January 2

1/2/2023

Associate Justice Kelli Evans, Bheetar, Bonnie Bleskachek, Central Station gay club, Color Purple, Council on Religion, gay nightclub Neighbours, Martha Carey Thomas, The Andrews Sisters, Whitney Houston

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01-02-1857 – 12-02-1935 Martha Carey Thomas (January 2, 1857 – December 2, 1935) is born in Baltimore, Maryland.

She was an American educator and suffragist, later becomes the dean and then president of Bryn Mawr University. She is also credited as the founder of the Johns Hopkins Medical School. Thomas lives for many years in a relationship with Mamie Gwinn (Feb. 2, 1860 – Nov. 11, 1940). After Gwinn left Thomas in 1904 to marry (a love triangle fictionalized in Gertrude Stein’s “Fernhurst”), Thomas starts another relationship with Mary Garrett (5 March 1854 – 3 April 1915). They share the campus presidential home, living together until Garrett’s death. Miss Garrett, who had been prominent in suffrage work and a benefactor of Bryn Mawr, left Martha $15,000,000 to be disposed of as she saw fit.

1926

The first issue of The Melody Maker magazine went on sale in the UK. Advertised as being for “all who are interested in the production of popular music,” the first issue featured dance band news, a story about ukuleles and how to read music by sight.

1940s The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

1941

The Andrews Sisters recorded “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.” Maxene (lesbian) and her sisters, Patty and Laverne, were one of the most successful women’s singing groups, with 19 gold records and sales of nearly 100 million copies.

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

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

1965 –

San Francisco: Council on Religion and the Homosexual representatives, most of whom are heterosexual, hold a press conference to protest the police force’s “deliberate harassment” of the group’s New Year’s Ball.

Petula Clark nearly took “Downtown” into the Top 10 in its third week of release but she had to stop at a traffic light and only moved from 41 to 12.

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

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

1981

ABBA stayed a sixth week at #1 on the U.K. Album chart with the great album Super Trouper.

1983

The musical “Annie” closed on Broadway at the Uris Theatre after 2,377 performances.

1989

Record Mirror published a chart of last years Top UK singles artists. No.1 was Kylie Minogue, No.4 Tiffany and 9, Belinda Carlisle

1990s: The Queer Slur Reclaimed: Act Up! Lesbian Avengers and Queer Nation

1993

For the fifth week, Whitney Houston was perched atop the R&B chart with “I Will Always Love You”, third week as #1 Adult contemporary and sixth week as #1 pop song

2000s – “gay and lesbian” to “lesbigay” to “Lgbt/Lgbtq/Lgbtq2”

2001

Beyonce Knowles and Kelly Rowland of Destinys Child settled a lawsuit with former members LeToya Luckett and LaTavia Roberson, who claimed that Beyonce and Kelly forced them out of the group. However, Luckett and Roberson went ahead with charges against the group’s manager (Knowles’ father Matthew).

2005 – Bonnie Bleskachek became the first openly lesbian fire chief of a major city, Minneapolis. She was demoted two years later amid claims of harassment and discrimination, but return to the department as a staff captain. She co-founded the Minnesota Women Fire Fighters Association.

2009

Taylor Swift sold the most albums in 2008 with four million units.

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

2014 –

USA Musab Mohammed Masmari sets fire to the Seattle gay nightclub Neighbours in a stairwell. The fire was extinguished quickly. Masmari reportedly said homosexual people “should be exterminated” after expressing a “distaste” for members of the LGBT community to a friend.

Russia – The Russian large gay club called Central Station was forced to close after countless attacks of sprays of bullets and being gassed. It later reopened with the use of bulletproof glass and a longer walk from the metro station.

2016

Adele was at No.1 on the US album chart with her third studio album 25. The album was a massive commercial success, debuting at No.1 in more than 25 markets and broke first-week sales records in multiple countries, including the United Kingdom and United States; in the US, the album sold 3.38 million copies in its first week of release, marking the largest single-week sales for an album since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking point-of-sale music purchases in 1991.

2020s: Unnamed Common Oppressor/Religion VS: Sex/Gender Ideas vs Global Reality

2023

“Associate Justice Kelli Evans, an Alameda County judge who won unanimous confirmation in November, to take Guerrero’s associate justice seat. She is the first openly gay* justice to serve. The court is now made up of four female and three male jurists.”

*gay does not include lesbian. Lesbians are not Gay Men.

https://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/02-Jan-2023/bheetar-first-teaser-of-pakistani-short-film-on-lesbian-relationship-unveiled

Daily Pakistan Global

‘Bheetar’: First teaser of Pakistani short film on lesbian relation…

The first teaser of Mazhar Moin’s upcoming series is out now and grabbing the attention of viewers as it tells the story of a woman who is in love with

2024

someone did not read the book. …https://www.complex.com/music/a/jaelaniturnerwilliams/boosie-walked-out-of-the-color-purple-lesbian-storyline

Complex

Boosie Says He Walked Out of ‘The Color Purple’ Because Lesbian Sto…

The Baton Rouge rapper might have missed the classic 1982 Alice Walker novel and the original 1985 film adaptation.

Today in LGBT History – January 2 | Ronni Sanlo

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Jan 2, 2018 — 1900 – Actor Billy Haines (January 2, 1900 – December 26, 1973) is born. He was the first celebrity to come out as openly gay, in 1933. He was …

Today in LGBT History – January 1 | Ronni Sanlo https://ronnisanlo.com › today-in-lgbt-history-january-1Jan 1, 2018 — 1933 – James Hormel (born January 1, 1933) is born. In 1999 he became the first openly gay U.S. ambassador, appointed by President Bill Clinton …

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