BCE to The Suffragettes
1046 BC – Jonathan the son of king Saul was born. The love affair between Jonathan and David was so great that he betrayed his father for his lover. On his deathbed David is recorded in the Biblical reference 2 Samuel 1:26 as saying “My brother Jonathan, thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.” It could be the first significant reference to a gay love affair ever recorded.
The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code
1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex
1957
Iraq bans the films Rock Around The Clock and Bus Stop, saying they are “dangerous to teenagers and youths.”
The Civil Rights 60s: When the Boomers were under 30
February 7, 1968
Actor Nick Adams (The Rebel, Saints and Sinners, Pillow Talk, Rebel Without a Cause, Mister Roberts) died of a drug overdose at the age of 36.
Actor Nick Adams chronicled time spent with Elvis Presley – latimes
For Elvis CD Collectors • 7 Feb ’68: Nick Adams found dead …
Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights
1970 – Sometime in the 1940s a sign appeared over the popular Los Angeles bar at Barney’s Beanery that read “FAGOTS – STAY OUT.” The message so offended the locals that Life magazine did an article on opposition to the sign in 1964, which included a photograph of the owner steadfastly holding on to it. The owner died in 1968, and efforts continued to have the sign removed. The Gay Liberation Front organized a zap of the restaurant on February 7, 1970 to push for its removal. The sign disappeared that day. The sign was put up and taken down several times over the next 14 years, but the practice ended in December, 1984, days after the city voted itself into existence. The then-mayor, Valerie Terrigno, the entire city council and gay-rights activists marched into Barney’s and relieved the wall of the offending sign. It was held by Morris Kight for many years and now rests in the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives.
1976
on the USA song charts former #1 “I Write The Songs” from Barry Manilow was #4
1977:
The U.S. State Department lifts its ban on the employment of LGBT people and announces that it will consider gay applicants on a case-by-case basis going forward.
Tucson changes its Chapter 17 of the City Code to prohibit discrimination and ads the category of “sexual and affectional preference
1978:
The Oklahoma State House of Representatives passes a so-called “Teacher Fitness” statute, which allows local school boards to fire homosexual teachers or any teacher “advocating . . . encouraging or promoting public or private homosexual activities.” The National Gay Task Force later files suit to challenge the law’s constitutionality.
The Genderfuck Apathetics vs Yuppies : Aids the new STD on the list
1980, Canada – County Court Judge George Ferguson hears a Crown appeal in Toronto of decision by a Provincial Court judge acquitting The Body Politic of charges related to using the mail to transmit immoral and indecent material.
1981
ABBA took over at #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart with their great song “The Winner Takes It All”.
1987
1987
George Michael and Aretha Franklin were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)’. Written by Simon Climie it gave Aretha her first UK No.1 almost 20 years after her first hit.
Madonna scored her fifth #1 with “Open Your Heart”,
1989
A Georgia State legislative representative introduced a bill to make Little Richard’s “Tutti Frutti” the state’s official rock song; it did not pass.
90s: Listserves and Email distribution replaces telephone trees for activism
1991 – In an interview reported in the popular press, the president of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences asserts that homosexuality is a disease that must be fought by all legal means.
1991 – The first lesbian kiss on television occurs between Amanda Donohoe and Michelle Green on L.A. Law. The “lesbian kiss episode” is a subgenre of the media portrayal of lesbianismin American television media, created in the 1990s. Beginning in 1991 with a kiss on the American L.A. Law series’ episode “He’s a Crowd” between C.J. Lamb and Abby Perkins, David E. Kelley, who wrote the episode in question, went on to use the trope in at least two of his other shows. Subsequent television series included an episode in which a seemingly heterosexual female character engages in a kiss with a possibly lesbian or bisexual character. In most instances, the potential of a relationship between the women does not survive past the episode and the lesbian or suspected lesbian never appears again.
Post 9/11 – The Shock Decade From “gay and lesbian” to “lesbigay” to “Lgbt/Lgbtq/Lgbtq2”
2004
Queen’s single ‘We Will Rock You’ topped a poll of music fans to find the greatest rock anthem of all time. The 1977 song beat the band’s classic ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ into second place in a survey of 1,000 people carried out for the UCI cinema chain. The poll was carried out to mark the release of new Jack Black comedy ‘School of Rock.’
2008
In Las Vegas, Caesars Palace announced that Cher had been signed to perform approximately 200 shows over the next three years. The 61-year-old singer agreed to perform 90-minute concerts, four nights a week for a reported $60 million. The series of shows ran until February 2011.
Human Rights in global conflict: Trans/Pans vs LGB/ vs Heterosexual women
2012:
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in California rules 2–1 that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional because it violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. In the ruling, the court said, the law “operates with no apparent purpose but to impose on gays and lesbians, through the public law, a majority’s private disapproval of them and their relationships.”
2015
In Malibu, California, Olympic champion and realty TV personality Bruce Jenner was involved in a four-vehicle, multiple rear-end collision that left one person dead and sent seven people, not including Jenner, to the hospital with injuries.
Jenner was divorced from Linda Thompson and the woman killed in the car crash had appeared in the Elvis movie Double Trouble.
Woman killed in Bruce Jenner car crash danced with Elvis … – Daily Mail
Bruce Jenner Car Crash Victim — Big Screen Brush with Elvis | TMZ.com
Bruce Jenner sued over fatal car accident – CNN
For Elvis CD Collectors • RIP Kim Howe (Double Trouble)
2016
Lady Gaga sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” prior to the start of Super Bowl 50 in Santa Clara, California. Coldplay, Beyoncé, Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson performed at halftime.
2022
https://www.cracked.com/image-pictofact-8045-12-essential-facts-about-queer-icon-ethel-waters
12 Essential Facts About Queer Icon Ethel Waters | Cracked.com
Best read while listening to her tunes.www.cracked.com
These 10 Designers Are Beloved by Two-Spirit and Queer Native Americans
These Indigenous designers, both queers and allies, deserve center stage.www.out.com
Heterosexuals are the majority of AIDS, just the media coverage was gay
More straight than gay people are being diagnosed with HIV for first time in a decade | The Independent
Levels of HIV testing fell among all groups during the pandemicwww.independent.co.uk
Lust actress about her lesbian character
Lust actress about her lesbian character Bhumi Pednekar,Rajkummar Rao, Badhaai do homos*xuality because society is so uncomfortable with this.www.tollywood.net
More Gay and Lesbian People are Vaccinated than Straight People, CDC Finds
Gay and lesbian adults in the U.S. have gotten the COVID-19 vaccine at a higher rate than their straight counterparts, according to data released by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). According to the report, which collected data from more than 150,000 respondents, gay men and lesbians over the age of 18 were vaccinated with at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccination at a rate of 85.4 percent compared to 76.3 percent of their heterosexual counterparts. Of […]Show Morethegavoice.com
https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/19903594.five-year-high-levels-abuse-lgbt-scots-trains/
Five year high in levels of abuse against LGBT Scots on trains | HeraldScotland
A RISING number of gay and transgender people are becoming victims of hate crime on Scotland’s trains.www.heraldscotland.com
Drag is bashing women, is a bad tradition of self loathing and it has to stop
it does not represent Lesbians and is offensive to all women
gay men are not women, men are not women, men need to stop bashing women
https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-60242386
Why Drag Race is still important for LGBT representation – BBC News
Baga Chipz, Blu Hydrangea and Cheryl Hole on why Drag Race is still so important for representation.www.bbc.com
Are Older LGBT Australians Being Forgotten? – Star Observer
It’s 2022 and it’s never been a worse time to be an older person or indeed, to be getting older! And it’s a place that …www.starobserver.com.au
anyone surprised?
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/dad-who-tried-ban-inappropriate-26158241
Dad who tried to ban ‘inappropriate’ LGBT books from schools charged with molesting child – Daily Star
Parent Ryan Utterback has repeatedly asked for the removal of several LGBT books from school libraries. He has been charged with molesting a child and is set to appear in courtwww.dailystar.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.
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.
Queer Halloween saved lives – Colorado NewslineFor many queer and trans folks, Halloween was the one safe place we could express ourselves. It’s been that way for centuries.coloradonewsline.com
What is it like to be queer in other big cities in Ukraine? – KyivPost – Ukraine’s Global VoiceKyiv is undoubtedly the queer capital of Ukraine but other major cities have bigger and more active LGBTQ+ communities than one might expect. Southern Odesa, western Lviv and eastern Kharkiv offer opportunities and events for queer people to express themselves and stand up for their rights. The Kyiv Post spoke to three people to find […]www.kyivpost.com
20 Boo-tiful Photos of Elvira, Undisputed Queer Queen of Spooky, Over the YearsIn celebration of her Out100 cover, here is a retrospective of the Mistress of the Dark.www.out.com
13 Last-Minute Queer Halloween Costumes That Will Impress Your FriendsIf you need a costume this weekend, don’t worry, we’ve got you!www.out.com
Meet OutLoud, the All-Queer Boy Band We Wish We Had Growing UpThe NYC-based foursome wants to be the kind of artists future generations of queer listeners can look up to.www.out.com
Nearly 30 LGBTQ Afghans fleeing Taliban arrive in U.K. hours after regime says gay rights will not be respected under Islamic law“This is just the beginning of our efforts to help hundreds of LGBTQI+ individuals we are supporting in Afghanistan relocate to safety.”www.msn.com
Lobo Lobo and his LGBT
Hackers demand $1 million to halt their leak of user info from Israeli LGBT site | The Times of IsraelBlack Shadow group, believed to be criminally motivated Iranians, demands digital ransom within 48 hours; HIV status of some users of dating site already posted onlinewww.timesofisrael.com
From ‘Dracula’s Daughter’ to ‘Carmilla,’ lesbian vampire depictions prove immortalSexual fluidity has been one of the hallmarks of vampiric portrayals throughout history.www.nbcnews.com
Sir Elton John hits number one with lockdown album – BBC NewsThe pop legend beats Lana Del Rey and Coldplay to take the top spot with his Lockdown Sessions disc.www.bbc.com
What Josh Cavallo’s coming out says about men’s and women’s queer sport cultures – ABC NewsAdelaide United footballer Josh Cavallo’s recent coming out received overwhelming support from global sport, but its impact shows men’s sport has a long way to go to catch women’s sport in accepting LGBTQIA+ athletes.www.abc.net.au
John Waters unveils all gender restrooms named after him at art museum / LGBTQ NationWaters’ collaborator and trans activist Elizabeth Coffey was the restroom’s first “user.” “Can you think of anything any more elementary than just going to the bathroom?” she said…www.lgbtqnation.com
Things I’m Asked: What evidence is there for God?The leading atheistic philosopher in the early twentieth century, Bertrand Russell, was once asked what he would say to God by way of explanation when…www.eternitynews.com.au
Nineties Dyke 