May 2, 1956
For the first time in “Billboard” chart history, five singles were in both the pop and the R&B top 10. Little Richard’s “Long Tall Sally,” was number three twice.
1972
U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation Director J. Edgar Hoover died after a heart attack at age 77.
May 2, 1977
The first Broadway revival of the musical “The King and I,“ starring Yul Brynner and Constance Towers, opened at New York’s Uris Theatre for 695 performances.
April 28, 1956
Little Richard earned a third week at #1 on the R&B chart with “Long Tall Sally”.
April 28, 1965
Barbara Streisand‘s first TV special aired on CBS. It was titled “My Name is Barbara”.
1968
The Broadway musical ‘Hair’ opened at the Biltmore Theatre in New York City. The show featured the songs ‘Aquarius / Let the Sunshine In’, ‘Good Morning Starshine’ and the title song. The production ran for 1,729 performances, finally closing on July 1st, 1972.
1973
the Soundtrack to “Lady Sings the Blues” by Diana Ross falling to #8,
April 28, 1974
Olivia Newton-John released the single that would jump-start her career–“I Honestly Love You”.
1978
Dolly Parton’s “Here You Come Again” album was certified Platinum.
1979
Donna Summer titled her new song right as “Hot Stuff” was up from #79 to #29 on this date.
1980
Elton John released the single “Little Jeannie”.
1990
Sinead O’Connor remained at #1 with “Nothing Compares 2 (sic) U (sic)”.
1994
Lisa Marie Presley announced her separation from first husband Danny Keough after 5½ years of marriage and two children. The divorce became final eight days later. Lisa Marie would soon be married to Michael Jackson.
2004
George Michael was named as the most-played artist on British radio over the previous two decades.
queer for april 27
April 27, 1667
Poet John Milton, blind and impoverished, sold the copyright for his epic poem “Paradise Lost” for £10
April 27, 1957
Little Richard took over at #1 on the R&B chart with his classic “Lucille”.
1958On CBS-TV’s “The Ed Sullivan Show.” The Everly Brothers sang “All I Have To Do Is Dream,” which two weeks later went to #1 on the singles chart and stayed there for five weeks. Teresa Brewer, Sal Mineo, Georgia Gibbs, and Jack Carter also performed on the program.
April 27, 1970
Elton John released his first single–“Border Song”.
April 27, 1976
David Bowie was detained at the border between Poland and Russia while customs officials confiscated some Nazi memorabilia he had collected. Bowie claimed that the material was being used for research on a movie project about Nazi propaganda leader Joseph Paul Goebbels.
1980
Three years and a day after opening its doors, New York’s legendary Studio 54 was closed for liquor license violations. Several months earlier, owners Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager were jailed for tax evasion. The club would reopened under new management in 1981.
1985 Madonna was at #2 with “Crazy For You”
1990
homophobe and probable closet case Axl Rose (Guns N’ Roses) married Erin Everly. The marriage lasted for 27 days.
1993
Aretha Franklin’s first TV special was taped at New York’s Nederlander Theater and featured duets with Bonnie Raitt on “Since You’ve Been Gone,” and “Natural Woman” with Raitt and Gloria Estefan. Also performing were Smokey Robinson (singing a duet with Aretha on “Just to See Her”) and Elton John.
1996
Celine Dion could not be budged from the #1 position with “Because You Loved Me”, which scored a sixth straight week at #1. Mariah Carey was #2 with “Always Be My Baby”, and Alanis Morissette remained at #4 with “Ironic”.
2000
Vicki Sue Robinson, who scored the US Top 10 Disco hit “Turn The Beat Around” in 1976, died of cancer at the age of 46.
2003
Madonna went to No.1 on the UK album chart with ‘American Life’, the singers eighth No.1 album. Also a US No.1 album.
2004
Elton John publicly responded to the home audience rejection of Jennifer Hudson on TV’s “American Idol,” declaring the call-in voters “incredibly racist.”
2008
Vanity Fair caused a stir when it published a photo of a supposedly topless 15-year-old Miley Cyrus holding a sheet against her chest. Cyrus was quoted in a statement as saying she was “embarrassed” by the photo. “I apologize to my fans,” she said. But, 10 years later, Cyrus tweeted about the scandal: “IM NOT SORRY.”
2017
on ebay – “Miss Elvis Presley” the most obscure and rarest Books – set of 21. hand illustrated 1950s vernacular gay chap books!!
queer for april 26
April 26, 1974
Queen appeared at the Orpheum Theater in Boston.
1999
Sinead O’Connor was ordained as the first woman priest in the Latin Tridentine Church.
2011
Phoebe Snow, the velvet voiced singer / songwriter who reached #5 in the US in 1975 with “Poetry Man”, died of complications from a stroke at the age of 60.
there is a queer Phoebe Snow society and her husband in the 1970s, came out as gay.
2013
US country singer George Jones who had a string of No.1 songs between the 1950s and 1990s, died aged 81. Nicknamed Possum, his signature song was He Stopped Loving Her Today, a track about love and death. He was married to Tammy Wynette between 1969 and 1975 and the pair recorded several songs together in the 1970s.
Off the official story, Jones lifelong drinking and on/off with Tammy was possibly because Jones was closet gay with among others: Merle Haggard,
queer for april 22
1967
the great Soundtrack to ‘The Sound of Music‘ was #8,
1972
Aretha Franklin had song #7 with “Day Dreaming”
A Cowboy’s Work Is Never Done” from Sonny & Cher edged up to #9
1978
Song charts: Barry Manilow moved up # 3 to #with “Can’t Smile Without You”
on the LP charts: Even Now by Barry Manilow was #4 while Queen’s News Of the World was at #9 and Natalie Cole was at #10 with “Our Love”.
1989
Despite (or thanks to) a generous heaping of controversy over its video where she dances in front of burning crosses, Madonna’s “Like A Prayer” hits #1 in the US as the album also lands at the top spot, where it stays for six weeks. It’s her third consecutive #1 album.
1994
LP Charts: Mariah Carey dropped to 9 with Music Box and The Coulour Of My Love from Celine Dion was at #10.
1999
Sinead O’Connor is ordained in Lourdes, France, as the first female priest in the Latin Tridentine Church, a dissident Roman Catholic group.
2003
Madonna released her ninth studio album, “American Life.” Only days after Madonna tried to strike back at illegal sharing of songs from her “American Life” album by flooding the Internet with fake MP3s, her web site was hacked and real digital files of the songs were leaked.
2010
The Los Angeles coroner’s office ruled that the death of Marie Osmond’s 18-year-old son, Michael Blosil, was a suicide, after he jumped from an apartment building in February. Marie and Donny were soon at odds in the media regarding the mormon church vs queer people.
2021
https://pagesix.com/2021/04/22/ezra-furman-announces-shes-a-transgender-woman/
But especially would be heterosexual males who presume to be in rather than adjacent to LGBTQ2,
I was kicked out of 12 facebook LGBTQ2 groups owing to being an atheist, and a number of atheist groups owing to being LGBTQ2
partly the problem of most things being discussed in a hetero male right vs hetero male left manner, devoid of hetero women and against LGBTQ2 to against that against but not inclusive of LGBTQ2.
on a new social media site, mewe, where I experience as much censorship from the site and the heterosexual normativity, as I did on facebook and now instagram where using the phrase “heterosexual man” results in hate crime notifications.
in 2021, still fighting the same decades to centuries old bigotries.
it is not gatekeeping to tell Heterosexual men of low to no libido to incels that they are not part of the LGBTQ2 qmunity for failing to conform to heteronormative appearing norms.
LGBTQ2 is differing expressions, absent of yours;
this morning, I had a hetero moment reminder: posted in a mewe group
dear would hetero allies to LGBTQ2
making the qmunity about you, as if heteros define the qmunity
shows how much not an ally and how much not a part of the qmunity you are
heteros do not decide about LGBTQ2 and do not have more valid views, which are dismissals of LGBTQ2 voices.
it is not gatekeeping, it is that heteros do not share history, oppression and do not understand how to listen
and cannot interpersonally relate with LGBTQ2
hetero allies would understand the difference
heteros who are seeking queer validation of heteros are part of the problem of queer erasure
comments and replies are welcomed and please indicate if I may include your comments in this post, as they occur
THEN – what I tried to edit that too, with only the “comments line above” being accepted as a second edit attempt.
I am a member of this group, and not an admin or moderator nor owner of.
I have already blocked the group member who posted that heterosexual men of low or no libido were members of the qmunity, and that is not something hetero cis males get to decide
the experience I had as one of the letters in LGBTQ2 was being told the hetero asexual male’s day and communication manner was more important than the issue raised, which could have easily been replied to at point in the day or tomorrow when there was time for a reply.
LGBTQ2 have been historically and currently genocided and oppressed and the leading cause of suicide is bulling by hetero sexual males in family and at schools and in the workplaces as adults.
the LGBTQ2 are distinct groups who have experienced legalized oppression, criminalization and had our sexuality and gender be a subject of medical debate.
through which, we have shared stories and histories and relationships.
making the qmunity about hetero asexual males, as if heteros define the qmunity they are claiming to be part of, as we are also working to kick out the pedophiles who are also attempting to be openly members of the qmunity.
heteros do not decide about LGBTQ2 and do not have more valid views, which are dismissals of LGBTQ2 voices.
it is not gatekeeping, it is that heteros do not share history, oppression and do not understand how to listen
and cannot interpersonally relate with LGBTQ2
heteros who are seeking queer validation of heteros are part of the problem of queer erasure
actual hetero allies would understand the difference
further, the recent chanting of “I’d rather be a pervert than a terf” – the transwomen need to be concerned about what kind of pervert is chanting with them.
really think of the children, eh.
comments and replies are welcomed and please indicate if I may include your comments in this post, as they occur;
1927
Serge Koussevitsky directed the Boston Symphony in the first performance of Frederick Converse’s symphony, “Flivver Ten Million.”
1967
Aretha Franklin prevailed for a fourth week at #1 on the R&B chart with “I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)”.
1968
Aretha Franklin recorded “Think” at Atlantic Recording Studios in New York City.
1972
Aretha Franklin had #9 with “Day Dreaming” and Sonny & Cher came in at #10 with “A Cowboy’s Work Is Never Done”.
Barbra Streisand, James Taylor, Carole King and Quincy Jones performed at a benefit for U.S. presidential candidate George McGovern.
1978
, Barry Manilow at #4 with “Can’t Smile Without You”, and Natalie Cole at 10 with “Our Love”.
1984
Rockwell ‘s “Somebody’s Watching Me” dropped to number three – “Against All Odds” Phil Collins at two and Kenny Loggins had the top song in the land for a third week with “Footloose”.
1987
Queen is presented with an award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music at the 32nd annual Ivor Novello Awards in London.
1990
Actress Greta Garbo died of pneumonia and renal failure at the age of 84. (Ninotchka, Grand Hotel, Camille, Queen Christina, Anna Karenina, Mata Hari, The Kiss, Flesh and the Devil, The Painted Veil, As You Desire Me, Two-Faced Woman, Conquest, Inspiration, Anna Christie)
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992
The three surviving members of Queen raised over $15 million at a charity concert in memory of the late Freddie Mercury, who died in November, 1991. They were joined by David Bowie, Annie Lennox, Elton John, Guns N’ Roses, Roger Daltrey, Robert Plant, Paul Young and others.
2010
After receiving some bad reviews and even enduring some boos during her performance, Whitney Houston brushed off criticism of her first show in the UK in over eleven years by insisting she was playing to a “tough crowd”. She had recently been hospitalized with chronic rhinopharyngitis, which is a swelling of the membranes in the nose and throat.
Singer Melissa Etheridge and her partner, actress Tammy Lynn Michaels, announced their separation, seven years after bonding in a commitment ceremony. Michaels gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, in 2006.
2019
Olivia Newton-John’s 1981 mega-hit ‘Physical’ has been named Billboard’s No. 1 hit of the ’80s
estimated at 10% since the 1950s, it turns out…
because it became unsafe to do so
going by other western nations, the estimated 10% is closer to 30%
especially with emerging identities and some asexuals venn diagramming
https://news.gallup.com/poll/329708/lgbt-identification-rises-latest-estimate.aspx
i call queerbaiting, they market this way and nothing LGBTQ2 makes the edit or even the dvd extras….
no more gay for pay, it is not brave nor are you the best for heterosexuals
LGBTQ2 by and for: representation and role models
https://screenrant.com/falcon-winter-soldier-bucky-dating-app-tigers-bisexual/
easiest transmission is penis emission, add in risky behaviours and resistance of safe sex devices, plus party drugs
this is why the globally heterosexual STD but gay male associated owing to in the USA gay men having health care and Canadian and European Health care eventually the virus was detected
a virus which goes back to the 1800s and was too slow a killer in africa where ebola and others kill within days
media hysteria – religion no longer allowed to bully others whining
conversion therapy is religion, it is not therapy – religion does not stop anyone being not heterosexual – and is more often the cause of alcoholism than the AA religion presenting as a support group.
parents should in fact be criminalized for abusing their children with religion, the idea of always being watched or judged and the punishments of abuse physical and emotional are unacceptable,
as literally sacrificing children is a crime, which those who faith health instead of medically treat are doing.
suicide counselling needs to be part of universal health care
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/04/12/arkansas-trans-minors-law-endangers-lives-snubs-doctors-experts-say/7144794002/
#Lest We Forget actually says so, when one’s view is dim of an entire demographic, being a bystander is part of the problem of why genocide, so #LestWeForget it is both illegal and socially unacceptable.
bigots’ are not the ones needing protection of the law, while vulnerable in the public square.
from the article:
Budapest/Berlin — A top aide to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban called into question Germany’s democratic standards on Thursday after a German football club sacked a Hungarian coach for expressing anti-immigrant and anti-LGBT views.
“Expressing your opinion cannot be punished under the rule of law,” Orban’s chief of staff Gergely Gulyas told a press briefing. “I think this is outrageous. It is foremost Germany that has to answer whether it still upholds the rule of law.”
It was President George H Bush or Bush The Elder that began the “family values” code
and given The Duggar family revealing incest is a Christian norm….
the republicans under Lincoln ended slavery, but after Reagan
it was the party of anti-women’s reproductive rights and personal sovereignty
the party of anti_LGBTQ2 Human RIghts
the party of bigotry along religion and ethnicity lines, often one and the same as most religions one must be born to, and not choose
so for a country founded on no more kings and begun by Robber Barrons to restart the nobility rank race…..
freedom from religion was the pursuit of happiness
no religion determining government nor being forced on anyone
Mike Pence & Kellyanne Conway join forces to launch new group that will promote “traditional values” / LGBTQ Nation
businesses that offer goods or services to the public may not cherry pick the public.
the only exemption is for health, the no shirt no shoes no service rule for food goods.
this is comparable to the USA decades of whites vs blacks signs, leaving a number of other ethnicities in a grey zone
Kentucky tax preparer posts sign refusing service to “homosexual” couples / LGBTQ Nation
1989
Pepsi dismissed Madonna as a spokesperson after her “Like a Prayer” video was called “blasphemous” by the Vatican.
1993
Elton John remained at #1 on the AC chart with “Simple Life
Whitney Houston’s The “Bodyguard” Soundtrack, which had already spent 13 weeks at #1, returned to the top of the Album chart
Why Is the Risk of Contracting HIV Higher in Gay Men?Learn why gay men, bisexual men, and other men who have sex with men are more likely than average to contract HIV. Find strategies for reducing the risk.www.healthline.com
Conversion therapy ban ‘would criminalise Christian parents stopping children seeking transgender treatment’Leading QC and Church of England minister say proposed ban would ‘close down freedom of speech, conscience and religion’www.telegraph.co.uk
Transgender Debate: Keira Bell Deserved Better Than Puberty Blockers | National ReviewAdults need to grow up and stop the contagion, while being sensitive to the people who truly suffer the cross of gender dysphoria. It’s not “phobic” to protect minors from irrevocable harm.www.nationalreview.com
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