#LiliElbe | Ronni Sanlo

Published December 28, 2019

THIS DAY IN LGBT HISTORY – DECEMBER 28

Musings of an Aging Lesbian The year 2019 is coming to a close. It’s been a year of great fun with a sprinkling of some health challenges, of loss, and of frightening politics. As I look back over this year and the 72 years in which I’ve been alive, I reflect on the times good

Published September 14, 2018

Today in LGBT History – September 13

Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – September 13 1931 – Lili Elbe (28 December 1882 – 13 September 1931), possible intersex and the recipient of the first sex-reassignment surgery, dies. She married Gerda Gottlieb in 1904 in Denmark, a

Published December 28, 2017

Today in LGBT History – December 28

From Amy Siskind: “The tools we’ll need to finally bring down the Trump regime in 2018 are persistence, optimism, laughter and love.” Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – December 28 1931 – Lili Ilse Elvenes (28 December 1882 –

Published September 13, 2017

Today in LGBT History – September 13

Edie Windsor died yesterday at the age of 88. If you don’t know her name, learn it. Watch the documentary Edie and Thea. Edie stood up to the U.S. after her partner and wife of 56 years died. Edie not only did NOT receive Social Security death benefits but had to pay hundreds of thousands

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A one-act readers' theater play of a teen girl from 2019 who travels back to 1945 to accompany her 19 year old great-grandfather, a Jewish American soldier, through the last five months of WWII and the liberation of Dachau. Complete with powerpoint slides for setting scenes. Script available August 1, 2019.

The Hunted
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