March 25, 1918
Composer Claude Debussy died of rectal cancer at age 55. (Clair de Lune, La Mer, Iberia, Jeux, Children’s Corner Suite)
https://www.wfmt.com/2015/06/25/15-queer-composers-know/
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Elton John / Queer Culture March 23
1991
Elton John joined George Michael on stage at London’s Wembley Arena for a duet on the 1974 hit “Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me”. The ‘live’ version will be released as a single and would top the charts on both sides of the Atlantic next December. Michael will donate $500,000 from the royalties to various charities.
2000
Sir Elton John’s musical Aida opened on Broadway.
2009
Elton John and Tim Rice’s “Aida,” an album of songs for the Broadway production of “Aida” was released. Performers contributing tracks to the album included Sting, LeAnn Rimes, the Spice Girls, Tina Turner, Janet Jackson, Boyz II Men, Shania Twain, Lenny Kravitz, James Taylor, and Lulu.
2016
Gloria Gaynor’s hit ‘I Will Survive’ was selected to enter the US National Recording Registry. It joined Metallica’s Master of Puppets and Mahler’s Symphony No 9 on the list of culturally significant recordings.
queer culture march 21
March 21, 1925
After easily passing through the Tennessee House and Senate, the Butler Act was signed into law by Governor Austin Peay, making it a crime for a teacher in a state-supported public school to teach any theory that contradicts the Bible’s account of man’s creation. Six weeks later in Dayton, Tennessee, John T. Scopes was arrested for teaching evolution at Rhea County High School.
March 21, 1965
In Alabama, more than 3,000 civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. began a successful march from Selma to Montgomery, the third of three such attempts that month.
March 21, 1976
After a David Bowie concert at the Community War Memorial arena in Rochester, New York, Iggy Pop and David Bowie were involved in a drug bust at their hotel room where the police found 182 grams (a little over 6.4 ounces) of marijuana. The pair spent the rest of the night in the Monroe County Jail and were released at about 7 a.m. on $2,000 bond each; charges later were dropped.
1981
Barbra Streisand & Barry Gibb combined for the week’s #10 song–“What Kind Of Fool”.
1985
Boy George said in “Women’s World” magazine that he would never marry, settle down, or become a father.
1989
Madonna released her fourth studio album, “Like A Prayer.”
1993
Anne Murray was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.
2004
George Michael scored his fifth UK #1 album with “Patience”. After a slow start in the US, the LP would eventually climb to #12.
2011
A lost David Bowie album called “Toy”, which went unreleased since 2001, mysteriously appeared on several file-sharing websites. The collection of mostly re-recorded tracks from Bowie’s early years had been locked in a dispute with Virgin Records.
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March 20, 1971
Janis Joplin started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with her version of the Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster song “Me And Bobby McGee.” Joplin, who was a lover and a friend of Kristofferson’s from the beginning of her career to her death, changed the sex and a few of the lyrics in her cover. Kristofferson states he did not write this song for her, but the song is associated with her – especially, he has said, in the line “Somewhere near Salinas, Lord, I let her slip away.” Joplin died of a drug overdose the year before on 4th October aged 27.
March 20, 1975
Patti Smith and Television begin a 7-week residency at CBGB in New York City. During these shows, Smith refines that songs that later appear on her debut album Horses.
March 20, 1976
, Queen entered the Top 10 with A Night at the Opera at number 9
March 20, 1982
Joan Jett And The Blackhearts started a seven week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll’, a No.4 hit in the UK. The song had been a B-side from 60’s bands The Arrows.
The Go-Go’s were to this point the top self-contained all-girl group of the Rock Era (The Bangles would later pass them.) The Go-Go’s album Beauty and the Beat was #1 for a third week.
Olivia Newton-John was Physical at #8 ,
1993
“Simple Life” by Elton John was the #1 Adult Contemporary song.
Whitney Houston scored her 16th Top 10 song in 20 releases–“I Have Nothing”.
1994
Madonna snags her third Razzie for Worst Actress at the 14th Golden Raspberry Awards. Her first came in 1987 for Shanghai Surprise, and the second followed in 1988 for Who’s That Girl. This time around, it’s her role as Rebecca Carlson in Body Of Evidence that underwhelms the judges.
Queer culture march 19
1966
Lesley Gore was a guest on the final episode of The Donna Reed Show on ABC-TV.
1999
Cher had a huge comeback hit with the #1 song “Believe”.
2001
16th annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame award ceremonies at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City, inducted Queen, along with purely hetero performers
2010
The Runaways, the film biography of the group which featured Joan Jett, opened in theaters. Riley Keough played a part.
2012
Madonna’s new album, “MDNA” was leaked online nearly a week before its official release date. Her 12th studio record was due to hit store shelves on March 26th, but emerged on an illegal file-sharing website.
queer culture for march 18
1979
Sister Sledge released the single “We Are Family”.
1986
Whitney Houston released the single “Greatest Love Of All”.
1995
Madonna ruled for a fourth week with “Take A Bow”. Soul for Real held down #2 with “Candy Rain” with the former #1 smash “Creep” by TLC third. “Baby” from Brandy followed that trio with another TLC smash–“Red Light Special” leaping from 18 to 5.
In New York, Madonna celebrated the premiere of her “Bedtime Story” video with a pajama party. The gathering was for 1,500 guests that were in pajamas and had teddy bears.
1998
Elton John told a British TV interviewer that tributes to Princess Diana, killed in a car crash the previous August, should stop. He said it was “time to give it a rest.” John’s recording of “Candle in the Wind ’97,” which he performed at the princess’s funeral, became the best-selling single in history and raised millions for the Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fund.
2002
George Michael‘s single “Freeek!” was released in Britain.
2013
David Bowie’s first album in a decade become the fastest-selling of the year, hitting the No.1 spot in the UK in its first week of release. The Next Day was the 66-year-old’s first No.1 since 1993’s ‘Black Tie White Noise’ and sold 94,000 copies in the first week.
Queer Culture March 12
March 12, 1958
Jazz singer Billie Holiday, who had pled guilty to a narcotics-possession charge in 1956, is given a year’s probation by a Philadelphia court.
Openly bisexual, Holiday had several affairs with men and women
1985
first memorial to the Nazi’s gay victims unveiled: a pink granite stone monument at the former Neuengamme concentration camp, inscribed “Dedicated to the Homosexual Victims of National Socialism.”
1986, (in response to the above, not occurring on this day:)
I was the only student in my Canadian history class at Princess Margaret Secondary School, Surrey BC, who was allowed to know about gays and lesbians in the camps. I was not allowed to tell the others because we were not supposed to know that LGBTQ2 existed in 1986.
History students from many lower mainland of BC high schools were bussed to the University of BC for a holocaust conference.
1988
Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna’ Give You Up” unseated “Father Figure” by George Michael for #1
from wikipedia
Released in the United Kingdom in December 1987, “Father Figure” reached number eleven on the UK Singles Chart – the first time Michael had failed to reach the top ten in his home country. The song remained a live favourite at Michael’s concerts for many years and is also one of his most frequently aired songs on the radio in the United Kingdom.
In the United States, “Father Figure” became George Michael‘s sixth number one single (including three number one singles garnered as half of Wham!). “Father Figure” debuted at number 49 on 16 January 1988, while “Faith” was still prominent (at number nine) in the top ten of the chart. In the subsequent weeks, “Father Figure” was a surefire hit, reaching number one by its seventh week, 27 February 1988, staying at the top for two weeks. Altogether, the single spent six
| Chart (1988–2016) | Peak position |
|---|---|
weeks in the top ten, nine weeks in the top twenty, and 14 weeks in the top forty.
queer culture march 7
March 7, 1927
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Texas law banning negroes from voting was unconstitutional.
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.”
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.
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.
1998
Madonna had her eighth #1 song in the U.K. with “Frozen”.
2003
Broadway musicians went on strike during a contract dispute, closing all but one musical, “Cabaret.” Four days later, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg facilitated a settlement.
2021
Aaron Lee Tasjan and Fancy Hagood Discuss Queer Representation in Music « American Songwriter“Queer existence is here,” says Fancy Hagood (a.k.a. Who is Fancy) of Brothers Osborne’s T.J. Osborne’s recent coming out and the boundaries that areamericansongwriter.comhttps://www.wpr.org/how-pop-musicians-transcend-strict-gender-roles
let’s play person or bot
let’s play person or bot!
this queer blogger
that is not accurate. a democracy majority rules in who hold office. it has nothing to do with street crime. and if it was true that the idea was to protect against the majority, then white hetero men would not still be in charge almost exclusively. and LGBTQ2 would have gotten rights decades ago
that meme makes it sound like the democrat party will take your bike while the republican party will let you keep it…
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Jason Harris (the poster of the above image I replied on)
You said it but like most Democrats you forgot the Constitutional part
this queer blogger
you are a republican nazi and are part of the problem.
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this queer blogger
the meme is misleading and false, just like republicans
I am not an American, I am a Canadian very concerned about the USA. #LestWeForget
Jason Harris
Lol lets see how many executive orders did Joe Biden sign in his first month? After saying if you rule by executive order you’re a dictator. Your brainwashed and are the problem. But it’s ok your Canadian so I understand.
And oh yah hashtag sleepy joe might remember something
this queer blogger
yay, bot, your heterosexual male right wing vs heterosexual male left wing taunts have no effect on a Canadian Lesbian, and your lack of response to the comments also suggest you are more bot than person.
this queer blogger
@mewe group owner
I have spotted a suspected bot of a trumpian troll
Jason Harris
So because I dont agree with you and you call me a nazi I’m a bot troll you really are a joke.
Oh yeah the Democrats cheated to steal the election.
And I think I spotted a communist.
this queer blogger
no. because you respond like a bot, you repeat your insults and no facts and do not reply to the substance of the post you botspam spewing trash
Jason Harris
Like I was supposed to respond to you telling me about your sexual preference like I care
this queer blogger
because you are a right wing and a heterosexual white man who does not define other people or words and does not have a valid opinion based on your content of meaningless bullet points not even your words, just party whining and trash talk
Jason Harris
In your automatic response of calling people a Nazi is it batish give me a break. Have a nice night I got better things to do like to recharge my batteries
this queer blogger
indeed, you do not care about anything but your own opinion, why there is no difference between heterosexual white men and internet trolls in the first place.
republicans are nazis.
Queering Culture on Feb 25
1952
The first musical choreography score was copyrighted. It was Cole Porter’s “Kiss Me Kate”.
1983
Playwright Tennessee Williams died of an accidental choking, but the police report suggested his use of drugs and alcohol contributed to the death. Williams was 71. (The Glass Menagerie, The Rose Tattoo, The Night of the Iguana, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar Named Desire)
1995
Madonna started a seven week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Take A Bow’, the track which was co-written with Babyface became a No.16 hit in the UK.
2000
“Britney Spears CD Bubble Gum”, was announced and released in March of 2000.
The five original Spice Girls were facing a bill of up to £1 million ($1.7 million) after losing a legal battle against the sponsors of their 1988 world tour. The Aprilia Scoter Company had claimed the girls knew of Geri’s impending departure (marketing as faux lesbians)
2006
George Michael was found slumped over in a car in Hyde Park, London. A concerned person spotted the singer and called police who after being checked by paramedics was arrested on suspicion of possessing drugs and then released on bail. Michael made a public statement about the incident and said “I was in possession of class C drugs which is an offense and I have no complaints about the police who were professional throughout.” He also said that the event was “my own stupid fault, as usual.
2010
Marie Osmond’s teenage son Michael Blosil was found dead on the ground below an apartment balcony in Los Angeles after committing suicide. Resulting in a public feud with Donny over the Mormon Church vs Queer Sexuality.
Nineties Dyke 