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Jun 8, 2017 — Today in LGBT History – June 8 … June is Pride month, a time during which I always reflect on my life’s journey. Two weeks ago, Kelly and I went …

Today in LGBT History – June 8 – Ronni Sanlo Literary http://ronnisanlo.com › today-in-lgbt-history-june-8-2Jun 8, 2018 — Today in LGBT History – June 8: June is LGBT Pride month! 1901, Spain — The first documented same-sex marriage.

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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

see also:

However:

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

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

Was There A Dark Side to Elvis and Gladys?

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

A) women and other men

B) men and women

C) heterosexual men, heterosexual women and LGBTQ2

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

Extra Credit:

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

LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes:

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

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

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

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

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

LGBTQ2 her/his story June 7

BCE to The Suffragettes

1778 – George Bryan “Beau” Brummell is born in London (June 7, 1778—March 30, 1840). Beau Brummell is credited with introducing, and establishing as fashion, the modern men’s suit, worn with a necktie. He claimed he took five hours a day to dress, and recommended that boots be polished with champagne. The style of dress was referred to as dandyism. He was the caricature of the gay male that persisted for generations. He lived in the poshest apartments, wore the most stylish clothes, and had an acerbic sense of humor. In the United States, Brummell’s life was dramatized in an 1890 stage play in four acts by Clyde Fitch with Richard Mansfield as the ‘Beau’. This in turn was adapted for the 1924 film Beau Brummel, with John Barrymore and Mary Astor. Brummell died of syphilis in an insane asylum in France.

06-07-1831 – 04-15-1892 Amelia Edwards – Born in London, England. She was an English novelist, journalist, traveller, and Egyptologist. Her most

successful literary works include The Phantom Coach (1864), Barbara’s History (1864), Lord Brackenbury (1880), and the Egyptian travelogue A Thousand Miles Up the Nile (1877). In 1882, she co-founded the Egypt Exploration Fund. Between 1889 – 1890, she took on a lecture tour in the United States. Her life partner of 30 years was Ellen Drew Braysher. Edwards died from influenza in 1892.

06-07-1899 – 02-22-1973 Elizabeth Bowen, CBE – Born in Dublin, Ireland. She was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer. In 1923 she married Alan

Cameron. The marriage has been described as “a sexless but contented union.” The marriage was reportedly never consummated. She had various extra-marital affairs with both men and women, including the American poet May Sarton. Bowen’s war novel The Heat of the Day (1948 in England & 1949 in the United States) is considered one of the definitive depictions of London during the bombing raids of WWII.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

06-07-1943 Nikki Giovanni – Born in Knoxville, Tennessee. She is an American writer, commentator, activist, and educator. Giovanni is one of the world’s most well-known African American poets. Her work includes poetry anthologies, poetry

recording, and nonfiction essays. Topics range from race and social issues to children’s literature. Since 1987, she has taught writing and literature at Virginia Tech, where she is a University Distinguished Professor. She has received the NAACP Image Award several times and has twenty honorary doctorates. Her many awards include the Rosa Parks and the Langston Hughes Award for Distinguished Contributions to Arts and Letters. She is openly lesbian.

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

1954

USA – An Example of Cultural Co-opting

June 7, 1954

With Big Joe Turner’s “Shake, Rattle and Roll” riding high on the Billboard R&B chart, Bill Haley And His Comets enter Decca Records’ New York studio to record the same number. Haley’s version will enter the Pop chart next August for an amazing 27 week run and rise to #7, becoming the first Rock ‘n’ Roll tune to sell a million copies.

UK – Mathematical and computer genius and the father of modern computer science Alan Turing (June 23, 1912 – June 7, 1954) commits suicide by cyanide poisoning 18 months after being sentenced to two years in prison or libido-reducing hormone treatment for a year as a punishment for homosexuality. Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence. Turing played a pivotal role in cracking intercepted coded messages that enabled the Allies to defeat the Nazis in many crucial engagements, including the Battle of the Atlantic. In so doing, he helped shortened the war in Europe by more than two years and saved over fourteen million lives. Turing was prosecuted in 1952 for homosexual acts when the Labouchere Amendment for “gross indecency” was still criminal in the UK. He accepted chemical castration treatment with DES as an alternative to prison. In 2009, following an Internet campaign, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an apology on behalf of the British government for “the appalling way he was treated.” Queen Elizabeth II granted him a posthumous pardon in 2013. The Alan Turing law is now an informal term for a 2017 law in the United Kingdom that retroactively pardoned men cautioned or convicted under historical legislation that outlawed homosexual acts.

“He was a national treasure, and we hounded him to his death,” John Graham-Cumming, a computer scientist, told the New York Times.

It wasn’t until 1967 when Britain began steps to decriminalize homosexuality, according to the New York Times.

Turing is remembered as one of the most innovative and influential scholars of the 20th century. His death remains debated – accident, suicide, or coerced suicide or murder.

06-07-1956 Robert Dover – Born in Chicago, Illinois. He is an American champion equestrian who has had international success in the sport of dressage.

He has competed in six consecutive Olympics, winning four team bronze medals. He also took team bronze at the 1994 World Equestrian Games. Dover is the most honored dressage rider in the United States and has been inducted to the United States Dressage Federation Hall of Fame. He is openly gay, and his partner is fellow rider, Robert Ross.

1957 – The board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union approves a national policy statement asserting that laws against sodomy and federal restrictions on employment of lesbians and gay men are constitutional.

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

1965

June 7, 1965

The U.S The USA Supreme Court handed down a decision that legalized the use of contraception by married couples.

1966

June 7, 1966

Sony Corporation unveiled its new consumer home videotape recorder. Able to play only black & white video, the unit sold for $995.

1969

the Soundtrack to “Hair”. It held down #1 on the Album chart for the seventh consecutive week; The Soundtrack to “Romeo & Juliet” was #5

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

1971

The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Paul Cohen’s disturbing the peace conviction in Los Angeles, establishing the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment of the Constitution.

June 7, 1972

After playing off-Broadway for four months, the original production of “Grease,” starring Adrienne Barbeau, Carol Demas, and Barry Bostwick, opened at New York’s Broadhurst Theatre. The musical changed theaters twice more during its 8-year run as it racked up a total of 3,388 performances. Richard Gere was among those playing “Danny” during the monumental run while John Travolta played the character Doody at the age of 17.

1975

Elton John’s ninth studio album ‘Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboys’, went to No.1 on the US album chart, the first album ever to enter the US chart at No.1. (where it stayed for seven weeks): Elton toppled Earth, Wind & Fire’s album That’s the Way of the World while the Soundtrack to “Tommy” fell to #3. Jeff Beck was #4 with Blow By Blow and America reached #5 with Hearts“. The rest of the Top 10: Alice Cooper with Welcome To My Nightmare, Chicago VIII was at #7, Bad Company fell to #8 with Straight Shooter, Nuthin’ Fancy from Lynyrd Skynyrd was #9 and Carly Simon had the #10 album with Playing Possum.

1977 – A referendum in Dade, County Florida, forced by pressure from fundamentalist Christians singer Anita Bryant, husband Bob Green and their “Save Our Children” organization, repeals the new county ordinance prohibiting discrimination on basis of sexual orientation. It was the first major battle — and defeat — in the struggle for gay civil rights in United States. It was also the first successful use of “child molestation tactics” by anti- gay forces and set the pattern of attack for the remainder of the 1970s and into the 80s. The following year Florida Governor Reubin Askew signed a law prohibiting gay men and lesbians from adopting children. That law was cited to also prevent lesbians and gay men from having custody of their own children. Bryant faced severe backlash from gay rights supporters across the U.S. She lost singing contracts and endorsements and was removed as spokesperson for the Florida Orange Juice Commission. The Miami-Dade gay rights ordinance was reinstated in December 1, 1998, more than 20 years later.

LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes: Given NAMBLA there is merit to the pedophile concerns. Given “rather be a pervert than a TERF”, there is merit to the pedophile concerns.

1978:

The Briggs Initiative qualifies for the November ballot in California, where it will be listed as Proposition 6.

Prince‘s first single “Soft and Wet” was released.

1979

06-07-1979 Anne McClain – Born in Spokane, Washington. She is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army of Engineers and a NASA astronaut. She

was the Flight Engineer for Expedition 58/59 to the International Space Station. McClain spent just over 203 days in space. McClain married Summer Worden in 2014 and was step-mother to Worden’s son. McClain and Worden divorced in August 2017. On August 23, 2019, The New York Times reported that Worden had filed a complaint against McClain accusing her of illegally accessing financial information while she was on the International Space Station. Worden’s accusation outed McClain as a lesbian, making her the second known LGBT astronaut after Sally Ride. On April 7, 2020, McClain was cleared of all charges and Worden faces a two-count indictment on charges of making false statements.

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

1989: Denmark creates registered partnerships for same-sex couples, offering identical rights as marriage within the country.

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

1990

Fed up with years of seizures, Little Sister’s launches a constitutional challenge to Customs’ censorship powers on June 7th, 1990. Together with the BC Civil Liberties Association, the store contends that Customs is discriminating against gay men and lesbians and violating the freedom of expression guaranteed under the Charter Of Rights And Freedoms. December 15, 2000, ten years after it began, the Little Sister’s case reached the Supreme Court Of Canada which rules that Customs targeted Little Sister’s solely because it’s a gay and lesbian bookstore. But also ruled that Customs can continue to screen and censor material at the border, provided it screens equally, without regard to the orientation of the material. This meant that Customs now had to prove that confiscated materials were obscene while previously it was up to the importer to prove otherwise.

Prince changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol (

). (from the name “The Artist formerly Known as Prince) – the symbol being a combination of the Male/female ones. The name change reflected an ongoing battle with Warner Brothers Records over ownership and direction of his music.

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

2000

The “Prince: A Celebration” party began at Paisley Park Studios. The weeklong event was in celebration of The Artist reclaiming his name “Prince” after a 7-year battle with Warner Brothers.

2006: The Federal Marriage Amendment fails to pass the U.S. Senate. Of the 60 votes required to invoke the cloture motion, 49 senators voted to put the amendment to a vote and 48 voted against.

2009

Elton John’s musical Billy Elliot won 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical.

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

06-07-2012

USA –Washington State begins same-sex marriage ceremonies.

Denmark – The Danish parliament legalizes same-sex marriage. Same-sex sexual activity was legalized in 1933, and since 1977, the age of consent is 15, regardless of orientation or gender. Denmark was the first country in the world to grant legal recognition to same-sex unions, in the form of “registered partnerships“, in 1989. On June 7, 2012, the law was replaced by a new same-sex marriage law, which came into effect on June 15, 2012,and Denmark recognizes same-sex marriages performed elsewhere. Discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation was entirely prohibited in 2004. Same-sex couples are allowed to jointly adopt since 2010, while previously allowing stepchild adoptions and limited co-guardianship rights for non-biological parents. Gays and lesbians are also allowed to serve openly in the military. The Kingdom of Denmark also includes two autonomous overseas territories, Greenland and the Faroe Islands, which are generally more socially conservative. However, Greenland legalized same-sex marriage in 2016

06-07-2014

For the first time, the 39th annual Washington D.C. Pride Parade featured a military color guard. They led the parade presenting the U.S. flag and flags of each service branch.

2016

Cher confirmed that a musical based on her life would debut on Broadway in 2018 with three different actresses portraying her at different points in her life. “The Cher Show” is scheduled to open at New York’s Neil Simon Theatre on December 3, 2018.

2020

Grease: John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John Reflect on THAT Finale Reveal | rETro

ET spoke with the cast of ‘Grease’ about turning the hit Broadway musical into a cinema classic. John Travolta reveals who else was considered to portray Sandy, and why he knew Olivia Newton-John was the only person for the role. ‘Grease Sing-a-Long’ will air June 7 at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.

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Today in LGBT History – JUNE 7 | Ronni Sanlo https://ronnisanlo.com › today-in-lgbt-history-june-7-3Jun 7, 2019 — The snippets of LGBTQ history here are the stories of our lives, … 1778, London – Beau Brummell (June 7, 1778—March 30, 1840) is born.

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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/his story June 6

BCE to The Suffragettes

1832, UK – Jeremy Bentham (February 4, 1748 – June 6, 1832) died. He was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer and founder of modern utilitarianism. Bentham wrote the first known argument for homosexual law reform in England in around 1785, at a time when the legal penalty for buggery was death by hanging. His advocacy stemmed from his utilitarian philosophy in which the morality of an action is determined by the net consequence of that action on human well-being. He argued that homosexuality was a victimless crime, and therefore not deserving of social approbation or criminal charges. He regarded popular negative attitudes against homosexuality as an irrational prejudice, fanned and perpetuated by religious teachings. However, he did not publicize his views as he feared reprisal. His powerful essay was not published until 1978. The essay Offences Against One’s Self, argued for the liberalization of laws prohibiting homosexual sex. The essay remained unpublished during his lifetime for fear of offending public morality. It was published for the first time in 1931.Bentham does not believe homosexual acts to be unnatural, describing them merely as “irregularities of the venereal appetite”. The essay chastises the society of the time for making a disproportionate response to what Bentham appears to consider a largely private offence – public displays or forced acts being dealt with rightly by other laws. When the essay was published in the Journal of Homosexuality in 1978, the “Abstract” stated that Bentham’s essay was the “first known argument for homosexual law reform in England.” On his death in 1832, Bentham left instructions for his body to be first dissected, and then to be permanently preserved as an “auto-icon” (or self-image), which would be his memorial. This was done, and the auto-icon is now on public display at University College London (UCL).

06-06-1875 – 08-12-1955 Thomas Mann – Born in the Free City of Lûbeck, German Empire. He was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and won the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1905, Mann married Katia Pringsheim, daughter of a wealthy, secular Jewish industrialist family. She later joined the Lutheran church. The couple had six children. The two oldest, Erika and Klaus, were gay. The outbreak of WWII on September 1, 1939, motivated Mann to make anti-Nazi speeches (in German) to the German people via the BBC. He was one of the few publicly active opponents of Nazism among German expatriates in the U.S. The Mann family emigrated to the U.S. in 1939, where he taught at Princeton University. In 1942, the family moved to the Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California, where they lived until after WWII. On June 23, 1944, Mann became a naturalized citizen of the United States. He returned to Europe in 1952, but never lived in Germany again. Mann’s diaries, unsealed in 1975, tell of his struggles with his bisexuality, which found reflection in his works, most prominently in his novella, Death In Venice.

1885 – A’Lelia Walker (June 6, 1885 – August 17, 1931) was an American businesswoman and patron of the arts. She was the only surviving child of Madam C.J. Walker, popularly credited as being the first self-made female millionaire in the United States and one of the first African American millionaires. “A’Lelia Walker probably had much to do with the manifest acceptance of bisexuality among the upper class in Harlem,” wrote Lillian Faderman in Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers, “Those who had moral reservations about bisexuality or considered it strange or decadent learned to pretend a sophistication and suppress their disapproval if they desired A’Lelia’s goodwill.” A’Lelia inherited her mother’s fortune but also ran the business herself, opening training centers for Walker agents and the Walker Hair Parlor. She married three times and has been linked to the legendarily hilarious Mayme White (daughter of the 19th century’s last black U.S. Congress member), stage actress Edna Thomas (November 1, 1885 – July 22, 1974)and Mae Fane, about whom little is known.

06-06-1894 – 02-29-1972 Violet Trefusis – Born in London, England.

She was an English socialite and author. She was married to Denys Trefusis from 1919 until his death in 1929. Violet is best remembered for her long affair with Vita Sackville-West. Both women wrote about their affair in novels. Their affair was also written about in Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando: A Biography. Violet wrote novels and non-fiction, both in English and in French. In 1921, the two women went to France where they spent six weeks together. Their affair ended when

Vita’s husband threatened to break off their marriage. From 1923 on, Violet was one of the many lovers of the Singer sewing machine heiress Winnaretta Singer, wife of the gay Prince Edmond de Polignac. In 1940 Violet and Vita met again and they kept in touch for the rest of their lives. A lot of their love letters and poems written to each other have survived.

06-06-1913 – 07-13-1988 Hilda Gobbi – Born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary (at the time she was born, Budapest was part of the Austro-Hungarian

Empire). She was an award-winning Hungarian actress best known for her portrayals of elderly women. Gobbi as Aunt Szabo in the radio soap opera The Szabo Family was well-loved. She was contracted with the National Theater in 1935. During WWII she was a resistance fighter. After the war, she worked at the National Theater until 1959. In 1960, she began working at the József Attila Theatre. At a time when homosexuality was illegal, Gobbi was openly lesbian and often dressed in men’s clothing. She had a long relationship

with actress Hédi Temessy in the late 1950s to the 1960s. After their relationship ended, Gobbi became involved with writer, Erzsébet Galgóczi. In 1982, Gobbi published her autobiography. Her career on film, radio, and stage spanned over fifty years. She died in 1988 leaving her estate to the National Theater and set up an annual award for the best theater production of the season. A statue of her is outside of the National Theatre.

June 6, 1933

In Camden, New Jersey, the first drive-in movie theater opened. The price of admission was 25 cents for the car, plus 25 cents per person, and no group charged more than one dollar.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

06-06-1942 Ulrike Ottinger – Born in Konstanz, Germany. She is a German filmmaker and photographer. She wrote her first screenplay in 1966. In

1969, she founded the film club “Visueli” in West Germany and directed it until 1972. Her film, Joan of Arc of Mongolia, was entered into the 1989 Berlin International Film Festival. Her film style has been referred to as bizarre and surrealistic. Ottinger has also worked as a photographer, lithographer, and painter. Since 2019, she has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She has lived in Berlin since 1973 and has always been openly lesbian.

1944 – D-DAY. The American/British/Canadian invasion of Normandy Beaches in WWII. While it’s not a specific LGBT-related event, there were undoubtedly many hundreds of young gay soldiers killed on those beaches. 160,000 landed, 9,000 killed or wounded. Today we remember them with gratitude.

06-06-1949 Holly Near – Born in Ukiah, California. She is an American singer-songwriter,

actress, teacher, and activist. Her television career began in 1969 with a part on The Mod Squad. She also appeared on Room 222,All in the Family and The Partridge Family, as well as other shows. In 1970, Near became a member of the Broadway musical Hair. In her long career in folk and protest music, she has worked with many other musicians, including Ronnie Gilbert, Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Joan Baez, and Harry Belafonte. In the early 1990’s she wrote an autobiography, Fire in the Rain, Singer in the Storm.

In 1970, Near was a cast member of the Broadway musical Hair. Following the Kent State shootings in May of that year, the entire cast staged a silent vigil in protest. The song, “It Could Have Been Me”, released on A Live Album 1974, was her heartfelt response to the shootings. In 1971, she joined the FTA (Free The Army) Tour, an anti-Vietnam War road show of music, comedy, and plays, organized by antiwar activist Fred Gardner and actors Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland. In 1972, Near founded an independent record label called Redwood Records (now defunct) to produce and promote music by “politically conscious artists from around the world”. Near became a feminist, linking international feminism and anti-war activism. In 1976, Near came out as a lesbian and began a three-year relationship with musician Meg Christian(born 1946). Near was probably the first out lesbian to be interviewed in People Magazine. “I don’t know why. Just isn’t a handle I relate to. I include human and civil rights in all that I do. I am monogamous. I relate to that term. I am a feminist. If I am with a woman I am a feminist. If I am alone I am a feminist. If I am with a man I am a feminist. And until the one I am with and I part ways, then I am just what I am in that relationship and I don’t much think about what I will do next. I focus more on what I bring to that relationship. It is a full-time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment. I think my feminism and my ability to love has been highly informed by having had lesbian relationships. The quality of my life has, without question, been elevated.” For a brief moment in time I struggled with sexual identity, somewhere in the mid-’80s. Then I realized it was the wrong question for me. That is not to say it is the wrong question for others. It just wasn’t important to me. So I haven’t really thought much about it since. I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations.”

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

1950, Belgium – Chantal Anne Akerman (6 June 1950 – 5 October 2015) is born. She was a Belgian film director, artist and professor of film at the City College of New York. Her best-known film is Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles(1975). According to film scholarGwendolyn Audrey Foster, Akerman’s influence on feminist filmmaking and avant-garde cinema has been substantial. Although Akerman is often grouped within feminist and queer thinking, the filmmaker has articulated her distance from an essentialist feminism. Akerman resists labels relating to her identity like “female”, “Jewish” and “lesbian”, choosing instead to immerse herself in the identity of being a daughter. Akerman has stated that she sees film as a “generative field of freedom from the boundaries of identity”.Akerman died on 5 October 2015 in Paris. Le Monde reported that she committed suicide.

06-06-1950 – 10-05-2015 Chantal Akerman – Born in Brussels, Belgium. She is a Belgian film and TV director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and professor of film

at the City College of New York. Her best-known film is Jeanne Dielman, 23 qui du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975). According to film scholar Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Akerman’s influence on feminist filmmaking and avant-garde cinema has been substantial. Her latest film, No Home Movie, was being shown at the 2015 New York Film Festival. She committed suicide on October 5, 2015. According to her sister, she had been hospitalized for depression. She was known as being openly lesbian.

06-06-1952 Harvey Fierstein – Born in Brooklyn, New York. He is an American actor, playwright, and voice actor. Fierstein won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his own play Torch Song Trilogy and the Tony Award for Best

Actor in a Musical for playing Edna Turnblad in Hairspray. He wrote the book for the musical La Cage aux Folles, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical and the book for the Tony Award-winning Kinky Boots. In 2007 he was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. He appeared in Showtime’s Nurse Jackie in 2014. Fierstein is openly gay and came out at a time when very few celebrities did. Occasionally he writes columns about gay issues. He now resides in Ridgefield, Connecticut.

06-06-1955 Sandra Bernhard – Born in Flint, Michigan, her family moved to Scottsdale, Arizona when she was ten. She is an American comedian, singer, actress, and author. She first

gained attention in the late 1970s with her stand-up comedy. In 1977 she was cast as a supporting player on The Richard Pryor Show. Her big break came in 1983 when she was cast by Martin Scorsese to star as a stalker and kidnapper Marsha in the film King of Comedy for which she won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 1985 she began performing her first one-woman show. In 1988 she launched an Off-Broadway show called Without You I’m Nothing, with You I’m Not Much Better. In 1990 it was turned into a film and a double album. She was a frequent guest on David Letterman’s NBC program. She was on the show with her then-good-friend (and rumored lover) Madonna. The two alluded to their romantic relationship. In 1991, Bernhard began playing the role of Nancy Barlett on the hit sitcom Roseanne. She appeared in 33 episodes between 1991 and 1997 and was one of the first actresses to portray a lesbian recurring character on American television. Bernhard is openly bisexual and a strong supporter of LGBT rights.

06-06-1958 Tracey Adams – Born Debra Blaisdell in Severna Park, Maryland. She is an American porn superstar whose career has spanned three decades. Comfortable sexing with men and women in film but is openly a lesbian. She has appeared in over 300 movies during the 1980s and 90s. She also appeared in mainstream movies, such as the 1986 comedy film Wimps and in the French TV movie La femme en noir in 1988.

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06-06-1961 Grace Ross – She grew up in New York (birthplace unknown) before she moved to Worcester,

Massachusetts. In 2006 Ross became the first open lesbian to run for Governor of Massachusetts. She lost to Deval Patrick receiving only 1.95% of the total vote. In December 2006, she was named “Person of the Year” by the New England gay-orientated magazine, IN News Weekly. In 2008, Ross helped found the Massachusetts Alliance Against Predatory Lending, a coalition of over 30 community organizations, housing counseling agencies, legal services groups and others who have come together to work on the sub-prime foreclosure crisis in Massachusetts. She is also active in the Worcester Anti-Foreclosure Team (WAFT).

1967 – The New York City’s Civil Service Commission makes public its year-old policy of allowing city agencies to hire and employ lesbians and gay men. The new policy comes partly in response to the lobbying efforts of the Mattachine Society of New York.

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06-06-1970 J.C. Adams – Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is an American author, magazine editor, and reporter whose work focuses on the adult pornographic industry. He is also a director of gay phonographic films. Since 2003, Adams has been a regular guest on the Derek and Romaine Show, on SIRIUS OutQ Satellite Radio. He is known to be bisexual.

June 6, 1972

David Bowie released “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars” album.

1976

College student Richard Heakin was leaving a Pride event at Stonewall Tavern when he was followed by four teenagers, who then beat him to death. His killers were tried as juveniles and only received probation for what was determined a hate crime. The sentence shocked and outraged Tucson residents, who then rallied to demand justice for the slain 21-year old. As a result of their actions, the city became one of the first in the nation to add sexual orientation to its anti-discrimination laws the following year, according to Tucson.com.

06-06-1978 Mondo Guerra (Armando Thomas “Mondo” Guerra) – Born in the Denver, Colorado area. Guerra is a fifth-generation Mexican-American from the Denver area. He is a

fashion designer and activist. Guerra finished as runner-up on Season 8 of Project Runway, and later won the series’ first All-Stars season. He was also the first contestant on the show to come from Denver, Colorado. On November 30, 2010, Guerra appeared with Liza Minnelli, Kenneth Cole, and Cheyenne Jackson on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange to ring the opening bell and usher in World AIDS Day. He is HIV positive. Guerra was listed on Out’s 3rd Annual 100 Most Eligible Bachelors (2013).

1979, Canada – Toronto Teacher Don Franco is charged with being a keeper of a common bawdyhouse in his own home after a police raid found him in an orgy with a number of other men. A year earlier Franco was arrested in a police raid at the Barracks baths and then released his name to the media. Franco was close to retirement and worried that a conviction might lead to losing his pension. He didn’t back down, and dozens of hearings later he was acquitted of the charge. He retired with full pension. His was an important early victory in the struggle for gay rights. In a time when the fight for rights was savage, Franco was involved with just about every protest, group or movement. He was connected to varying degrees with AIDS Action Now, the Ontario Coalition for Gay Rights, the Campaign for Equal Families and the NDP, just to name a few. He got little credit for the work that he did and didn’t profit from his good deeds, but he is one of a select group of people who were involved in almost the entire history of the fight for gay rights in Canada. He died on February 3, 2014, at the age of 90.

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1987

Whitney Houston had her second UK No.1 single with ‘I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)’. It reached No.1 in over a dozen other countries and won a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1988

06-06-1988 Gideon Glick – Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is an American stage performer and movie

actor. His Broadway work includes the role of Ernst in the musical Spring Awakening. Glick is openly gay and has stated in interviews that he came out when he was in the seventh grade. He was listed on Out’s 3rd Annual 100 Most Eligible Bachelors (2013).

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

06-06-1991 Park Cannon – Born in Albany, Georgia. She is an American politician that serves in the Georgia House of Representatives, representing the 58th district. On March 25, 2021, as Governor Kemp was signing the controversial voting legislation, Cannon knocked on the Governor’s office doors in an attempt to discuss her concerns about the bill. She was arrested by Georgia State Patrol officers and charged with “Preventing or disrupting General Assembly sessions or other meetings of members.” The incident sparked backlash towards both the officers and Georgian Republican lawmakers. She was not prosecuted.

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

2001

Twenty of Elton John‘s automobiles sold at auction for $2.75 million. Elton said he, ‘doesn’t have time to drive them anymore’. The most expensive was a ’93 Jaguar that sold for over $330,000.

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2012 – A federal district judge in New York becomes the fifth to rule against the Defense of Marriage Act. The case, Windsor v. United States, eventually will reach the Supreme Court. United States v. Windsor, 570 U.S. 744 (2013) (Docket No. 12-307), is a landmark civil rights case in which the United States Supreme Court held that restricting U.S. federal interpretation of “marriage” and “spouse” to apply only to opposite-sex unions, by Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), is unconstitutional under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment. In the majority opinion, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote: “The federal statute is invalid, for no legitimate purpose overcomes the purpose and effect to disparage and to injure those whom the State, by its marriage laws, sought to protect in personhood and dignity.”Edith Windsor and Thea Spyer, a same-sex couple residing in New York, were lawfully married in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 2007. Later in 2008, New York recognized their marriage following a court decision. Spyer died at the age of 77 in 2009, leaving her entire estate to Windsor. Windsor sought to claim the federal estate tax exemption for surviving spouses. She was barred from doing so by Section 3 of DOMA (codified at 1 U.S.C. § 7), which provided that the term “spouse” only applied to marriages between a man and woman. The Internal Revenue Service found that the exemption did not apply to same-sex marriages, denied Windsor’s claim, and compelled her to pay $363,053 in estate taxes.On November 9, 2010, Windsor sued the federal government in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, seeking a refund because DOMA singled out legally married same-sex couples for “differential treatment compared to other similarly situated couples without justification.”

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1465, Spain – In a location around Ávila, a group of Castilian noblemen depose King Henry IV (Enrique IV) of Castile(5 January 1425 – 11 December 1474) in effigy instead proclaimed his half-brother Prince Alfonso, better known as Alfonso the Innocent, as king. This ceremony became known by its detractors as the farce of Ávila. The accusations against the king: he was sympathetic with Moslems; he was a homosexual; he was of peaceful character; and he was not the true father of his daughter, the infanta Juana. As each charge is read, one of the symbols of rank is removed from the statue. Finally, with the cry “¡A tierra, puto!” the statue was thrown from the platform while the mob laments the death of the king. Then Enrique’s half-brother, Alfonso, age 12, was brought forth, proclaimed and crowned the new king.

16-05-1834 – 01-05-1915 Annie Adams Fields – Born in Boston Massachusetts. She was the second wife of the publisher and author James Thomas Fields, whom she

married in 1854. She encouraged up and coming writers such as Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Freeman, and Emma Lazarus. She was equally at home with great and established figures including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose biography she compiled. Fields was also a philanthropist and social reformer. She founded the Holly Tree Inns, coffeehouses serving inexpensive and nutritious meals, and the Lincoln Street Home, a safe and inexpensive residence for unmarried working women. After Field’s husband died in 1881, she lived with Sarah Orne Jewett for the rest of Jewett’s life. Jewett died in 1909. Field’s diaries remain unpublished, except for excerpts published by M.A. Dowel in 1922. Fields remains a somewhat puzzling figure. Her writing reflects a traditional orientation toward sentimentalism and the cult of true womanhood. However, she was a supporter of “Women’s emancipation,” and her relationship with Jewett and others suggest she was a lesbian.

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1851

In the weekly anti-slave journal The National Era, Harriet Beecher Stow published the first installment of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Originally she used the subtitle “The Man That Was A Thing,” but soon changed it to “Life Among the Lowly.”

1883 – Birth date of John Maynard Keynes, economist and mathematician. Keyes an English economist, fundamentally changed the theory and practice of macroeconomics and the economic policies of governments. He built on and greatly refined earlier work on the causes of business cycles, and is widely considered to be one of the most influential economists of the 20th century and the founder of modern macroeconomics. Time magazine included Keynes among its Most Important People of the Century in 1999, saying that “his radical idea that governments should spend money they don’t have may have saved capitalism.

Attitudes in the Bloomsbury Group, in which Keynes was avidly involved, were relaxed about homosexuality. Keynes, together with writer Lytton Strachey, had reshaped the Victorian attitudes of the Cambridge Apostles: “since [their] time, homosexual relations among the members were for a time common”, wrote Bertrand Russell. Artist Duncan Grant, was one of Keynes’s great loves. Keynes was also involved with Lytton Strachey though they were for the most part love rivals, not lovers. Keynes had won the affections of Arthur Hobhouse and as with Grant, fell out with a jealous Strachey for it. Strachey had previously found himself put off by Keynes, not least because of his manner of “treat[ing] his love affairs statistically”.

Political opponents have used Keynes’s sexuality to attack his academic work. One line of attack held that he was uninterested in the long term ramifications of his theories because he had no children.

06-05-1884 – 08-27-1969 Ivy Compton-Burnett – Born in Pinner, Middlesex, United Kingdom. She was an English novelist. In 1955, she was awarded the James Tait Black

Memorial Prize for her novel Mother and Son. Her work focused on the late-Victorian upper classes. Manservant and Maidservant (1947) is considered to be her best work. She is important for lesbian studies because she treated her lesbian characters just like everyone else. In 1916, she met Margaret Jourdain. Described as a New Woman, Jourdain, a writer and an expert on English furniture and interiors, decorated the series of apartments they shared for more than three decades. Jourdain died in 1951.

06-05-1887 – 09-17-1948 Ruth Benedict – Born in New York, New York. She was an American anthropologist. She had advanced thinking in social sciences. Benedict taught her first anthropology course at Barnard college in 1922 and

among the students there was Margaret Mead. Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead are considered to be the two most influential and famous anthropologist of their time. They each felt a sense of pride at being a successful working woman during a time when this was uncommon. They created a companionship that began through their work, but which also during the early period was of an erotic character. In a memoir about her parents, With a Daughter’s Eye, Margaret Mead’s daughter implies that the relationship between Benedict and Mead was sexual. After the affair ended they still remained life-long friends. Benedict also had an 8-year relationship with Natalie Raymond.

06-05-1898 – 08-19-1936 Federico Garcia Lorca – Born in Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, Andalusia, Spain. Spanish poet, dramatist, and theatre director. He achieved international

recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of ’27. He had an intense relationship with Salvador Dali from 1925 to 1928, which forced him to acknowledge his homosexuality. The friendship between Dali and Lorca had a strong element of mutual passion, but Dali rejected the erotic advances of the poet. His best-known book of poetry is Romancero Gitano (Gypsy Ballads) published in 1928. He was executed by Nationalist forces at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War on August 19, 1936.

06-05-1937 Helene Cixous – Born in Oran, French Algeria to Jewish parents. She is a professor, Algerian/French

feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher, literary critic, and rhetorician. Cixous is best-know for The Laugh of the Medusa, which established her as one of the mothers of contemporary feminist theory. Cixous founded the first center of feminist studies at the University of Paris, the first at a European university. She is known to be bisexual.

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06-05-1951 Suze Orman – Born in Chicago, Illinois. She is an American financial advisor, author, motivational speaker, and television host. She worked as a financial advisor for

Merrill Lynch. In 1983 she became the vice-president at Prudential Bache Securities and in 1987 founded the Suze Orman Financial Group. Her program The Suze Orman Show began airing on CNBC in 2002. She has written several books on the topic of personal finance. In February 2007, Orman said that her sexual orientation is lesbian. In 2008, Orman donated money to the Democratic Party and in an interview with Larry King in 2008 said she favors the policies of the Democratic Party and Barack Obama, especially in regards to people in same-sex relationships.

06-05-1955 Gregory S. Harris – Born in Denver, Colorado. A Democrat, he is a member of the Illinois House of Representatives from the 13th district. Harris is one of four

openly gay members of the Illinois General Assembly. In 2010, he sponsored The Illinois Religious Freedom Protection & Civil Union Act, which was signed into law by Governor Pat Quinn. The law established civil unions for both heterosexual and same-sex couples. (Same-sex marriage has been legally recognized in Illinois since a law signed by Governor Pat Quinn on November 20, 2013, took effect on June 1, 2014).

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1964

‘Liza Jane’ became the first recording to be released as a single by David Bowie (but under the name Davie Jones with the King Bees). Despite promoting the single on the television shows Juke Box Jury, Ready Steady Go! and The Beat Room, and receiving good radio coverage, the single sold poorly and the band was subsequently dropped from the label Vocalion Pop. Jones later became David Bowie to avoid confusion with Davy Jones of The Monkees.

1967 – A Los Angeles homophile group called Pride mobilizes a crowd of several hundred demonstrators on Sunset Boulevard to protest police raids on gay bars.

1968 – William Weisel of ABC News was shot in the stomach by Sirhan Sirhan during the assassination of Robert Kennedy in Los Angeles. During the 1970’s. Weisel owned a popular gay dance club in Washington, DC.

1969 – The “Committee for Homosexual Freedom” newsletter announced that after two weeks of picketing, Frank Dennaro, who was fired from his job at Tower Records because he was gay, was re-hired. Tower Records also instituted perhaps one of the first non-discrimination hiring policies which included gay men because of the picketing. This was one month before the Stonewall Riots in New York City would happen.

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Women self exploiting for a male gaze, from those obsessed to casual interest; women’s equality is not about being a poorly behaved as males, who continue to be the pedophiles of children, as well as of adult women. Women do not self id out of the harm caused by males who confess cotton ceiling.

06-05-1972 Buck Angel – Born in the San Fernando Valley, California. He is a transgender (female-to-male) advocate and porn star. He is the founder of Buck Angel Entertainment, as a

vehicle to produce media projects. He received the 2007 AVN Award as Transsexual Performer of the Year and works as an advocate, educator, lecturer, and writer. He created a unique niche, calling himself “The Man With a Pussy.”

1974

Patti Smith recorded her first song. It was her version of “Hey Joe.”

06-05-1974 Chad Allen – Born in Cerritos, California, he is an American actor. Beginning his career as a child actor at the age of seven, he is a three-time Young Artist Award winner and GLADD Media Award honoree. He was a teen idol during

the late 1980s as David Witherspoon on the NBC family drama Our House and as Zach Nichols on the NBC sitcom My Two Dads. As an adult, he played Matthew Cooper on the CBS western drama Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman. He retired from acting in April 2015. In 1996, at the age of 21, Allen was outed as gay when the US tabloid The Globe published photos of him kissing another man in a hot tub at a party. Allen has since become an activist for the LGBT community. Retiring from acting, he plans to become a clinical psychologist.

06-05-1978 Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla – Born in Mombasa, Kenya. He is an author and filmmaker of Indian descent. He lives in Los Angeles. Dhalla is most famous for his novel Ode to Lata published in 2002, which was adapted to a film in 2008 under the title The Ode.Ode to Lata was the first South Asian gay novel ever to be reviewed by The Los Angeles Times and to be excerpted by Genre Magazine. It was also the first account of the South Asian gay experience from an author from the African continent.

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1981 –

The first official documentation of the condition to be known as AIDS is published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The L.A. Times reports the first mention of AIDS in the mainstream American press. HIV/AIDS (though these words are not used yet) is first mentioned in print. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)– June 5, 1981 / Vol. 30 / No. 21- reports the case of an unusual pneumonia in Los Angeles. “In the period October 1980-May 1981, five young men, all active homosexuals, were treated for biopsy-confirmed Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia at three different hospitals in Los Angeles, California.”

At 4 am on the night of May 30th. fifty-four police officers smashed through the back door of the Pisces Bath House in Edmonton, Canada. . Fifty-six men were arrested. Mug shots with names were taken. Crown prosecutors issued court summons with charges under the Canadian Criminal Code. Six men, owners and employees, were charged with being keepers of a common “bawdy house”. On June 5th all plead guilty in Provincial Court. The owners receive heavy fines.

1983 – Harvey Fierstein’s play “Torch Song Trilogy” won the Tony Award for Best Play of the 1982-83 season.

Torch Song Trilogy is a collection of three plays by Fierstein rendered in three acts: International Stud, Fugue in a Nursery, and Widows and Children First! The story centers on Arnold Beckoff, a Jewish homosexual, drag queen, and torch singer who lives in New York City in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. The four-hour play begins with a soliloquy in which he explains his cynical disillusionment with love.

The first act derives its name (International Stud) from an actual gay bar of the same name at 117 Perry Street in Greenwich Village in the 1960’s and 1970’s. The bar had a backroom where men engaged in anonymous sex. The backroom plays a central role in the act. The popular work broke new ground in the theatre: “At the height of the post-Stonewall clone era, Harvey challenged both gay and straight audiences to champion an effeminate gay man’s longings for love and family.

1984 – Rock Hudson (November 17, 1925 – October 2, 1985) becomes the first major celebrity to be diagnosed with HIV but he doesn’t announce it until 1985. He was a prominent actor and ‘heartthrob’ of the Hollywood Golden Age. Hudson was voted Star of the Year, Favorite Leading Man, and similar titles by numerous film magazines. He completed nearly 70 films and starred in several television productions during a career that spanned more than four decades. He was nominated for an Oscar in 1956 for Giant. Hudson died from AIDS-related complications in 1985, becoming the first major celebrity to die from an AIDS-related illness. According to some colleagues, Hudson’s homosexual activity was well known in Hollywood throughout his career,and former co-stars Elizabeth Taylor and Susan Saint James claimed that they knew of his homosexuality as did Carol Burnett. Hudson’s revelation had an immediate impact on the visibility of AIDS, and on the funding of medical research related to the disease. Among activists who were seeking to de-stigmatize AIDS and its victims, Hudson’s revelation of his own infection with the disease was viewed as an event that could transform the public’s perception of AIDS. Following Hudson’s death, Marc Christian(June 23, 1953-June 12, 2009), Hudson’s former lover, sued his estate on grounds of “intentional infliction of emotional distress”. Christian claimed that Hudson continued having sex with him until February 1985, more than eight months after Hudson knew that he had HIV. Although he repeatedly tested negative for HIV, Christian claimed that he suffered from “severe emotional distress” after learning from a newscast that Hudson had died of AIDS.

1986 – The first issue of Q-Notesis published. Q-Notes is a newsletter of the Charlotte, NC organization called Queer City Quordinators. It transitions to a bi-weekly newspaper and is now on line. It is the largest LGBT print news publication in the Southeast. Q-Notes was originally started in 1983 as a monthly newsletter, named Queen City Notes On May 12, 2006, Q-Notes merged with the Raleigh, N.C., based The Front Page, a Raleigh, N.C. LGBT newspaper founded in 1979.

1987

The annual Prince’s Trust Rock Gala charity event was held for the fifth time at Wembley Arena in London. Highlights included George Harrison performing “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” with Eric Clapton, and Ringo Starr’s version of “With A Little Help From My Friends,” featuring Jeff Lynne. Other performers included Elton John, Phil Collins, Bryan Adams, Dave Edmunds, Boy George, and Ben E. King.

1988

M. Butterfly-starring John Lithgow as a French diplomat who falls in love with a Chinese opera diva, only to learn that “she” is actually a man, and a spy-wins the Tony Award for Best Play.

1989 – Congressional Republicans began circulating a memo that Democratic House Speaker Thomas Foley was a homosexual. The memo compared Foley’s voting record to openly gay Rep. Barney Frank. Those responsible for the memo apologized after Frank threatened to start outing Republican members of congress.

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1997

Colorado governor Roy Romer vetoed a state measure seeking to ban same-sex marriage for the second time. He instead appointed a commission to investigate the rights and responsibilities of same-sex relationships.

Former Georgia Attorney General Michael Bowers, who fought to have the US Supreme Court uphold Georgia’s sodomy law, admitted to having had an adulterous affair that lasted over a decade. Georgia’s sodomy law carries penalties for adultery.

1999

“Time” magazine placed Harvey Milk alongside Mother Theresa and Rosa Parks as one of the Heroes of the Century.

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2001

Officials in Singapore threw out an appeal against a ban on Janet Jackson’s latest album, ‘All For You’. They decided that the lyrics of the album, particularly one song, ‘Would You Mind’, were “not acceptable to our society”. The record was initially outlawed because of its “sexually explicit lyrics”, including “I just wanna touch you, tease you, lick you, please you, love you, make love to you.” EMI were attempting a compromise by trying to persuade Jackson’s management to delete ‘Would You Mind’ from the album.

2003 –

A federal judge rejected a Christian hate group’s attempt to remove a no-fly zone around Disney World so it could fly planes trailing anti-gay banners over the resort during the annual Gay Days event.

California’s Assembly passed legislation giving gay and lesbian domestic partners many of the rights of marriage.

2006

United States President George W. Bush renews his call for passage of the Federal Marriage Amendment.

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06-05-2010

Portugal legalizes same-sex marriage.

In Palm Beach, Florida, Elton John performed at the wedding of talk show host Rush Limbaugh, as he married his fourth wife, Kathryn Rogers.

2014 – The documentary Letter to Anitahas its world premiere at the Pride of the Ocean Film Festival. LETTER TO ANITA is the heart-wrenching story of Anita Bryant’s anti-gay campaign, its shattering effect on one Florida family, and the redemptive power of forgiveness. The Andrea Meyerson film is narrated by Meredith Baxter and tells a story of LGBT history through the journey of activist and educator Ronni Sanlo. Sanlo’s wife Kelly Watson is executive producer.

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2016

The four members of ABBA performed alongside one another for the first time since 1982 at a private gala to mark 50 years since songwriting duo Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson met for the first time in Stockholm. The impromptu performance reportedly began when Agnetha Faltskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstadon recited their 1980 hit “Me and I” as a tribute to Andersson and Ulvaeus, before the two others joined in and made the reunion official.

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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.

~~~~

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

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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/his story June 4

BCE to The Suffragettes

June 4, 1919

The U.S. Senate passed the Women’s Suffrage bill, leading to the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution which gave women the right to vote.

1920: House of Representatives Subcommittee of the Committee on Military Affairs approves “Revisions to The Articles of War”, which criminalizes sodomy.

June 4, 1925:

Henry Gerber, Founder of First Gay Rights Organization in the U.S., Gets Arrested

Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame inductee Gerber is best known for co-founding the Society of Human Rights in 1924. The pioneering non-profit was the first of its kind and distributed a newsletter, Friendship and Freedom, which was sent to a small membership.

However, in July 1925, a wife of one of the co-founders reported her bisexual husband to police, resulting in a police raid that got Gerber and several other members arrested. The costly trials left the gay rights activist broke and without a job, causing the organization to fold.

Gerber died in December 1972, but lived to see the Stonewall Riots, which would lead to another important push for the LGBTQ movement in the U.S. and around the world.

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06-04-1944 Lili Lakich – Born in Washington, D.C. She is an American artist best known for

her work in neon. Her neon sculptures have been included in major publications on contemporary sculpture, neon sculpture, and feminist art. She has had solo exhibitions in Tokyo, Paris and Los Angeles. Her first show was in the Woman’s Building, Los Angeles, in 1974. She was one of the ten invited artists whose work was exhibited in the Great American Lesbian Art Show at the Woman’s Building in 1980. From 1982, Lakich founded and served as the first director for the Museum of Neon Art in Los Angeles, until 1999. She authored two books on her work, Neon Lovers Glow in the Dark (1986) and LAKICH: For Light. For Love. For Life (2007).

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

06-04-1955 Val McDermid – Born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. She is a Scottish crime writer, best known for a series of suspense novels featuring Dr. Tony Hill. McDermid considered her work to

be part of the “Tartan Noir” Scottish crime fiction genre. In addition to writing novels, McDermid contributes to several British newspapers and can often be heard on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio Scotland. Her novels, especially the Tony Hill series, are known for their graphic depiction of violence and torture. McDermid is openly lesbian.

06-04-1958 – 07-08-1991 Gordon Stewart Anderson – Born in Hamilton,

Canada. He was a Canadian writer, whose novel The Toronto You Are Leaving was published by his mother 15 years after his death. His novel was about life in Toronto’s gay community in the late 1970s. The novel received a strong review in The Globe and Mail and from Canada’s gay press. Anderson died of AIDS-related causes and is remembered on the Canadian AIDS Memorial Quilt.

06-04-1959 Gina Genovese – Born in Newark, New Jersey. She is an American businesswoman and Democratic politician in New Jersey. In 2005, she was selected unanimously by the Republican

majority committee to become the first Democratic mayor in the history of Long Hill Township. She also made history becoming the highest-ranking openly gay elected official in the state. Genovese attained a world ranking of 150 in tennis. Due to injury, she was forced to retire. She currently lives in Long Hill with her partner of 13 years, Wendy McCahill. She no longer holds elected office.

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

1966

Janis Joplin joins Big Brother & The Holding Company.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

1971 – Nearly two years after the Stonewall riot, a group of men and women from the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) walk into the New York City Marriage License Bureau carrying coffee urns and boxes of cake. Their purpose: to hold an engagement party for two male couples and to protest the “slander” of City Clerk Herman Katz who had threatened legal action against same-sex “holy unions” being performed by the Church of the Beloved Disciple which had a largely gay congregation.

Early gay activists were cultural radicals, because only radicals would have done what they did or dared to stand up at that moment in history. That’s important to bear in mind as the cultural history of the gay-marriage fight is written — gay marriage was not an idea gay conservatives invented in the 1980s and 1990s, though men like Andrew Sullivan and Jonathan Rauch have done extraordinary work since then within conservative circles to build, if not a bipartisan constituency for legalizing same-sex marriage, at least some highly visible bipartisan support for it. But gay marriage was always on the agenda, from the very beginning of the post-Stonewall gay-rights movement, when gays were still criminals under the law in many states and designated by the psychiatric profession as suffering from a mental disorder. Homosexuality was removed from the DSM in 1973 — the same year Maryland enacted the first state ban on same-sex marriage in response to the new agitation. A real movement for gay marriage could only became possible once other legal and cultural battles were won. A 1971 gay marriage test case lost every appeal it went through until the Supreme Court declined to hear it in 1972, citing a lack of a “substantial federal question.”

In the 1980s, AIDS became the focus of the gay community’s activism. And the state laws criminalizing gay sex were not struck down, finally and by the Supreme Court, until 2003; that same year Evan Wolfson started his Freedom to Marry group. For cultural and strategic reasons, the early gay-rights movement made its priority changing other widely held anti-gay views and laws — including the right to serve openly in the military, which became a major issue as early as 1975, when decorated Vietnam veteran Leonard Matlovich appeared on the cover of Time for his lawsuit against the military ban.

The symbol for the GAA was the Lambda, the lower case Greek L, meaning justice. In the early 1970s, graphic designer Tom Doerr selected the Greek letter lambda to be the symbol of the New York chapter of the Gay Activists Alliance. In December 1974, the lambda was officially declared the international symbol for gay and lesbian rights by the International Gay Rights Congress in Edinburgh, Scotland. The gay rights organizations Lambda Legal and the Lambda Literary Foundation derive their names from this symbol.

06-04-1975 Angelina Jolie – Born in Los Angeles, California. Jolie is the daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. She is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian. Her acting awards include an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. For

her humanitarian activism, she has received the Jean Hershel Humanitarian Award and an honorary damehood of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, among other awards. Jolie has been married three times. Her third marriage was in 2014 to Brad Pitt (they had been together since 2005 and are now divorced). Jolie considers herself to be bisexual. In 1996 she began a long relationship with model-actress Jenny Shimizu. They met on the set of Foxfire (1986). She later said, “I would probably have married Jenny if I hadn’t married my husband. I fell in love with her the first second I saw her.” She also stated, “I was open about it (bisexuality) because I wanted people to know that I had been with a woman. I spoke about it because I’d discovered something wonderful and I thought people should know my experience was very real, very normal.” In an interview, she said, “I love women and men equally and I see people and love as love, so I think it makes sense that a woman would know I’d appreciate and love her as much as I would a man.”

1976

Elton John performed at the Capitol Theatre in Leeds, England.

June 4, 1977

Apple II, the first personal computer, went on sale.

Closeted Barry Manilow reached #1 with “Looks Like We Made It” on the Adult Contemporary chart.

06-04-1978 Naomi R. Gonzalez – Born in El Paso, Texas. She was an American attorney and Democratic politician from El Paso,

Texas. She was a member of the Texas House of Representatives, where she represents the 76th district in El Paso County. In 2014 Gonzalez lost her bid for re-election. During the 2010 campaign, one of her opponents, Norma Chavez, drew attention on several occasions to Gonzalez’s sexual orientation, saying that her opponent was a lesbian. Gonzalez did not deny the charge.

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1980

The Go-Go’s were at Tiffany’s in Great Yarmouth, England.

1985

Elton John began a high court battle with Dick James Music, seeking the rights to early songs and recordings plus damages estimated at more than £30 million ($51 million). The singer lost a six-month court battle to recover the copyright to 169 songs however, the court ordered Dick James to cough up millions in unpaid royalties.

1987

Fans at a Eurythmics concert in West Berlin can hear people in East Berlin chanting “The wall must go!” And it did

06-04-1987 Luisa Christina Zissman – Born Louisa Christina Kalozois in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. She is an English retail entrepreneur and reality television personality. She

was runner-up on the ninth series of The Apprentice and appeared in Celebrity Big Brother 13. She is estranged from her husband, entrepreneur Oliver Zissman, by whom she had a daughter in 2010. While on Celebrity Big Brother, she revealed that she is bisexual.

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

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

2002

On a CNN news show, phone-in guest George Michael was jeered and heckled by the live audience while he attempted to defend the content of the video for his new single “Shoot The Dog,” in which U.S. President George W. Bush was shown in bed with British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Michael insisted it was an attack on Blair and not on President Bush.

2003

Lisa Marie Presley performed “Sinking In” at the halftime show of the NBA Finals game between the New Jersey Nets and the San Antonio Spurs.

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

2017

Ariana Grande’s Manchester benefit concert, with guest performers Katy Perry, Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Coldplay, Liam Gallagher, Niall Horan and Pharrell Williams, aired on networks in 38 countries across five continents. An attack at her May 22 show in Manchester, England killed 22 people and left dozens injured. All net proceeds from the “One Love Manchester” concert were donated to victims and families affected by the attack. An audience estimated at 50,000 attended the more than three-hour concert.

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BCE to The Suffragettes

1818, Greece – On this day the Lion of Chaeronea is discovered by a British architect named George Ledwell Taylor. The Lion was erected by the Sacred Band of Thebes which was a troop of select soldiers consisting of 150 pairs of male lovers which formed the elite force of the Theban army in the 4th century BC. Its predominance began with its crucial role in the Battle of Leuctra in 371 BC. It was annihilated by Philip II of Macedon in the Battle of Chaeronea in 338 BC. Built to honor their dead, the statue was surrounded by 254 buried skeletons. Plutarch’s Life of Pelopidas, which contains the most detailed account of the Sacred Band, is considered a highly reliable account of the events. Chaeronea is a village in Boeotia, Greece.

06-03-1879 – 07-13-1945 Alla Nazimova (Miriam Edez Adelaide Leventon) – Born in Yalta, Crimea, Russian Empire. She was a Russian-American film and theater actress, screenwriter and producer. She became a naturalized citizen of the United States in

1927. Nazimova was considered the greatest performer of Ibsen on Broadway. She was also influential in the film industry in the silent era and continued to play character roles until the end of her life. From 1912 to 1925 Nazimova maintained a “lavender marriage” with Charles Bryant, a British-born actor. Between the years 1917 and 1922 Nazimova wielded considerable influence and power in Hollywood. She was extremely generous to young actresses in whom she saw talent and became involved with at least some of them romantically. She helped start the careers of both Rudolph Valentino’s wives, Jean Acker and Natacha Rambova. She did have an affair with Jean Acker and there were rumors that she was also involved with Natacha Rambova. Of those Nazimova is confirmed to have been involved with romantically, the list includes actress Eva Le Gallienne, director Dorothy Arzner, writer Mercedes de Acosta and Oscar Wilde’s niece, Dolly Wilde. Bridget Bate Tichenor, a Magic Realist artist and Surrealist painter, was also rumored to be one of Nazimova’s favored lovers in Hollywood from 1940 to 1942. It is believed that Nazimova coined the phrase “sewing circle” as code to refer to lesbian or bisexual actresses of her day who concealed their true sexuality. She lived with Glesca Marshall from 1929 until her death in 1945. Her contributions to the film industry earned her a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

6-03-1906 – 04-12-1975 Josephine Baker – Born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, Missouri. She was an American-born French dancer, singer, and actress. Rumored to be her lovers: Clara Smith, Evelyn Sheppard, Bessie Allison, Ada “Bricktop” Smith and Mildred Smallwood. Also, Colette, author of Gigi, and

Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. She became the highest-paid chorus girl in vaudeville. On October 2, 1925, she opened at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, France. She became an instant success for her erotic dancing. Baker became the most successful American entertainer working in France. Despite her popularity in France, she never attained the equivalent reputation in America. Upon returning to Pairs in 1937, she married a Jewish Frenchman, Jean Lion, and became a French citizen. During WWII, as an entertainer, Baker had a reason for moving around Europe, visiting neutral nations such as Portugal and some countries in South America. She carried information for transmission to England about airfields, harbors, and German troop concentrations in the West of France. It would be written in invisible ink on her sheet music. After the war, she received the Croix de guerre and the Rosette de la Résistance, and was made a Chevalier of the Légion d’honneur by General Charles de Gaulle. Baker worked with the NAACP. Her reputation as a crusader grew to such as extent that the NAACP had Sunday, May 20, 1951 declared Josephine Baker Day. She was presented with life membership of the NAACP by Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Ralph Bunche. In 1963, she spoke at the March on Washington at the side of Martin Luther King, Jr. Her adopted son, Jean-Claude Baker, describes his mother as bisexual, having had relationships with men and women. On April 8, 1975, Baker starred in a retrospective revue in Paris celebrating her 50 years in show business. The revue, financed notably by Prince Rainier, Princess Grace, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, opened to rave reviews. The opening night audience included Sophia Loren, Mick Jagger, Shirley Basses, Diana Ross and Liza Minnelli. Four days later, Baker was found lying peacefully in her bed surrounded by newspapers with glowing reviews of her performance. She was in a coma after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage. She was taken to a hospital where she died on April 12, 1975. She is the only American-born woman to receive full French military honors at her funeral.

06-03-1926 – 04-04-1997 Allen Ginsberg – Born in Newark, New Jersey. He was an American poet and one of the leading figures of the Beat Generation in the 1950s. Best known for his epic poem Howl. In 1957, Howl attracted widespread

publicity when it became the subject of an obscenity trail, as to depicted heterosexual and homosexual sex at a time the sodomy laws made homosexual acts a crime in every U.S. state. Howl reflected Ginsberg’s own homosexuality and his relationships with a number of men, including his lifelong partner, Peter Oriovsky. Judge Clayton W. Horn ruled that Howl was not obscene, adding, “Would there be any freedom of press of speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms?” Ginsberg was a practicing Buddhist. One of his most influential teachers was the Tibetan Buddhist, Chögyam Trungpa. At his urging, Ginsberg and poet Anne Waldman started The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in 1974. Ginsberg took part in decades of non-violent political protest against everything from the Vietnam War to the War on Drugs. His collection The Fall of America shared the annual U.S. National Book Award for Poetry in 1974. In 1979 he received the National Arts Club gold medal and was inducted into the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Ginsberg was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1995 for his book Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems 1986-1992. He was a bridge between the Beat generation of the 1950s and the Hippies of the 1960s.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

1948 – The Kinsey Report on male sexuality is published, shocking the nation with its revelation of the high incidence of same-sex acts among American men.

Death anniversary of Alfred Kinsey: ‘Father of sexual revolution’ who claimed babies have orgasms, child rape benefits victims

Alfred Kinsey: ‘Father of sexual revolution’ who said rape benefits children

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06-03-1949 Ian Gelder – Born in England, place unknown. He is an English actor. He in known for his numerous stage and screen roles, including Mr. Dekker in Torchwood: Children of Earth and

Kevan Lannister in Game of Thrones. He is openly gay. Gelder’s partner is actor Ben Daniels. They met in 1993 while they were both involved in a production of Entertaining Mr. Sloane.

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

June 3, 1959

Billboard magazine splits its album chart into two separate sections: Best Selling Stereophonic LPs and Best Selling Monophonic LPs.

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

06-03-1967 Anderson Cooper – Born in New York, New York. He is the son of Gloria Vanderbilt. American journalist, author, and TV personality and reality television personality. He is the primary anchor of the CNN news show Anderson Cooper 360. Co0per is openly gay; according to the New York Times, he is “the most

prominent openly gay journalist on American television. On July 2, 2012, he gave Andrew Sullivan permission to publish an email that stated, in part: “I’ve begun to consider whether the unintended outcomes of maintaining my privacy outweigh person and professional principle. It’s become clear to me that by remaining silent on certain aspects of my personal life for so long, I have given some the mistaken impression that I am trying to hide something – something that makes me uncomfortable, ashamed or even afraid. This is distressing because it is simply not true. …The fact is, I’m gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn’t be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud.” Cooper and his boyfriend, gay bar owner Benjamin Maisani, have been dating since 2009. In March 2018, Cooper confirmed that he and Maisani had broken up. On April 30, 2020, Cooper announced the birth of his son Wyatt Morgan by a surrogate. Though Cooper and Maisani are no longer together, they plan to co-parent Wyatt.

June 3, 1968

Radical feminist writer Valerie Solanas shot and critically wounded Andy Warhol in his New York film studio. Solanas was indicted on charges of attempted murder, assault, and illegal possession of a gun, eventually pled guilty to “reckless assault with intent to harm” and was sentenced to three years in prison.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

June 3, 1970

The Kinks‘ Ray Davies flies 11,000 Km round trip to England from America to re-record the words “cherry cola” in the song “Lola” after the BBC refuses to air the song with the original words, “Coca-Cola”.

June 3, 1976

Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” was certified Gold.

1978

It had been over 20 years since Johnny Mathis had a US number one single with “Chances Are”, but now he was back on top with “Too Much, Too Little, Too Late”, a duet he shared with Deniece Williams. The song was a #3 hit in the UK. Johnny Mathis went 21 years and 31 single releases between #1’s until finally his duet with Deniece Williams, “Too Much, Too Little, Too Late” hit #1 on this date.

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

1987

Britain’s BBC announces that it has banned George Michael‘s “I Want Your Sex” because of its sexually explicit content. Michael said the song was about love, not lust.

June 3, 1989

– The United States postal service issues the first “Lesbian and Gay Pride” postage stamp.

1989

Queen had the #1 album in the U.K. with The Miracle.

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

1990

Sheena Easton, the Average White Band, Big Country, Wet Wet Wet and others performed at the Big Day Festival in Glasgow, Scotland.

1991 – Eva Le Gallienne (January 11, 1899 – June 3, 1991) dies. She was a British-born American stage actress, producer, director, translator, and author. A broadway star by age 21, Le Gallienne consciously ended her work on Broadway to devote herself to founding and running the Civic Repertory Theater, in which she was both director, producer, and lead actress. Noted for her boldness and idealism, she became a pioneering figure in the American Repertory Movement, which enabled today’s Off-Broadway. A versatile and eloquent actress herself (playing everything from Peter Pan to Hamlet), Le Gallienne also became a respected stage coach, director, producer and manager. The Civic Repertory Theatre Company was backed by the financial support of one of her lovers, Alice DeLamar(April 23, 1895 – August 31, 1983), a wealthy Colorado gold mine heiress. Le Gallienne never hid her lesbianism inside the acting community, but reportedly was never comfortable with her sexuality, struggling privately with it. In 1918, while in Hollywood, she began an affair with the actress Alla Nazimova(May 22, 1879 – July 13, 1945)who was at her height of fame, and who at that time wielded much power in the acting community. The affair ended reportedly due to Nazimova’s jealousy. Nonetheless, Nazimova liked Le Gallienne very much, and assisted in her being introduced to many influential people of the day. It was Nazimova who coined the phrase “sewing circles” to describe the intricate and secret lesbian relationships lived by many actresses of the day. Le Gallienne also was involved for some time with actresses Tallulah Bankhead (January 31, 1902 – December 12, 1968),Beatrice Lillie(29 May 1894 – 20 January 1989) and Laurette Taylor(April 1, 1883 – December 7, 1946)during that time.

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

2000, Italy – Italian Agricultural Minister Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio (born 13 March 1959)announces that he’s bisexual, becoming the first openly bi member of the Italian government.

2002

In London, Paul McCartney, Sting, Elton John, Brian Wilson, Cliff Richard, Ozzy Osbourne, and Aretha Franklin were among the performers at Queen Elizabeth II’s Golden Jubilee celebrating the 50^th year of her reign.

2003

Barry Manilow suffered a broken nose after he accidentally walked into a wall at his home in Palm Springs, California and knocked himself unconscious. Although he passed out for four hours, he didn’t endure any lasting effects as doctors determined that surgery was not necessary.

2007

During Kanako Otsuji’s fight to become Japan’s first-ever openly gay member of parliament, she and girlfriend Maki Kimura decided to get married in Tokyo, during a time when their union was not recognized legally.

Although she did not end up winning the race, her revolutionary act was a big push for the LGBTQ moment.

Kanakois a Japanese LGBT rights activist and member of the House of Representatives for the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan. She is also former member of the House of Councilors. She was also a member of the Osaka Prefectural Assembly (April 2003–April 2007). One of only seven women in the 110-member Osaka Assembly, Otsuji represented the Sakai-ku, Sakai City constituency. In May 2013, after her party member of the House resigned, Otsuji became the nation’s first openly homosexual member of the Diet, but her term in office expired in July. She won a seat in the 2017 general election and became the first openly homosexual member of the House of Representatives.

“Ten years ago, it would have been impossible for me to stand as the official candidate of a major party,” Otsuji told The Scotsman, as reported by Pride Source, at the time. “I want to give all kinds of minorities in Japan a voice to express themselves in the political world … single mothers, the victims of domestic violence, common-law couples who do not have the same rights as married people — not just gays and lesbians.”

According to Human Rights Watch, “Japan currently does not have any national legislation protecting LGBT people from discrimination.”

2010

Hundreds of fans walked out of Whitney Houston’s show in Denmark after her voice continually faltered. Music critic Thomas Soie Hansen, of the Berlingske Tidende newspaper, wrote: “She looked and sounded like a person who doesn’t have many years left to live. At the end of the show she looked like she was ready to explode.”

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

2012, Argentina – A six-year-old named Luana, who was born male, becomes the first transgender child in Argentina to have a new name officially changed on identity documents. Believed to be the youngest to have gender identity officially acknowledged anywhere.

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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/his story June 2

BCE to The Suffragettes

06-02-1740 – 12-02-1814 Marquis de Sade – Born in Paris, France, he was a French aristocrat, revolutionary politician, philosopher, and writer, famous for his libertine sexuality. He is best known for his erotic works which combined

philosophical discourse with sexual fantasies with an emphasis on violence, criminality, and blasphemy against the Catholic Church. He was a proponent of extreme freedom, unrestrained morality, religion or law. The words sadism and sadist are derived from his name. Sade lived a scandalous libertine existence and repeatedly procured young prostitutes as well as employees of both sexes in his castle in Lacoste. He was incarcerated in various prisons and in an insane asylum for about 32 years of his life. Many of his works were written in prison.

1899 – A train is robbed by George “Butch” Cassidy. Earlier in his career, he worked as a butcher in Wyoming, earning him the nickname of “Butch.” This is one of the first times the term “butch” appears. The exact origin of the word is still unknown, but it takes on meaning in the lesbian community in the 1940s.

June 2, 1924

Native Americans were granted American citizenship by the U.S. Congress.

06-02-1924 – 04-14-2007 June Callwood – Born in Chatham, Ontario, Canada. She was a Canadian journalist,

author, and social activist. Known as “Canada’s Conscience”, her career was marked by a strong concern for social justice, especially on issues affecting children and women. She is responsible for founding or co-founding 50 Canadian social organizations. In 1988, she founded Casey House, the first hospice in the world to provide support and care for people with HIV/AIDS. In a 2005 lecture at the University of Toronto, she stated, “I am missing a formal religion, but I am not without a theology, and my theology is that kindness is a divinity in motion.”

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

06-02-1941 Virginia “Ginny” Foat – Born in Brooklyn, New York. She is an American politician and feminist. In 1977, Foat was arrested after her former husband Sidote named her as an accomplice in a Nevada murder and the 1965

murder of New Orleans tourist Moises Chayo. She was released after three months when Sidote refused to testify against her in the Nevada case. Foat campaigned for the national vice presidency of NOW in 1982, but NOW member Shelly Mandell alerted Louisiana authorities of Foat’s identity, and she was arrested and put on trial in Gretna, Louisiana for the 1965 murder in New Orleans. She was acquitted, but the incident affected her political ambitions. Foat wrote an autobiography and worked for several political causes throughout the 1980s and 1990s. During that time she came out as a lesbian. She is serving as a city councilmember in Palm Springs, California and has been since 2003. She is involved with equality and social causes.

06-02-1943 – 06-10-1993 Crawford Barton – Born in Georgia (place unknown). He was an American photographer best known for documenting gay life in San Francisco from the late

1960s into the 1980s. By the 1970s he was the leading photographer of the “golden age of gay awakening” in San Francisco. He stated, “I tried to serve as a chronicler, as a watcher of beautiful people — to feedback an image of a positive, likable lifestyle — to offer pleasure as well as pride.” By the 1980s, this period was over. San Francisco and the gay community were devastated by the onset of the AIDS epidemic. Barton’s lover of 22 years, Larry Lara, died of complication from AIDS and in 1993, Barton died of the same disease.

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

06-02-1950 Rev. Dr. Brent Hawkes – Born in Bath, New Brunswick, Quebec, Canada to a Baptist family. Since 1977, Hawkes has served as Senior

Pastor of the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto, a church openly affirming for LGBT parishioners. Hawkes has served on the advisory committee of PrideVision TV. In addition to his advocacy work on LGBT issues, he supported anti-racist initiatives, drawn attention to poverty and poor housing, and advocated the ordination of female priests. Hawkes lives in Toronto with John Sproule, his partner of more than thirty years. they married on March 7, 2006.

06-02-1951 – 03-31-2017 Gilbert Baker – Born in Chanute, Kansas. Baker was an openly gay artist and civil rights activist who in 1978 designed and made the Rainbow Flag, sometimes called the Gay Pride Flag, LGBT Pride Flag, or, since the 1990s. Queer Flag. It’s used as a symbol of pride in LGBT rights marches and in Pride

Parades around the world. Baker served in the US Army from 1970 to 1972. He was stationed in San Francisco at the beginning of the gay rights movement. After his honorable discharge from the military, he taught himself to sew. He used his skill to create banners for gay-rights and anti-war protest marches. It was during this time that he met and became friends with Harvey Milk. The colors on the Rainbow Flag reflect the diversity of the LGBT community. When he raised the first Rainbow Flag at San Francisco Pride on June 25, 1978, it had eight colors, each with a symbolic meaning: Hot Pink: sexuality, Red: life, Orange: healing, Yellow: sunlight, Green: nature, Turquoise: magic/art, Blue: serenity/harmony, and Violet: spirit. As of 2008, the most common flag consists of six stripes, with the colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. Baker refers to this version of the flag as the “commercial version”. It came about due to practical considerations of mass production. Baker recreated his original Rainbow Flag for the Academy-award winning 2008 film Milk and is shown being interviewed on one of the featurettes of the DVD release.

June 2, 1954

U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy made the unsubstantiated charge that there were communists working in the Central Intelligence Agency and at American atomic weapons plants

06-02-1955 Nickie J. Antonio – Place of birth unknown. She is an American politician from Lakewood, Ohio. A Democrat, she serves on the Ohio House of

Representatives representing the 13th district. A former member of Lakewood City Council, she was elected to the legislature in 2010 and took office on January 3, 2011, and re-elected in the 2012 General election receiving 75% of the vote. She is pro-choice and has fought against numerous anti-reproductive choice initiatives. Antonio is a lesbian; her partner is Jean Kosmac. They have two daughters. She is the first openly gay person to have served in the Ohio General Assembly.

June 2, 1957

Johnnie Ray was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Yes Tonight Josephine’, the US singers third and final UK No.1. Ray became deaf in his right ear at age 13 after an accident during a Boy Scout “blanket toss,” a variation of the trampoline. (Ray later performed wearing a hearing aid).

Jailhouse Rock Elvis filmed the scene in the prison coal yard.

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

1964

The original Broadway cast album of “Hello Dolly!” was certified Gold.

1965 –

The movie “I’ll Take Sweden,” starring Bob Hope, Dina Merrill, Frankie Avalon, and Tuesday Weld, had its world premiere.

The San Francisco Council on Religion and the Homosexual representatives, most of whom are heterosexual, hold a press conference to protest the police force’s “deliberate harassment” of the group’s New Year’s Ball.

06-02-1966 Candace Gingrich – Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and half-sister of the former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich. She is an

American LGBT rights activist at the Human Rights Campaign. She first gained significant press attention in 1995 as a spokesperson for gay rights. She served as the Human Rights Campaign’s National Coming Out Project Spokesperson and was named one of Esquire’s “Women We Love” and “Women of the Year” for Ms. magazine. Currently, she is the Senior Manager of the Human Rights Campaign’s Youth & Campus Outreach, as well as the HRC’s University Internship Program coordinator. In 1996, her autobiography, Accidental Activist: A Personal and Political Memoir was released. In 2017, Gingrich married Kelly Cassidy, a member of the Illinois House of Representatives.

The One with the Lesbian Wedding – Wikipedia

June 2, 1967

David Bowie released his first album, which contained the single, “Love You ‘Til Tuesday”. Although the LP got positive reviews, neither it or the single sold well.

06-02-1968 Andy Cohen – Born in St. Louis, Missouri. He is an American talk

show and radio host, author, and producer. Cohen hosts the Bravo nightly series Watch What Happens: Live and is the author of a memoir, Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture. He is the first openly gay host of an American late-night talk show.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

06-02-1972 Wentworth Miller III – Born in Chipping, Norton, Oxfordshire, England to American parents. His father, a Rhodes Scholar, was studying at Oxford at the time of Miller’s birth. His mother is a special education teacher. Miller is of multiethnic origin: his father is of African-American, Jamaican, English, German, Jewish, and Cherokee background, and his mother is of

Russian, French, Dutch, Syrian, Lebanese, and Swedish ancestry. His family moved to Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York when he was a year old. Miller holds dual British and US citizenship. He is an actor, model, screenwriter, and producer. He rose to stardom in the Fox series Prison Break for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination for best actor in a leading role. He made his screenwriting debut with the 2013 thriller film Stoker. Miller is a recurring villain in The Flash. He came out as gay in August 2013, when he posted a letter on GLADD’s website dealing as an invitation to attend the Saint Petersburg International Film Festival because he felt “deeply troubled” by the Russian government’s treatment of its gay citizens.

06-02-1977 Zachary Quinto – Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is an American actor and producer. Quinto rose to prominence for his role as series antagonist Sylar in the science fiction drama Heroes from 2006 to 2010. He is

also known for his portrayal of Spock in the 2009 Star Trek and its 2013 sequel, Star Trek Into Darkness. He publicly came out as gay in October 2011. He explained that, after the suicide of gay teenager Jamey Rodemeyer, he realized “that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.” Since 2013, Quinto has been dating model and artist Miles McMillan. In early 2015, he said that he and his partner were moving into an apartment they purchased together.

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1981

Prince made his live British debut at The Lyceum Ballroom, London, (he would not play the UK again for five years).

1984

Wham! had their first UK No.1 with ‘Wake Me Up Before You Go Go.’ Written and produced by George Michael, one half of the duo. Inspiration for the song was a scribbled note left by his Wham! partner Andrew Ridgeley for Andrew’s parents, originally intended to read “wake me up before you go” but with “up” accidentally written twice, so Ridgeley wrote “go” twice on purpose.

“Time After Time” from newcomer Cyndi Lauper on the Adult Contemporary chart, reaching the #1 position.

1987

Whitney Houston released her follow-up album Whitney on Arista Records.

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

1992

Singer k.d. lang’s interview with the Advocate, a gay and lesbian publication, speaking frankly about being a lesbian and her unrequited love for a married woman, inspiring “Constant Craving” is published.

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

2000 – Gay and lesbian pride month is declared by President Clinton. He issues a proclamation recognizing the lasting contributions and continuing struggles of lesbian and gay people. He also calls for Congress to pass hate crimes legislation. The full Proclamation was:

The White House, June 2, 2000

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

Gay and lesbian Americans have made important and lasting contributions to our Nation in every field of endeavor. Too often, however, gays and lesbians face prejudice and discrimination; too many have had to hide or deny their sexual orientation in order to keep their jobs or to live safely in their communities.

In recent years, we have made some progress righting these wrongs. Since the Stonewall uprising in New York City more than 30 years ago, the gay and lesbian rights movement has united gays and lesbians, their families and friends, and all those committed to justice and equality in a crusade to outlaw discriminatory laws and practices and to protect gays and lesbians from prejudice and persecution.

I am proud of the part that my Administration has played to achieve these goals. Today, more openly gay and lesbian individuals serve in senior posts throughout the Federal Government than during any other Administration. To build on our progress, in 1998 I issued an Executive Order to prohibit discrimination in the Federal civilian workforce based on sexual orientation, and my Administration continues to fight for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which would outlaw discrimination in the workplace based on sexual orientation.

Yet many challenges still lie before us. As we have learned from recent tragedies, prejudice against gays and lesbians can still erupt into acts of hatred and violence. I continue to call upon the Congress to pass meaningful hate crimes legislation to strengthen the Department of Justice’s ability to prosecute hate crimes committed due to the victim’s sexual orientation.

With each passing year the American people become more receptive to diversity and more open to those who are different from themselves. Our Nation is at last realizing that gays and lesbians must no longer be “strangers among friends,” as the civil rights pioneer David Mixner once noted. Rather, we must finally recognize these Americans for what they are: our colleagues and neighbors, daughters and sons, sisters and brothers, friends and partners.

This June, recognizing the joys and sorrows that the gay and lesbian movement has witnessed and the work that remains to be done, we observe Gay and Lesbian Pride Month and celebrate the progress we have made in creating a society more inclusive and accepting of gays and lesbians. I hope that in this new millennium we will continue to break down the walls of fear and prejudice and work to build a bridge to understanding and tolerance, until gays and lesbians are afforded the same rights and responsibilities as all Americans.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim June 2000 as Gay and Lesbian Pride Month. I encourage all Americans to observe this month with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities that celebrate our diversity and recognize the gay and lesbian Americans whose many and varied contributions have enriched our national life.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this second day of June, in the year of our Lord two thousand, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-fourth.

WILLIAM J. CLINTON

2006,

Denmark – Danish parliament allows lesbians to access artificial insemination. The vote repeals a 1997 prohibition of the procedure for lesbians.

2009

Cher launched a lawsuit against Universal Music Group, claiming that the label shortchanged her and the heirs of her late ex-husband, Sonny Bono, by underpaying about $5 million in royalties. A UMG spokesman said “The claims are meritless and we are confident that we will prevail in court.”

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2015

A 26-year-old Cordova, Tennessee man was handed a two-year suspended sentence with probation after stealing a pair of Elton John’s sunglasses from the Memphis Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last May.

2016

The limited edition vinyl pressing of the David Bowie album ChangesOneBowie was at No.1 on the UK’s Official Vinyl Album Chart. Bowie had four other vinyl albums on the chart; Blackstar at No.14, Hunky Dory at No. 17, The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars at No. 18 and Nothing Has Changed – The Very Best of David Bowie at No.23. Sales of vinyl records were up 32% to $416 million, their highest level since 1988, according to the RIAA.

2017

Unlike Presidents Clinton and Obama, Trump and the White House will not commemorate June as LGBT Pride Month for 2017. (Trump did proclaim June as National Homeownership Month, National Ocean Month, African-American Music Appreciation Month, National Caribbean-American Heritage Month and Great Outdoors Month.) No LGBT Pride Month events at the White House have been announced. This is yet one more reminder that LGBT people are being written out of history with this current administration in Washington which provides even more incentive to do history blogs.

Ireland elects the first gay Prime Minister. Leo Varadkar, the son of an Irish mother and an Indian father, will be the country’s youngest leader.

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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

see also:

Elton John Jokes About The ‘Herculean Effort’ He Put Into His …

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

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LGBTQ2 her/his story June 1

BCE to The Suffragettes

1861

The Battle of Fairfax Court House was fought in Virginia. It was the first skirmish of the U.S. Civil War.

1880:

The United States Census finds 63 men in 22 states incarcerated for “crimes against nature.”

1921

In Tulsa, Oklahoma, a race riot erupted that left 85 people dead.

Nelson Riddle is born in Oradell, New Jersey. He’ll become famous as the orchestrator and arranger behind countless hits for Capitol Records artists like Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Dean Martin, Peggy Lee, and – decades later – Linda Ronstadt.

1931

Noël Coward‘s classic “Mad Dogs And Englishmen” is performed for the first time in public by Beatrice Lillie in The Third Little Show at the Music Box Theatre, New York.

June 1, 1938

The world’s first super hero, Superman, appeared in the first issue of the Action Comics series of comic books.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

June 1, 1950

Tom Robinson of Cafe Society and Tom Robinson Band is born in Cambridge, England. In the ’70s, he becomes one of the first openly gay rock musicians and an advocate for gay rights.

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

June 1, 1961

FM stereo was heard for the first time by listeners in Schenectady, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. The FCC would adopt the standard a year later.

June 1, 1963

Four weeks after it entered the Billboard chart, 17 year old Lesley Gore‘s “It’s My Party” hit the number one spot. It was a song that was chosen for her by Quincy Jones, then a staff producer for Mercury Records, who had seen Leslie sing for the first time just a few weeks earlier. “It’s My Party” shot up from #9 to #1, giving Lesley Gore her only #1 song.

Alabama Governor George Wallace insisted he would defy the injunction ordering the integration of the University of Alabama. Ten days later, in an attempt to halt desegregation by the enrollment of black students Vivian Malone and James Hood, he stood defiantly in front of the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama until he finally stepped aside after being confronted by Deputy U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, federal marshals, and the Alabama Army National Guard.

1966

CFTO-TV in Toronto transmitted Canada’s first color television program.

1967 –

Los Angeles Police conduct brutal raids on several gay bars. Enraged by the sight of a few men exchanging customary New Year’s kisses at midnight at the Black Cat in Silver Lake, LAPD undercover agents attack patrons and employees, leaving several severely injured and arresting 16.

David Bowie released his self titled debut studio album. Two singles were released from the album, ‘Rubber Band’ and ‘The Laughing Gnome’. The album’s failure cost Bowie his record contract with Deram Records who dropped him in April 1968.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

1970 – The first lesbian/feminist bookstore in the U.S. was the Amazon Bookstore Cooperative, which opened in Minneapolis in 1970. It later became True Colors bookstore (with a labrys acting as the “T,”) but has since closed.1970 when Amazon was founded by Rosina Richter Christy and Julie Morse Quist, it was far from a full-fledged bookstore. The books were kept in the front room of the women’s collective they lived in and books were only available from 3 to 6 PM or by special arrangement. This lasted for about two years before the book store moved to Minneapolis’ Lesbian Resource Center and then migrated through a series of different storefront addresses. Working conditions were sometimes difficult and included an unsafe neighborhood and a building with no heat where pipes froze and people had to wear gloves inside the store. The bookstore began experiencing financial difficulties in late 2011, and closed in February 2012.

1971, UK – London’s underground newspaper, the International Times, loses its appeal of a recent conviction for indecency, for having run personal ads for gay men. The judge rules that while the acts may be legal, public encouragement of the acts is not.

1975 – The leather Drummer magazine debuts.

1976 –

West Virginia decriminalizes private consensual adult homosexual acts.

The Runaways release their eponymous debut album. Billed as the first all-female hard-rock band, the disc has little domestic success, peaking at #194. However, the band are hugely successful in Japan, hitting the #1 spot with their single “Cherry Bomb.”

1979 – Jerry Falwell forms The Moral Majority. It opposed the Equal Rights Amendment, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, any recognition or acceptance of homosexual acts, and abortion, even in cases involving incest, rape or in pregnancies where the life of the mother is at stake. It played a key role in the mobilization of conservative Christians as a political force and particularly in Republican presidential victories throughout the 1980s. The Moral Majority was incorporated into the Liberty Federation in 1985.

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

1985

Wham! had #1 with “Everything She Wants” but Tears For Fears were headed there with “Everybody Wants To Rule The World”.

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

1991 – First “Gay Days” event organized in Walk Disney World in Orlando. About 3,000 gays and lesbians gather, wearing red for visibility. It’s become one of the largest LGBT events in the world.

1994 –

A federal judge rules that Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer be reinstated in the Washington State National Guard. She had been discharged from the military for being a lesbian. Margarethe “Grethe” Cammermeyer (born March 24, 1942) served as a colonel in the Washington National Guard and became a gay rights activist. Born in Oslo, Norway, she became a United States citizen in 1960. In 1961 she joined the Army Nurse Corps as a student.. A television movie about Cammermeyer’s story, Serving in Silence, was made in 1995, with Close starring as Cammermeyer. Its content was largely taken from Cammermeyer’s autobiography of the same name.

The Songwriters Hall of Fame held their twenty-fifth annual awards in New York and honored Little Richard by inducting him.

1999

In 1999 Blockorama made its appearance as the very first black queer space in the Toronto pride festival. Today it is an all day dance party and stage during Pride to celebrate Black Queer and Trans history, creativity and activism.

Blocko shows us that we are not alone, that we are resilient and [that] we know how to have fun in a [world] where we were never meant to survive.Kyisha Williams, event organizer

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

2003, Belgium – Belgium becomes the second country to allow same-sex marriages, after the Netherlands.

2008

A fire at Universal Studios Hollywood destroys thousands of master tapes controlled by Universal Music Group, including recordings by Joni Mitchell, Elton John, B.B. King, Neil Diamond, Nirvana and Eminem. The extent of the loss is not revealed until years later.

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

2011

The British Recorded Music Industry (BPI) announced that digital songs and music videos containing explicit lyrics will now be marked with Parental Guidance logos or the word ‘EXPLICIT’.

2012

In Tel Aviv, Israel, Madonna began her MDNA Tour to more than 65 cities worldwide.

2013 – The Evangelical Lutheran Church elects its first openly gay bishop, Rev. Dr. R. Guy Erwin

2014-2016 – President Obama declares June as LGBT Pride Month. “NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim June 2014 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month. I call upon the people of the United States to eliminate prejudice everywhere it exists, and to celebrate the great diversity of the American people.”

.2014 – President Obama declares June as LGBT Pride Month. Here is the full declaration:

Presidential Proclamation — LGBT Pride Month, 2016

LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER PRIDE MONTH, 2016

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

Since our founding, America has advanced on an unending path toward becoming a more perfect Union. This journey, led by forward-thinking individuals who have set their sights on reaching for a brighter tomorrow, has never been easy or smooth. The fight for dignity and equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people is reflected in the tireless dedication of advocates and allies who strive to forge a more inclusive society. They have spurred sweeping progress by changing hearts and minds and by demanding equal treatment — under our laws, from our courts, and in our politics. This month, we recognize all they have done to bring us to this point, and we recommit to bending the arc of our Nation toward justice.

Last year’s landmark Supreme Court decision guaranteeing marriage equality in all 50 States was a historic victory for LGBT Americans, ensuring dignity for same-sex couples and greater equality across State lines. For every partnership that was not previously recognized under the law and for every American who was denied their basic civil rights, this monumental ruling instilled newfound hope, affirming the belief that we are all more free when we are treated as equals.

LGBT individuals deserve to know their country stands beside them. That is why my Administration is striving to better understand the needs of LGBT adults and to provide affordable, welcoming, and supportive housing to aging LGBT Americans. It is also why we oppose subjecting minors to the harmful practice of conversion therapy, and why we are continuing to promote equality and foster safe and supportive learning environments for all students. We remain committed to addressing health disparities in the LGBT community — gay and bisexual men and transgender women of color are at a particularly high risk for HIV, and we have worked to strengthen our National HIV/AIDS Strategy to reduce new infections, increase access to care, and improve health outcomes for people living with HIV.

Despite the extraordinary progress of the past few years, LGBT Americans still face discrimination simply for being who they are. I signed an Executive Order in 2014 that prohibits discrimination against Federal employees and contractors on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. I urge the Congress to enact legislation that builds upon the progress we have made, because no one should live in fear of losing their job simply because of who they are or who they love. And our commitment to combatting discrimination against the LGBT community does not stop at our borders: Advancing the fair treatment of all people has long been a cornerstone of American diplomacy, and we have made defending and promoting the human rights of LGBT individuals a priority in our engagement across the globe. In line with America’s commitment to the notion that all people should be treated fairly and with respect, champions of this cause at home and abroad are upholding the simple truth that LGBT rights are human rights.

There remains much work to do to extend the promise of our country to every American, but because of the acts of courage of the millions who came out and spoke out to demand justice and of those who quietly toiled and pushed for progress, our Nation has made great strides in recognizing what these brave individuals long knew to be true in their hearts — that love is love and that no person should be judged by anything but the content of their character. During Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month, as Americans wave their flags of pride high and march boldly forward in parades and demonstrations, let us celebrate how far we have come and reaffirm our steadfast belief in the equal dignity of all Americans.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim June 2016 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month. I call upon the people of the United States to eliminate prejudice everywhere it exists, and to celebrate the great diversity of the American people.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this thirty-first day of May, in the year of our Lord two thousand sixteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fortieth. BARACK OBAMA

2015

former Olympian Bruce Jenner was pictured on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine practising fetish and bringing back women can’t drive “jokes”

from previous blogs

Tabbing Through the Tabloids: Bruce/Belinda Jenner

The Jenner Transition: From Butch to Cait

Dear Jenner: Return the Medals

Elvisworld: Gender and Jenner

Jenner: Costume, Caricature and Legit Commentary

Jenner is not a hero, but is in community

Romances: Linda Thompson

2016

For the first time in Canadian history, a pride flag is raised on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.

2020

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Elton John ‘Put the Hours In’ to Get Noticed For Cocaine Use

Ultimate Classic Rock–May 31, 2020

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BRIAN MAY has praised Bryan Adams’ cover of a ‘ridiculously difficult’ Queen song written by Freddie Mercury.

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2021

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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:

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/his story May 31

BCE to The Suffragettes

1718: The death penalty for “sodomy and buggery” is instituted in Pennsylvania, bringing Pennsylvania into conformity with English statute and common law. The law remained in effect until 1786 when, after the Revolution, Pennsylvania legislators were the first to revoke the death penalty for sodomy.

1819 – Poet Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892), author of Leaves of Grass, is born. He wrote of love between men, nearly thirty years before the word “homosexual” was coined. Ahumanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse. His work was very controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collectionLeaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality.

His

work was very controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality. Whitman’s sexual orientation is generally assumed to be homosexual or bisexual, on the basis of his poetry. Allen Ginsberg received from Gavin Arthur a document, several times reprinted, in which Arthur described his meeting with gay activist Edward Carpenter, who told Arthur of his lovemaking with Whitman. Peter Doyle may be the most likely candidate for the love of Whitman’s life. Doyle was a bus conductor whom Whitman met around 1866, and the two were inseparable for several years. Interviewed in 1895, Doyle said: “We were familiar at once – I put my hand on his knee – we understood. He did not get out at the end of the trip – in fact, went all the way back with me.” A more direct account comes from Oscar Wilde: Wilde met Whitman in America in 1882 and wrote to the homosexual rights activist George Cecil Ives that there was “no doubt” about the great American poet’s sexual orientation — “I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips,” he boasted.

May 31, 1854

The U.S. Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, allowing settlers in those territories to determine through popular vote whether they would allow slavery.

05-31-1922 – 10-06-1992 Denholm Elliott – Born in Kensington, Middlesex, England. He was an English actor with more than 125 film and television credits. His film credits include Alfie (1966), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), Trading Places (1983), and A Room with a View (1985). In the 1980s he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role three years in a row, the only actor ever to achieve this. Secretly bisexual, Elliot married twice: first to actress Virginia McKenna for a few months in 1954, and later in an open marriage to American actress Susan Robinson. In 1987, Elliott was diagnosed with HIV and died of AIDS-related tuberculosis on October 6, 1992.

05-31-1930 Clint Eastwood – Born in San Francisco, California. American actor, director, producer, musician, and politician. Eastwood rose to international fame with his role as the

Man with No Name in Sergio Leone’s Dollars trilogy of spaghetti Westerns during the 1960s and as antihero cop Harry Callahan in the five Dirty Harry films throughout the 1970s and 1980s. His films, Unforgiven (1992) and Million Dollar Baby (2004) won Academy Awards for Best Director and Producer of the Best Picture. He was also nominated for Best Actor. He was registered as a Republican and in February 2013, he joined the ranks of Republicans who were in favor of legalizing gay marriage. In March 2013, Eastwood added his name to a legal brief that called on the US Supreme Court to legalize same-sex unions and to strike down California’s Prop. 8. In 2009, Eastwood said he was now a registered Libertarian. On February 22, 2020, in an interview by the Wall Street Journal, Eastwood stated he is pulling support from Donald Trump and thinks a different candidate would be the better choice.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

05-31-1953 Louise Frevert – Born in Frederiksberg, Denmark, she is a former Danish politician. Before entering politics, she was a professional belly dancer and performed in the

1970s for the Iranian Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. She also performed as a backup dancer with Debbie Cameron at Eurovision 1981. She has also been a pornographic actress and has performed in several short vignettes from Color Climax. Frevert is openly lesbian and is in a registered partnership with another woman (name unknown).

05-31-1954 Lissy Groner – Born in Langenfeld, Germany. She is a German politician and since 1989 a Member of the European Parliament with the Social Democratic Party of

Germany. She sits on the European Parliament’s Committee on Culture and Education and its Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality. Groner is lesbian and married to Sabine Gillessen. The couple married in Belgium in September 2005, with Groner announcing, “There is no discrimination of same-sex couples in Belgium law. And this is the signal we want to give to people in Europe, to send the message out: It’s possible to honor the love of same-sex people by law.”

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

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

05-31-1976 Colin Farrell – Born in Baldoyle, Dublin, Ireland. He is an Irish film actor. His 2002-2003 films, including Phone Booth, The Recruit and S.W.A.T. (all thrillers, with the former two his first starring roles), were well received and successful at the box office. Farrell

has been a supporter of same-sex marriage. His brother is gay. In 2014 he wrote a letter in Ireland’s “Sunday Times” and called for votes in favor of marriage equality, sharing the story of his gay brother, who had to leave Ireland to get married to his lover Steven Mannion. Farrell has also lent his support to the anti-bullying campaign Stand Up! organized by the Irish LGBT youth organization “BeLonG To” in March 2012. He also appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show to increase awareness of the subject.

05-31-1977 Nicola Formichetti – Born in Tokyo, Japan, he is the son of a Japanese stewardess and an Italian pilot. He is a fashion designer and fashion editor. He is most

widely known as the artistic director of the Italian fashion label Diesel, and for being a frequent collaborator with singer-songwriter and performance artist Lady Gaga. He was on Out’s 3rd Annual 100 Most Eligible Bachelors (2013). Formichetti practices Transcendental Meditation daily. He is openly gay.

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

1982:

AIDS makes the front page for first time in a Los Angeles Times story entitled, “Mysterious Fever Now an Epidemic.”

05-31-1982 Steph McGovern – Born in Middlesbrough, England. She is an English journalist and television presenter. In October 2018, McGovern

stated that she found Donald Trump “creepy” after he referred to her as “beautiful” during an interview in 2012. She is said to have brushed off Trump’s comments by telling him she had heard “better lines” in Middlesbrough’s Club Bongo. McGovern is a former champion Irish dancer. Openly lesbian, she confirmed on July 14, 2019, that she and her girlfriend were expecting their first child. On November 4, 2019, McGovern announced that she had given birth to a baby girl. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, her 2020 show The Steph Show is being broadcast from her front room.

1985: Rejecting a grant application from the AIDS Foundation of Houston, the United Way of the Texas Gulf Coast announces it will “not fund AIDS-related projects.”

1986

on the usa charts “Greatest Love Of All” by Whitney Houston was #1 for a third week, holding off Madonna’s “Live To Tell”.

1989

David Bowie’s Tin Machine made their live debut at the International Music Awards, New York. Bowie stated that he and his band members joined up “to make the kind of music that we enjoyed listening to” and to rejuvenate himself artistically.

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

05-31-1991 Azealia Banks – Born in Manhattan, New York. She is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. Openly bisexual, Banks has expressed dissatisfaction with society’s

labeling of others based on sexual orientation. In an interview with The New York Times, Banks stated, “I’m not trying to be, like, the bisexual, lesbian rapper. I don’t live on other people’s terms.” Banks has been cited as a gay icon with a predominantly gay fan following.

1995

U.S. Senator Bob Dole singled out Time Warner for “the marketing of evil” in movies and music. Dole later admitted that he had not seen or heard much of what he had been criticizing.

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

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

2011, Nepal – Nepal adds a third-gender option to the national census. It is an identity-based category for people who do not identify as either male or female, including those who present as a gender that is different than the one assigned to them at birth based on genitalia or other criteria. It also includes people who do not feel that their male or female gender roles match their true social, sexual, or gender role identity. In the case of Sunil Babu Pant and Others v. Nepal Government and Others, Supreme Court of Nepal (21 December 2007),the Blue Diamond Society, MITINI Nepal, Cruse AIDS Nepal, and Parichaya Nepal, all organizations representing lesbians, gays, and “people of the third gender,” filed a writ petition under Article 107(2) of the Interim Constitution of Nepal seeking recognition of transgender individuals as a third gender, prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, and reparations by the State to victims of State violence and discrimination. India has used a third gender category in several administrative capacities, and in 2005, India’s third gender citizens could start registering for passports as eunuch, denoted by an “E.”

2012:

The U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, strikes down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act as unconstitutional.

Same-sex marriage is approved unanimously by the Conservative Jewish movement, allowing U.S. rabbis to perform same-sex weddings. Two model wedding ceremonies are approved along with guidelines for same-sex divorce. Called the “Covenant of Loving Partners,” the Conservative same-sex marriage document bases the ceremonies on Jewish partnership law. In the covenant, the couple pledges to be faithful and a ring ceremony binds the pair.

05-31-2013 Rev. Guy Erwin – A native of Oklahoma, he is an active member of the Osage Nation of Native Americans. Erwin is the first openly gay Lutheran Bishop elected to ELCA

Southwest California Synod and the first native American. He holds the Chair of Lutheran Confessional Theology professor at California Lutheran University and directs the Segerhammar Center for Faith and Culture. He has lived in a committed same-sex relationship for over 20 years. He and Rob Flynn were married in August 2013.

2014, Cyprus – More than 3500 people march through the nation’s capital of Nicosia in the first Cypress pride parade as police blocked a small contingent of Eastern Orthodox Christian protesters from entering the celebration grounds. Homosexuality was decriminalized in most of Cyprus in 1998, though the jurisdiction of Northern Cyprus — formally known as the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus — did not repeal its colonial-era law against consensual gay sex until January 27 of 2014, making it the last European jurisdiction to abandon such laws.

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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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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/his-story May 30

BCE to The Suffragettes

1431 – Joan of Arc (Jan. 6,1412—May 30, 1431) is burned at the stake for heresy, dying at nineteen years of age. She is considered a heroine of France for her role during the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years’ War and was canonized as a Roman Catholic saint. Over the years it has been suggested that her “crimes” included cross-dressing and inappropriate relationships with women. Around the age of 12 or 13, she began hearing voices and experiencing visions which she interpreted as signs from God. During her trial, she testified that angels and saints first told her merely to attend church and live piously; later, they began instructing her to deliver France from the invading English and establish Charles VII, the uncrowned heir to the French throne, as the country’s rightful king. Joan’s trial was described as so “unfair” that the trial transcripts were later used as evidence for canonizing her in the 20th century.

May 30, 1539

Explorer Hernando de Soto landed nine ships carrying more than 620 men and 220 horses near present-day Bradenton, Florida. He then led an expedition northward in search of gold.

1593, UK – English poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe, (February 26, 1564 – May 30, 1593) is killed in a fight. Like William Shakespeare, Marlowe is occasionally claimed to have been gay. Others argue that the question of whether an Elizabethan was gay or homosexual in a modern sense is anachronistic. For the Elizabethans, what is often today termed homosexual or bisexual was more likely to be recognized as a sexual act rather than an exclusive sexual orientation and identity.

1866

Opera “Die Verkaufte Braut” premieres (Prague)

May 30, 1879

William Vanderbilt renamed New York City’s Gilmore’s Garden as the first of four venues in Manhattan to be called Madison Square Garden. This first Garden existed for 11 years, had no roof and was leased to P.T. Barnum.

05-30-1903 – 01-09-1946 Countee (pronounced Coun-tay) Cullen. Place of birth unknown. From the age of nine, he grew up in Harlem, New York. He was an

American poet, author, and scholar who was a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Cullen entered Harvard in 1925, about the same time his first collections of poems, Color, was published. The book included two of his most famous poems, Heritage and Incident. His work celebrated black beauty and deplored the effects of racism. Also, his homosexuality was central to his work, although most African-American scholars ignore or suppress it. His attitude to his homosexuality was as mixed as his attitude to his blackness: simultaneously affirmative and condemnatory, celebratory and troubled. He wrote poems for his lovers and dedicated poems to his closest gay friends. In 1927, Cullen went to France and had a succession of French boyfriends. His love letters to them and their replies are held by Tulane University, New Orleans. From 1937 to 1945 he had a secret affair with economist and activist, Edward Atkinson. Those correspondences are held by Yale University. Cullen did marry twice, the first one lasted only six months.

05-30-1926 – 05-03-1989 “Christine Jorgensen” – Born in The Bronx, New York City, New York. As an American transgender pioneer,was the first person to become widely known in the United States for having sex reassignment surgery in Copenhagen, Denmark obtained special permission to undergo a series of operations starting in 1951.

after graduating from high school in 1945, was drafted into the U.S. Army for World War II

Returned to the U.S. in the early 1950s where this transformation was the subject of a New York Daily News front page story. Jorgenson an instant celebrity, worked as an actress and nightclub entertainer and recorded several songs. Jorgensen said in 1989, , that had given the sexual revolution a “ good swift kick in the pants.” Died of bladder and lung cancer four weeks short of her 63rd birthday.

05-30-1932 – 11-24-2016 Pauline Oliveros – Born in Houston, Texas. She was an out lesbian and an American avant-garde composer. Oliveros was a major figure in the development of experimental and post-war electronic art music.

Oliveros was a founding member of the San Francisco Tape Music Center in the 1960s and served as its director. She taught music at Mills College, the University of California, San Diego, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In 1975 she met her lover, performance artist Linda Montano. Oliveros was the author of five books on music.

In Pop Culture

1933

At Chicago’s Century of Progress Exposition, Sally Rand introduced audiences to her fan dance.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

05-30-1950 Bertrand Delanoe – Born in Tunis, Tunisia. He is a French politician and the Mayor of Paris. One of the first major French politicians to announce that he was gay, during a 1998 television interview. This was before he was elected Mayor of Paris

. Delanoe was virtually unknown before the election of 2001, but soon gained fame for organizing new and unusual events in Paris, such as the “Paris Beach” on the banks of the Seine every summer in order to give Parisians who could not take a regular vacation a chance to relax, sunbathe and build sandcastles in the center of Paris. The program, especially popular with families with children, has been in place since 2002 and has since been copied by many other international cities. As mayor, Delanoe’s goals were to improve the quality of life, reduce pollution, and cut down vehicle traffic within the city. He was reelected in 2008 for a six-year term (2008-2014).

in pop culture

May 30, 1956

In “Time” magazine, an article entitled “Teener’s Hero” referred to Elvis Presley’s appeal. It said “his movements suggest, in a word, sex.”

Elvis attended the Humes and South Side High School graduations at Ellis Auditorium.

05-30-1958 Ann Hampton Callaway – Born in Chicago, Illinois. She is a multiplatinum singer, composer, lyricist, pianist, and actress. She is best known for writing and singing the

theme to the TV series The Nanny, writing songs for Barbara Streisand, and starring in the Broadway musical Swing! She has composed over 250 songs for television, Broadway, and off-Broadway. Her songs have been recorded not only by Barbara Streisand but also for Patti LuPone, Michael Feinstein, Blossom Dearie, Peter Nero, Karrin Allyson, Harvey Fierstein, and Carole King. The Cole Porter Estate officially recognized her as the only composer to have collaborated with Cole Porter, having sent her music to his posthumously discovered lyric, I Gaze in Your Eyes. She lives in Tucson, Arizona with her wife, Kari Strand.

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

05-30-1960 Micah Barnes – Born in Vienna, Austria. He is a Canadian pop singer-songwriter. He has performed both as a solo artist and with the bands Loudboy and The

Nylons. In 2003, he collaborated with the house music duo Thunderpuss on the hit dance track Welcome to My Head, which reached number one on the Billboard club charts. He is openly gay. He was the partner of dancer and actor René Highway, who died of AIDS-related causes in 1990.

May 30, 1963

then closeted Lesley Gore made her first television appearance on American Bandstand on ABC.

1966

University student Anne Murray signed a contract with the CBC-TV show, “Singalong Jubilee.” She was paid $71.50 for each appearance on the show, and $99 if she soloed.

Dolly Parton married Carl Dean in Ringgold, Georgia.

05-30-1967 Allison Adler – Born in California (city unknown). American television producer and writer, she is best known as the co-creator of The New Normal. In 2011 Adler joined the writing team of Glee, joining six other writers. In 2015, she worked on Supergirl with co-creator Greg Berlanti. The show is based on Superman’s female cousin, Kara Zor-El, and is one of the many strong female shows currently being started by CBS. From 2002 to 2011, she was in a relationship with actress Sara Gilbert. Since 2013, Adler has been dating producer and writer Liz Brixius.

1968 –. On Memorial Day of 1968, men and women gathered at the Griffith Park Merry-Go-Round for a “gay-in” to hear Mike Hannon, a policeman turned lawyer and Civil Rights activist, speak to the challenges of being gay in a homophobic society. Hannon, who was straight, expressed support for civil rights despite the given the leadership of the police department at the time. He showed that there was broad support to protect the rights of those who demonstrate in the streets. Hannon died at the age of 77 in 2014.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

May 30, 1975

On NBC-TV’s “The Midnight Special,” Joan Baez hosted Hoyt Axton and Kool & the Gang.

1977 – In an essay inNewsweek, applauding the efforts of Anita Bryant in Florida, columnist George Will condemns gay rights ordinances as “part of the moral disarmament of society,” and predicts that if the current trend continues, homosexual marriages will soon flourish across the United States and gay people will be allowed to adopt children.

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

1980 – After winning a suit against his high school, Aaron Fricke (born January 25, 1962)takes Paul Guilbert to his senior prom after winning a landmark lawsuit. The suit brought by Aaron Fricke against his school is considered a major milestone in the history of gay rights. Each year cases of young same-sex couples being discriminated against by their schools happen around the world, and when these cases are brought to court, the suit first brought by Aaron Fricke and Paul Guilbert is invariably cited by the plaintiff’s counsel.Aaron later wrote of his experience in a book, Reflections of a Rock Lobster: A Story about Growing Up Gay. He later collaborated with his father, Walter Fricke, on a book about their relationship and of the elder Fricke’s coming to terms with his son’s homosexuality. That book, Sudden Strangers: The Story of a Gay Son and His Father, was published shortly after Walter Fricke’s death from cancer in 1989.

Alaska state-wide human rights conference on sexual orientation is held, sponsored by the Alaska Women’s Resource Center. It lasts for three days and features a keynote by Miriam Ben-Shalom, (born May 3, 1948). Ben Shalom is an American educator, activist and former Staff Sergeant in the United States Army. After being discharged from the military for homosexualityin 1976, she successfully challenged her discharge in court and returned to military service in 1987, the first openly gay or lesbian person to be reinstated after being discharged under the military’s policy excluding homosexuals from military service. She served until 1990 when the Army succeeded in terminating her service after prolonged judicial proceedings.

1981

Forty members of the Edmonton Police service, six RCMP officers, and two crown attorneys stormed the Pisces Health Spa, a bathhouse used by gay men, on May 30, 1981, at around 1:30 AM. In the raid, 56 men were arrested and charged while an additional six men, owners and employees, were charged with being keepers of a common bawdy house. A local TV station ran the names of those found at Pisces outing the men publicly. In response to the raid, over 100 people rallied at city hall on June 3 to condemn the raid as a violation of civil rights, as well as a waste of money.

The raid drew groups within Edmonton’s gay community together and made it more vocal and public. It was also noted that the Edmonton police consulted with Toronto police on how to execute the raids. The outrage that Edmontonians felt after the raids led to a more accepted and public LGBTQ community and the lack of tolerance towards infringements of civil liberties in Edmonton.

1984 – The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down a New York state law that prohibits loitering in a public place for the purposes of soliciting for or engaging in “gay sex.

1986 – American fashion designerPerry Ellis (March 3, 1940 – May 30, 1986) dies of AIDS related diseases at the age of forty-six. In 1981, Ellis began a relationship with attorney Laughlin Barker (1948-Jan. 2, 1986). Later that year, Ellis appointed Barker as president of the licensing division of Perry Ellis International. They remained together until Barker’s death from AIDS in January of 1986. Ellis’ influence on the fashion industry has been called “a huge turning point” because he introduced new patterns and proportions to a market which was dominated by more traditional men’s clothing.

1987

David Bowie kicked off his 87-date Glass Spider world tour at the Feyenoord Stadium, Rotterdam, Holland. The tour’s set, described at the time as “the largest touring set ever,” was designed to look like a giant spider. It was 60 feet (18.3m) high, 64 feet (19.5m) wide and included giant vacuumed tube legs that were lit from the inside with 20,000′ (6,096m) of color-changing lights. A single set took 43 trucks to move.

Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys was arrested in Liverpool, England for assaulting a female fan during a riot at a Beastie Boys concert.

05-30-1988 Amanda Lourenço Nunes – Born in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. She is a

Brazilian mixed martial artist (full-contact combat sport) who currently fights for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). She is the UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion. Nunes is the UFC’s first Brazilian champion. She has been involved with UFC fighter Nina Ansaroff, who competes in the strawweight division, for the past four years. In 2016, she received the Equality Visibility Award from Equality California.

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

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

2009

Little Richard was inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame.

At a charity event in New Orleans that raises funds to rebuild schools and playgrounds damaged by Hurricane Katrina. 81-year-old music legend Fats Domino made a rare appearance and watched his old friends Little Richard, B.B. King and Chuck Berry hit the stage and waved at the 3,000-strong crowd.

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

2017

Ally Olivia Newton-John announced she was cancelling her June concert dates after learning that the recent back pain she had been suffering was caused by breast cancer that had metastasized to her sacrum. Newton-John was previously diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992.

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

Understood as noting to be debated, quibbled nor negotiated.

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

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from my original blog:

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

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