…our public images and what we espouse as an agenda for our movement demonstrate less affinity for justice than for the desire to be “normal” at any cost. ~~~Carmen Vazquez Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – May 31 1819
Arizona ICE has lost 1,475 immigrant children.These are the important stories that need national coverage – not Rudy f*kcing Giuliani! –Amy Siskind Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – May 30 1431 – Joan of Arc (Jan. 6,1412—May 30, 1431)
Arizona ICE has lost 1,475 immigrant children.These are the important stories that need national coverage – not Rudy f*kcing Giuliani! –Amy Siskind Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – May 29 1947 – Gene Robinson(born May 29, 1947) is a
Today is Memorial Day. Let us remember the LGBT military personnel who gave their lives fighting for the freedom of this country while not being fully free themselves. The U.S. still does not have sexual orientation nor gender identity/expression in the federal non-discrimination laws. Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with
No one I know of has foreseen an America like the one we live in today. No one could have imagined that the 21st-century catastrophe to befall the USA, the most debasing of disasters, would appear not, say, in the terrifying guise of an Orwellian Big Brother but in the ominously ridiculous commedia dell’arte figure
Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. LaoTzu —from Mike Thompson, LGBT Center of the Desert Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – May 26
Media – these are the stories you need to be covering. Stop the group-think and chasing Trump’s shiny coins! “Immigrant children in the custody of U.S. border authorities allegedly suffered pervasive abuse ranging from insults and threats to physical assaults,”according to an ACLU report. —Amy Siskind Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this
Republicans challengingTrump have the substance and consistency of a puddle of semi-coagulated non-flavored gelatin!—Warren Blumenfeld Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – May 24 1610 – The Virginia Colony passes the first anti-sodomy law of the American colonial period. 1919,
Over the years, I have heard hundreds of newly-minted progressive activists wish they could have marched with Dr. King. Now we have a chance to get involved in the battle for equality, and I find most whites are as oblivious this time around as they were the first. We are oblivious to systemic racism, crushing
Coming out is the most political thing you can do. —Harvey Milk Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – May 22 1879, Russia – Alla Nazimova (May 22,1879 – July 13, 1945) was a Russian actress who immigrated to the United States in