December 16, 2022

12/16/2022

#MeToo movement, Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act, Gloria Gaynor, Margaret Mead, Tonje Gjevjon

BCE to The Suffragettes

1901 – Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978), anthropologist, is born. Mead was a respected and often controversial academic who popularized the insights of anthropology in modern American and Western culture. Her reports detailing the attitudes towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures influenced the 1960s sexual revolution. She was a proponent of broadening sexual mores within a context of traditional Western religious life. Mead never openly identified herself as lesbian or bisexual. In her writings she proposed that it is to be expected that an individual’s sexual orientation may evolve throughout life. Mead also had an exceptionally close relationship with Ruth Benedict, one of her instructors. In her memoir about her parents, With a Daughter’s Eye, Mary Catherine Bateson implies that the relationship between Benedict and Mead was partly sexual. She spent her last years in a close personal and professional collaboration with anthropologist Rhoda Metraux, with whom she lived from 1955 until her death in 1978. Letters between the two published in 2006 with the permission of Mead’s daughter clearly express a romantic relationship. On January 19, 1979, President Jimmy Carter announced that he was awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to Mead.

1940s The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

The Civil Rights 60s: When the Boomers were under 30

1967

Gladys Knight & the Pips reached #2 pop and #1 R&B (for six weeks) with “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” which would later become Marvin Gaye’s signature song. “Grapevine” also became the biggest hit of Knight’s sixty-eight R&B hits between 1961 and 1996.

1970s: Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights

1977

Canada – As part of its Charter for Human Rights, Quebec passes a gay civil rights law. The law makes discrimination against gays in housing, public accommodation, and employment illegal throughout the province.

1978

Originally a member of the Soul Satisfiers (1971), Gloria Gaynor attacked the singles survey with “I Will Survive,” a #1 anthem for women and the sixth of her seven hits between 1974 and 1979.

Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond moved to #1 with “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers”.

1979

USA LP Charts Barbra Streisand’s Greatest Hits, Volume 2 as #3, Donna Summer remained fourth with Live and More was #4 and the Soundtrack from “Grease” was #6

1980s The Genderfuck Apathetics vs Yuppies : Aids the new STD on the list

1983: Mel Brook’s To Be or Not To Be, a remake of the Ernst Lubitsch classic becomes the first mainstream Hollywood film to not only acknowledge Nazi persecution of homosexuals, but also makes it a key plot element.

1986

Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram released the single “Somewhere Out There”.

1989

Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville moved to 3 with “Don’t Know Much”, Taylor Dayne on her way to #1, was #5 “With Every Beat Of My Heart, #8 Janet Jackson collected another hit with “Rhythm Nation” nd Cher had her 25th career solo hit with #10“Just Like Jesse James”.

90s: Slurs Reclaimed: Act Up! Lesbian Avengers and Queer Nation

1997:

In New Zealand, the court of appeal rules unanimously not to grant same-sex couples the right to marry.

Pop singer Nicolette Larson, best known for her hit version of Neil Young’s “Lotta Love” in 1978, passed away at the age of 45. She had been admitted to St. Joseph’s Hospital in Burbank with massive liver failure and was then transferred to UCLA Medical Center, where she died from an abnormal accumulation of fluid in the brain. According to close friend Astrid Young, her death “was in no small way related to her chronic use of Valium and Tylenol PM”.

1999

Celine Dion officially went over 100 million in career sales in the United States.

Post 9/11 – The Shock Decade From “gay and lesbian” to “lesbigay” to “Lgbt/Lgbtq/Lgbtq2”

2000

The estranged father and former manager of LeAnn Rimes made embarrassing allegations during a legal battle involving millions of pounds. One fact told in court was that LeAnn paid her mother £6,700 every time she styled her hair before a show.

2005: Mark Warner, governor of Virginia, issues an executive order banning sexual orientation discrimination in the public sector.

2007: In South Africa, the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act, 2007 comes into force, setting an equal age of consent at 16; previously it had been 16 for heterosexual sex and 19 for homosexual sex.

2010s Avocado Toast is the new Latte cheaper made at home, tastes better out

2013

It was reported that Miley Cyrus had insured her infamous tongue for $1 million. A source told Heat magazine: “Miley’s totally aware of how her tongue is getting more headlines than she is, and getting it insured is just part of her trademarked image. It’s not the first time she’s done something like this – when she first cut her hair short, she tried to get her new crop patented. She wanted it to become known as The Miley”.

2018 – It’s Cold Outside

After some supporters of the #MeToo movement expressed an interest in banning the song ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside,’ a Kentucky radio station decided to show its support for the newly controversial song by playing it on repeat for two hours. The song had faced controversy as people began to scrutinize the situation portrayed in the lyrics. Written in 1944, it describes the exchange between a man and a woman, as the woman expresses her desire to get home and the man tries to persuade her to stay. At one point, the woman even asks, “What’s in this drink?”

2020s: Unnamed Common Oppressor VS: Heterosexual women VS Trans vs LGB/

2022

http://gomag.com/article/my-engagement-was-a-real-life-lesbian-fairytale/

GO Magazine

Dayna Troisi

My Engagement Was A Real-Life Lesbian Fairytale

“Sweet mother, I cannot weave,” I quoted from memory. “Slender Aphrodite has overcome me with longing for a girl.”