Musings of an Aging Lesbian Preparations for Thanksgiving…and yet I wonder how this holiday even came about. I know it was a time of gratitude for almost all religions after harvests and that it’s basically an English tradition from the 16th century. According to some historians, the first celebration of Thanksgiving in North America occurred
Musings of an Aging Lesbian Today is National Coming Out Day. NCOD was founded in the United States in 1988. The initial idea was grounded inthe feminist and gay liberation spirit of the personal being political, with emphasis on the most basic form of activism: coming out to family, friends and colleagues, living life as an openly lesbian or gay person. Coming out
Rudyard Kipling said: If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.The snippets of LGBTQ history here are the stories of our lives, the stories of the giants on whose shoulders we all stand. Learn about them then tell the stories…and remember, because knowing your history IS resistance! Thanks for
Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – October 21 1797, Netherlands – Reinder Pieters van Workum of Frisia is convicted of seduction to sodomy and sentenced to flogging, ten years in prison, and banishment for life. 1893 – On this
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
Speak truth to bullshit. —Brene Brown Learning our history is resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – February 4 1923, Austria – Nazi thugs fire guns into a Vienna homophile gathering attended by Magnus Hirschfeld (14 May 1868 – 14 May 1935) and wound