Kelly and I are heading out for the Caribbean. The history items from April 1st through April 12th are in this one blog. Enjoy! Back on April 13th. —Ronni Learning our history is resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – April 1 1896, Germany
Articles from March 2018
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Today in LGBT History – March 31
Respect for human life, liberty, and well-being must be enshrined as rights beyond the power of any force to diminish. — Nelson Mandela Learning our history is resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – March 31 1940 – Barney Frank (born March 31, 1940) is born. A
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Today in LGBT History – March 30
Today, our government is turning its back on those who seek freedom — the narrative is all too familiar for those of us in the Jewish community. Our government’s policies are ripping apart families and leaving the lives of young immigrants in limbo. Legal status for hundreds of thousands of Dreamers is being threatened. This
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Today in LGBT History – March 29
They’re (activism and sexual orientation) definitely linked for me personally. If I wasn’t so open about who I was I never would’ve been able to do this. In ninth grade, I was in a creative writing class where I could actually really effectively communicate what I was feeling, and it especially helped me come to
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Today in LGBT History – March 28
The LGBT community is disproportionately affected by gun violence: firstly, because most gun deaths in the U.S. are suicides and LGBTQ people are overrepresented among suicide victims (92 percent of transgender adults have attempted suicide by age 25); secondly, because LGBTQ people are the most likely minority to be the victim of a hate crime.
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Today in LGBT History – March 27
The LGBT community is disproportionately affected by gun violence: firstly, because most gun deaths in the U.S. are suicides and LGBTQ people are overrepresented among suicide victims (92 percent of transgender adults have attempted suicide by age 25); secondly, because LGBTQ people are the most likely minority to be the victim of a hate crime.
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Today in LGBT History – March 26
“What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.” — Nelson Mandela Learning our history is resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT
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Today in LGBT History – March 25
People tweeted that (Marjory Stoneman Douglas student) Emma Gonzalez should run for president. The 18-year-old noted that she already is president — of her school’s Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA). She then told the Washington Post that she identifies as bisexual, and suddenly her fierce badassery just made that much more sense for a whole lot of people, particularly
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Today in LGBT History – March 24
Any way you cut it, one of the biggest threats to life as a teen in the U.S. today is being shot. People have been shot to death en masse in grocery stores, movie theaters, nightclubs, and libraries, on school campuses and front porches, and at concerts ― anywhere and everywhere, regardless of socioeconomic background, skin
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Today in LGBT History – March 23
“If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second