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Today in LGBT History – APRIL 21 | Ronni Sanlo https://ronnisanlo.com › today-in-lgbt-history-april-21-2Apr 21, 2019 — Today in LGBT History – APRIL 21. 1946 – John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes(5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946) died on this day.

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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:

https://www.washingtonpost.com › lifestyle › 1983/03/23

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 for April 20

BCE to The Suffragettes

04-20-1492 – 10-21-1556 Pietro Aretino – Born in Arezzo, Italy. He was an Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist, and blackmailer, who wielded immense influence on contemporary art and politics.; and developed modern literary pornography.

He also is the inventor of modern literate pornography. He was a lover of both women and men; having declared himself a “sodomite” since birth. In a letter to Giovanni de’ Medici written in 1524 Aretino enclosed a satirical poem saying that due to a sudden aberration he had “fallen in love with a female cook and temporarily switched from boys to girls…” Aretino was a close friend of Titian, who painted his portrait at least three times. He is said to have died of suffocation from “laughing too much.”

4-20-1857 – 01-29-1912 Herman Joachim Bang – Born in Als, Denmark. He was a Danish author, one of the men of the Modern Breakthrough. He was friends with Henrik Ibsen. Bang was gay, a fact which contributed to his isolation in the cultural

life of Denmark and made him the victim of smear campaigns. He lived most of his life with his sister but found happiness for a few years with German actor Max Eisfeld, with whom he lived in Prague in 1885-1886. Bang’s works earned him renown as a leading European impressionist writer. He traveled widely in Europe, and during a lecture tour of the United States he was taken ill on the train and died in Ogden, Utah.

1893, Italy – Bisexual Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (26 February 1861 – 10 September 1948) marries Princess Marie Louise of Bourbob-Parma. He born Ferdinand Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, was the second monarch of the Third Bulgarian State, first as knyaz (ruling prince) from 1887 to 1908, and later as tsar (king) from 1908 until his abdication in 1918. He was also an author, botanist, entomologist and philatelist. Ferdinand entered a marriage of convenience with Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma, daughter of Robert I, Duke of Parma and Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, on 20 April 1893 at the Villa Pianore in Lucca. In his private relations, Ferdinand was a somewhat hedonistic individual. Bisexual throughout his life, up until early middle age his inclination was more towards women. His regular holidays were on Capri, then a popular holiday destination with wealthy gay men. His sexuality was common knowledge in royal courts throughout Europe.

04-20-1937 George Takei – Born in Boyle Heights, California. He is an American actor best known for his role in the TV series Star Trek, in which he played Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the USS Enterprise. He is a proponent of LGBT rights and active in state and local politics. In October 2005, Takei revealed in an issue of Frontiers magazine that he is gay and has been in a committed relationship with his partner, Brad Altman, for 18 years;

the move was prompted by then California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s veto of same-sex marriage legislation. In 2006 he was Grand Marshal at the Chicago Pride Parade. He also appeared on the Google float at San Francisco Pride 2007. On May 16, 2008, Takei announced that he and Brad Altman would be getting married. They were the first same-sex couple to apply for a marriage license in West Hollywood and were married on September 14, 2008. In 2009. Takei and Altman appeared in a celebrity edition of The Newlywed Game TV show, which the GSN cable network aired October 13, 2009. They were the first same-sex couple to be featured on the show. They won the game, winning $10,000 for their charity, the Japanese American National Museum. In May 2014, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) honored Takei with the GLAAD Vito Russo Award, which is presented to an openly LGBT media professional who has made a significant difference in promoting equality for the LGBT community. The musical Allegiance, was inspired by the personal experiences of Takei. It is the first Broadway musical created by Asian Americans, directed by an Asian American, with a predominantly Asian cast and from an Asian American viewpoint.

April 20, 1939

The first civil rights song, “Strange Fruit,” an Abel Meeropol poem originally titled “Bitter Fruit” and later set to music, was recorded by Billie Holiday. It became Holliday’s biggest record success

04-20-1939 Katherine V. Forrest – Born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. She is an American writer best known for her nine novels about police detective Kate Delafield. Her character was the very

first lesbian police detective in the American lesbian mystery genre. Forrest said, “We are the only subculture that incorporates both genders, all races, all colors all creeds…Being visible can make us free…and give us a power we have never known.” She was a recipient of the Lambda Literary Foundation’s Pioneer Award in 1998. She lives with her wife, Jo Hercus, in Palm Springs, California.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

04-20-1941 Blanche Wiesen Cook – Born in New York City, New York. She is an American historian and professor of history. Cook is the author of a

three-volume biography about Eleanor Roosevelt. The biography details an affair between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok. (The affair has been the subject of other books and it has also bee disputed.) She also wrote opinion pieces for the New York Times. In 2010, she received the Bill Whitehead Award (LGBT literary award) for Lifetime Achievement. Since 1969

Cook has been in a relationship with playwright Clare Coss. The couple met while organizing a protest against the Vietnam War and participated in the gay liberation movement after the Stonewall uprising. (Top photo of Cook & her book. Bottom photo of Cook & Coss)

1948:

Alfred Kinsey publishes Sexual Behavior In The Human Male

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

1959

The first single by 13-year-old Dolly Parton was released on Gold Band Records. It was called “Puppy Love.” and it would become a hit record in the 1970s for Donny Osmond.

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

April 20, 1961

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission approved FM stereo broadcasting.

1962:

Illinois becomes first state in The US to discriminalize homosexual acts between to two consenting adults in the privacy of their homes.

New Orleans Citizens’ Council offered a free one-way ride for blacks to move to northern states

1969 – Frank Kameny (May 21, 1925 – October 11, 2011) orders 100 “Gay is Good” buttons, indicating a move from his position of “fitting in” to promoting and celebrating gay existence. He was an American gay rights activist. He has been referred to as “one of the most significant figures” in the American gay rights movement. In 1957, Kameny was dismissed from his position as an astronomer in the U.S. Army‘s Army Map Service in Washington, D.C. because of his homosexuality, leading him to begin “a Herculean struggle with the American establishment” that would “spearhead a new period of militancy in the homosexual rights movement of the early 1960s”. Kameny formally appealed his firing by the U.S. Civil Service Commission due to homosexuality. Although unsuccessful, the proceeding was notable as the first known civil rights claim based on sexual orientation pursued in a U.S. court.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

1970-

The Boys in the Band movie trailer is released. The Boys in the Band is a 1970 American drama film directed by William Friedkin. The screenplay by Mart Crowley (born August 21, 1935) is based on his Off-Broadway play The Boys in the Band. It is among the first major American motion pictures to revolve around gay characters and is often cited as a milestone in the history of queer cinema,

1970

The New York Times reported that Catholic and Protestant youth groups had adopted the Beatles’ “Yellow Submarine” as a religious symbol.

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the practice of school busing as a method of achieving racial desegregation.

1971

Barbra Streisand recorded “We’ve Only Just Begun.”

1974

“Bennie And The Jets” fell to #2 for Elton John on the USA song charts

1977:

The Nevada State Senate – meeting a mere twenty miles from the nearest legalized brothel and just across the street from the nearest casino – votes to retain criminal penalties (1-6 years in prison) for homosexual acts between consenting adults, and, under a new amendment, prohibits the parole of anyone convicted of such acts unless it can be shown they will not be “a menace to the health, safety, and morals of others.”

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

04-20-1980 Vibeke Skofterud – Born in Askim, Norway. She is a Norwegian cross country skier who has been competing since 1999,

She won gold in the 4 x 5 km relay at the Vancouver Olympics in 2010.

She confirmed in June 2008 that she is in a committed relationship with a woman.

04-20-1983 Tan France (Tanweer Wasim Safdar) – Born in Doncaster, England to Muslim Pakistani parents. He was raised in a very strict

Muslim household and has stated that his sexuality was viewed negatively in his upbringing. France is an English fashion designer, television personality, and author. He is currently the fashion expert for the Netflix series Queer Eye. France currently lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, with his husband, Rob France.

1985

The charity record ‘We Are The World’ by USA For Africa was at No.1 on the UK singles chart. The US artists’ answer to Band Aid had an all-star cast

“We Are The World” reached #1 on the U.K. Singles chart.

“We Are The World” was also #1 on the U.S. Adult Contemporary chart. Madonna second with “Crazy For You” , Simple Minds had their first Top 10 with “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” at #8, Murray Head reached the list with “One Night In Bangkok

USA LP Charts: Madonna with Like a Virgin at 6, Wham’s #7 album Make It Big,

1986

Vladimir Horowitz returned to Russia to perform after being away for almost 60 years.

The Horowitz Magnum Opus – The Washington Post

Mar 23, 1983 — As portrayed in the book, Horowitz apparently had homosexual leanings as well. Plaskin freely discusses his own sexual orientation without …

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

04-20-1991 Javier Raya – Born in Madrid, Spain. He is a Spanish figure skater. Raya was the 2011 Spanish national senior champion and has competed at eight ISU Championships. In May 2016, he came out as gay in an Instagram post.

1992

Madonna signed a deal with Time Warner to set up a multimedia company. The reported $60 million deal made her the highest-paid woman in pop music.

The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert was held at London’s Wembley Stadium. Def Leppard, Lisa Stansfield, Elton John, David Bowie, Robert Plant, Annie Lennox, Guns N’ Roses, Roger Daltrey, George Michael, Metallica, Liza Minnelli, Spinal Tap, and the three remaining members of Queen performed Freddie’s major hits. Elizabeth Taylor also appeared. The concert was televised to more than 1 billion viewers worldwide and is listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as “The largest rock star benefit concert.”

April 20, 1994

At Wembley Stadium, Barbra Streisand gave her first London concert in 28 years.

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

2001:

The Chinese Society of Psychiatry declares homosexuality no longer an illness. The new Chinese Classification and Diagnostic Criteria of Mental Disorders removed homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses.

2004:

Oregon Circuit Court Judge Frank Bearden rules that the state must “accept and register” marriages of same-sex couples. He then orders a temporary stop to issuing new licenses, but gives the Oregon Legislative Assembly 90 days from the start of its next session to write a law that ensures identical rights for same-sex couples, which could happen through civil marriage or civil union.

2005:

The Connecticut state legislature approves a law to allow same-sex civil unions effective October 1, 2005.

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

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people link events link

LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes:

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

Understood as noting to be debated, quibbled nor negotiated.

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

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music and movie information from my previous blog

from my original blog:

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

see also:

However:

Was There A Dark Side to Elvis and Gladys?

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

A) women and other men

B) men and women

C) heterosexual men, heterosexual women and LGBTQ2

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

Extra Credit:

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

LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes:

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

LGBTQ2 for April 19

BCE to The Suffragettes

April 19, 1764

England’s Parliament banned the American colonies from printing their own paper money.

LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes: what would they have thought of bitcoin?

Elvis Presley would later be a licensed American product to make money

April 19, 1824

Poet George Gordon Byron, known as Lord Byron, died of fever at 36.

April 19, 1927

In New York City, actress Mae West was sentenced to 10 days in jail (a workhouse on Roosevelt Island) for obscenity, as a result of “Sex,” a play she wrote and starred in at Daly’s 63^rd Street Theatre. More than 325,000 people, including police officers and their wives, judges, and members of the district attorney’s staff, saw the play during its 375 performances before the police raided the theater and arrested West.

1929 – In New York City, an appellate court rules that, contrary to a verdict reached earlier in the year by a lower court, the book The Well of Loneliness is not obscene. The decision clears the way for even wider distribution of the best-selling novel. The Well of Loneliness is a lesbian novel by British author Radclyffe Hall (12 August 1880 – 7 October 1943) that was first published in 1928 by Jonathan Cape. It follows the life of Stephen Gordon, an Englishwoman from an upper-class family whose “sexual inversion” (homosexuality) is apparent from an early age. She finds love with Mary Llewellyn, whom she meets while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I, but their happiness together is marred by social isolation and rejection, which Hall depicts as typically suffered by “inverts”, with predictably debilitating effects. The novel portrays “inversion” as a natural, God-given state and makes an explicit plea: “Give us also the right to our existence”

4-19-1930 – 07-08-1994 Dick Sargent – Born in Carmel, California. He was an American actor, notable as the second actor to portray Darrin Stephens on TV series Bewitched.

On National Coming Out Day in 1991, Sargent publicly declared his homosexuality and supported gay rights issues. The high rate of suicide among young homosexuals was the main reason, jokingly referring to himself as a “retroactive role model.” In June 1992, he was Grand Marshal of the Los Angeles Gay Pride parade along with Elizabeth Montgomery.

He lived with his domestic partner, Albert Williams, until his death from prostate cancer. Former Bewitched co-star Elizabeth Montgomery commented, “He was a great friend, and I will miss his love, his sense of humor, and his remarkable courage.” Montgomery herself died of cancer less than a year later.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

1945

The musical “Carousel”, based on Molnar’s “Liliom,” opened at the Majestic Theatre in New York City.

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

04-19-1958 Steve Antin – Born in Queens, New York City, New York. He is an American actor, stunt man, screenwriter, producer, and director.

He is best known for his performance in The Last American Virgin. Antin is publicly out as gay and once was the boyfriend of David Geffen. They were together for a little more that a year. Antin directed the film Burlesque, released in 2010, and starring pop singer Christina Aguilera, Stanley Tucci, Cam Gigandet, and Academy Award-winner, Cher.

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

1967 – The Student Homophile League of Columbia University becomes the first gay college group to obtain a campus charter. The SHL had twelve members who fought with university administrators for a year before the group was officially recognized. Stephen Donaldson, a bisexual-identified LGBT rights activist is commemorated by a plaque in the Queer Lounge that bears his name in one of Columbia’s residence halls for spearheading the creation of the group. When the charter was ultimately granted in April 1967, it earned media attention with the New York Times printing a story on the front page. The Columbia Daily Spectator reported that some students believed that the creation of the group was an April Fool’s joke. The group is still in existence to this day and is now called the Columbia Queer Alliance

04-19-1969 Markus Gerardus Jozef “Mark” Harbers – Born in the Netherlands, city unknown. Dutch politician and former communication employee. As a member of the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy, he has been an MP since December 1, 2009. He is publicly out as gay.

1969

Smile (later to be known as Queen ) appeared at the Revolution Club in London, England.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

1974

While in New York, David Bowie sees Todd Rundgren’s band Utopia at Carnegie Hall, and attends the aftershow party.

1975

Elton John fired bassist Dee Murray and drummer Nigel Olsson, but, brought them both back in 1980.

Elton John ruled the charts with “Philadelphia Freedom”, #3 Minnie Riperton’s “Lovin’ You”

1978:

1,500 gays and supporters rally on the steps of the state capitol in St. Paul, Minnesota, in support of the gay rights provision in the city’s human rights ordinance.

Patti Smith released the single “Because the Night.”

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

1980

For the first time ever the Top five artists on the US country chart were all female, Crystal Gayle who was at No.1, with Dottie West, Debbie Boone, Emmylou Harris and Tammy Wynette making up the rest of the Top 5.

1982 – The Gay Officers Action League, Inc. is founded by NYPD Sergeant Charles Cochrane (August 5, 1943 – May 5, 2008) and retired Detective Sam Ciccone (1944-May 10, 2015) establishing the first official police fraternal society in the world to represent LGBT people within the criminal justice system. Sergeant Cochrane, a 14-year veteran of the NYPD, created shock waves by testifying before a NYC Council hearing in favor of a gay rights bill. Following the testimony of a Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association Vice President, who denounced the bill and declared, “I didn’t know of any homosexual police officers.” Cochrane stunned all present as well as NYC as a whole by his testimony: “I am very proud of being a New York City Police Officer, and I am equally proud of being gay.” In 1987, at the persistent urging of GOAL, NYPD began a concerted effort to actively enlist qualified gay candidates. In 2002, GOAL was admitted into COPS, the Committee of Police Societies, an organization consisting of all recognized NYPD religious, ethnic fraternal organizations. Since its inception, GOAL has evolved not only as a fraternal organization, but also as an activist organization that represents the interests of its LGBT members in all agencies and branches within the criminal justice system.

04-19-1985 Sabrina Jalees – Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Jalees is the daughter of a Swiss mother and a Pakistani father. She is a Canadian

comedian and actress. In the 2019 TV comedy series Carol’s Second Act, she starred as a main cast member alongside Patricia Heaton. Jalees writes a weekly column in the Toronto Star. When Jalees came out as a lesbian, she was shunned by her extended Muslim family, an experience she relates in her 2013 Canadian comedy tour, “Brownlisted.” Her wife, Shauna McCann, is a fashion designer. They have a son named Wolfie.

1986

George Michael was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘A Different Corner’, the singers second solo No.1. Michael became the first solo act in the history of the UK chart to reach No.1 with his first two releases. The song was also credited with being the second No.1 (after ‘I Just Called To Say I Love You’ by Stevie Wonder), which was written, sung, played, arranged and produced by the same person.

Prince started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Kiss.’ Prince also had the No.2 song ‘Manic Monday’, by The Bangles, which he wrote under the pseudonym ‘Christopher.’

Whitney Houston dominated the Album chart, spending a ninth week (out of 14) at #1 with her self-titled debut.

1987

“The Simpsons” premiered on television as a cartoon segment on “The Tracey Ullman Show.”

1989: In one of the Navy’s worst peacetime tragedies, a gun turret explosion aboard the U.S. battleship Iowa kills forty-seven sailors while the ship is on training maneuvers in the Caribbean. In its initial investigation, the Navy attempts to blame the tragedy on a lone sailor, Gunner’s Mate Clayton Hartwig, suggesting he was despondent and suicidal over the end of a homosexual affair with another Iowa sailor, Kendall Truitt. Its report, however, the Navy later concludes that Hartwig may have been suicidal, but was not homosexual. Ultimately, investigations determine that the ultimate cause of the accident is inconclusive.

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

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

2000:

Britain’s Daily Express won the right from the Court of Appeal to keep their source a secret. Elton John had sued for the name of the source that had leaked information about his forthcoming action against PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

Vermont approves the creation of same-sex unions, thus entitling gay couples to rights and benefits normally available to married couples.

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

In the Pop-est of Culture and Cancelling Culture:

2010

A week after Catholic Church officials published an article in the Vatican’s L’Osservatore Romano newspaper that said they forgive John Lennon’s remarks about The Beatles being “bigger than Jesus”, Ringo Starr rejected their forgiveness. The newspaper’s editors had written, “The Beatles said they were bigger than Jesus and put out mysterious messages, that were possibly even Satanic… (but) what would Pop music be like without the Beatles?” Ringo was unimpressed and replied “Didn’t the Vatican say we were Satanic or possibly Satanic? And they’ve still forgiven us? I think the Vatican, they’ve got more to talk about than the Beatles.”

2011

After 18 months of legal wrangling, Michael Jackson’s estate settled its dispute with the Heal the World Foundation. The deal came just as a trial was set to begin to decide ownership of lucrative trademarks.

LGBTQ2 Blogger Nine Notes: the above item refers back to the idea of currency of nations. Along with an observation of the impact of individuals when who they do is ignored owing to what they did that created money.

2012 – The Israeli Conservative movement joined the Reform movement in agreeing to admit LGBT students into rabbinical school.

2014

The White House refused to comment on a campaign to deport Justin Bieber from the US. Around 275,000 people had signed a petition on its website calling for the Canadian singer to be removed from the country. The campaign had been set up in January of this year when the 20-year-old was arrested on suspicion of drink and drug-driving and illegal drag racing.

LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes: I would not include queerbaiters and include here owing to the claim by the celeb named to be bisexual, despite no public evidence of and a pattern of heteronormative behaviors and expressed views. The Anne Frank House incident should be embarrassing to any Canadian. eh.

cited sources

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people link events link

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:

https://thegavoice.com › 5-lgbt-things › 5-lgbtq-things-…

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 for April 18

BCE to The Suffragettes

382, BC – Phillip of Macedonia (382–336 BC) is born. He was the military genius who defeated the combined armies of Athens and Thebes, conquering all of Greece. Along the way he availed himself of the 800 young eunuchs that had been brought with the army for his pleasure.

04-08-1918 – 04-25-1963 Sonia (Sonja) Sekula – Born in Lucerne,

Switzerland. She was a Swiss-born artist know for her abstract expressionist paintings. From 1936 to 1955, she lived in the U.S. and attended Sarah Lawrence College. Sekula was also an out lesbian in the New York art world during the 1940s and early 1950s. She suffered mental health issues and on April 25, 1963 she hanged herself in her studio in Zurich. She is buried in St. Moritz as she had requested in a letter to her mother.

04-18-1947 – 11-30-1997 Kathy Acker – Born in Manhattan, New York City, New York. She was an American experimental novelist,

punk poet, playwright, essayist, postmodernist, and sex-positive feminist writer. She married twice, and though most of her relationships were with men, she was openly bisexual for at least part of her adult life. Acker died from complications of breast cancer.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

1952 – The American Psychiatric Association lists homosexuality as a sociopathic personality disturbance in its first publication of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Immediately following the manual’s release, many professionals in medicine, mental health and social sciences criticize the categorization due to lack of empirical and scientific data. Homosexuality was removed from the DSM in 1973. Homophobia, however, is certainly a disorder!

April 18, 1953

Rufus Thomas entered the R&B charts with “Bear Cat,” peaking at #3, from the legendary Sun Record Company of Memphis, TN. The song was an answer to Big Mama Thornton’s hit, “Hound Dog,” which would eventually be a huge hit for Elvis Presley.

LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes: Big Mama sang about a cheating Man, Elvis’ version about himself.

In Pop Culture:

April 18, 1956

Actress Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier III of Monaco in a civil ceremony. A religious ceremony took place the following day. They had three children and remained together until her death in a 1982 car accident. The prince died in 2005.

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

1964

USA song charts: Louis Armstrong spent a fourth out of nine consecutive weeks at #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart with “Hello, Dolly!” And was #4 on the Pop chart

1965:

1965

Little Richard performed at New York’s famed Paramount Theater. A member of his backup group at the time was a young guitarist named Jimi Hendrix.

Marian Anderson ended her 30-year singing career with a concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

Following the previous day’s protest in Washington, D.C., twenty-nine ECHO (East Coast Homophile Organization) demonstrators picket the United Nations in New York City.

04-18-1967 Maria Bello – Born in Norristown, Pennsylvania. She is an American actress and writer.

She has appeared in the movies Permanent Midnight, Coyote Ugly, A History of Violence, Thank You for Smoking, and The Jane Austen Book Club. On television, she is known for her role as Dr. Anna Del Amico on the NBC medical drama ER (1997-1998). She starred as Lucy Robbins on the Fox series Touch in 2013. In November 2013, she wrote about having a same-sex relationship with her partner Clare Munn. Bello has a son with former boyfriend Dan McDermott.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

04-18-1972 Louise Pratt – Born in Kalgoorlie, Australia. She is a former Senator from Western Australia.

In office from July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2014. She was the youngest woman ever elected to the Legislative Council, the second out lesbian to be elected to an Australian parliament, and the first to have a transgender man as a partner. In September 2012 Pratt, along with three other Labor Senators co-sponsored a Bill to amend the Marriage Act (1961) and enable same-sex marriages to be recognized. The Bill was ultimately defeated, however Pratt’s impassioned speech in support of the Bill received widespread national and international attention.

1973:

The Minnesota State House of Representatives votes 69 to 46 to retain the state’s sodomy laws.

1976:

Michael Bennett’s “A Chorus Line” sweeps the Tony Awards, winning nine in all, including one for Best Musical and one for Best Direction.

04-18-1976 Gavin Creel – Born in Findlay, Ohio. He is an American actor, singer, and song writer.

He is best known for his work in musical theatre, for which he received two Tony Award nominations. He won the Laurence Olivier Award for originating the role of Elder Price in The Book of Mormon at Prince of Wales Theatre. Creel was on Out’s 3rd Annual 100 Most Eligible Bachelors (2013). He’s a respected advocate for the LGBT community.

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

1985

Liberace grossed more than $2,000,000 for his engagement at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall. He broke his own record of $1.6 million.

Wham! Became the first-ever Western pop act to have an album released in China.

1987

Aretha Franklin and George Michael started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘I Knew You Were Waiting’ also a No.1 in the UK. Aretha Franklin set a record for the artist with the longest gap between US No.1 singles, it had been 19 years, 10 months from her last hit ‘Respect’ in June 1967.

04-18-1989 Alia Shawkat – Born in Riverside, California. Her father is Arab Iraqi and her mother is Norwegian, Irish, and Italian.

She is an American actress best known for her role as Maeby Fünke in the Fox/Netflix television sitcom Arrested Development. From 2016 to present, she plays Dory Sief in the TBS series Search Party. Shawkat also likes to paint and has shown her work in galleries in Los Angeles, Mexico City, and Paris. She also likes to sing in jazz bars. Shawkat is bisexual.

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

1998

The “Titanic” Soundtrack was a gigantic hit, remaining at #1 on the Album chart for the 13th week.

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

2004

Jessica Simpson, Gladys Knight, Cyndi Lauper, Debbie Harry of Blondie, Patti Labelle, Ashanti, Kylie Minogue and Joss Stone starred in VH1’s Divas Live at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

2006

A sale of clothes belonging to Sir Elton John raised more than $700,000 (£395,000) for the singer’s Aids charity. Over 10,000 pieces were sold during a five-day sale in New York City at the specially-created shop, Elton’s Closet, at New York’s Rockefeller Centre.

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

2011:

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signs into law a bill that requires adoption agencies in the state to “give primary consideration to adoptive placement with a married man and woman.” Agencies may place a child with a legally single person if it is in the child’s best interest or if there is no married couple applying for adoption. Same-sex marriage is not legally recognized in Arizona.

Elton John announced that he’ll return to The Coliseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas with his “Million Dollar Piano” show starting in September. His first stay at Caesars Palace ended in April 2009, but was extended to a five-year run because of audience demand.

2018

5 LGBTQ things you need to know today, April 18 – Georgia …

Apr 18, 2018 — 2. On Tuesday, British Prime Minister Theresa May told 53 leaders of Commonwealth countries that she “deeply regrets” the Commonwealth’s history …

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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

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 for April 17

BCE to The Suffragettes

1725, South Africa – Leendert Hasenbosch (c.1695–1725), a Dutch East India Company employee, is convicted of sodomy on a ship in Capetown. He’s left on Ascension Island as punishment and dies of thirst six months later. He kept a diary entitled Sodomy Punish’d which was published in 1726. In 2006 the full story was published by Alex Ritsema, with the support of Koolbergen’s family and publisher, in the book A Dutch Castaway on Ascension Island in 1725; a second, revised edition was printed in 2010.

1863, Egypt – Constantine Peter (C.P.) Cavafy. Cavafy (April 17, 1863 – April 29, 1933) is born in Alexandria, Egypt. He was an Egyptian Greek poet, journalist and civil servant whose consciously individual style earned him a place among the most important figures not only in Greek poetry, but in Western poetry as well. His sensual poems are filled with the lyricism and emotion of same-sex love; inspired by recollection and remembrance. The past and former actions, sometimes along with the vision for the future underlie the muse of Cavafy in writing these poems. He died of cancer of the larynx on April 29, 1933, his 70th birthday. Since his death, Cavafy’s reputation has grown. His poetry is taught in school in Greece and Cyprus, and in universities around the world. In 1966, David Hockney (born 9 July 1937) made a series of prints to illustrate a selection of Cavafy’s poems, including In the dull village. During his lifetime, Cavafy was considered the poet of Alexandria. Today he is primarily identified with Lawrence Durrell’s characterization of him in the Alexandria Quartet.

1897 – Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes—for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey, and for the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth — and a U.S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day. Although Wilder never discussed being homosexual publicly or in his writings, his close friend author Samuel Steward (July 23, 1909 – December 31, 1993),acknowledged having sexual relations with him. The third act of Our Town was allegedly drafted after a long walk, during a brief affair with Steward in Zürich, Switzerland.

Although Wilder never discussed being gay publicly or in his writings, his close friend Samuel Steward is considered by some to have been a lover. Wilder was introduced to Steward by Gertrude Stein, who at the time regularly corresponded with both of them.

04-17-1919 – 08-05-2012 Chavela Vargas – Born in San Joaquin de Flores, Costa Rica.

In 2007 she was presented with a Latin Grammy Statuette, a Lifetime Achievements Award from the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences. At the age of 81 she publicly declared on Columbian television that she was a lesbian. In 2000, she told the Spanish newspaper El País: “Nobody taught me to be like this, I was born this way. Since I opened my eyes to the world, I have never slept with a man. Never. Just imagine what purity. I have nothing to be ashamed of.” She had an affair with Frida Kahlo and many other women. She’s also is featured in many Almodóvar’s films. The documentary Chavela by lesbian director Catherine Gund is well worth seeing. Great footage as well as a great story about the first Mexican woman to come out as a lesbian.

April 17, 1924

Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and the Louis B. Mayer Company merged to form Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM).

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

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

1963

Washington’s FBI lab reported it could not determine the lyrics to “Louie Louie.”

1965:

RCA and LearJet Corporation announce the development of the combination 8 track tape player and car radio that will become available in next Fall’s new cars.

Ten gay and lesbian demonstrators picket the White House in Washington, D.C., the first in a series of demonstrations staged this year by the East Coast Homophile Organization (ECHO) Ten MSW members along with members of the Daughters of Bilitis picketed in front of the White House against Cuban and the US governments repression of homosexuals.

Gay History – April 17, 1965: Frank Kameny Leads The First Gay & Lesbian Protest At The White House

in pop culture:

1967

The U.S. Supreme Court denied Muhammad Ali’s request to be exempt from Army induction as a conscientious objector. Appearing in Houston 11 days later for his scheduled induction into the U.S. Armed Forces, he refused three times to step forward when his name was called. As a result, he was arrested and on the same day the New York State Athletic Commission suspended his boxing license and stripped him of his title as Heavyweight Boxing Champion. He was not able to obtain a license to box in any state for more than three years. On June 20, 1967, Ali was found guilty by a jury that deliberated just 21 minutes. After an Appeals Court upheld the conviction, the case went to the U.S. Supreme Court where, on June 28, 1971, his conviction for refusing induction was overturned by unanimous decision.

1969

Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of assassinating U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy and sentenced six days later to death in the gas chamber. In 1972, his sentence was commuted to life in prison, due to the California Supreme Court decision that ruled capital punishment a violation of the state Constitution’s prohibition of cruel or unusual punishment.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

1971

Little Richard and the Platters guested on ABC-TV’s “American Bandstand.”

1972

Elton John released the single “Rocket Man.”

04-17-1973 Sandra Alland – Born in Scarborough, a suburb of Toronto, Canada. She is a Scottish-Canadian writer, interdisciplinary artist, small press publisher, performer, and

filmmaker. Her work focuses on social justice, humor, and experimental forms. She is also a founding member of “b other,” a Scottish collective of LGBT Deaf and Disabled artists. She identifies as queer. In 2013, she was awarded a Cultural Commissions grant from Creative Scotland and LGBT History Month Scotland, to work on documentary shorts and to mentor six new LGBTQ disabled and deaf filmmakers.

1976:

USA pop charts song: Queen had song #9 with the classic “Bohemian Rhapsody

The Lavender World’s Fair – the first all-gay world’s fair, featuring a “Spectacular Grandstand Concert,” “Special Lesbian Guest Stars,” “The World’s Largest Outdoor Disco” – is scheduled to get under way at the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds. Unfortunately, the event never completely materializes and a near-riot occurs when several thousand people, having paid $7 a ticket, show up for a concert by the Pointer Sisters, only to be told that they will not appear.

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

1982

“I Love Rock ‘N Roll”, Joan Jett’s musical declaration, spent a fifth out of seven weeks at #1. The Go-Go’s remained at #2 with “We Got The Beat”, Vangelis was at 3 with “Chariots Of Fire” Olivia Newton John had #5 with “Make A Move On Me”,

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

1992

The “Bodyguard Soundtrack” was the #1 album on this date, one of 20 weeks it ruled the Album charts

1993

David Bowie went to the top of the UK album chart with “Black Tie, White Noise”, his eighth UK #1 LP.

1999 – Ellen Hansen Corby (June 3, 1911 – April 17, 1999) was an American actress. She is best remembered for the role of Grandma Esther Walton on the CBS television series The Waltons, for which she won three Emmy Awards. She was also nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe Award for her performance as Aunt Trina in I Remember Mama. Corby died at the age of 87, survived by her partner of 45 years Stella Luchetta of Los Angeles.

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

2001:

The Alaska Supreme Court dismisses Brause v. Alaska. The lawsuit was filed by a same-sex couple seeking the rights reserved to married couples despite a state constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. The Court rules that the couples’ claim of discrimination had not ripened under state law.

2004

At the Icons of 20^th Century Music auction held in Dallas, Kurt Cobain’s Mark IV-style Mosrite Gospel guitar sold for $100,000, Elton John and Bernie Taupin’s song writing piano went for $140,000, and a 1966 Rickenbacker guitar owned by Roger McGuinn sold for $99,000.

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

04-17-2013

New Zealand becomes the 14th country in the world to approve of marriage equality – 77 vs 44 vote. The law will take effect in August of 2013. New Zealand had allowed civil unions since 2005.

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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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most tech, 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:

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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 for April 16

BCE to The Suffragettes

1061, Spain – The first recorded same-sex wedding occurred when Pedro Díaz and Muño Vandilaz were married by a priest at a small chapel in Rairiz de Veiga, Galicia, Spain. The historic documents about the church wedding were found at theMonastery of San Salvador de Celanova. It is not known whether the priest was aware of the gender of both.

1453, Italy – Leonardo da Vinci (16 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) is born. He was a prolific painter, scientist, mathematician, philosopher, architect and inventor. His most famous works are the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. Along with three other young men, he was anonymously accused of sodomy (and acquitted), which in Florence was a criminal offense, even though in most cases the authorities looked the other way and the general culture attached little social stigma to homosexuality. The accusation specifically charged him with a homosexual interaction with Jacopo Saltarelli, a notorious prostitute. DaVinci never married nor showed any (recorded) interest in women; indeed, he wrote in his notebooks that male-female intercourse disgusted him. His anatomical drawings naturally include the sexual organs of both genders, but those of the male exhibit much more extensive attention. Finally, Leonardo surrounded himself with beautiful young male assistants.

04-16-1919 – 07-26-2009 Mercier “Merce” Cunningham – Born in Centralia, Washington. He was an American dancer and choreographer who was on

the leading edge of American modern dance for more than 50 years. For more than six years he danced as a soloist in the Martha Graham Dance Company. He formed his own company in 1953 and choreographed almost 200 works for his dancers. His works have been performed by the Paris Opéra Ballet, New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, White Oak Dance Project, and London’s Rambert Dance Company. His life partner was American composer and music theorist, John Cage (Sept. 5, 1912). Photo is of Merce Cunningham in 1948 by photographer Philippe Halsman.

1934, Australia – Robert Colin Stigwood (16 April 1934 – 4 January 2016) was an Australian-born British-resident music entrepreneur, film producer and impresario. He was best known for managing Cream and the Bee Gees, theatrical productions like Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar and film productions including the extremely successful Grease and Saturday Night Fever.

04-16-1939 – 03-02-1999 Dusty Springfield – (born Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien) Born in West Hampstead, London, England.

She was an English pop singer and record producer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s. With her distinctive sensual sound, she was an important blue-eyed soul singer and at the peak of her career was one of the most successful British performers, with six top 20 singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and sixteen on the U.K. Singles Chart from 1963 to 1989. She is a member of both the US Rock and Roll and UK Music Halls of Fame. International polls have name Springfield among the best female rock artists of all time. In the biography, Dancing With Demons, “…the confidence Springfield exuded on vinyl was a facade masking severe insecurities, addictions to drink and drugs, bouts of self-harm, and fear of losing her career if exposed as a lesbian.” From mid-1966 to the early 1970s she lived in a domestic partnership with fellow singer Norma Tanega. In the 1970s and 1980s, she became involved in several romantic relationships with women in Canada and the US that were not kept secret from the gay and lesbian community. From late 1972 to 1978, Springfield had an “off and on” domestic relationship with Faye Harris, a US photojournalist. In 1981, she had a six-month love affair with singer-musician Carole Pope of the rock band Rough Trade.

In 1982 she met an American actress and singer, Teda Bracci, at an AA meeting. In April 1983 the pair moved in together and seven months later they exchanged vows at a wedding ceremony which was not legally recognized under California law. They had a “tempestuous” relationship and separated within two years. In January 1994 while recording her final album, A Very Fine Love, in Nashville, Dusty Springfield felt ill. When she returned to the United Kingdom, her physicians diagnosed breast cancer. In spite of vigorous treatments, she died on March 2, 1999. Her induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame had been scheduled two weeks after her death. Her friend Elton John inducted her into the Hall of Fame, declaring, “I’m biased but I just think she was the greatest white singer there ever has been… Every song she sang, she claimed as her own.”

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

04-16-1940 Joan Synder – Born in Highland Park, New Jersey. She is

an American painter that has been awarded fellowships by Guggenheim, MacArtur and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2011 Snyder married her partner of 28 years, Margaret Cammer. Cammer is a retired New York State Acting Supreme Court Judge.

April 16, 1943

Chemist Albert Hoffman in Basel, Switzerland, accidentally discovered the hallucinogenic effects of LSD-25. He had been researching the medicinal value of lysergic acid.

LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina includes the above as a medical change and the continuation of the Victorian Era’s invention of chemical addiction.

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

1957 – Essex Hemphill (April 16, 1957 – November 4, 1995) was an openly gay American poet and activist. He is known for his contributions to the Washington, D.C. art scene in the 1980s, and for openly discussing the topics pertinent to the African-American gay community. In the 1990s, Hemphill would rarely give information about his health, although he would occasionally talk about “being a person with AIDS.” It was not until 1994 that he wrote about his experiences with the disease in his poem “Vital Signs.” He died on November 4, 1995, of AIDS-related complications. After his death, December 10, 1995, was announced by three organizations (Gay Men of African Descent(GMAD), Other Countries, and Black Nations/Queer Nations?) to be a National Day of Remembrance for Essex Hemphill at New York City‘s Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center. In 2014, Martin Duberman (born August 6, 1930) wrote Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS in which Duberman documents the life of Essex Hemphill, along with author and activist, Michael Callen (April 11, 1955 – December 27, 1993). The book would go on to win the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Nonfiction.

04-16-1957 – 11-04-1995 Essex Hemphill – Born in Chicago, Illinois. He was an American poet and LGBT activist.

He was a 1993Pew Fellowships in the Arts recipient. His poetry has been published widely in journals, and his essays have appeared in High Performance, Gay Community News,The Advocate, Pyramid Periodical,Essence and others. In 1993, he was a visiting scholar at the Getty Center. The poems and essays in Ceremonies address the sexual objectification of black men in white culture, relationships among gay black men and non-gay black men, HIV/AIDS in the black community and the meaning of family. He died of AIDS-related complications on November 4, 1995.

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

Brian Epstein managed: The Beatles made their television debut on BBC-TV’s The 625 Show.

1964

In the Notting Hill Gate area of London, the Beatles filmed chase scenes for “A Hard Days Night” with actors dressed as policemen. In the evening they recorded the title song for the film at EMI’s Abbey Road Studios, completing it in nine takes.

1966

USA top 10 songs“Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)” by Cher at #3,

USA top 10 LPs: Soundtrack to “The Sound of Music” was still in the Top 10 32 after 57 weeks of release. Boots from Nancy Sinatra at #5,

1967

Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood sang “Summer Wine” on CBS-TV’s “The Ed Sullivan Show.” Tony Bennett, the Count Basie Orchestra, Los Indios Tabajaras, and Totie Fields also performed.

04-16-1969 Charles Pierre Chauvel – Born in Gisborne, New Zealand. He is a New Zealand lawyer and former politician who served in Parliament from 2006 until March 2013. He was the first

New Zealand MP of Tahitian ancestry. He now serves with the United Nations Development Programme. Chauvel was a board member of the New Zealand Aids Foundation from 1990 to 1994, serving as chair in 1996. He is openly gay.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

1974

At Regis College in Denver, Queen gave their first U.S. concert.

04-16-1975 Sean Maher – Born in Pleasantville, New York. American actor. He is best known for his role as Simon Tam in the

science fiction television series Firefly and the follow-up movie Serenity. Maher and his partner Paul have two adopted children. Following the birth of their daughter, Maher took two years off from acting to be a stay-at-home dad. He publicly came out in 2011.

1977:

USA song charts Thelma Houston was edging towards the top with “Don’t Leave Me This Way” #2, ABBA fell from #1 to #6 with “Dancing Queen”, Natalie Cole was at 7 with “I’ve Got Love On My Mind”, Barbra Streisand was at #8 with “Evergreen”,

A New York judge rules that transsexual tennis player Renee Richards is eligible to play in the women’s division of the U.S. Open tennis championships and does not have to undergo a chromosome test.

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

1983

USA Song charts #1 “Billie Jean” spent a seventh final week at #1 for Michael Jackson, while Do You Really Want To Hurt Me” by Culture Club at #10.

LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes: a rock song about not having procreative sex with a woman and ending with don’t hurt men who do not want to have such sex.

04-16-1984 Amelia Atwater-Rhodes – Born in Silver Spring, Maryland. She is an American author of fantasy and young adult

literature. She has been featured in Seventeen, JUMP* Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, The New Yorker, The Rosie O’Donnell Show and CBS This Morning. Several of her novels have been ALA Quick Picks for Young Adults; Hawksong was The School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, and Voice of Youth Advocates Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Selection. On July 4, 2010 she married her partner, Mandi McCresky.

04-16-1987 Carlien Dirkse van den Heuvel – Born in Hertogenbosch, Netherlands. She was a Dutch field hockey player.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed for the Netherlands women’s national field hockey team in the women’s event. The team won the Gold medal at the 2012 London games. In 2014 the team won gold at the World Cup. She was one of ten openly LGBT Olympians to medal in London and one of 49 open LGBT athletes to participate in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

1988

Whitney Houston’s “Where Do Broken Hearts Go” prevailed for the third week atop the Adult Contemporary chart and was #3 on the pop

The “Dirty Dancing” Soundtrack topped the Album chart for a seventh week, holding off Michael Jackson’s Bad while Faith by George Michael was third.

LGBTQ@ Blogger Nina notes: Thee Blow Monkeys warrant the Dirty Dancing soundtrack inclusion here, while Jackson does not and is included as pop culture to give context to chart accomplishments of those who do.

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

1990

More than 72,000 people gathered at London’s Wembley Stadium for an anti-apartheid concert. Neil Young, Natalie Cole, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Peter Gabriel, Lou Reed, Tracy Chapman, Simple Minds, and others took part in “Nelson Mandela: An International Tribute for a Free South Africa,” an “international reception” for the civil-rights leader, who had just been released from a 27-year prison sentence.

1997

Elton John was awarded an honorary membership to Britain’s Royal Academy of M

Sherry Barone sues Har Jehuda Cemetery (Barone v. Har Jehuda Cemetery). Barone and Cynthia Friedman had been together for 13 years when Friedman passed away from cancer at the age of 35. In several discussions before her death, Friedman had asked that Barone include the inscription on her headstone: “Beloved life partner, daughter, granddaughter, sister and aunt.” Days after Friedman’s death, Barone signed a contract with Har Jehuda Cemetery for two adjoining plots and a headstone. Friedman’s religious principles meant the headstone should have been unveiled one year after she died, but the cemetery had refused to act on Barone’s instructions to follow her loved one’s wishes that “life partner” be included. After filing suit on Barone’s behalf, Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund’s David S. Buckel (1958-April 14, 2018) settled with the cemetery outside of the courtroom. The cemetery agreed to erect the headstone in accordance with Friedman’s wishes and also to compensate Barone $15,000.

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

2001:

Oscar-winning filmmaker Steven Spielberg steps down from an advisory board of the Boy Scouts of America, citing the organization’s discriminatory practices in regards to religious belief and sexual orientation.

Pop Culture Reference and Over the Pond Scandal post Jerry Lee Lewis

2002

Sony Music Entertainment filed a complaint against the Dixie Chicks for breach of contract. Sony argued that they would lose $100 million if the Dixie Chicks did not provide the five remaining albums on their contract.

First The USA South Burned The Beatles, Then the Dixie Chicks – Now The Chicks – owing to awarenss of The Problem:

2003

USA 1950s rocker/country later crooner: Jerry Lee Lewis filed for divorce from Kerrie McCarver, his sixth wife and the former president of his fan club. Their divorce became final in June 2005. They have two children.

Great Balls of Scandal: How Jerry Lee Lewis’ marriage to a 13 …

May 23, 2008 — Fifty years ago this week, Jerry Lee Lewis arrived in Britain and revealed his young companion was his 13-year-old wife, Myra.

When Jerry Lee Lewis Married His 13-Year-Old Cousin

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Mar 8, 2019 — Jerry Lee Lewis ended his promising rock ‘n’ roll career when he married his 13-year-old cousin Myra in 1958.

2007

CIRR-FM is a radio station in Toronto, Ontario. Owned by Evanov Communications, it broadcasts a Hot AC/CHR format with a focus on the area’s LGBT community. Wikipedia

Broadcast area: Greater Toronto Area

First air date: April 16, 2007

Sister stations: CIDC-FM, CHLO, CKDX-FM

Call sign meaning: CI Rainbow Radio (pre-launch name)

2008

Barbra Streisand donated $5 million for the establishment of a women’s heart education and research program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

2009:

USA – Washington Governor Chris Gregoire signs the “everything but marriage” domestic partnership bill effective June 1, 2009.

Jaheem Herrera (1997-2009), age 11, takes his own life after unrelenting anti-gay bullying at school. No matter how many times his mother went to the school and complained, nothing was ever done. On April 16 after showing his mother and sister his report card of A’s and B’s, he went to his room and hung himself. His best friend said Jaheem was tired of complaining, tired of the bullying, tired of the talking. He felt that his teachers, counselors were doing nothing and he just couldn’t take it anymore.

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

2010:

USA- Arkansas Proposed Initiative Act No. 1, banning adoption by same-sex couples (but not LGBT individuals) is overturned in state court for violating the Constitution of Arkansas’ right to privacy.

2012 –

Katie Ricks becomes the first open lesbian ordained by the Presbyterian Church. She is the Associate Pastor of the Church of Reconciliation in Chapel Hill.

2018 – Donna Red Wing (1951 – April 16, 2018), a civil rights activist who campaigned for LGBTQ equality, died on this day at her home in Des Moines after an eight-month battle with cancer. She was 67. Red Wing, who was once called as “the most dangerous woman in America” by the Christian Coalition, spent more than three decades advocating for civil rights. She was described in an obituary as a well-known national leader in the fight for LGBTQ equality. She served as executive director of One Iowa from 2012 to 2016, expanding the organization’s work into new arenas after the battle for marriage equality ended, the group said in a statement. “Donna was a force to be reckoned with and will be greatly missed by individuals across the country,” said Daniel Hoffman-Zinnel, the organization’s executive director. “Donna inspired so many, including myself.” Red Wing, the first recipient of the Walter Cronkite Award for Faith and Freedom, worked on numerous projects, initiatives and councils that included co-chairing the Obama for America 2008 LGBT Leadership Council. Donna died of lung cancer at the age of 67, is survived by her wife and partner for more than 30 years, Sumitra, son Julian, grandson Jasper and twin brother David.

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Timeline: Notable Events in LGBT Canadian History – CBC

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LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes:

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

Understood as noting to be debated, quibbled nor negotiated.

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

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music and movie information from my previous blog

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 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?

However:

With Elvis’ self harm in both diet and injuries as a pretense to get drugs from doctors and dentists and anyone who would administer anything, including an induced coma for weight loss: 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.

LGBTQ2 for April 15

BCE to The Suffragettes

04-15-1452 – 05-02-1519 Leonardo da Vinci – Born in the Tuscan town of Vinci, Italy. Little is known about Leonardo’s intimate relationships from his own writing. Some evidence of Leonardo’s personal relationships emerges both from historic records and the writings of his many biographers.

Leonardo maintained long-lasting relationships with two pupils who were apprenticed to him as children. These were Gian Giacomo Caprotti da Oreno, who entered the household in 1490 at the age of 10, and Count Francesco Melzi, the son of a Milan aristocrat who was apprenticed to Leonardo by his father in 1506, at the age of 14, remaining with him until his death. Little is known about Leonardo’s sexuality. He left hundreds of pages of writing but very little of it is personal in nature. The only historical document concerning his sexual life is an accusation of sodomy made in 1476, while he was still at the workshop of Vercocchio. An anonymous denunciation was left in the tambour (letter box) in the Palazzo della Signoria (town hall) accusing four people, including Leonardo, of sodomizing Jacopo Saltarelli (a male prostitute). The charges were dismissed on the condition that no further accusations appear in the tambour. The same charges did appear again but were dismissed because the letter was not signed. Sodomy was also an offense for which punishment was very seldom handed down in Florence, where homosexuality was sufficiently widespread and tolerated to make the word Florenzer (Florentine) a slang word for homosexual in Germany. Leonardo’s near-contemporary biographer Vasari makes no reference to Leonardo’s sexuality whatsoever. In the 20th century, biographers made explicit reference to a probability that Leonardo was homosexual though others concluded that for much of his life he was celibate. Leonardo never married. One of the few references that he made to sexuality in his notebooks states: “The act of procreation and anything that has any relation to it is so disgusting that human beings would soon die out if there were no pretty faces and sensuous dispositions.”

1843 – American writer Henry James (15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916) is born in New York City. He was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911, 1912, and 1916. James regularly rejected suggestions that he should marry, and after settling in London proclaimed himself “a bachelor”. As more material became available to scholars, including the diaries of contemporaries and hundreds of affectionate and sometimes erotic letters written by James to younger men, the picture of neurotic celibacy gave way to a portrait of a closeted homosexual.

04-15-1866 – 02-22-1949 Marie Høeg – Born in Langesund, Norway.

She was a Norwegian photographer and suffragette. From 1890 to 1895, Høeg lived in Finland working as a photographer. She was greatly influenced by the Finnish women’s rights movement. It was in Finland that she met her life-long partner Bolette Berg (1872 – 1944), who was five years younger than Høeg and also a photographer. The couple opened up their own photography studio in Horten, Norway. They used their studio not only for photography, but also as a meeting place for women interested in feminism and women’s suffrage. In 1903, they moved to Kristiania (present-day Oslo) and continued to work as professional photographers. Berg died in 1944, Høeg in 1949. Many of

their glass negatives were discovered after her death inside a barn in the 1980s. The barn was on the property the couple owned at the end of their lives. A series of negatives in a box labelled “private” contained photographs of Berg and Høeg dressed in men’s clothes, smoking, and wearing mustaches. The 440 glass negatives are now in the collection of the Preus Museum, located in Horten, Norway.

04-15-1894 – 09-26-1937 Bessie Smith – Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She was an American blues singer. Nicknamed “The Empress of the Blues” she was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s.

Smith is regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era and along with Louis Armstrong, a major influence on other jazz vocalists. She started recording in 1923. She married Jack Gee, a security guard on June 7, 1923, just as her first record was released. During the marriage – a stormy one, with infidelity on both sides – Smith became the highest paid black entertainer. Her husband was impressed by the money, but never adjusted to show business life, or to Smith’s bisexuality.

In “Foolish Man Blues” Smith sang: “There’s two things got me puzzled, there’s two things I don’t understand; That’s a mannish-actin’ woman, and a skippin, twistin’ woman-actin’ man.” Strange words for a woman whose best friend was male impersonator Gladys Fergusson and who had been introduced to the world of ‘women-lovin’ women’ by blues singer Ma Rainey (April 26, 1886 – December 22, 1939).

On September 26, 1937, Bessie Smith was critically injured in a car accident. She died at the age of 43 at Clarkdale’s G. T. Thomas Afro-American Hospital. Her funeral was held in Philadelphia on October 4, 1937. Smith’s grave was unmarked until a tombstone was erected on August 7, 1970, paid for by singer Janis Joplin and Juanita Green, who as a child had done housework for Smith.

1927

Serge Koussevitsky directed the Boston Symphony in the first performance of Frederick Converse’s symphony, “Flivver Ten Million.”

LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes: statistically some of the players and production crew would be….

1931 – Sally Miller Gearhart (born April 15, 1931) is an American teacher, radical feminist, science fiction writer, and political activist. In 1973 she became the first open lesbian to obtain a tenure-track faculty position when she was hired by San Francisco State University where she helped establish one of the first women and gender study programs in the country. She later became a nationally known gay rights activist. She has been controversial for her statement that “The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race”, made in her essay “The Future – If There is One – Is Female”. The Sally Miller Gearhart Fund for lesbian studies was created to promote research and teaching in lesbian studies through an annual lecture series and an endowed professorship at the University of Oregon. The annual Sally Miller Gearhart Lecture in Lesbian Studies at the University of Oregon was first held on May 27, 2009; this first lecture was titled The Incredibly Shrinking Lesbian World and Other Queer Conundra, given by Arlene Stein of Rutgers University.

04-15-1933 — o5-18-1995 Elizabeth Montgomery – Born in Hollywood, California. She was an American film, stage and television actress. Her role as Samantha Stephens

on the television series Bewitched made her a household name and is how she is best remembered. Montgomery was a straight ally to the LGBT community being one of the earliest celebrities to support gay rights and advocate for AIDS victims, volunteering with the AIDS Project Los Angeles and amfAR at the height of the AIDS epidemic. In 1992, she rode with Grand Marshal Dick Sargent in the Los Angeles Gay Pride Parade. She died of colon cancer in 1995.

04-15-1907 – 12-06-1955 George Platt Lynes – Born in East Orange, New Jersey. He was an American fashion and commercial photographer. In 1925, while in Paris, he became friends with Gertrude Stein, Glenway Wescott, and

Monroe Wheeler. In 1927, he returned to the US and opened a bookstore in Englewood, New Jersey. It was here that he first exhibited his photographs. The art dealer and critic, Julien Levy, exhibited Lynes photographs in his gallery. He soon received commissions from Harper’s Bazaar, Town & Country, and Vogue. In 1935, he was hired to document the principal dancers and the productions of George Balanchine’s newly founded American Ballet company (now the New York City Ballet). For over ten years, Lynes had a love affair with both Monroe Wheeler, the museum curator, and Glenway Wescott, the writer. Besides his commercial photography, Lynes took photos of nude males, many of which were homoerotic. A large number of those photos were left to the Kinsey Institute after his death from lung cancer in 1955. (photograph is a self-portrait — courtesy of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery)

04-15-1916 – 05-28-1981 Lem Billings (b. Kirk LeMoyne Billings) – Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Billings met JFK at Choate, an elite preparatory

school, in 1933. They became life-long friends. Billings worked on Kennedy’s successful campaign for Congress in 1946. In 1961, Billings declined Kennedy’s offer to appoint him the first head of the Peace Corps, or the director of the U.S. Travel Service. He later said, “I realized that I did not want to work for the president—because I felt it would change our relationship.” In September 1961, he accepted an appointment to the board of trustees of the National Cultural Center, which later became the Kennedy Center. He was also named to a board to plan America’s participation in the New York World’s Fair of 1964-65. It was known by JFK that Billings was gay. Friends from the 1970s confirmed that Billings was gay but they were not open to discuss it. Ben Bradlee, executive editor of The Washington Post, said: “I suppose it’s known that Lem was gay…It impressed me that Jack (JFK) had gay friends.” One historian wrote that after the 1963 assassination of JFK, Billings was: “Probably the saddest of the Kennedy ‘widows’.” Billings died in 1981 from a heart attack.

04-15-1931 Sally Miller Gearhart – Born in Pearisburg, Virginia. She grew up in the Appalachia mountains of Virginia. Gearhart is an American teacher, feminist, science fiction writer, and political

activist. In 1973 she became the first out lesbian to obtain a tenure-track faculty position when she was hired by San Francisco State University, where she helped establish one of the first women and gender study programs in the country. In her book The Future-If There is One-is-Female, she made the controversial statement that, “The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race.” She retired from teaching in 1992.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

04-15-1949 Craig Zadan – Born in Miami, Florida. He is an American executive producer, director, and writer. He and his partner, Neil Meron, are the producers of the 2013 Oscars. They

also formed the production company Storyline Entertainment which has had success with film musicals, such as Chicago and Hairspray. In 2008, Zadan and Meron were awarded the “Career Achievement Award” by the Casting Society of America. He has been nominated for the Emmy Award eight times, along with his co-executive producer Meron (and the respective producers). Both Zadan and Meron are out gay.

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

04-15-1952 – 09-07-2010 Glenn Shadix – Born in Bessemer, Alabama. He was an American actor, best known for his role as Otho Fenlock in the film Beetlejuice. He also did the voice of the Mayor of Halloween Town in The Nightmare Before Christmas. In a Truth Wins Out video that Shadix made before his death, he said that when he was 17 he told his parents that he was gay. After being told by his father that if he did not “beat this thing” he wouldn’t be allowed to be around his younger brothers and sisters, he agreed to undergo aversion therapy with a psychologist in Birmingham, Alabama. Shadix said that after the therapy, he had “this overwhelming sense of shame,” overdosed on Elavil (medication used for depression), then was in a coma for three days. After he was released from the hospital, his father told him he wanted me to live, that it would destroy my mother if I killed myself. He said he wanted me to be who I wanted to be and that he loved me. On September 7, 2010, he fell in the kitchen of his condominium and died of blunt trauma to his head.

In White Pop Culture:

April 15, 1956

Mitch Miller, music director of Columbia Records, engages in a spirited debate with Allan Freed over the “potentially negative effects of Rock ‘n’ Roll on teenagers” on Eric Sevareid’s news program on CBS-TV. Two psychiatrists also joined the discussion. Miller made no secret of the fact that he hated Rock music, and was quoted as saying, “It’s not music. It’s a disease.”

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

1960

“Because They’re Young,” starring Dick Clark, Tuesday Weld, Warren Berlinger, and Doug McClure, with cameos by guitarist Duane Eddy and singer/actor James Darren, opened in U.S. and Canadian movie theaters.

04-15-1965 Linda Perry – Born in Springfield, Massachusetts. She is an American rock singer-songwriter and record producer. She has written and produced hit songs for several successful female singers, including Pink, Christina Aguilera, Gwen Stefani, and Grace

Slick. From 1989 to 1995, she was lead singer and primary songwriter for the rock group 4 Non Blondes. Perry won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 2004 for her song Beautiful. Perry began a relationship with Sara Gilbert in 2011. They married on March 30, 2014. Their son was born to Gilbert on February 28, 2015. Perry is stepmother to Gilbert’s son and daughter from a previous relationship.

04-15-1966 Samatha Fox – Born in Mile End, London, England. She is an English singer, songwriter, actress, and former glamour model. In 1983, at

the age of 16, she appeared as a topless model in the British tabloid newspaper The Sun. During this time she became the most popular pin-up girl and was one of the most photographed British women of the 1980s. In 1986, she began her music career with her single Touch Me (I Want Your Body), which peaked at number-one in 17 countries. In the late 1980s, Fox appeared in television advertisements. In 1990, she appeared on the American sitcom Charles in Charge. In 2003, Fox made a statement about her personal life. “I have slept with other women but I’ve not been in love before Myra Stratton. People say I’m gay. All I know is that I’m in love with Myra [Stratton, my manager]. I love her completely and want to spend the rest of my life with her.” In 2015, Stratton died of cancer. Fox is currently in a relationship with Linda Olsen, a woman from Norway. In 2011, Fox appeared as part of a campaign for LGBT charity Albert Kennedy Trust.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

04-15-1970 Drake Jensen – Born in Glace Bay, Canada. He is a Canadian country music artist.

In 2007, he moved to Ottawa and in 2008, married partner Michael Morin, who is also his personal manager. On January 16, 2012, he publicly announced that he is gay and told his story of severe childhood abuse and bullying. He left school in the eighth grade because of the bullying. He dedicated the video of his single, the title tract to his album, On My Way to Finding You, to the memory of Ottawa teenager Jamie Hubley, who committed suicide after having been severely bullied. In May 2102, Jensen was awarded Montreal’s Foundation Émergence at their annual Coup de Chapeau (Hats Off) Award in recognition of his contribution to the fight against homophobia.

1972,

Canada – In Ottawa, a visible gay contingent joins the Viet Nam Mobilization Committee demonstration protesting the visit of U.S. president Richard Nixon to Canada.

Barbra Streisand, James Taylor, Carole King and Quincy Jones performed at a benefit for U.S. presidential candidate George McGovern.

1978

A song written by the Bee Gees (in this case their own “Night Fever” was at #1 for the 11th consecutive week of what would be 15 weeks in a row for the trio.

The Soundtrack to “Saturday Night Fever” continued to set the pace on the Album chart for the 13th straight week.

LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes: Post 50s, the 60s sexual revolution resulted in heteros acting disco gay, until AIDS….The battle of the sexes would be over and sex lost.

1979 – The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence is founded in San Francisco by Ken Bunch (Sister Vicious PHB), Fred Brungard (Sister Missionary Position), and Baruch Golden. Their mission is “to promulgate universal joy and expiate stigmatic guilt.”

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

1984

Rockwell was down to #3 with “Somebody’s Watching Me” on the popchart. also in the top ten: Culture Club was at 6 with “Miss Me Blind”, the Eurythmics slipped to 7 with “Here Comes The Rain Again”, the Thompson Twins had a top 10 song with “Hold Me Now”,

1987 – ACT UP’s First Use of “Silence = Death,” the iconic pink triangle and slogan, is debuted to thousands waiting in line at New York City’s General Post Office to file their taxes.

04-15-1987 Samira Wiley – Born in Washington, D.C. Her parents are co-pastors of Covenant Baptist

United Church of Christ and the only Baptist church in D.C., since 2007, that perform same-sex unions. Wiley is an American actress known for her roles in Orange Is the New Black and The Handmaid’s Tale. On October 4, 2016, Wiley announced her engagement to Orange Is the New Black writer Lauren Morelli. They married on March 25, 2017. Out magazine nominated Wiley in 2017 to “Out 100” in recognition of her work and visibility. In 2018, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.

04-15-1987 Jason Somerville – Born in Long Island, New York. He is an American poker player and Team PokerStars Pro specializing in Texas Hold’em. Somerville has won over $2.2 million in online tournaments

He resided in Las Vegas from 2013 -2014 while he was signed with Ultimate Poker. In early 2015, he moved to Toronto so he could play on PokerStars, which is not available in the US. On Valentines’s Day in 2012, he came out as gay in a blog post. He is the first openly gay high-stakes male player. Somerville stated that he has great support from the poker community and from others outside of the world of poker.

1989

American all girl group The Bangles started a four week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Eternal Flame.’ Also a No.1 in Australia (biggest selling single of 1989) and the United States.

on the usa song charts: “Like A Prayer” from Madonna at #3, “Eternal Flame” by the Bangles #4

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

1990

Actress Greta Garbo died of pneumonia and renal failure at the age of 84. (Ninotchka, Grand Hotel, Camille, Queen Christina, Anna Karenina, Mata Hari, The Kiss, Flesh and the Devil, The Painted Veil, As You Desire Me, Two-Faced Woman, Conquest, Inspiration, Anna Christie)

Garbo was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress and received an Academy Honorary Award in 1954 for her “luminous and unforgettable screen performances.” In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Garbo fifth on their list of the greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema, after Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, and Ingrid Bergman. Recent biographers and others believe that Garbo was bisexual or lesbian, that she had intimate relationships with women as well as with men. In 1927, Garbo was introduced to stage and screen actress Lilyan Tashman (October 23, 1896 – March 21, 1934) and they may have had an affair, according to some writers. Silent film star Louise Brooks (November 14, 1906 – August 8, 1985) stated that she and Garbo had a brief liaison the following year. In 1931, Garbo befriended the writer and acknowledged lesbian Mercedes de Acosta (March 1, 1893 – May 9, 1968), introduced to her by her close friend, Salka Viertel, and, according to Garbo’s and de Acosta’s biographers, began a sporadic and volatile romance.

1992

The three surviving members of Queen raised over $15 million at a charity concert in memory of the late Freddie Mercury, who died in November, 1991. They were joined by David Bowie, Annie Lennox, Elton John, Guns N’ Roses, Roger Daltrey, Robert Plant, Paul Young and others.

1995,

Argentina – Buenos Aires police raid Boicot, a lesbian disco, and arrest 10 women ostensibly to check their police records. Lesbian activist Monica Santino obtains their release after three hours during which time the women are subjected to verbal abuse and threats.

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

2009 – GOProud, an organization representing conservative LGBT people, was founded by Christopher R. Barron (born December 15, 1973) and Jimmy LaSialvia (born December 15, 1970), two former Log Cabin Republican staffers who expressed dissatisfaction with that organization’s centrist political positions. It is now defunct. The Log Cabin Republicans (LCR) is an organization that works within the Republican Party to advocate equal rights for LGBT people in the United States. Log Cabin Republicans was founded in 1977 in California as a rallying point for Republicans opposed to the Briggs Initiative, which attempted to ban homosexuals from teaching in public schools and authorize the firing of those teachers that supported homosexuality.

2010

After receiving some bad reviews and even enduring some boos during her performance, Whitney Houston brushed off criticism of her first show in the UK in over eleven years by insisting she was playing to a “tough crowd”. She had recently been hospitalized with chronic rhinopharyngitis, which is a swelling of the membranes in the nose and throat.

Singer Melissa Etheridge and her partner, actress Tammy Lynn Michaels, announced their separation, seven years after bonding in a commitment ceremony. Michaels gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, in 2006.

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

04-15-2013 A judge ruled a Hawaii bed and breakfast violated the law when two women were denied a room because they are gay. The Hawaii Civil Rights Commission joined the lawsuit.

2014, India – Supreme Court of India recognizes third gender not as a social nor medical issues but a human right.

2019

Olivia Newton-John’s 1981 mega-hit ‘Physical’ has been named Billboard’s No. 1 hit of the ’80s. Billboard has teamed up with Sirius XM for a …

LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes: A song about heterosexual women’s desire by the lyrics, that in the music video, turns physically unfit men into buff gay men

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Toda y in LGBT History by Ronni Sanlo

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LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes:

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

Understood as noting to be debated, quibbled nor negotiated.

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

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music and movie information from my previous blog

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 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?

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

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 for April 14

BCE to The Suffragettes

1600, Italy – Philosopher Tomasso Campanella (5 September 1568 – 21 May 1639)is jailed and spent twenty-seven years imprisoned in Naples, in various fortresses. He was a Dominican friar, Italian philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet. He is overheard saying to his cellmate: “O Father Pietro, why don’t you do something so that we may sleep together, and we may get pleasure?” Pietro replied “I wish I could, and I’d even bribe the gaolers with ten ducats. But to you, my heart, I would like to give twenty kisses every hour.” Campanella was finally released from prison in 1626, through Pope Urban VIII, who personally interceded on his behalf with Philip IV of Spain. Taken to Rome and held for a time by the Holy Office, Campanella was restored to full liberty in 1629. He lived for five years in Rome, where he was Urban’s advisor in astrological matters.

1865 – President Abe Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865)is shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth while attending the comedy “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. He dies the next day. C.A. Tripp’s (Oct. 4, 1919–2003)book The Intimate World of Abraham Lincolnmakes the case that Lincoln had several homosexual relationships throughout his life. Tripp states that Lincoln’s relationships with women were either invented by biographers (his love of Ann Rutledge) or were desolate botches (his courtship of Mary Owens and his marriage to Mary Todd). Tripp is not the first to argue that Lincoln was secretly gay. Earlier writers have parsed his friendship with Joshua Speed, the young store owner he lived with after moving to Springfield, Ill. Lincoln’s story becomes interesting when Tripp looks at 1831,when Lincoln was 22 and moved to New Salem, an Illinois frontier town, where he met Billy Greene. Greene coached Lincoln in grammar and shared a narrow bed with him. “When one turned over the other had to do likewise,” Greene told Herndon. Bed-sharing was common enough in raw settlements, but Greene also had vivid memories of Lincoln’s physique: “His thighs were as perfect as a human being could be.” Six years later, Lincoln moved to Springfield, where he met Joshua Speed, who became a close friend; John G. Nicolay and John Hay, two early biographers, called Speed “the only — as he was certainly the last — intimate friend that Lincoln ever had.”

1904, UK – British actor Sir John Gielgud (14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000)is born in London. Perhaps the greatest actor to grace a stage in the English-speaking world, Gielgud never came out publicly. Interior designer Paul Anstee was his lover for much of the 1950s.

1912 – The RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg just before midnight on April 14th. By 2:20 AM, she broke apart and foundered, taking over one thousand three hundred people still aboard to their deaths. Just under two hours after the Titanic foundered, the Cunard liner RMS Carpathiaarrived on the scene of the sinking, where she brought aboard an estimated 705 survivors. Among the known gay people who died on the Titanic were crew members second carpenter Michael Brice and Third Officer Sam Maxwell as well as Archibald Willingham Butt(September 26, 1865 – April 15, 1912), who served as an influential military aide to U.S. presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.

,1939

The novel “The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck was first published.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

04-14-1948 June Millington – Born in Manila, Philippines. She is a Filipino-American guitarist, songwriter, producer, and instructor. The Millington family left the Philippines for the United States in 1961. The family settled in Sacramento, California, where her

father became a systems analyst. In 2011, Millington recalled: “We felt blatant prejudice when we first came here. It was horrible. We always felt like “other”, never quite fitting in, both in Manila and Sacramento. Being both bi-racial and bi-cultural was a really tough slot in the 50s into the 60s, our formative teenage years.” Millington is best known for being the co-founder and lead guitarist of the all-female rock band Fanny, which was active form 1970 to 1974. She was once described by Guitar Player magazine as the hottest female guitarist in the music industry. Millington knew when she was 20 years old that she was a lesbian. Since the 1970s she has been highly regarded for her work on behalf of women musicians and the LGBT community. In 1986 she and her longtime partner, education activist, Ann F. Hackler, founded the Institute for the Musical Arts in Bodega, California, now located in Goshen, Massachusetts.

04-14-1949 Mary Wings – Born in Chicago, Illinois. She is an America writer, artist, and musician. In 1973, she made history by releasing Come Out Comix, the first lesbian underground comic book. Wings is best known for her series of detective novels featuring lesbian heroine Emma Victor. Her only Gothic novel, Divine Victim, won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery in 1993. Wings is an out lesbian and resides in San Francisco.

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

1955: In the wake of a moral panic brought on by the sexual assault and murder of a boy in 1954, Iowa enacts a “sexual psycopath” law, allowing for the involuntary commitment of anyone charged with a public offense who possessed “criminal propensities toward the commission of sex offenses”. Twenty gay men from the Sioux City area, none of them suspected of having any connection with the crime that inspired the law, were committed in 1955.

April 14, 1956

The Ampex Corporation of Redwood City, California demonstrated the first videotape recorder.

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

1960

The original Broadway production of the musical “Bye Bye Birdie,” starring Chita Rivera, Dick Van Dyke, Dick Gautier, Paul Lynde, Kay Medford, and Michael J. Pollard, opened at New York’s Martin Beck Theater for 607 performances.

04-14-1966 André Boisclair – Born in Montreal, Canada. He is a politician in Quebec, Canada. Boisclair was the first out gay politician in Canada to win the leadership of a

party with legislative representation. In November 2012, he was named as the new provincial delegate-general in New York City.

1967

David Bowie’s novelty record ‘The Laughing Gnome’ was released in the UK. The track consisted of the singer meeting and conversing with the creature of the title, whose sped-up voice (created by Bowie and studio engineer Gus Dudgeon) delivered several puns on the word “gnome”. The song became a hit when reissued in 1973, despite it being radically different to his material at the time, the single made No. 6 in the UK charts.

04-14-1968 Premier of the play The Boys In The Band at Theatre Four in New York City, where it ran for more than 1,000 performances. The off-Broadway production was written by Mart Crowley; produced and directed by Robert Moore.

Considered to be a groundbreaking work in American theater, the first truly “honest” portrayal of the lives of contemporary homosexuals. It ran for 1002 performances before being adapted to a successful motion picture. Few gay characters were seldom seen in commercial media except as crude stereotypes, although later in history some in the LGBT community would say that is indeed what Crowley’s play presented. Some LGBT advocates later denounced it as Uncle Tomism because they were worried about attempts to assimilate the community into straight society, ignoring what a groundbreaking piece of LGBT history the play was for the 1960s.

1969

Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl) tied Katherine Hepburn (The Lion In Winter) for Best Actress at the Academy Awards.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

April 14, 1972

David Bowie released ‘Starman’ as a single in the UK, which became his first hit since 1969’s ‘Space Oddity’ three years before. The song was a late addition to the album The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars included at the insistence of RCA’s Dennis Katz, who heard a demo and loved the track, believing it would make a great single. The lyrics describe Ziggy Stardust bringing a message of hope to Earth’s youth through the radio, salvation by an alien ‘Starman’.

1973

Diana Ross had the #1 album with the Soundtrack to “Lady Sings the Blues”. a biopic of Billie Holiday

lesbian fave Anne Murray was at 7 with “Danny’s Song”

1978

The Johnny Cash special “Spring Fever” aired on CBS-TV with guests Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter, June Carter Cash, Rosanne Cashand Ray Charles.

1979

Suzi Quatro & Chris Norman had a top Ten record with “Stumblin’ In” at #9

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

1980

ABC aired Olivia Newton John’s TV special “Olivia’s Hollywood Nights,” with guest performers Elton John, the Carpenters, and Andy Gibb.

Gary Numan released The Touring Principle, the first rock videocassette available for purchase.

Cuba – In Havana, thousands of citizens invade the Peruvian embassy to try to obtain permission to leave the country. Over the next few months, Fidel Castro lets more than 100,000 people leave from the port of Mariel on leaky boats and makeshift rafts. Among the refugees, many of whom have been released from prisons and mental institutions, are an estimated 25,000 gay men seeking asylum from persecution.

04-14-1982 Larissa França – Born in Cachoeiro de Itapemirim, Espirito Santo, Brazil.

She is a beach volleyball player and is the all-time leader of beach volleyball titles, with 57 FIVB career gold medals, including the 2011 Beach Volleyball World Championship and the 2015 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour. In August 2013, Larissa married fellow player Lilane Maestrini. Larissa was one of 49 out LGBT athletes to participate in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

1983, UK – In the same year that Great Britain reports its first 17 cases of AIDS, the only UK gay magazine, Gay News, stops publication.

1984

USA LP Charts #2 The “Footloose” Soundtrack #6 Culture Club with Colour By Numbers, the Eurythmics’ album Touch #7, , the Pretenders’ amazing album Learning to Crawl at #9 and Cyndi Lauper remained 10th with She’s So Unusual.

1985 – The first Gay Erotic Film Awards is held in Los Angeles.

1986,

France – Simone de Beauvoir (January 1908 – 14 April 1986) dies. Born in Paris, France, she was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist. De Beauvoir had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory. She is known for her 1949 treatise, The Second Sex,a detailed analysis on women’s oppression. It served as a foundation for contemporary feminism. Her novels include She Came to Stayand The Mandarins. She is also known for her open relationship with French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. De Beauvoir is known to have had a number of female lovers, including some of her students. In 1943, de Beauvoir was suspended from her teaching job after she was accused of seducing her 17-year old student Natalie Sorokin. Sorokin’s parents filed formal charges against de Beauvoir for debauching a minor. It resulted in her teaching license to be permanently revoked. In the early 1960s, Beauvoir began a relationship with Sylvie le Bon which lasted to the end of Beauvoir’s life.

1986

Members of the First Church of the Nazarene in Ironton, Ohio, held a record burning after evangelist Jim Brown told them that the song “A Horse is a Horse,” the theme song from the U.S. TV show “Mr. Ed,” contained satanic messages when played backwards

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

1990

Madonna had the #1 song in the U.K. with “Vogue”.

1993

In Bosnia, Joan Baez performed for 700 people in war-torn Sarajevo.

1999

Tammy Wynette’s body was exhumed and an autopsy performed in an attempt to settle a dispute over how the country music legend died. No autopsy was conducted when Wynette was found dead on April 6, 1998. Her cause of death had been listed by the family doctor as resulting from a blood clot. The 1999 autopsy indicated heart failure. An official ruling in 2001 stated that Tammy Wynette died of natural causes.

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

04-14-2003 Out Q Radio – First air date on satellite radio. News, talk and entertainment channel for LGBT audiences. Last aired February 13, 2016

2004

Dolly Parton received the Living Legend Medal from the U.S. Library of Congress for her contributions to the cultural heritage of the United States.

Sophie B. Hawkins (“As I Lay Me Down”) won a lawsuit against a man selling pirated copies of her new album Wilderness.

2008

Brian May, guitarist for Queen, was named chancellor of John Moore University in Liverpool, England.

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

2013

Justin Bieber caused outrage after writing a message in a guestbook at the Anne Frank Museum, which stated he hoped the Holocaust victim would have been a fan. The 19-year-old wrote: “Truly inspiring to be able to come here. Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a belieber.” It provoked fierce online criticism of the Canadian singer, who was in Amsterdam as part of a tour.

2014, Malta – Malta becomes the first European state to include gender identity as a protected class in its constitution.

2017

Harry Styles’s debut single ‘Sign of the Times’ brok Ed Sheeran’s 13-week run at the top of the UK charts. The One Direction star achieved his first No.1 as a solo artist with this release – the first from his self-titled debut album.

The annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival opened near Palm Springs, California. Scheduled headliners during the 4-day event spread over two weekends were Radiohead, Lady Gaga and Kendrick Lamar, with more than 160 other music acts slated to perform.

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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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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 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?

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

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 for April 13

BCE to The Suffragettes

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

04-13-1947 – 02-03-2020 Deborah Batts – Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In June 1994, she was sworn in as a Federal District Judge for

Manhattan, becoming the nation’s first openly LGBT, African-American federal judge. She took senior status on her 65th birthday. She was in office from May 9, 1994, to April 13, 2012.

She was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and confirmed by the Senate in a voice vote in 1994. (Judge Vaughn Walker of the Northern District of Californiaserved from 1989 to February, 2011 but did not come out until April 2011, after his retirement.) Batts was the sole openly LGBT judge on the federal bench for seventeen years until President Barack Obama appointed a series of gay and lesbian judges to the district courts.

She died of complications from knee surgery at a rehabilitation center in Manhattan in February 2020.

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

1955 – Iowa enacts its “Sexual Psychopath” law in the wake of moral panic brought on by the sexual assault and murder of a boy in 1954.

04-13-1955 Ole von Beust (Carl-Friedrich Arp Ole Freiherr von Beust) – Born in Hamburg, Germany.

He is a German politician who was First Mayor of the city-state of Hamburg from Oct. 31, 2001 to Aug. 25, 2010. He served as President of the Bundesrat from November 1, 2007 for one year.

In an interview, Beust’s father confirmed that his son is indeed homosexual. Beust himself considers his sexual orientation a private matter; when asked directly he usually ironically refers the interviewer to his father. Since May 2013, he has lived with his partner Lukas Forster in a registered partnership.

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

04-13-1963 John Paulk – Born in Columbus, Ohio. He is a former advocate and promoter of the ex-gay movement and conversion therapy and author. Paulk was the founder and former

leader of the ministry Love Won Out, which was launched by the anti-gay organization Focus on the Family. In 2000, he was photographed in a Washington D.C. gay bar, Mr. P’s by Wayne Besen. In the April 2013 issue of PQ (Proud Queer) Monthly, he was quoted as stating that he no longer supported the ex-gay movement or efforts to attempt to change individuals’ sexual orientation, and that he was in the process of ending his marriage to his wife, Anne. The couple divorced in June 2013. In April 2013, Paulk disavowed his belief in gay reparative therapy, announcing that — while he remains a devout Christian — he also identifies as a gay man and believes that reparative therapy is both futile and harmful. He issued a formal apology for his role as an advocate of the movement.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

1970: In the first of a series of public “zaps” by New York City gay activists, an appearance by Mayor John Lindsay at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is interrupted by angry protesters shouting “Gay Power!”, demanding his support for an end to job and housing discrimination against LGBT people. His appearance on a local television program is similarly disrupted six days later. The “zaps” culminate in a meeting between gay activists and the mayor’s office to discuss the gay community’s political grievances.

1973

David Bowie put out his sixth studio album, Aladdin Sane.

1974

Elton John reached the top spot on the Billboard singles chart for the second time with “Bennie and the Jets”. It made #37 in the UK.

04-13-1976 Robert Biedron – Born in Rymanow, Poland. He is a Polish politician and currently serves as advisor to many politicians and

leaders. He is also the President of the Polish Campaign Against Homophobia. On December 1, 2014, Biedron became the first openly gay mayor in the country, becoming the mayor of the city of Slupsk, a city near the Baltic Sea in northern Poland.

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

1980

After 3,883 performances in various theaters, the original seven-year Broadway run of the ’50s-spoofing musical Grease comes to an end.

1982 – In Los Angeles, U.S. congress representatives open the first committee hearings on the disease that will come to be known as AIDS.

04-13-1985 Carmen Carrera – Born in Elmwood, Park, New Jersey. She is an American reality television personality, model, burlesque performer,

and actress, known for appearing on the third season of the Logo reality television series RuPaul’s Drag Race, as well as its spinoff series RuPaul Drag U. Although presented as a male during the third season of RuPaul’s Drag Race, on May 1, 2012, ABC news reported that Carrera is a transgender woman. Carrera is involved in AIDS awareness and activism.

1986

Most of the cast of the long-running sitcom “The Andy Griffith Show” reunited for the NBC-TV special “Return to Mayberry.”

1987: A seven-page, much-publicized cover story on teen sex and AIDS in this week’s People magazine never once mentions the subject of homosexuality or addresses the critical issues of gay teenagers and the disease.

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

1990 –

The first public action by Queer Nation takes place at Flutie’s Bar in New York, a straight hangout at South Street Seaport. The goal is to make clear to patrons that queers will not be restricted to gay bars for socializing and for public displays of affection. This action becomes known as “Nights Out.”

In Tokyo, Japan, Madonna began her 57-date Blond Ambition World Tour performing for the first of three nights at Chiba Marine Stadium.

1997 –Comedian and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres (born January 26, 1958)appears on TIME Magazine’s cover with the words, ʺYep, I’m Gay.ʺ These words were spoken during thecoming-out episode of her sitcom Ellen, titled “The Puppy Episode” which was one of the highest-rated episodes of the show.

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

2003

Madonna struck back at online peer-to-peer pirates of her new album, “American Life” by flooding file-sharing networks with decoy files. Those who download tracks from such services as KaZaA were greeted by the voice of Madonna asking, “What the fuck do you think you’re doing?”

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

04-13-2013 French Senate voted in favor to legalize same-sex marriage. This put the landmark bill on track to become law by summer 2013. Since May 18, 2013, same-sex marriage has been legal in France. It is the thirteenth country worldwide to allow same-sex couples to marry. The legislation applies to metropolitan France as well as the French Overseas departments and territories. The first official same-sex ceremony took place on May 29, 2013 in the city of Montpellier.

2014, Finland – The Finnish Post announces that Tom of Finland (Touko Valio Laaksonen, born 8 May 1920 – 7 November 1991),will appear on postage stamps.

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LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes:

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

Understood as noting to be debated, quibbled nor negotiated.

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

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music and movie information from my previous blog

Josephine Baker | National Women’s History Museum

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 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?

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

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 for April 12

BCE to The Suffragettes

1526, France – Marc-Antoine Muret (12 April 1526 – 4 June 1585) is born near Limoges. The 16th century humanist was accused by the church of being a sodomist and a Protestant.

1932 – The film “Grand Hotel” is released. Star Greta Garbo (18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990)originally did not want to the role but her partner Mercedes de Acosta (March 1, 1893 – May 9, 1968) convinced her to take it. The film goes on to win the Oscar for Best Picture

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

1953 – Sixty-three men are arrested in Waco, Texas at a “homosexual convention.” Tommy Gene Brown, the Waco Bride, led a mock wedding when police raided the two-room private resident in South Waco.

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

04-12-1961 Magda Szubanski – Born in Liverpool, England. She is an Australian television and film actress, comedian, and writer. In 2015, she released her memoir Reckoning. Twice she has been number one as Australia’s most recognized and trusted personality. In 2017, she was one of the most prominent faces of the Marriage Equality campaign in Australia and was thought of as crucial in the success of the “Yes” campaign. On February 14, 2012, Szubanski came out in a statement supporting same-sex marriage and stated that she “absolutely identifies as gay” in an interview on Australian TV.

04-12-1964 Amy Ray – Born in Decatur, Georgia. She is an American singer/songwriter and one of the contemporary folk duo Indigo Girls. She has also released six albums under her own name, and founded Daemon Records. Indigo Girls was formed in 1986 by Ray and Emily Saliers. The two women have known each other since elementary school. Ray currently lives in North Georgia with her wife, Carrie Schrader. The couple have a daughter. Ray is also a political and social activist, supporting gay rights, women’s rights, indigenous struggles, gun control, and environmental protection.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

04-12-1974 Slava Mogutin – Born in Kemerovo, Siberia, Russia. He is a New York-based Russian photographer, multi-media artist, and author. Mogutin is a gay rights activist who has dedicated his life to receive fair

treatment in his home country. At the age of 21, he gained both critical acclaim and official condemnation for his outspoken queen writings and activism. Forced to leave Russia, he was granted political asylum in the US with the support of Amnesty International and PEN American Center. He was the first to be granted asylum based on homophobic prosecution. Since 1999, his photography has been exhibited internationally and featured in many publications, including The New York Times and The Village Voice. In 2011, he became a US citizen. He has publicly criticized Russian President Putin for his homophobic political policies. Mogutin life-partner since 2004 is photographer Brian Kenny. (Photo from the SHARE Conference, 2012)

1975:

The Arizona State House of Representatives votes 37 to 3 to pass an “emergency measure” specifically banning same-sex marriages. Two weeks later, the Colorado Attorney General also rules that gay and lesbian marriages are illegal and orders Clela Rorex, the Boulder, Colorado county clerk who had issued a marriage license to two gay men in March 1975, to stop issuing licenses to same-sex couples who apply for them.

During an interview with Playboy Magazine David Bowie announced his second career retirement, saying, “I’ve rocked my roll. It’s a boring dead end, there will be no more rock ‘n’ roll records from me. The last thing I want to be is some useless f—ing rock singer.”

Elton John led the US Pop chart with “Philadelphia Freedom”, a song inspired by Billie Jean King’s World Team Tennis League entry.

Singer/dancer/actress (Moulin Rouge, Zouzou)/civil rights activist Josephine Baker died of a cerebral hemmorrhage at 68.

The Official Licensing Website of Josephine Baker – CMG …

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June 3, 1906: Josephine Baker (Freda Josephine McDonald) was born to washerwoman Carrie McDonald and vaudeville drummer Eddie Carson.

Paris When It Sizzles: The Loves and Lives of Josephine …

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Sept 2, 2020 — Josephine Baker was born on June 3, 1906, in St. Louis. Her family was so poor that a young Baker would search trash cans for headless dolls …

04-12-1975 Ali Forney – Born in Charlotte, North Carolina. He was a transgender pioneer. Forney was a African-American gay and transgender youth who also used the name Luscious. He was a counselor and advocate for homeless lesbian, gay, bisexual, and

transgender youth. Forney was killed on the street in Harlem on December 5, 1997. He was 22-years old. The murder has never been solved. The center in New York that provides homeless LGBT youth with services they need, including shelter, HIV Prevention, and lifeskill training is named for him (Ali Forney Center).

04-12-1975 Jennifer Knapp – Born in Chanute, Kansas. She is an American-Australian folk rock and formerly contemporary Christian

musician. She is best known for her first single Undo Me. Following the end of her 2002 tour, Knapp moved to Australia and became an Australian citizen. April 13, 2010, in simultaneous interviews with Christianity Today, Reuters, and The Advocate, Knapp came out as a lesbian. She had been in a same-sex relationship since 2002. In 2011, she launched Inside Out Faith, an advocacy organization for LGBT people of faith.

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

1981: Four gay men are beaten-one to death-when six North Carolinians wielding logs and shouting “We’re going to beat some faggots!” lay siege to a gay sunbathing area along the Little River near Durham.

1982 – Golden Globe-nominated film actor Lenny Baker (January 17, 1945 – April 12, 1982) succumbs to AIDS-related cancer at the age of 37. Baker had been gravely ill and in the final stage of the disease since 1980. He was an American actor of stage, film, and screen, best known for his Tony Award-winning performance in I Love My Wife in 1977.

1986

Falco spent his third and final week at #1 with “Rock Me Amadeus”

04-12-1989 iLoveMakonnen (b. Makonnen Sheran) – Born in Los Angeles, California. He is an

American rapper and singer. Makonnen is of black, white, and Asian heritage. His grandmother was an opera singer, which influenced his musical career. On January 20, 2017, Makonnen came out as gay on his official Twitter account. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

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

1994 – In response to a Hawaii Supreme court decision questioning the state’s right to bar same sex marriage, the state senate passes a bill declaring that the need to “foster and protect the propagation of the human ” is justification for the ban.

LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes: Over 8 billion people now….overpopulation threatending the entire planet

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

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

2013 – Autumn Sandeen, a U.S. veteran and transgender woman, received a letter from a Navy official stating, “Per your request the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS) has been updated to show your gender as female effective April 12th, 2013.” Allyson RobinsonofOutserve declared, “To our knowledge, this is the first time that the Department of Defense has recognized and affirmed a change of gender for anyone affiliated, in a uniformed capacity—in this case a military retiree.”

2016

A report showed that British artists including Sam Smith, Ed Sheeran and Adele had helped the music industry return to meaningful growth for the first time in almost 20 years. British artists accounted for five of the top 10 selling albums during 2015, as the global music industry generated $15bn (£10.5bn).

2019

Day of Silence, April 12, 2019 (day varies from year to year) is a student-led national event that brings attention to anti-LGBT name-calling, bullying and harassment in schools. Students from middle school to college take a vow of silence in an effort to encourage schools and classmates to address the problem of ant-LGBTQ behavior by illustrating silencing effect of bullying and harassment on LGBT students and those perceived to be LGBT.

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LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes:

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

Understood as noting to be debated, quibbled nor negotiated.

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

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music and movie information from my previous blog