Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – October 20 1926 – Edward John Barrington Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu (20 October 1926 – 31 August 2015) was an English Conservative politician well known in Britain for founding the National Motor Museum, as
Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – October 11: National Coming Out Day National Coming Out Day was founded in the United States in 1988. The initial idea was grounded in the feminist and gay liberation spirit of the personal being political, with emphasis on the most
Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! October is National LGBTQ History Month! In 1994 Rodney Wilson, a Missouri high school teacher, creates LGBT history month. He gathers other teachers and community leaders who select October because public schools are in session and existing traditions
Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – September 15 1932 –Ann Bannon (pseudonym of Ann Weldy, born September 15, 1932) is born. She is an American author who, from 1957 to 1962, wrote six lesbian pulp fiction novels known as The Beebo Brinker Chronicles. The books’
Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – September 14 1306, France – Philip IV orders the arrest of two Knights Templar because they exchanged an obscene kiss” that pretty much covered their entire bodies. 1934 – Katherine “Kate” Murray Millett
Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – September 5 1954, UK – Violet Ellen Katherine Jones pretends to be a man so she may marry Joan Lee in the Catholic Church. Rev. D. Clark performs the ceremony. Rev. Clark informs
…the deconstruction of our democracy and values is hastening and is so under-reported. I will persist until he is gone –Amy Siskind Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – May 7 1365, Italy – Fifteen year-old Giovanni de Giovanni is
The problem is not that Donald Trump is lying about the unemployment rate for African Americans. Rather, the problem is that he doesn’t want to fully understand the truth. —Rachel Maddow Learning our history is resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – April 28
If Trump were concerned about Syrians, America would be welcoming refugees. We should open our doors to people who are suffering. —Sarah Schulman Learning our history is resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – April 15 1843 – American writer Henry James (15 April
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.