph Paul Goebbels. 1980 Three years and a day after opening its doors, New York’s legendary Studio 54 was closed for liquor license violations. Several months earlier, owners Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager were jailed for tax evasion. The club would reopened under new management in 1981. 1985 Madonna was at #2 with “Crazy For You” 1990 homophobe and probable closet case Axl Rose (Guns N’ Roses) married Erin Everly. The marriage lasted for 27 days. 1993 Aretha Franklin’s first TV special was taped at New York’s Nederlander Theater and featured duets with Bonnie Raitt on “Since You’ve Been Gone,” and “Natural Woman” with Raitt and Gloria Estefan. Also performing were Smokey Robinson (singing a duet with Aretha on “Just to See Her”) and Elton John. 1996 Celine Dion could not be budged from the #1 position with “Because You Loved Me”, which scored a sixth straight week at #1. Mariah Carey was #2 with “Always Be My Baby”, and Alanis Morissette remained at #4 with “Ironic”. 2000 Vicki Sue Robinson, who scored the US Top 10 Disco hit “Turn The Beat Around” in 1976, died of cancer at the age of 46. 2003 Madonna went to No.1 on the UK album chart with ‘American Life’, the singers eighth No.1 album. Also a US No.1 album. 2004 Elton John publicly responded to the home audience rejection of Jennifer Hudson on TV’s “American Idol,” declaring the call-in voters “incredibly racist.” 2008 Vanity Fair caused a stir when it published a photo of a supposedly topless 15-year-old Miley Cyrus holding a sheet against her chest. Cyrus was quoted in a statement as saying she was “embarrassed” by the photo. “I apologize to my fans,” she said. But, 10 years later, Cyrus tweeted about the scandal: “IM NOT SORRY.” 2017 on ebay – “Miss Elvis Presley” the most obscure and rarest Books – set of 21. hand illustrated 1950s vernacular gay chap books!!
Elvis the Pelvis shook up America and the world in many ways – rarely credited for making more people want to learn English to know what he was saying, he continues to be a rebel that resonates – not only because of performing traditionally black music – but black women’s songs – country done rnb, rnb done country and delivered with a gospel fervour of purity in conflict with sexual gratification – saturday night just got paid and wanna get laid tunes.
Many of his early fans assumed he was gay owing to the clothing he wore and the stage make up. Mexico even had a riot over King Creole having a homosexual on screen.
a few years back the Elvis Information Network ran this:
“Miss Elvis Presley” the most obscure and rarest Books – set of 21.
“Miss Elvis Presley” – the world’s rarest Elvis book was (and still is) unique and controversial: The Elvis book world features several thousand titles. As to the rarest Elvis books published, normally titles such as Elvis Presley Ein Lebensbild (A Life Story) by Peter DeVeechi, The Name Code: The God of Elvis (Christopher Byrnes Matthews), Elvis Presley Dead or Alive? (Will Jima), Elvis The T.V. Years (I.R. Bailye) and Elvis UFO Connection (Richard Daniel) are usually mentioned.However, there is one title that few fans will have ever heard of, a one of a kind publication which lays claim to being the rarest Elvis book of all and was released as part of a set of 21 hand illustrated 1950s vernacular gay chap books!! It is: Miss Elvis Presley.Due to its (especially in the 1950s) scandalous subject matter the 21 book set received very little, if any, media coverage and more likely was only known about in underground gay circles.The little known set of 21 books was listed on ebay last year with an asking price of US$45,000.! Not surprisingly it did not sell. The set is still available to buy directly from: Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc ABAA
This is the text accompanying the set’s sales listing:
1958. Softcover. Oblong 24mos. Measuring 5″ x 8″. Illustrated throughout with original ink and watercolor drawings. Each 8pp. Stiff paper wrappers with index cards used for pages and bound with staples or brads. Overall near fine with some wear at the corners and light reading creases to the front wrap along the spine. An elaborate and vibrant collection of 21 gay cartoon books that appear to have been illustrated by one person. Each features very graphic and explicit tales of boy meets boy – and sometimes another boy (and in a few cases a werewolf, or Elvis Presley, or Dick Tracy and well, you get the idea). Each is lovingly composed of seven or eight index cards that have been illustrated on the unlined side and bound into hand decorated stiff wraps, some with applied elements. Though undated, the fashions, furniture, and cultural references suggest the late 1950s with titles such as *Miss Elvis Presley*, *I Was a Teen-Age Werewolf*, and *Space Girl* starring Flash Gordon. A unique collection of handcrafted drawings revealing the unvarnished exploits (or at least the fantasies) of a sexually active gay man of the 1950s with more than a dose of figurative and literal tongue-in-cheek humor and pun filled titles, such as *Ima Hoor Presents: Lover, a Sexascope Production*. The optimistic portrayal of certain physical attributes of the characters certainly parallel or reflect the similarly endowed characters of Tom of Finland, or might possibly even predate them slightly. Due to the singular and clandestine nature of the books, this collection would be almost impossible to recreate today. Originally held for many years by an art dealer who never encountered anything like it, the collection has been in the possession of only one other private owner since. Housed in a specially made slipcase.
The obscure release was consistent with an undercurrent in the Elvis story that he was gay or bi-sexual. Stories about his wearing of mascara and friendship Hollywood with known gay actor, Nick Adams, appeared in several 1950s magazines. (Book News, Source: EIN)
for 2021 I would like bi, pan, omni and trans women to stop name calling lesbians and be allies and realize we have the human rights of choice of dates, as do you.
so do not behave like a hetero man and insult, neg, name call, word debate, speak for science, or compare genitals to census demographics while ignoring another person’s no. that is red flag for relationships, btw ,eh.
1999 Sinead O’Connor was ordained as the first woman priest in the Latin Tridentine Church.
2011 Phoebe Snow, the velvet voiced singer / songwriter who reached #5 in the US in 1975 with “Poetry Man”, died of complications from a stroke at the age of 60.
there is a queer Phoebe Snow society and her husband in the 1970s, came out as gay.
2013
US country singer George Jones who had a string of No.1 songs between the 1950s and 1990s, died aged 81. Nicknamed Possum, his signature song was He Stopped Loving Her Today, a track about love and death. He was married to Tammy Wynette between 1969 and 1975 and the pair recorded several songs together in the 1970s.
Off the official story, Jones lifelong drinking and on/off with Tammy was possibly because Jones was closet gay with among others: Merle Haggard,
Nineties Dyke 