Today is the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia. 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
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
DEAR ANITA BRYANT: THE PLAY Feb. 15, 2019 7:00 PM Palm Springs Cultural Center Camelot Theater 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA 92262 A One-Act Readers’ Theater Play Benefitting the Palm Springs Cultural Center and the L-FUND Generously sponsored by the Palm Springs Cultural Center Tickets at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dear-anita-bryant-tickets-53444561121 In 1977 singer Anita Bryant kicked
Today is the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia and Biphobia. Celebrate by standing up, shouting out, being visible! Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – May 17 1606, Russia – Tsar Pseudo-Demetrius I is the Czar of Russiafrom June
Today is the anniversary of D-Day when British, Canadian and US soldiers – 160,000 of them – landed on Normandy beaches in treacherous weather, initiating the Western Allied effort to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi Germany. Kelly and I, along with some friends, visited Normandy five years ago. We went to Juno and Omaha beaches and then to
Fifty years ago, starting in the 1960’s, activists and Pride events had tremendous purpose: we were literally fighting for our families, for our rights, for our lives. “Pride was more than a march – it was a manifesto,” said Boston Globe’s Renee Graham in her article today. She adds, “With 21st-century progress came complacency. Of
I’m sad – but not surprised – to report that unlike Presidents Clinton and Obama, Trump and the White House will not commemorate June as LGBT Pride Month for 2017. (Trump did proclaim June as National Homeownership Month, National Ocean Month, African-American Music Appreciation Month, National Caribbean-American Heritage Month and Great Outdoors Month.) No LGBT Pride
Welcome to my book blog! I’m excited to share my five years’ worth of research, interviewing, and writing! The Soldier, the Avatar, and the Holocaust is about my father and his WWII experience in Europe, but the story is told from the point of view of a 2017 teenage girl. Beth time-travels back to 1945 to