Learning our history IS resistance! Happy New Year! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – December 31 1901 – Beauford Delaney (December 30, 1901 – March 26, 1979) is born. He was a gay African American modernist painter. He is remembered for his work with the Harlem Renaissance in
Yesterday my yoga instructor said that the term “Happy New Year” should be reserved for after midnight on January 1st. Before then, one should say “Blessed Endings.” Indeed… Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – December 30 1886 – Sadie
This is the first night of the annual “Lesbians across America campaign” at the June Mazer Lesbian Archives in Los Angeles” They ask that lesbians across America to donate just $10 to the Mazer to help them keep collecting, protecting, and preserving Lesbian History. Please donate: go to www.mazerlesbianarchives.org Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for
From Amy Siskind: “The tools we’ll need to finally bring down the Trump regime in 2018 are persistence, optimism, laughter and love.” Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – December 28 1931 – Lili Ilse Elvenes (28 December 1882 –
I’ve had the pleasure of meeting several of the young men in today’s entry. I first heard Michael Callen in the 1980s when my friend Alyn shared a Flirtations recording with me. The song Everything Possible, written by Fred Small, was about how children should be able to grow up loving whomever they wished. I
From Amy Siskind: “I think we’re all just doing the best we can right now. Practice kindness, empathy and generosity. Rid yourself of toxic, mean people or people who gaslight you. Take care of yourself and love yourself, frailties and all.” Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in
From Rabbi Sharon: “May all who celebrate Christmas have a beautiful day celebrating new birth, stars shining and miracles coming from unexpected people and places”….. Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – December 25 1886 – Sarah Bigelow, 18, and Lizzie Hart, 19, commit suicide
As Amy Siskind wrote: “Remember the good old days when the leader of our country didn’t publicly trash the FBI, DOJ, CIA, media, his employees and everyone not straight, white and male constantly? Yeah, me neither.” Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in
Merry Christmas to those who celebrate; Happy Festivus for the Rest of Us. Safe travels this holiday weekend. Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – December 22 1934 – Wallace Henry Thurman (1902–Dec. 22, 1934), a black editor, critic, novelist, and playwright associated with the