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Mar 12, 2019 — 1981, Canada – MCC pastor Brent Hawkes ends a twenty-five day hunger fast when Toronto City Council asks Daniel Hill to investigate police/gay …

Today in LGBT History – March 12 | Ronni Sanlo https://ronnisanlo.com › today-in-lgbt-history-march-12Mar 12, 2018 — Today in LGBT History – March 12. 1890, Russiqa – Vaslav Nijinsky (March 12, 1890 – 8 April 1950) is born in Kiev.

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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 March 11

BCE to The Suffragettes

222, Italy – Elagabalus (c. 203 – March 11, 222) is assassinated at age 18 because of his relationship with Hierocles, a charioteer. Elagabalus was Roman emperor from 218 to 222. A member of the Severan dynasty, he was Syrian, the second son of Julia Soaemias and Sextus Varius Marcellus. In his early youth he served as a priest of the god Elagabalus in the hometown of his mother’s family, Emesa. As a private citizen, he was probably named Sextus Varius Avitus Bassianus. Elagabalus, barely 14 years old, became emperor, initiating a reign remembered mainly for sex scandals and religious controversy. Elagabalus developed a reputation among his contemporaries for extreme eccentricity, decadence, and zealotry. He suffers one of the worst reputations among Roman emperors.

March 11, 1818

Mary Shelley’s novel “Frankenstein” was first published.

LGBTQ@ Blogger Nina Notes: Women finally being able to access the public via distibuted means explains the hatred of women in applied experimental sciences: males would would rather reanimate the dead than procreate

March 11, 1824

The Bureau of Indian Affairs was created by the U.S. War Department. Ely Parker of the Seneca tribe became the first Indian to lead the Bureau.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

03-11-1941 David Boise – Born in Sycamore, Illinois. He is an American lawyer that has been involved in high-profile cases. Olson, a Republican

and conservative, recruited liberal Democrat Boise to fight against California’s Prop. 8. Having these two lawyers showed that marriage equality was a bipartisan belief. It is indisputable that having Olson and Boise prominently involved in this effort helped move public opinion, especially with conservatives, toward favoring the freedom to marry. The lawsuit failed in the stated goal of winning a national right to same-sex marriage at the Supreme Court, but it did return gay marriage to California. It was when the Supreme Court declared that DOMA was unconstitutional that gave same-sex couples the right to marry across the nation.

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

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

1967

the incredible “Sound of Music” Soundtrack was #8,

“Doctor Who” actor John Barrowman is born. He is a Scottish-American actor, singer, presenter and writer. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he moved to the United States with his family in 1975. Encouraged by his high school teachers, Barrowman studied performing arts at the United States International University in San Diego before landing the role of Billy Crocker in Cole Porter‘s Anything Goes in London’s West End. Barrowman is openly gay: he met his husband, Scott Gill, during a production of Rope at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 1993, after Gill came to see Barrowman in the play. He nearly got the role of Will in “Will and Grace” in 1998, but he lost the part when producers thought he was ‘too straight’. Barrowman is gay and Eric McCormack, who got the part, is straight.

03-11-1978 Christopher Rice – Born in Berkeley, California. He is an American writer and son of Anne Rice. He was on Out’s 3rd Annual 100 Most

Eligible Bachelors (2013). Rice has written six best-selling novels. He is openly gay and his works consist of descriptions of contemporary American life for the gay men. He is proud of his large following in the gay community, explaining, “it was incredibly rewarding when I got a huge positive response from the character Stephen in The Density of Souls. More than a thousand gay men contacted me and said that I captured what it was like for them going through those years. That means everything to me.” In 2012, Rice launched a streaming Internet radio show called The Dinner Party Show with Christopher Rice and Eric Shaw Quin. Quinn is his partner as well as co-host. Rice also writes a regular feature for the LGBT-related biweekly news magazine The Advocate called “Coastal Disturbances.”

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

03-11-1972 LZ Granderson – Born in Detroit, Michigan. He is an American journalist and commentator for CNN and ESPN. LZ writes a

weekly column for CNN.com. He is a senior writer and columnist for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com Page 2. LZ is also a commentator of ESPN’s coverage of the U.S. Open tennis tournament. He was the 2009 winner of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation award for online journalism and was nominated for the award again in 2010. LZ is openly gay. He was married to a woman at one time and has a son. His partner today is Steve Huesing, who is ULTA Beauty’s Merchandising Operations Director and Interim President of Chicago’s Marriage Equality USA. Regarding Gay Pride, LZ stated, “ Gay Pride was NOT born out of a need to celebrate being gay, but instead our right to exist without prosecution…so maybe instead of wondering why there isn’t a straight pride month or movement, straight people should be thankful they don’t need one.”

1975 – Madison, Wisconsin passes a bill granting civil rights protection to gays and lesbians.

03-11-1976 Kurt Froman – Born in Ft. Worth, Texas. He is a professional ballet dancer and

was assistant choreographer and dance coach for Natalie Portman in Black Swan. In 2017, Froman was Jennifer Lawrence’s ballet trainer and the Associate Choreographer for the 2018 film, Red Sparrow. Froman’s professional career started in New York after he was awarded the first Rudolf Nureyev Scholarship which allowed him to study at the School of American Ballet’s “Special” Advance Men’s Class. Froman is a twin. He and his brother danced together for four years at the Fort Worth Ballet before moving to New York City. Kurt Froman came out gay and has said that he’s had a partner for eight years. “I adore him,” said Froman, who made his Broadway debut in Movin’ Out in 2002.

03-11-1976 Kyle Froman – Born Ft. Worth, Texas. He was a professional ballet dancer and is Kurt Froman’s twin brother. Kyle came out as gay in his early 20s, before his brother. He left dancing for photography and married a Canadian man, who was a political reporter.

1978

The “Saturday Night Fever” Soundtrack was the #1 album for the eighth week.

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

1985

Tears for Fears released the single “Everybody Wants To Rule The World”

Wham! released the single “Everything She Wants” in the United States.

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

03-11-1992 Tessie Savlekouls – Born in the Netherlands, place unknown.

She competed in the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in judo. Savlekouls is one of 49 out LGBT athletes to compete at the Olympic Games in 2016.

1995

Madonna once again owned the #1 song for a third week with “Take A Bow”.

1998, Denmark – Torben Lund (born November 6, 1950) and Yvonne Herlov (born 1942), the first two openly gay and lesbian members of the Danish Parliament, took office. Lund came out as gay in 1998, becoming Denmark’s first openly gay member of the Folketing. In 1999, he married his partner Claus Lautrup. He served in the Folketing from 1981 to 1998^[1] and in the European Parliament from 1999 to 2004. Herlov was elected to the Folketing (Danish parliament) in 1977 from Sorø, serving until 1979, again from 1981 to 1984 from Slagelse, and from 1987–88 from Odense. In 1994 she was appointed Social Minister in the first Nyrup Rasmussen cabinet. She subsequently served as Minister of Health in the second Nyrup Rasmussen cabinet, from 1994 to 1996, where she focused particularly on reform of HIV policy, and compensation for previous mistreatment of hemophiliacs

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

2003 – The first transgender person, Reuben Zellman, is accepted in the Reform Judaism Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio. Rabbi Zellman is now the assistant rabbi and music director of Congregation Beth El in Berkeley, CA.

2004: The California Supreme Court issues a stay ordering San Francisco officials to cease issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

2007 – The first openly LGBTQ person, Rabbi Toba Spitzer, is chosen to head an American rabbinical association, in Arizona. Rabbi Spitzer became the first openly lesbian or gay person chosen to head a rabbinical association in the United States in 2007, when she was elected president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association at the group’s annual convention, in Scottsdale, Arizona. Spitzer leads Congregation Dorshei Tzedek in West Newton, Massachusetts.

2008

US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at a star-studded ceremony in New York City, Madonna was inducted, the 49-year-old thanked her detractors in an acceptance speech, including those who “said I couldn’t sing, that I was a One Hit Wonder. Rock star John Mellencamp, Leonard Cohen, The Ventures and The Dave Clark Five were also among the inductees.

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

2010

Joan Baez was honored with the Order of Letters and Arts from the government of Spain.

03-11-2013 Queen Elizabeth II of England signs Commonwealth Charter with its commitment to equal rights. “We are implacably opposed to all

form of discrimination,” the charter reads. “Whether rooted in gender, race, colour, creed, political belief or other grounds.” The reference to ‘other grounds’ is intended to refer to sexual orientation, but was kept ambiguous because more than 42 countries of the 54 within the commonwealth have staunchly antigay views and beliefs originally fostered by British colonial rule.

2018

American Idol, which ran for 15 seasons on Fox, returns on ABC just two years later with new judges

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LGBTQ2 for March 10

BCE to The Suffragettes

1778 – From George Washington’s letters: Lt. Enslin of Col. Malcolm’s regiment tried for attempting to commit sodomy with John Monhort, a soldier. His Excellency the Commander in Chief approves the sentence and with the Abhorrence and Detestation of such Infamous Crimes order Lt. Enslin to be drummed out of Camp tomorrow morning by all the Drummers and Fifers in the Army never to return. Enslin was “dismissed with Infamy.” Little to nothing is known about the early life of Frederick Gotthold Enslin (born 1740), but it is believed he was educated and from a family of high standing in Europe, possibly southern Germany, due to reports that his command of the English language was outstanding and his penmanship was well formed. His approximate year of birth was 1740. When Enslin enlisted, he was given the appointment of lieutenant in the Continental Army. His assignment was under the command of Col. William Malcolm and Lt. Col. Aaron Burr. Malcolm’s regiment was formed in mid-1777, and placed into the 3rd Pennsylvania Brigade after a lengthy encampment at Valley Forge. For the rest of his life — and to present day — he would become known as the first person to be dishonorably discharged due to his sexual orientation.

1922

Variety magazine greeted readers with the front-page headline that read, “Radio Sweeping Country – 1,000,000 Sets in Use.”

1924, UK – Angela Morley (born Walter “Wally” Stott, 10 March 1924 – 14 January 2009) is born. She was an English composer and conductor. She attributed her entry into composing and arranging largely to the influence and encouragement of the Canadian light music composer Robert Farnon. In 1972, Morley underwent sex reassignment surgery. Later in life, she lived in Scottsdale, Arizona. She became the first openly transgender person to be nominated for an Academy Award when she was nominated for one in the category of Best Music, Original Song Score/Adaptation for The Little Prince (1974), a nomination shared with Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe, and Douglas Gamley. Morley died of a heart attack in 2009 in Scottsdale, Arizona.

03-10-1931 John Rechy – Born in El Paso, Texas. He is an American novelist, dramatist, and literary critic. His novels are about gay culture in

Los Angeles and across America. Rechy is one of the pioneers of modern LGBT literature. City of Night, published in 1963, was a best seller. His novel, The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gomez, was drawn from his own background and has been taught in several Chicano literature courses in the US. He is a faculty member at the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California. In 2018, he won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction for After the Blue Hour.

1934 – John Rechy (born March 10, 1931) is born in El Paso, Texas. He is a Mexican American novelist, essayist, memoirist, dramatist and literary critic. In his novels, he has written extensively about gay culture in Los Angeles and wider America, among other subject matters, and is among the pioneers of modern LGBT literature. City of Night, his debut novel published in 1963, was a best seller and is widely considered a seminal work in 20th century in literature. Drawing on his own background, he has contributed to Chicano literature, notably with his novel The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gomez, which has been taught in several Chicano literature courses throughout the United States. An outspoken activist, former hustler, and bodybuilder, he said he was once told by a drag queen “Your muscles are as gay as my drag.” He laughed and agreed.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

03-10-1955 Holly Hughes – Born in Saginaw, Michigan. She is an American lesbian performance artist. Her most famous and influential

performance was in 1996 with Clit Notes. Her performances explores sexuality, body images, and the female mind. She has won an Obie Award and a Lambda Book Award. Hughes also received 7 grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. She works as an associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Art & Design. In 2010, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship.

03-10-1956 Mitchell Lichtenstein – Born in Cleveland, Ohio. He is an American actor, writer, producer,

director, and the son of Roy Lichtenstein. In the film, The Wedding Banquet (1993), he played the boyfriend of a gay Taiwanese man living in the United States who is forced to marry by his parents. Other credits include Streamers (1983). His film Happy Tears premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2009 and in February 2015, his film Angelica was screened at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival. He is openly gay.

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

March 10, 1967

Sonny & Cher appeared on the television show Man From U.N.C.L.E. on NBC.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

1971, France – Guy Hocquenghem (10 December 1946 – 28 August 1988) and others, mostly lesbian activists, disrupt a Paris conference on the “problem” of homosexuality. The demonstration leads to the formation the following month of a Gay Liberation group, Front Homosexual d’Action Revolutionnaire. Guy was a French writer, philosopher, and queer theorist. Though Hocquenghem had a significant impact on leftist thinking in France, his reputation has failed to grow to international prominence. Only the first of his theoretical tracts, Homosexual Desire (1972) and his first novel, L’Amour en relief (1982) have been translated into English. Although Race d’Ep! was shown at Roxie Cinema in San Francisco in April 1980 and released in America as The Homosexual Century, like Hocquenghem, the film is virtually unknown. Hocquenghem died of AIDS-related complications on 28 August 1988, at age 41.

1973

Elton John’s former #1 “Crocodile Rock” was now at 7 on the USA charts

1979, Canada – International Women’s Day in Toronto includes a call for an end to harassment of lesbians as one of four demands. It is the first time lesbian rights becomes an upfront issue.

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

1984

the Eurythmics were #8 “Here Comes The Rain Again, the second hit for the duo.

1985: William Hoffman’s play about AIDS, As Is, opens at New York City’s Circle Rep Theater. Less than six weeks later, Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart opens at the Public Theater.

March 10, 1987
AIDS advocacy group ACT UP (The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) is formed in response to the devastating affects the disease has had on the gay and lesbian community in New York. The group holds demonstrations against pharmaceutical companies profiteering from AIDS-related drugs as well as the lack of AIDS policies protecting patients from outrageous prescription prices.

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

1992

Prince received a Lifetime Achievement award at the Soul Train Awards.

1994, Germany – Paragraph 175, the section of the German Penal Code that outlaws sexual acts between men, is finally repealed. It was used heavily by the Nazis to persecute gay and bisexual men.

1997

American rhythm and blues singer Lavern Baker died from coronary complications aged 57. Had the 1958 US No.6 single ‘I Cried A Tear.’

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

2004

George Michael announced he was retiring from the music business following his album Patience. He would only release songs on the Internet to raise money for charity.

2008

Pop diva Madonna, rocker John Mellencamp, singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen, British Invasion pioneers The Dave Clark Five and instrumental Rock legends The Ventures were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame during a ceremony at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.

2009: In Tel Aviv, Uzi Even and his life partner was the first same-sex male couple in Israel whose right of adoption has been legally acknowledged. The Israeli Court rules in their favor. Even is an Israeli professor emeritus of physical chemistry at Tel Aviv University and a former politician well known for being the first openly gay member of the Knesset (the Israeli Parliament). In 2004, Even and Kama married in Canada. On 10 March 2009, the Israeli Family Court ruled that Even and Kama could legally adopt their foster son, Yossi Even-Kama, making them the first same-sex male couple in Israel whose right of adoption was legally acknowledged. In December 2012 Even set yet another legal precedent by divorcing Kama. The divorce was granted by the Family Court, since the Rabbinical Court does not recognize same-sex marriage. This might lead the way for straight couples to bypass the religious establishment as well, which, in Israel, holds monopoly on marriage and divorce affairs.

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

2010

An anti-abortion activist was arrested after allegedly making threats on Elton John’s life. The man was upset because the singer had suggested that Jesus Christ was gay in a Parade magazine interview.

2017

Joni Sledge, a part of the trio known as Sister Sledge, died of natural causes at the age of 60. The group is most often remembered for their 1979 Disco hit, “We Are Family”.

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LGBTQ2 for March 9

BCE to The Suffragettes

March 9, 1839

The Daguerreotype photo process was announced by the French Academy of Science.

03-09-1861 — 09-14-1916 Edith Ellis – Born in Manchester, England. She was an English writer and women’s

rights activist. She married sexologist Havelock Elis in November 1891. From the beginning, their marriage was unconventional. She was openly lesbian and at the end of the honeymoon, Havelock moved back to his bachelor quarters. She had several affairs with women, which her husband was aware of. Havelock’s autobiography, My Life (1939) focuses on their open marriage. During the late 1800’s, Edith began a relationship with Lily, an artist from Ireland. When Lily died in 1903 from Bright’s Disease, Edith was devastated. In March of 1916, Edith had a nervous breakdown and that September, she died of diabetes.

03-09-1892 – 06-02-1962 Vita Sackville-West – Born in Knole House, United Kingdom. She was an English writer, poet, and gardener. Her long narrative poem, The Land, won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927.

1892, UK – Vita Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson, (9 March 1892 – 2 June 1962) is born in Knole, England. She was an English poet, novelist, and garden designer. The lesbian writer married gay diplomat Harold Nicolson (21 November 1886 – 1 May 1968) . The story of her passionate but disastrous affair with Violet Trefusis is beautifully told in “Portrait of a Marriage” by her son Nigel Nicolson. She was the inspiration for the androgynous protagonist of Orlando: A Biography, by her famous friend and lover, Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941). Vita was more deeply involved with author Violet Keppel (6 June 1894 – 29 February 1972). The sexual relationship began when they were both in their teens and strongly influenced them for years. Both later married and became writers. In 1927 Sackville-West had an affair with Mary Garman (1898–1979), a member of the Bloomsbury Group and between 1929 and 1931 with Hilda Matheson (June 7, 1888 – October 30, 1940), head of the BBC Talks Department. In 1931, Sackville-West was in a ménage à trois with journalist Evelyn Irons (17 June 1900 – 3 April 2000) and Irons’s lover, Olive Rinder. Sackville-West is remembered for the celebrated garden at Sissinghurst created with her husband, Sir Harold Nicolson.And in 1933, she won it again with her Collected Poems. She is the only writer to have won twice. She was known for her exuberant aristocratic life and her passionate affair with novelist Virginia Woolf. Sissinghurst Castle Garden, which she and her husband, Sir Harold Nicolson, created at their estate also became famous. Today the garden is owned and maintained by the National Trust. It is among the most famous gardens in England. The same-sex relationship that had the deepest and most lasting effect on Sackville-West’s personal life was with the novelist Violet Trefusis. They attended school together and the relationship began when they were both in their teens. Vita also had a passionate affair between 1929 and 1931 with Hilda Matheson, head of the BBC Talks Department.

03-09-1910 – 01-23-1981 Samuel Barber (Samuel Osmond Barber II) – Born in West Chester, Pennsylvania. He was an American composer of

orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. Most famous for his Adagio for Strings. He won the Pulitzer Prize twice: 1958 for his first opera Vanessa, and in 1963 for his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. He was lovers with the composer Menotti with whom he shared a house in Mount Kisco, New York for over 40 years.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

1947 – Carrie Chapman Catt (Jan. 9, 1859-March 9, 1947) dies. She was an American women’s suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which gave American women the right to vote in 1920. Catt was the founder of the League of Women Voters and the International Alliance of Women. She was one of the best-known women in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century. For over twenty years she lived with fellow suffragist, Mary Garrett Hay (August 29, 1857- August 29, 1928). On March 9, 1947, Catt died of a heart attack in her home in New Rochelle, New York. She was buried alongside her longtime partner, Hay, at Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York City.

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

1959

In New York City, the Barbie doll made its debut at the American International Toy Fair. American businesswoman Ruth Handler is credited with the creation of the doll using a German doll called Bild Lilli as her inspiration.

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

03-09-1962 Richard Quest – Born in Liverpool, England. He is an

English journalist and CNN International anchor and reporter. On June 26, 2014, he came out as gay on his CNN television program, Quest Means Business, where he described his past experience as a closeted gay man.

03-09-1963 Lord Ivar Mountbatten – Born in London, England. He is an English aristocrat and the third cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. He was

married and has three daughters. In September 2016, Lord Ivar came out as gay and revealed that he was in a relationship with James Coyle, an airline cabin services director that he met while at a ski resort in Verbier. Although Lord Ivar is not a member of the British royal family, he is the first member of the extended family to come out as gay.

1969 – Los Angeles police savagely beat a gay man to death during the Dover Hotel raid. The Dover operated as an early version of the soon-to-become-popular bathhouse scene. It was also the scene of a number of raids by LAPD’s vice squad for the easy bust of “faggots.” During a raid by the LAPD Vice Squad on March 9, 1969, four months prior to the Stonewall riots in New York City, Howard Efland, a male nurse checked into the hotel under the pseudonym of J. McCann. By the end of that day Efland would be brutally beaten outside the hotel by police in front of numerous witnesses. Though several witnesses claimed that Efland died at the scene, arresting officers Chauncy and Halligan said Elfland was alive then claimed that halfway to the station from where they had arrested him, he kicked open the door and fell out onto the Hollywood Freeway. No one was ever held accountable for the murder of Howard Efland. On March 2, 2016, Back2Stonewall’s Will Kohler talked with LAPD’s Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Liaison in the Community Relations Department who promised to look into the Efland case after 46 years.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

March 9, 1972

At Madison Square Garden in New York City, a benefit concert for U.S. presidential candidate George McGovern featured performances by Carole King, Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor, Carly Simon, Barbra Streisand, Quincy Jones, “Mama” Cass Elliot, and appearances by actors Burt Lancaster, Jon Voight, Britt Ekland and Jack Nicholson. Their efforts were in vain, as McGovern lost the November 7th election to Nixon by nearly 18 million votes.

March 9, 1976

Queen’s “A Night At The Opera” album was certified Gold. It would go on to be a Platinum seller in America with worldwide sales of over six million copies. At the time, it was reported to be the most expensive album ever produced and took its name from the Marx Brothers film A Night at the Opera, which the band watched one night at the studio complex where they were recording.

David Bowie appeared at the Memorial Coliseum, Jacksonville, Florida.

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

1985

Dead Or Alive were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘You Spin Me Round (Like A Record). It was the first No.1 for the production team of Stock, Aitken and Waterman who went on to produce over 100 UK Top 40 hits.

1989: Noted gay artist Robert Mapplethorpe dies of AIDS in Boston at the age of 42. Mapplethorpe’s work is later at the center of a major arts funding controversy in the United States. Mapplethorpe’s work is later at the center of a major arts funding controversy in the United States. He was an American photographer, known for his sensitive yet blunt treatment of controversial subject-matter in the large-scale, highly stylized black and white medium of photography. His work featured an array of subjects, including celebrity portraits, male and female nudes, self-portraits and still-life images of flowers. His most controversial work is that of the underground BDSM scene in the late 1960s and early 1970s of New York City. The homoeroticism of this work fuelled a national debate over the public funding of controversial artwork.

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

1991

Whitney Houston continued to own the #1 song on the R&B chart with “All The Man That I Need”.

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

2004 – Asbury Park, New Jersey, begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples but they’re later nullified because they were illegally issued.

03-09-2010

Washington D.C. same-sex marriages begins.

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

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LGBTQ2 for March 8

BCE to The Suffragettes

203 AD, Syria – Heliogablus (203-March 11, 222), who became Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, was born in Syria. The boy Emperor of Rome loved his men but was forced to create an heir so he married. He was so impressed with the pomp and circumstance of the marriage ceremony that he did it again twice in one night taking as his husband a young charioteer named Gorianus who was described by a contemporary as “hung like his horse” and as his wife, a boy named Hierocles. The wedding night with both was consummated before the wedding guests. Eventually Heliogablus was killed by his enemies with a sword up his posterior. He was 19.

1702, UK – Anne (6 February 1665 – 1 August 1714) becomes queen of Great Britain. She was the Queen of England, Scotlandand Ireland between 8 March 1702 and 1 May 1707. On 1 May 1707, under the Acts of Union, two of her realms, the kingdoms of England and Scotland, united as a single sovereign state known as Great Britain. She continued to reign as Queen of Great Britain and Ireland until her death. Around 1671, she had met Sarah Jennings with whom she had a close relationship for nearly 50 years. Their relationship turned negative over time due to politics. Sarah started rumors that Anne was a lesbian and threatened to make their love letters public. Anne dismissed Sarah from the court forever. Sarah was supplanted in Anne’s affections by a cousin of hers, Abigail Hill. She had caught the Queen’s attention during Sarah’s frequent absences from Court, and Sarah was never again to be the Queen’s closest confidant.

03-08-1887 – 09-24-1963 Lady Una Vincenzo Troubridge (born Margot Elena Gertrude

Taylor) – She was raised in Montpelier Square, London, England. She was a British sculptor and translator. Troubridge was the long-time partner (28 years) of Radclyffe Hall. Hall and Troubridge met in 1915 through Troubridge’s cousin, singer Mabel Batten. Batten was Hall’s lover at the time. Batten died in 1916, and Hall and Troubridge moved in together the following year. Troubridge wrote about the intensity of their relationship in her diary: “I could not, having come to know her, imagine life without her.”

03-08-1896 – 01-25-1975 Charlotte Whitton – Born in Renfrew, Ontario. She was a

Canadian feminist and politician. She was the first woman mayor of a major Canadian city, serving from 1951 to 1956, and again from 1960 to 1964. In 1934, she was named a Commander of the British Empire and in 1967, was made Officer of the Order of Canada. She made an appearance on the American TV show What’s My Line. She was accused of racism and anti-Semitism, although Whitton was well received by various Jewish organizations in her lifetime. From what I read, she seemed to be a “complete anglophile” and opposed all non-British immigration to Canada. Whitton never married and lived for years with Margaret Grier (1892-December 9, 1947). Her relationship with Grier did not become public until 1999, when the National Archives of Canada publicly released her personal papers that included many intimate letters between the two women. Upon her death, Whitton was buried alongside Grier at Thompson Hill Cemetery, Horton, Ontario, Canada. She is noted for saying, “Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.”

March 8, 1907

A women’s suffrage bill was rejected by the British House of Commons.

1909 – International Women’s Day — First celebrated in the US on February 28, 1909, the International Women’s Day has become a worldwide event to acknowledge women’s contribution to international peace and security and highlight their ongoing struggle for equality and security. While the first observance of a Women’s Day was held on February 28, 1909 in New York, March 8 was suggested by the 1910 International Woman’s Conference to become an “International Woman’s Day.” After women gained suffrage in Soviet Russia in 1917, March 8 became a national holiday there. The day was then predominantly celebrated by the socialist movement and communist countries until it was adopted in 1975 by the United Nations.

March 8, 1910

The King of Spain gave authorization for women to attend universities.

march 8, 1917

Rioting and strikes during International Women’s Day protests in St. Petersburg signaled the beginning of Russia’s “February Revolution,”so named because of Russia’s use of the Julian calendar.

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1948 – In New York City, the Veterans Benevolent Association incorporates “to unite socially and fraternally, all veterans and their friends, of good and moral character.” The group, which had about 100 members at its height, helps gay male veterans with legal and employment problems, besides holding social events attended by as many as 500.

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1951 – Monica F. Helms (born March 8, 1951) is a transgender activist, author, and veteran of the United States Navy. She created the Transgender Pride Flagin 1999. It was first flown at a Pride Parade in Phoenix, Arizona, in 2000. Helms donated the original Transgender Pride Flag at the first ceremony honoring the addition of a collection of LGBT historical items at the Smithsonian on August 19, 2014.

1954 – Pat Califia (born 1954), formerly also known by the last name Califia-Rice) is an American writer of non-fiction essays about sexuality and of erotic fiction and poetry. Califia is a bisexual trans man. Prior to transitioning, he identified as a lesbian and as such, wrote for many years a sex advice column for the gay men‘s leather magazine Drummer. His writings explore sexuality and gender identity, and have included lesbian erotica and works about BDSM subculture.

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03-08-1964 Thomas Bezucha – Place of birth unknown. He is an American screenwriter

and director. He wrote and directed Big Eden (2000) and The Family Stone (2005). He also directed Monte Carlo, which he co-wrote with April Blair. He is openly gay.

march 8, 1965

David Bowie made his TV debut with The Manish Boys on a UK program called ‘Gadzooks! It’s All Happening’ when they performed their current single ‘I Pity The Fool.’

03-08-1966 Gregory Barker – Born in Worthing, Sussex, United

Kingdom. He is a British Conservative Party politician. In May 201o, he was appointed Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change. He was married to heiress Celeste Harrison. In 2006, he left his wife for a man that was hired as an interior decorator. He did confirm that he is gay. He also voted in favor in the House of Commons Second Reading vote on marriage equality in Britain.

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1970: In the wee morning hours, New York City police raid a gay bar called the Snake Pit, arresting 167 patrons. At the police station, one of the arrestees, an Argentine national named Diego Vinales so feared the possibility of deportation that he leapt from a second-story window of the police station, impaling himself on the spikes of an iron fence. He survived, though firemen were forced to cut out a section of the fence with Vinales still skewered on it, in order to move him to the hospital. One journalist remarked, “It is no crime to be *in* a place that is serving liquor illegally, the only crime is to run such a place. There were no grounds for hauling the customers away.” Though charges against other patrons are dropped, Vinales was rebooked for “resisting arrest” and officers are stationed outside his hospital room to prevent another escape.

March 08, 1971

Silent movie comic actor Harold Lloyd died of prostate cancer at the age of 77. (Safety Last!, The Freshman, The Sin of Harold Diddlebock, Speedy, Welcome Danger, The Kid Brother, Girl Shy, Dr. Jack, Grandma’s Boy, A Sailor-Made Man, Why Worry?, Hot Water, For Heaven’s Sake, Professor Beware, The Milky Way)

March 8, 1975

1975 Icelandic women’s strike – Wikipedia

03-08-1976 JoCasta Zamarripa – Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is an American politician who has represented the 8th district in the Wisconsin State Assembly since 2010. In a July 2012 interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, she stated that she is bisexual. In 2014, she was included in the annual “40 under 40” list in The Advocate.

1978 – The Lesbian Mothers Defense Fund is launched in Toronto by the group Wages Due Lesbians. It maintained women should be paid for rearing children pointing out that female parenting is a job that is 24/7.

1979: The New York Times runs a front-page photograph of six men being executed by firing squad in Iran for allegedly having committed crimes of “homosexual rape.” Since the Ayatollah Khomeini’s rise to power just four weeks earlier, there have been growing reports of gay men — as well as Jews, Baha’is, “blasphemers,” “heretics,” former members of the Iranian aristrocracy , and others — being blackmailed, imprisoned, tortured, dismembered, hanged and/or shot. By the time Khomeini gets around to celebrating his first anniversary of his Islamic revolution, the body count is in the thousands.

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1980

Queen lasted a third week at #1 with “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”,

1986

After 50 weeks, Whitney Houston’s debut album incredibly returned to #1 after peaking at #2 on October 26. #4 Barbra Streisand’s highly successful The Broadway Album

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1990

Cher won the worst dressed female, and worst video for ‘If I Could Turn Back Time’, in The Rolling Stone Magazine’s awards, Donny Osmond won the most unwelcome comeback award.

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2008

China was set to impose stricter rules on foreign pop stars after Bjork caused controversy by shouting “Tibet, Tibet” at a Shanghai concert after a powerful performance of her song Declare Independence. Talk of Tibetan independence was considered taboo in China, which had ruled the territory since 1951. A spokesperson from the culture ministry said Bjork would be banned from performing in China if there was a repeat performance.

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1855, France – Robert Comte de Montesquiou-Fezensac (7 March 1855, Paris – 11 December 1921, Menton) is born in Paris. He was a French aesthete, Symbolist poet, art collector and dandy. He is reputed to have been the inspiration both for Jean des Esseintes in Joris-Karl Huysmans‘ À rebours (1884) and, most famously, for the Baron de Charlus in Proust‘s À la recherche du temps perdu (1913–1927). His portrait Arrangement in Black and Gold: Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac was painted by his close friend, and model for many of his eccentric mannerisms, James Abbott McNeill Whistler in 1891-1892. He had aristocratic women friends, but much preferred the company of bright and attractive young men. In 1885, he began a close long-term relationship with Gabriel Yturri (March 12, 1860 – July 6, 1905), a handsome South American immigrant, from Tucuman, Argentina who became his secretary, companion, and lover. After Yturri died of diabetes, Henri Pinard replaced him as secretary in 1908 and eventually inherited Montesquiou’s much reduced fortune. Montesquiou and Yturri are buried alongside each other at Cimetière des Gonards, Versailles, Île-de-France, France.

03-07-1877 – 1947 Bothwell Browne (born Walter Bothwell Bruhn) – Born in Copenhagen, he grew up in San Francisco, California. He was a Danish-

American stage and film performer, best known as a female impersonator. In December 1919, Browne appeared as the headliner at the Palace Theater in New York, the most sought after booking in American vaudeville. He was supported on stage by the Sennett Bathing Beauties. His only film appearance was in Mack Sennett’s production Yankee Doodle in Berlin (1919). He is listed under LGBT male actors in Wikipedia.

03-07-1900 — 08-18-1969 Leslie Hutchinson (known as “Hutch”) – Born in Gouyave, Grenada when it was part of the British Windward Islands. In 1916, he moved to New York City. In the 1930s he was one of the biggest cabaret stars in the world. In 1924 he moved to Paris, France where he became a friend and lover of Cole Porter. In 1927 he moved to England. He became a major star and was the highest paid in the country. In spite of his popularity, Hutch couldn’t escape racial prejudice. When he entertained at lavish Mayfair parties, his fee was high, but he was often made to go in by the servants’ entrance. He did marry and fathered a daughter. He also fathered seven other children with six different mothers. Hutch was bisexual. He also had an affair with Ivor Novello. In November 2016, Hutch was featured in episode four of the BBC series Black and British: A Forgotten History.

03-07-1902 – 09-07-1980 Bessie Allison Buchanan – Born in Manhattan, New York City, New York. She became the first African

American woman to hold a seat in the New York State Legislature when she was elected to the New York State Assembly in 1954. As a young woman she had an interest in singing and dancing. She appeared in the original Shuffle Along in 1921, the first successful musical comedy with an all African American cast. She performed with the Show Boat road company and recorded for Black Swan Records. Allison also danced in the chorus line of the Cotton Club. In his biography of Josephine Baker, The Hungry Heart, Jean Claude mentions six of Josephine’s women lovers by name, Bessie Allison is one of them. In 1929 Allison married Charlie Buchanan and she retire from the stage. She served in the state legislature from 1955 to 1962. On April 30, 1963, Governor Rockefeller appointed Allison-Buchanan to be New York State Commissioner of Human Rights. She remained in office for five years.

03-07-1926 – 12-01-2011 Alan Sues – Born in Ross, California. He was an American comic actor best known for his roles on the 1968-1973

Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In. He served in the U.S. Army in Europe during WWII. During his years on Laugh-In, Sues became the spokesman for Peter Pan Peanut Butter and appeared in numerous TV commercials and print ads in which he portrayed an outrageously flamboyant Peter. His long time friend, Michaud, said Sues was gay but not publicly because he feared it would ruin his career. “He had a ton of gay fans,” said Michaud. “They all said he was one of the very few gay sort of characters that they saw on television at that time. They identified with him, and they were thankful. As he got older, it meant more to him and he was appreciative of that.”

March 7, 1927

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Texas law banning negroes from voting was unconstitution

1934, Russia – Article 121 makes sodomy between men illegal in all the republics of the USSR. Maxim Gorky, a popular writer and the leading Soviet intellectual of the period, praises the “proletarian humanism” of the law which punishes sex between consenting male adults with up to five years’ “deprivation of freedom.

1934, Italy – Marcella Di Folco, born Marcello Di Folco (March 7, 1943 – September 7, 2010), was an activist, actress and Italian politician. In cinema, she worked for directors such as Federico Fellini and Roberto Rossellini. In August 1980, after a long period of self conflict with her gender identity, she had a sex change operation in Casablanca. She was an active participant in the Movimento Italiano Transessuali, and was influential in having sex changes made legal in Italy (in 1982).

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1964

the Soundtrack to “Hello, Dolly!” moving from 25-8 on the USA LP charts

03-07-1964 Wanda Sykes – Born in Portsmouth, Virginia. She is an American writer, comedian, actress, and voice artist. She earned the 1999

Emmy Award for her writing on The Chris Rock Show. In 2004, Entertainment Weekly named her as one of the 25 funniest people in America. In addition to her film and television work, she wrote Yeah, I Said It, a book of humorous observations on various topics. In November 2008, she publicly came out as gay while at a same-sex marriage rally in Las Vegas regarding California’a Proposition 8. Sykes had just married her partner Alex a month earlier, whom she met in 2006. The couple also became parents around the same time. On October 25, 2008, Alex gave birth to a pair of fraternal twins. Sykes came out to her conservative mom and dad when she was 40. They both had difficulty accepting her homosexuality. They declined to attend her wedding with Alex, which led to a brief period of estrangement, but have since reconciled and are proud grandparents to the couple’s children.

March 7, 1965

In Selma, Alabama, about 600 non-violent civil rights marchers were brutally attacked by state and local police using billy clubs, cattle prods and tear gas. The day came to be known as “Bloody Sunday.”

1967 – CBS airs “The Homosexuals“, an episode of CBS Reports. This first-ever national television broadcast on the subject of homosexuality has been described as “the single most destructive hour of antigay propaganda in our nation’s history.” Host Mike Wallace concluded: “The dilemma of the homosexual: told by the medical profession he is sick; by the law that he’s a criminal; shunned by employers; rejected by heterosexual society. Incapable of a fulfilling a relationship with a woman, or for that matter with a man. At the center of his life he remains anonymous. A displaced person. An outsider.”

03-07-1967 Jean-Pierre Barda – Swedish singer, actor, make up artist, and hair dresser of Algerian descent. He was born in Paris, France, and

moved with his family to Sweden. He is notable for being one of the founding members of the pop group Army of Lovers. Barda has done work in various fields of digital photography and entertainment. He starred as an actor in movies, television, multiple photo shoots, and worked in the presence of her majesty, the Queen of Sweden, while assisting mentor and teacher, Mr. Björn Asén. He is known to be bisexual.

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1972 – In East Lansing, Michigan, the city council approves by a vote of 4-to-1 an act declaring the city must seek to “employ the best applicant for each vacancy on the basis of his [sic] qualifications for the job and without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, sex or homosexuality.”

03-07-1973 Andrew Haigh – Born in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England. He is an English film and television director, screenwriter, and producer. Haigh co-

created and co-produced the HBO drama series Looking (2014-2016), about a group of gay men in San Francisico. His most notable works include Weekend, Looking, and 45 Years. He is married to author Andy Morwood.

3-07-1974 Darryl Stephens – Born in Pasadena, California. He is an American actor best know for playing Noah Nicholson on the television series Noah’s Arc. Stephens is also a singer/songwriter. In 2019, he stars in the film From Zero to I Love You. He is openly gay and his roles address issues of classism and sexuality.

March 7, 1975

David Bowie’s ninth studio album,Young Americans, saw it’s UK release. The album featured the hit song “Fame,” that would become Bowie’s first number one single in America.

March 7, 1976

In London, Elton John became the first rock star since the Beatles to be immortalized with a lookalike figure at Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum.

Super pop star Elton John (right) with his wax portrait in Madame Tussaud’s studio. The figure joined a new version of Heroes – a space where figures appear out of the dark in a sequence of light, sound and projection.

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03-07-1986 Desert Hearts – U.S. release date for the film based on a novel by Jane Rule (b. March 28, 1931). Desert Hearts is an American romantic drama film directed by Donna Deitch. It is considered a lesbian

classic. The Globe and Mail said, “the film is one of the first and most highly regarded works in which a lesbian relationship is depicted favorably.” It took the director, Donna Deitch, four years and eventually selling her home in order to raise the $1.5 million to make the film. Deitch was surprised to learn 20 years after the film’s release that both actors were told by their friends and agents that the film would ruin their careers. The careers of both actresses continued on. The screenplay written by Natalie Cooper is an adaptation of the 1964 lesbian-themed novel Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule (28 March 1931 – 27 November 2007). Set in Reno, Nevada in 1959, it tells the story of a university professor awaiting a divorce who finds her true self when she meets a free-spirited younger woman confident in her romantic and sexual attraction. The film stars Helen Shaver and Patricia Charbonneau with a supporting performance by Audra Lindley. Desert Hearts was released theatrically in the United States on March 7, 1986. It was released in the United Kingdom on June 6, 1986. It is regarded as the first film to present a positive portrayal of lesbian sexuality.

1987

The Beastie Boys became the first rap act to have a number one album when their debut effort, Licensed to Ill, topped the charts.

1988 – Shortly after the release of his first big mainstream hit “Hairspray,” its star, Divine, dies on this day of heart disease in Los Angeles at the age of 42. Harris Glenn Milstead, better known by his stage name Divine (October 19, 1945 – March 7, 1988), was an American actor, singer and drag queen. Closely associated with the independent filmmaker John Waters (born April 22, 1946), Divine was a character actor, usually performing female roles in cinematic and theatrical appearances, and adopted a female drag persona for his music career. Divine considered himself to be male, and was not transgender. He was gay, and during the 1980s had an extended relationship with a married man named Lee, who accompanied him almost everywhere that he went. They later separated, and Divine went on to have a brief affair with gay porn star Leo Ford(July 5, 1957 – July 17, 1991), which was widely reported upon by the gay press. Divine initially avoided informing the media about his sexuality, even when questioned by interviewers, and would sometimes hint that he was bisexual, but in the latter part of the 1980s changed this attitude and began being open about his homosexuality. Nonetheless, he avoided discussing gay rights, partially at the advice of his manager, realizing that it would have had a negative effect on his career.

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1994

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that parodies poking fun at an original work can be considered “fair use” and do not require permission from the copyright holder. 2 Live Crew’s “Pretty Woman,” a parody of Roy Orbison’s 1964 hit, was the example brought before the Court for its decision.

1996 – The Birdcage opened in theaters nationwide. The Birdcage is a 1996 American comedy film directed by Mike Nichols, written by Elaine May, and starring Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane (February 3, 1956), and Dianne Wiest. Dan Futterman, Calista Flockhart, Hank Azaria, and Christine Baranski appear in supporting roles. It is a remake of the 1978 Franco-Italian film La Cage aux Folles by Édouard Molinaro starring Michel Serrault and Ugo Tognazzi.

1998

Madonna had her eighth #1 song in the U.K. with “Frozen”.

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2001

The Recording Industry of America and the National Endowment for the Arts announced that Judy Garland’s “Over The Rainbow” had been selected as their “song of the century.

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2014, Jamaica – Police once again attempted to evict homeless LGBT youth from the sewers of New Kingston. A judge ruled that since sewers were pubic place, and the youth had nowhere else to go, they could stay there. Youth who were arrested were charged with swearing and had to oay a fine. Dwayne’s House paid the fine.

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March 5, 1624

In the American colony of Virginia, legislation was passed exempting the upper class from whipping.

March 5, 1750

In New York City, the play “King Richard III” was performed at the Theatre on Nassau Street, a two-story structure that held about 280 people. It was the first Shakespearean play to be

03-05-1885 – 08-10-1959 Dr. Louise Pearce – Born in New York City, New York. She was

the first American woman pathologist who took a research position at the Rockefeller Institute. She helped develop a treatment for African sleeping sickness. Sleeping sickness was a fatal epidemic which had devastated areas of Africa, killing two-thirds of the population of Uganda between 1900 and 1906 alone. Pearce, along with Walter Abraham Jacobs, Michael Heidelberger, and Wade Hampton Brown, developed drugs for its treatment. In 1920, Pearce, risked her life and traveled to the Belgian Congo where she developed and carried out a drug testing program on humans. The drug, tryparsamide, proved successful in combating the epidemic, curing 80% of cases. For her work, Pearce received the Order of the Crown of Belgium and in 1953, Belgium further honored her and her co-workers appointing them Officers of the Royal Order of the Lion. Pearce also successfully developed treatment for syphilis and because of her studies of tumors, along with Brown, the Brown-Pearce tumor became standard test material in cancer laboratories. For many years, Pearce lived with physician Sara Josephine Baker and author I. A. R. Wylie. All were members of Heterodoxy, a feminist biweekly luncheon discussion club, of which many members were lesbian or bisexual. After Baker’s death in 1945, Pearce and Wylie continued living together until both died in 1959. Wylie and Pearce are buried alongside each other at the Trevenna Farm’s family cemetery, Skillman, New Jersey.

1898 – In San Bernardino, California, William Burke and Harry Fisher were found guilty of a crime against nature and given 25 years each in prison.

1922, Italy – Pier Paolo Pasolini (5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975)is born in Bologna. He was an Italian film director, poet, writer, and intellectual. Pasolini also distinguished himself as an actor, journalist, philosopher, philologist, novelist, playwright, painter, and political figure. While openly gay from the very start of his career (thanks to a gay sex scandal that sent him packing from his provincial hometown to live and work in Rome), Pasolini rarely dealt with homosexuality in his movies. He remains a controversial personality in Italy due to his blunt style and the focus of some of his works on taboo sexual matters, but he is an established major figure in European literature and cinematic arts. His murder prompted an outcry in Italy and its circumstances continue to be a matter of heated debate.

03-05-1931 – 12-29-1987 Sheldon Andelson – Place of birth unknown. He was the first openly gay University of California Regent. Andelson was appointed to the Board of Regents by Governor Jerry

Brown in 1980, and served until 1986. He was also a fund-raiser for Senator Edward M. Kennedy and Walter Mondale. He was instrumental in the appointment of one of the first openly gay judges in California, Rand Schrader. At Andelson’s urging, California Governor Jerry Brown appointed Schrader to the Los Angeles Municipal Court in 1980. Andelson was also a member of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith (the oldest Jewish service organization in the world), a founder of the Museum of Contemporary Art, director of the ACLU Foundation, and served on the 1984 Olympic Games committee. On December 29, 1987, he died of complications related to AIDS.

1933, Germany – One of the largest LGBT clubs of hundreds in Berlin is shut down nine days after a “Public Morality” directive that gay bars and clubs be closed.

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03-05-1942 Laurie Toby Edison – Born in New York City, New York. She is an American portrait

photographer that is active in feminist art, LGBT rights, and fat acceptance movements. In 1994, she published Women En Large: Images of Fat Nudes and in 2004 published Familiar Men: A Book of Nudes. Her third book was completed in 2007, titled Women of Japan, showed clothed portraits of women in Japan from many Japanese cultures and backgrounds. Her photographs have been exhibited around the world. Edison has been married twice and has a daughter from each marriage. She identifies as being bisexual.

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March 05, 1956

In response to an appeal by the University of North Carolina, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld its (Brown vs. Board of Education) May 1954 ban on racial segregation in America’s state schools, colleges and universities.

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03-05-1966 – 08-24-2017 Julie “JD” Disalvatore – Born in Plymouth,

Massachusetts. She was an American LGBT film and television producer/director, gay rights activist, and animal rights activist. Her film credits include the award winning Shelter (2007), Eating Out (2006), A Marine Story (2010), and Elena Undone (2010). Disalvatore also wrote about LGBT films for Curve magazine, GayWired.com, and other LGBT outlets. She also had a daily blog on Gay and Lesbian entertainment. At the age of 51, she died of breast cancer.

03-05-1966 Michael Irvin – Born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He is an outspoken supporter of LGBT rights. He is a former NFL wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys. Irvin is also a former

broadcaster for ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown and currently an analyst for NFL Network. In 2007, he was selected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. In 2011, Irvin, in an article for Out magazine, discussed his homosexual older brother, who died of stomach cancer in 2006. He claimed his initial feelings of homophobia in relation to his brother led to womanizing during his playing days, but eventual acceptance and feelings of love toward his older brother initiated his understanding for people with difficulty sharing their circumstances. He has now become a passionate supporter of gay athletes and equal rights for same-sex couples.

1969

Dusty Springfield collapsed while taping a TV appearance.

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1974, Canada – In Milton, Ontario, fundamentalist minister Ken Campbell, outraged by Hamilton-McMaster Homophile Association members addressing his daughter’s high school class, forms the Halton Renaissance Committee, forerunner of Renaissance Canada. Eventually it becomes one of strongest opponents of gay rights movement.

03-05-1974 Matt Lucas – Born in Paddington, London, England. He is an English comedian, screenwriter, singer, and actor. He is best known for his work with David Williams in the television

show Little Britain. In May, 2007, he placed seventh in the list of the UK’s 100 most influential gay men and women, by British newspaper The Independent. Lucas launched a new comedy series called Pompidou for BBC Two. The show began March 1, 2015.

1977

“The Love Theme from A Star Is Born”, from the film starring Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson, was the top tune in the US. It reached number 3 in the UK.

On the USA Charts, Barbra Streisand registered her third career #1 with “Evergreen” ABBA had their second Top 10 with “Dancing Queen” at #6

Barbra Streisand started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Love Theme From A Star Is Born’, her second US No.1. It made No.3 in the UK

1979

The NASA space probe Voyager 1 flew past Jupiter and sent back photographs of the planet and its moons.

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1983

Wham! (George Michael and Andrew Ridgely) make their US television debut when they appear on Dick Clark’s American Bandstand.

1988

George Michael once again had the #1 song with “Father Figure”. # 5 The Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield with “What Have I Done to Deserve This?”,

Faith by George Michael remained as the album to beat for the sixth week. The Soundtrack to “Dirty Dancing” was next

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03-05-1993 Letitia de Jong – Born in Veenwouden, The Netherlands. She is a

Dutch long-distance skater specializing in sprint races. She was a member of the Dutch team that won Gold at the European Championships Distances. On April 4, 2017, it became public knowledge that she was in a relationship with Dutch skater Ireen Wüst.

1994

Celine Dion remained at #1 for the fourth week with “The Power Of Love”.

1999 – Young playwright Samantha Gellar wins a writing contest in Charlotte, NC, but her play is banned from production by the Children’s Theater of Charlotte because of the play’s theme of love between two women. As a result, her play is produced off-Broadway by a group of actors and Ms. Gellar goes on to be named one of the most influential women under 20 by Ms. Magazine in 2000.

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

2000

Madonna went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with her version of the Don McLean 1972 hit ‘American Pie’. It was her 50th UK hit and the singers ninth UK No.1 and taken from the soundtrack to the 2000 film The Next Best Thing.

2004: The Wisconsin State Assembly approved of an amendment to the state constitution (68-27) that would ban both same-sex marriages and civil unions.

2006 – Ang Lee wins the academy award for Best Director for the film Brokeback Mountain, an American neo-Western romantic drama filmdirected by Lee and produced by Diana OssanaandJames Schamus. Adapted from the 1997 short story of the same name by Annie Proulx, the screenplay was written by Ossana and Larry McMurtry. The film stars Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, and Michelle Williams, and depicts the complex emotional and sexual relationship between Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twistin the American West from 1963 to 1983.

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

2015

72-year-old Soul legend Aretha Franklin appeared on US TV’s American Idol and told the group of 16 finalists that they should “Keep physically fit… and stay away from the wrong kind of people… anything that would be career ending.” She went on to say “Meet the challenge and kick butt!”

2021

#AM_Equality: March 5, 2021 – Human Rights Campaign

Mar 5, 2021 — Congress must advance the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act; ICYMI – HRC hosted press conference as anti-LGBTQ bills advance.

2022

LGBTQ community to celebrate Mardi Gras in Sydney March 5

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LGBTQ community to celebrate Mardi Gras at Sydney Cricket Ground, Australia, March 5. Activists protesting on Oxford Street.

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LGBTQ2 for March 24

BCE to The Suffragettes

1877

The Tchaikovsky’s ballet “Swan Lake” debuted.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

1948 – Jean O’Leary (March 4, 1948 – June 4, 2005) was an American LGBT rights activist. She was the founder of Lesbian Feminist Liberation, one of the first lesbian activist groups in the women’s movement, and was an early member and co-director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. She co-founded National Coming Out Day. Before becoming a lesbian and gay rights activist, she was a Roman Catholic Religious Sister. She would later write about her experience in the 1985 anthology, Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence. O’Leary died on Saturday, June 4, 2005, in San Clemente, California of lung cancer, aged 57. She is survived by her partner, Lisa Phelps, their daughter Victoria, their son David de Maria, his life partner James Springer, and David’s and James’ son, Aiden de Maria

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

1952 – Svend Robinson (born March 4, 1952) is a Canadian former politician. He was a member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons from 1979 to 2004, representing thesuburban Vancouver-area constituency of Burnaby for the New Democratic Party. When he chose not to run again in the June 2004 election, he was one of the longest-serving members in the House of Commons, having been elected and re-elected for seven consecutive terms. He is noted as the first member of Parliament in Canadian history to come out as gay while in office. In April 2004, shortly before 2004 election, Robinson admitted to the theft of an expensive ring from a public auction site. He turned himself in to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Robinson was charged and pleaded guilty. The Crown and defense agreed that he was undergoing major personal stress and mental health issues at the time; Robinson was given a discharge, meaning that he would have no criminal record, but he volunteered for some time at the Burnaby Wildlife Centre as part of a public service commitment. He terminated his candidacy and was replaced by his longtime constituency assistant Bill Siksay, who won the election. Robinson was subsequently diagnosed as suffering from cyclothymia, a form of bipolar disorder, and began to speak as an activist on mental health issues.

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

1960

Lucille Ball filed for divorce from Desi Arnaz. It was granted on May 4, 1960, ending 19½ years of marriage. They had a daughter, Lucie, and a son, Desi Arnaz, Jr.

1966 – The word “Lesbian” is heard for the first time in the Hollywood movie The Group. The Group is a 1966 ensemble film directed by Sidney Lumet based on the novel of the same namebyMary McCarthy about the lives a group of eight female graduates from a Vassar-like college South Tower from 1933 to 1940. The cast of this social satire included Candice Bergen, Joan Hackett,Elizabeth Hartman, Shirley Knight, Jessica Walter, Kathleen Widdoes, and Joanna Pettet. The film also features small roles for Hal Holbrook, Carrie Nye, James Broderick, Larry Hagman and Richard Mulligan. For its time, the film touched on controversial topics, such as free love,contraception,abortion,lesbianism, and mental illness.

03-04-1969 Chaz Bono – Born in Los Angeles, California, the only child

of Sonny & Cher Bono. He is an American advocate, writer, and musician. Bono is a transgender man. In 1995, several years after being outed by the tabloid press, he publicly came out as a lesbian in a cover story in the leading American gay magazine, The Advocate. Between 2008 and 2010, Bono underwent female-to-male gender transition. Bono’s publicist said, “It is Chaz’s hope that his choice to transition will open the hearts and minds of the public regarding this issue, just as his coming out did.” A documentary on Bono’s experience, Becoming Chaz, was screened at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and later made its television debut on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. In September 2011, he became a competitor on the 13th season of the US version Dancing with the Stars. This was the first time an openly transgender man starred on a major network television show for something unrelated to being transgender.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

1970

Janis Joplin was fined $200 for using obscene language onstage in Tampa, FL.

03-04-1970 Edward Gal – Born in Rheden, Netherlands. He is a Dutch dressage rider. He

and his most recent mount, the stallion Moorlands Totals (nicknamed “Toto”), were triple gold medalists at the 2010 FEI World Equestrian Games, becoming the first horse-rider partnership ever to sweep the three available dressage gold medals at a single FEI World Games. Gal is in a long-term relationship with teammate Hans Peter Minderhoud. He has been interviewed in several Dutch media outlets about being gay and his relationship with Minderhoud. Gal is considered the “rock star” of dressage.

1971 – Village Voice columnist Jill Johnston (May 17, 1929 – September 18, 2010) comes out in her article Lois Lane is a Lesbian, sparking a controversy between feminism and lesbianism that results in various Johnston antics including simulating an orgy during a panel discussion moderated by Norman Mailer. Jill was an American feminist author and cultural critic who wroteLesbian Nation in 1973 and was a longtime writer for The Village Voice. She was also a leader of the lesbian separatist movement of the 1970s.

1972 – The California DMV reports that while the majority of the 65,000 vanity license plates have presented no censorship issues for the department, a few plates, including “HOMO”, “GAYLIB”, “EAT ME”, and “LOVE69″ have been banned.

1973 – Two weeks after the National Organization for Women passed a resolution establishing the fight for lesbian rights as a “top priority,” feminist Betty Friedan publicly accuses “man-hating” lesbians of trying to take over the organization.

1975, Canada – Eighteen gay men, the owner and customers of an Ottawa model agency and dating service, are arrested and charged with sexual offences in what became known as “Ottawa sex scandal.” Names are released by police and published by the press. Police allege “homosexual vice ring.”

1978

Disco peaking as heteros copy gay men clubs

Rumours by Fleetwood Mac had just set the Rock Era record of 31 weeks at #1 on the Album chart and the LP that supplanted it, the “Saturday Night Fever” Soundtrack, was generating huge sales and seven weeks at #1.

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

1989

After Madonna’s “Like A Prayer” debuts in a Pepsi commercial on US television, Roman Catholic groups around the world protest, calling the video, which contains both religious and sexual imagery, “blasphemy”.

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

1993 –

Whitney Houston gave birth to Bobbi Kristina Houston Brown.

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

2018 – Yance Ford and Joslyn Barnes are nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for producing Strong Island, which Ford also directed. As such, Ford was the first openly transgender man to be nominated for any Academy Award, and the first openly transgender director to be nominated for any Academy Award. Strong Island is about the murder of his brother William Ford, which occurred in 1992. Yance Ford is an African-American transgender producer and director. Ford graduated from Hamilton College in 1994, and beginning in 2002 he worked as a series producer at PBS for ten years.In2011 he was named one of Filmmaker magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. He also received the 2011–2012 Fledgling Fund Fellowship at MacDowell. In 2017 he was #97 on The Root 100, an “annual list of the most influential African Americans, ages 25 to 45. Joslyn Barnes is a film producer and directorand co-founder of Louverture Films with Danny Glover. She is the author or co-author of numerous commissioned screenplays for feature films including the upcoming epic Toussaint.

2022

religion is delusional and is not the solution to sin, the problem it created.

LGBT charity likens ordinary work of churches to the Holocaust

LGBT charity likens ordinary work of churches to the Holocaust – The Christian Institute

A letter outlining the concerns of church leaders to a broad ‘conversion therapy’ ban has been likened to the Holocaust by an LGBT charity.www.christian.org.uk

LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes the German Holocause was caused by Christianity with Vatican Sanction. Readers should also apply the Canada Residential Schools.

First books, then people:

LGBT author speaks out against bill dubbed ‘Don’t Say Gay’

The bill prohibits instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity in K-3 grades.www.mynews13.com

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https://www.newsweek.com/texas-republicans-demand-school-districts-ban-pornographic-lgbt-books-1684807

Texas Republicans Demand School Districts Ban ‘Pornographic’ LGBT Books

The graphic novel “Gender Queer: A Memoir” contains some illustrations depicting oral sex that have proven controversial.www.newsweek.com

https://www.cumnockchronicle.com/news/19967366.lgbt-history-month-doon-academy-tackle-homophobic-stigma/

LGBT History month: Doon Academy tackle homophobic stigma | Cumnock Chronicle

Doon Academy staff and pupils recently held their first ever ‘football versus homophobia’ day to tackle stigmas in football and in society as a…www.cumnockchronicle.com

Disney World’s Gay Day started a social revolution in the 1990s

https://www.orlandoweekly.com/orlando/lgbt-activists-hold-protest-in-front-of-walt-disney-world-asking-disney-to-speak-out-against-floridas-dont-say-gay-bill/Content?oid=31118409

LGBT activists hold protest in front of Walt Disney World asking Disney to speak out against Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill

As Florida’s controversial “Don’t Say Gay” bill moves forward in the state’s Senate, protests are breaking out everywhere from high schools to the House of…www.orlandoweekly.com

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NYC Mayor Adams meets with LGBT leaders over controversial appointments – New York Daily News

“We want an office that has a budget,” said prominent LGBTQ activist Allen Roskoff, who pointed to similar offices that existed under the leadership of Mayor David Dinkins and Mayor Ed Koch. “He needs to have recognizable LGBT people everywhere.”www.nydailynews.com

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Kids and staff at Paisley charity go the distance to support LGBT community – Daily Record

Youngsters at Paisley-based youth organisation Kibble danced, cycled and walked 331km to help raise funds and champion diversity within the organisation.www.dailyrecord.co.uk

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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.

Not or Too Fine a Point?

1966

John Lennon’s statement that The Beatles were ‘more popular than Jesus Christ’ was published in The London Evening Standard. “Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. We’re more popular then Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first, rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity. Jesus was alright, but his disciples were thick and ordinary.” Christian groups in the US were outraged resulting in some states burning Beatles records. Lennon later apologised. The English public didn’t raise an eyebrow over his remarks, but they caused controversy and protest in America

March 4 1989

1992

Thirteen years after its appointment, a commission of historic, scientific and theological inquiry brought the pope a “not guilty” finding for Galileo, who in 1633, at age 69, was forced to repent by the Roman Inquisition and spent the last eight years of his life under house arrest.

Nov 22, 2008
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The Vatican’s newspaper has finally forgiven John Lennon for declaring that the Beatles were more famous than Jesus Christ, calling the remark a “boast” by a young man grappling with sudden fame

March 4, 1966: John Lennon’s ‘Beatles Bigger Than Jesus’ Remark

March 4, 1966: John Lennon’s ‘Beatles Bigger Than Jesus’ Remark | Best Classic Bands

It was meant as a wry commentary on how pop culture was overtaking traditions in the modern world. The quote didn’t emerge in the US until 4 months laterbestclassicbands.com

2022

religion is delusional and is not the solution to sin, the problem it created.

for more information, google “pink triangles, germany” and “mass graves, canada residential schools”

LGBT charity likens ordinary work of churches to the Holocaust

LGBT charity likens ordinary work of churches to the Holocaust – The Christian Institute

A letter outlining the concerns of church leaders to a broad ‘conversion therapy’ ban has been likened to the Holocaust by an LGBT charity.www.christian.org.uk

Meanwhile Nice Christians want many demographics to disappear, employing a do not say words and there won’t be any

Disney World’s Gay Day started a social revolution in the 1990s

LGBT activists hold protest in front of Walt Disney World asking Disney to speak out against Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill

As Florida’s controversial “Don’t Say Gay” bill moves forward in the state’s Senate, protests are breaking out everywhere from high schools to the House of…www.orlandoweekly.com

Remember: First books, then People

https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2022/03/03/local-lgbt-author-speaks-out-against–don-t-say-gay–bill

LGBT author speaks out against bill dubbed ‘Don’t Say Gay’

The bill prohibits instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity in K-3 grades.www.mynews13.com

LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes: religion meets the diagnostic manual meaning of delusion, especially the not allowed to question under threat of violence.

LGBTQ2 for March 3

BCE to The Suffragettes

03-03-1756 – 01-15-1815 Françoise Marie Antoinette Saucerotte (called Mlle Raucourt) – Born in Nancy, France. She was a French actress that was with the Comédie Française from 1772 to 1799, where she became famous as a tragedienne. Her beauty and talent made her famous but her love affairs with other women made her notorious. One of her lovers was the opera soprano Sophie Arnould. At the outbreak of the French Revolution she was imprisoned for six months with other royalist members of the Comédie Française. In prison she met her last lover, Hanriette Simonnot-Ponty, with whom she lived with until her death in 1815.

03-03-1900 – 10-17-1987 Ruby Dandridge – Born in Wichita, Kansas. She was an American actress from the early 1900s to the 1950s. Dandridge is

best known for her role on the radio show Amos ’n Andy. She played “Sally” in the 1959 movie A Hole in the Head. For one season (1961-1962), Dandridge played the maid on the TV show Father Knows Best. She was married in 1919 to Cyril Dandridge and divorced in 1922. Her second daughter born in 1922 was the Academy Award-nominated actress Dorothy Dandridge. After her divorce, Ruby became romantically involved with Geneva Williams. She died of a heart attack in 1987.

03-03-1903 – 09-13-1959 Adrian – Born in Naugatuck, Connecticut. He was an American fashion and costume designer. Born as Adrian Adolph Greenberg. His most famous costumes were for The Wizard of Oz and other MGM films of the 1930s and 1940s. During his career, he designed costumes for over 250 films. Adrian was most famous for his evening gown designs for stars like

Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer, Jeanette MacDonald, Jean Harlow, Katharine Hepburn, and Joan Crawford. He also designed the ruby slippers for Judy Garland in the 1939 classic, The Wizard of Oz that are now on display at the Smithsonian. Though he was openly gay, he married Janet Gaynor ( who was a lesbian) in 1939, possibly in response to the anti-gay attitudes of the movie studio heads and the sex-negative atmosphere created by the Production Code. They remained married until his death in 1959. Gaynor and Adrian had one son, Robin, born in 1940.

1915

The pro KKK movie “The Birth of a Nation,” starring Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, and Henry B. Walthall, opened in New York City. Despite protests from the NAACP, the $2-a-seat ticket price, and a running time of almost three hours, the film played in New York for 10 months and was viewed by an estimated 825,000 people.

A hundred years later: the remake:

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The Birth of a Nation (2016) – IMDb

The Birth of a Nation: Directed by Nate Parker. With Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Penelope Ann Miller, Jackie Earle Haley. Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher in the antebellum South, orchestrates an uprising.www.imdb.com

03-03-1926 – 02-06-1995 James Ingram Merrill – Born in New York City, New York. He was an American poet. In 1977 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for Divine Comedies. He also wrote essays, fiction, and

plays. His father was one of the founding partners of the Merrill Lynch investment firm, his mother was a society reporter and publisher. Merrill’s partner for three decades was writer and artist, David Jackson. Despite great personal wealth from an unbreakable trust made early in his childhood, Merrill lived modestly. He created the Ingram Merrill Foundation in the 1950s. The private foundation subsidized literature, the arts, and public television. He met filmmaker Maya Deren in 1945 and the poet Elizabeth Bishop a few years later, giving much needed financial assistance to both as well as providing funds to hundreds of other writers, often anonymously. On February 6, 1995, he died of from a heart attack related to AIDS. His ashes and the remains of David Jackson are buried side by side.

1931

The “Star Spangled Banner” was adopted as the American national anthem. The song was originally known as “Defense of Fort McHenry.”

The first jazz album to sell a million copies was recorded. It was “Minnie The Moocher” by Cab Calloway.

LGBTQ2 Blogger Nina Notes: a nation founded without a supernatural basis and with the right to pursue happiness, until the 1950s when God was added to the oath and American Money.

1938 – Dr. Don Kilhefner (born March 3, 1938) is born. He is an LGBTQ rights activist, community organizer, and Jungian psychologist living in West Hollywood, California. He is a pioneer Gay Liberationist, co-founder (with Morris Kight) of the LA LGBT Center and Van Ness Recovery House and (with Harry Hay) the Radical Faeries. He has devoted the past 50 years to gay community organizing in Los Angeles and nationally. He founded and co-founded multiple gay organizations, including the Radical Faeries and the LA Community Services Center(now the Los Angeles LGBT Center) and Van Ness Recovery House.He was among the first volunteers in the Peace Corps in 1962. As a response to what he believed was an assimilationist attitude in the mainstream gay rights movement, he co-founded the spiritual/countercultural Radical Faeries movement. This loose network explored queer consciousness, one that Kilhefner believed was fundamentally different than that of heterosexuals. He recently wrote a column for Frontiers, Southern California largest gay newspaper, called Edging Out: Exploring the Frontiers of Gay Consciousness with Don Kilhefner.

The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

1957

The head of the Catholic archdiocese of Chicago, Samuel Cardinal Strich, bans Rock ‘n’ Roll from Catholic schools in his district, saying “When our schools and centers stoop to such things as Rock And Roll tribal rhythms, they are failing seriously in their duty.” A week after his remarks, a survey of record retailers, distributors and disc jockeys revealed that the Cardinal’s words had no affect on Rock record sales in the area.

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

\03-03-1968 Patrick Guerriero – Place of birth unknown. He is a former Massachusetts state legislator, mayor, and advocate for marriage equality. On January 1, 2003, Guerriero succeeded Rich Tafel as leader of the Log Cabin Republicans (gay Republican organization). In early 2004, he earned national recognition for successfully challenging President George W. Bush – launching the first national television ad that helped defeat Bush’s proposed Federal Marriage Amendment. In October 2004, Guerriero filed Log Cabin Republicans v. United States challenging the constitutionality of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. On September 1, 2006, he became the first executive director of the Gill Action Fund, an organization working to advance gay and lesbian equality through the legislative, political, and electoral process.

Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

March 03, 1971

South African radio lifts its five-year ban on Beatles’ music.

Elton John and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra perform for a packed house at London’s Royal Festival Hall.

1972

on the USA LP Charts, Elton John had his second #1 , following up Honky Chateau with Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only the Piano Player.

03-03-1972 – 06-25-2009 Yasmine (Hilde Rens) – Born in Antwerp, Belgium. She was a Belgian singer, presenter, and television personality. She came out as a lesbian in 1996, becoming an

established LGBT icon for Flemish and Dutch youth. Yasmine further positioned herself as a leading LGBT icon by marrying television personality Marianne Dupon (winner of the reality TV show De Mol) in 2003. The couple divorced in April 2009. On June 25, 2009, Yasmine committed suicide – her suicide reportedly followed a severe depression allegedly over her split with Dupon.

03-03-1973 Xavier Bettel – Born in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg. He is the first openly gay Prime Minister of Luxembourg, December 4, 2013. He is the third openly gay head of government

following Iceland’s former Prime Minister, Jóhanna Sigurôadóttir and Belgium’s former Prime Minister, Elio Di Rupo. As of October 2014, he was the only gay world leader. Bettel married his long time partner, Gauthier Destenay. They were married in 2015, when the same-sex marriage laws came into effect.

He and architect Gauthier Destenay entered a civil partnership in 2010 and married on May 5, 2015 after Luxembourg’s legislators approved same-sex marriage. Bettel becomes the first openly gay Prime Minister in December 2013, after an election campaign in which his sexuality was not a secret nor an issue. Bettel previously served as Mayor of Luxembourg City, member of the Chamber of Deputies and member of the Luxembourg City communal council. Bettel is a member of the Democratic Party. Bettel is the third openly gay head of government following Iceland’s Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir (2009–2013) and Belgium’s Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo (2011–2014). Leo Varadkar (born 18 January 1979) joined them as the prime minister of Ireland in 2017.

1979

The Bee Gees scored their fourth UK No.1 single with ‘Tragedy.’ Also today The Bee Gees went to No.1 on the US album chat with ‘Spirits Having Flown’, the brother’s second US No.1 album.

on the usa song charts, The Bee Gees were up to #4 after only four weeks with “Tragedy” but Olivia Newton-John was on the way down with “A Little More Love”. Donna Summer had her fifth Top 10, this time with Brooklyn Dreams on “Heaven Knows” at six, Chic’s #1 smash “Le Freak” now 7, the Village People was everywhere with “Y.M.C.A.” at 8

Anne Murray continued to hold on to #1 on the newly renamed Adult Contemporary chart with “I Just Fall In Love Again”.

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

1984

Rockwell with considerable help from Michael Jackson had the new R&B #1–“Somebody’s Watching Me”.

1989

A day after the song debuts in a 2-minute Pepsi commercial, the video for Madonna‘s “Like A Prayer” hits MTV and causes an uproar.

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

1993 – The organization Lesbian and Gay Immigration Rights Task Force is founded. Its purpose is to work toward equal rights for LGBTQ and HIV-positive immigrants and binational couples, equal immigration, and asylum. It was first convened in 1993 by Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund and The Center International Lesbian and Gay Association, and is advocating the reform of discriminatory immigration laws in the USA.

1998

Madonna‘s album “Ray of Light” was released.

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

2003

Penguin Group announced that Madonna had written five illustrated story books for readers aged 6 and above. Publication was scheduled to begin in September 2003.

2010 – Congress approves a law signed in December 2009 that legalizes same-sex marriage in the Washington, DC.

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

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Mar 3, 2018 — 1973, Luxembourg – Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel (born 3 March 1973) is born today. He and architect Gauthier Destenay entered a civil …

Today in LGBT History – MARCH 3 | Ronni Sanlo https://ronnisanlo.com › today-in-lgbt-history-march-3-2Mar 3, 2019 — 1938 – Don Kilhefner(born March 3, 1938) is born. He founded and co-founded multiple gay organizations, including the Radical Faeries and the LA …

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