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Articles from October 2018

Published October 31, 2018

Today in LGBT History – October 31

Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – October 31 1876 – Natalie Clifford Barney (October 31, 1876 – February 2, 1972), American playwright, poet and novelist, is born. She lives as an expatriate in Paris and is known as the

Published October 29, 2018

Today in LGBT History – October 30

Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – October 30 1944 – Gay composer Aaron Copland’s (November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) “Appalachian Spring” premiers in Washington DC. The piece was written in New Jersey where Copland lived with his partner

Published October 28, 2018

Today in LGBT History – October 29

Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – October 29 630 B.C., Lesbos – Sappho is born c. (630 – 570 BC) . The poet wrote beautiful poetry to the women she loved. Sappho and her followers lived on the Isle of

Published October 28, 2018

Today in LGBT History – October 28

Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – October 28 1824, France — Astolphe-Louis-Léonor, the Marquis de Custine  (18 March 1790 – 25 September 1857), is beaten and left for dead after propositioning a male soldier in Saint-Denis. The scandal forces him out of

Published October 27, 2018

Today in LGBT History – October 27 

Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – October 27  1998, Canada – Glen Murray (born October 26, 1957), an out gay man, was elected mayor of Winnipeg, Manitoba. He served as the 41st Mayor of Winnipeg, Manitoba from 1998 to 2004, and was

Published October 26, 2018

Today in LGBT History – October 25: Intersex Awareness Day

Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – October 25 Intersex Awareness Day is an internationally observed awareness day designed to highlight human rights issues faced by intersex people. 1955 – The “Village Voice” newspaper is launched. The Village Voice was an American news and culture paper, known for being

Published October 25, 2018

Today in LGBT History – October 25

Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – October 25 51 AD, Rome – Titus Flavius Domitianus (51-96) was born in Rome. The Emperor is the first recorded case of a married man leaving his wife for a man, a mime

Published October 24, 2018

Today in LGBT History – October 24

Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – October 24 44 BC, Italy – The first written reference to same-sex marriage appears when Cicero insults promiscuous Mark Antony whose father Curio “established you in a fix and stable marriage, as if

Published October 23, 2018

Today in LGBT History – October 23

Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – October 23 1766 – Christoffel Bosch van Leeuwarden, a 70 year old porter in the Netherlands, was convicted of seduction to sodomy and sentenced to three years of prison labor.
 1893 – Jean

Published October 22, 2018

Today in LGBT History – October 22

Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – October 22 1870, UK – Lord Alfred Douglas (22 October 1870 – 20 March 1945) is born near London. Forever known as Bosie, the boy lover of Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November

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