Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. From the Anti-Defamation League: And with the passage of time, as survivors pass away there are fewer and fewer individuals to tell their personal stories to kids, at community events and before government officials. There is no substitute for these direct connections to the Holocaust. Let us all resolve on
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.― Rudyard Kipling, The Collected Works. These snippets of LGBT history are the stories of our lives the stories of the giants on whose shoulders we stand. Learn about them then tell the stories…and remember. Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go
Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – NOVEMBER 16 1502 – Sandro Botticelli (c. 1445 – May 17, 1510) is accused of sodomy but the charges were dropped. The summary of the charge reads: “Botticelli keeps a boy.” Botticelli was an Italian
Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – NOVEMBER 15 1636 – A set of laws was enacted for the Plymouth colony (present-day Massachusetts.) Eight offences including sodomy were deemed punishable by death. 1887 – Bisexual artist Georgia O’Keefe (November 15,
Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – NOVEMBER 14 1810, Scotland – Young Jane Cummings makes an accusation of “inordinate affection” between two female teachers Marianne Woods, 27, and Jane Pirie, 26, in Edinburgh. This is the first of a
Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – NOVEMBER 13 354, Africa – St Augustine (13 November 354 – 28 August 430) is born in Tagaste, North Africa. He was an early North African Christian theologian and philosopher whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy.
Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – October 16 961, Cordoba – Al-Hakam II (January 13, 915 – October 16, 976) dies. He was the Caliph of Cordoba and ruled in Al-Andalus as an open homosexual until his death in 976. He
Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – October 10 1915 – Albert D. J. Cashier (December 25, 1843 – October 10, 1915) dies. Born Jennie Irene Hodgers, he was an Irish-born immigrant who served as a male soldier in the Union Army during the American
We must stand “…vigorously and vocally against the racism that again is marching in the bright light of day in our country, empowered by unveiled racist rhetoric and politics emanating from our nation’s capital. This is not a partisan issue; it is a moral issue that no moral American should tolerate silently. —Rev. Michael Piazza
John McCain and George Bush fought a sometimes vicious primary battle. Barack Obama soundly defeated McCain to become president. Still, all three men found a path to friendship because, I suspect, all three found a way to expand the capacity of their souls. Perhaps our goal should be to live in such a way that