January 3

BCE to The Suffragettes

01-03-1897 – 08-01-1987 Pola Negri (b. Apolonia Chalupec) – Born in Lipno, Poland. She

was a stage and film actress who achieved worldwide fame during the silent and golden eras of Hollywood and European film for her femme fatale roles. Negri was the first European film star to be invited to Hollywood, and became one of the most popular actresses in American silent film. Her two marriages, the first to Count Dambski (m. 1919; div. 1922), and Prince Mdivnai (m. 1927; div. 1931), were short lived.

It was rumored that she was Valentino’s lover until his death in 1926. At his funeral, she “fainted” several times. The press considered her actions as a publicity stunt. Talullah Bankhead dismissed Negri as “The biggest phony in Hollywood, dahling! A lying lesbo, a Polish publicity hound. Had a mustache and couldn’t act her way out of a paper bag!” In the 1930’s, Negri had met oil heiress and vaudeville actress, Margaret West and in the 1940s, they became close friends. In 1957, the two women moved to San Antonio and lived together until West’s death in 1963. Negri inherited West’s estate and remained in San Antonio until her own death in 1987. (Second photo is of Pola Negri with Charlie Chaplin)

1897 – Dorothy Emma Arzner (January 3, 1897 – October 1, 1979) was an American film director whose career in feature films spanned from the silent era of the late 1920s into the early 1940s.

Her directorial career in feature films spanned from the late 1920s into the early 1940s. Throughout that time she was the only woman working in the field. She was a lesbian who cultivated a masculine look in her clothes and appearance. Arzner had been linked romantically with a number of actresses, but lived the last 40 years of her life with choreographer Marion Morgan. The films she directed in the 1930s launched the careers of many actresses, including Katharine Hepburn, Rosalind Russell, Sylvia Sidney, and Lucille Ball. In 1936, she became the first woman to join the newly formed Directors Guild of America. She was one of the very few women who established a name for herself as a director in the American film industry during this time.

Arzner had been linked romantically with a number of actresses, including Alla Nazimova (May 22 , 1879 – July 13, 1945) a Russian actress who immigrated to the United States in 1905and Billie Burke(August 7, 1884 – May 14, 1970), an American actress who was famous on Broadway, but lived for the last 40 years of her life with her companion, choreographer Marion Morgan(January 4, 1881, New Jersey – November 10, 1971).Arzner died, aged 82, in La Quinta, California.Her ashes were scattered by the Chapel of the Desert over her home at 49-800 Avenida Obregon in La Quinta.

01-03-1893 – 08-04-1994 Irène Lagut – Born in Sucy-en-Brie, France. She

was a French painter and a pupil of Picasso. She mainly painted women, children, and harlequins. In the spring of 1916, Picasso fell madly in love with her. The affair was on and off until the end of 1916, when they decided to marry. When they were going to meet family in Barcelona, she left Picasso and returned to her female lover in Paris. In 1923, she and Picasso became lovers again and one of Picasso’s most famous works, The Lovers (1923) is of the two of them. According to Picasso biographer, John Richardson, “Irène Lagut was basically a lesbian. That is why she went back and forwards between girlfriends and then boyfriends. She led a peculiar life — she had been kept by a Russian grandduke in Moscow.”

01-03-1916 – 10-21-1995 Maxene Andrews – Born in Mound, Minnesota. She was one of the Andrew Sisters. With her sisters, Patty and Laverne, they were one of the most successful women’s singing groups, with 19 gold records and sales of nearly 100 million copies. They began performing in the early 1930s when the Depression wiped out their father’s business. In 1937, the trio scored their first big hit with Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen. Maxene married Lou Levy in 1941 and divorced in 1950. She adopted 2 children. She had a relationship with her manager, Lynda Wells, and adopted her. It was the only way Maxene could legally protect her lover. She was estranged from her children at the time of her death and left everything to Lynda Wells. According to a radio interview by Lynda Wells in 2019, Maxene entered a thirteen-year relationship with a woman and later Wells became Maxene’s life partner. Wells stated, “To me, being gay was not a central focus of Maxene’s life at all. Her art was. Her singing was.” Wells also said that their status as companions, and Maxene’s health issues as she got older, led Maxene to adopt her as a daughter. “There was no such thing as being married at that time, she told the interviewer, and added, “During her lifetime, there was no such thing that existed for us.”

FilmIndependent.org is raising money to make a film on her life – An All American Affair: The True Story of Maxene Andrews

01-03-1824 – 06-21-1891 Sophia B. Packard – Born in New Salem, Massachusetts. She was an American educator. She and her life-long partner, Harriet E. Giles, opened a

school for African-American women in Atlanta, Georgia that would eventually become Spelman College. With a gift of $100 from First Baptist Church of Medford, Massachusetts, and a promise of administration and financial support from the Boston-based Woman’s American Baptist Home Mission Society, the two women opened a school in the basement of Friendship Baptist Church, an African-American church in southwest Atlanta. In 1882 the American Baptist Home Mission Society made a down payment on a permanent site for the school. In 1884 John D. Rockefeller paid the balance due. He had been impressed by Packard’s vision. The school was named in honor of Rockefeller’s wife and her parents, who were longtime activists in the anti-slavery movement. Packard remained on the board of trustees and as president of the school until her death in 1891. At the time of her death the school had 464 students and a faculty of 34. It became Spelman College in 1924, and in 1929 it became affiliated with Atlanta University. Packard and Giles are buried together at Silver Lake Cemetery, Athol, Massachusetts.

1940s The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

1948 – Dr. Alfred Kinsey publishes the landmark report “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male,” stating that 10% of all men are homosexual for at least three consecutive years. He uses a scale from zero (exclusively heterosexual) to six (exclusively homosexual). His research, very flawed by today’s standards, was nevertheless the first ever widely published and discussed research to explore such taboos as masturbation and same-sex sexual behavior.

Kinsey had children raped as part of his research. Beware those who do research to prove a poor claim on the meaning of the words.

Death anniversary of Alfred Kinsey: ‘Father of sexual revolution’ who claimed babies have orgasms, child rape benefits victims

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

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

1962 –

USA – Illinois decriminalizes same-sex acts between consenting adults.

Note: Disclosure is required for consent of anything transmissible as well as no surprise body parts. words have specific meaning for reasons.

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

1971 – Ti-Grace Atkinson (born November 9, 1938) advocates political lesbianism which is a total and exclusive commitment to women that may or may not include sex, at a Daughters of Bilitis New York meeting.

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

pop culture

1987

Aretha Franklin became the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

2023
https://www.castanet.net/news/Entertainment/404127/Aretha-Franklin-named-Best-Singer-of-All-Time-by-Rolling-Stone

Aretha Franklin named Best Singer of All Time by Rolling Stone – Entertainment News

Aretha Franklin has been named the Best Singer of All Time by Rolling Stone magazine. www.castanet.net

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

in pop culture

1992

closet lesbian Queen Latifah, Naughty By Nature, MC Lyte, Public Enemy, and the Geto Boys performed at Madison Square Garden in New York for what was billed as the World’s Greatest Rap Show Ever.

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

2009

Great Britain’s commercial radio show Hit 40 UK announced that it will no longer use CD sales for its official figures. The networked Top 40 chart program, which broadcasts across 130 stations, will base its weekly charts solely on digital downloads.

My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding play run was extended at the Panasonic Theatre (651 Yonge Street) until January 3, 2009

My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding Was Great… (Review of Mirvish production)

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

2012

Gloria Estefan became the first female artist in the history of the Billboard Latin singles chart to enter at number one when “Hotel Nacional” debuted at the top.
pop culture

2013

The Secret Thoughts of a Once Lesbian, Now Christian

The Secret Thoughts of a Once Lesbian, Now Christian

Rosaria Butterfield was a lesbian in a committed relationship with her partner when she met a local pastor who wanted to get to know her.

HavenToday.org

2017

Vinyl sales topped three million last year, the highest UK total in 25 years. More than 3.2 million records were sold in 2016, a rise of 53% on the previous year, according to the BPI, which represents the music industry. David Bowie’sBlackstar was the most popular album on vinyl, selling more than double the number of copies of 2015’s biggest-seller, Adele’s 25.

Fifty-year-old Janet Jackson welcomed her first child with her billionaire husband Wissam Al Mana.

https://people.com/parents/janet-jackson-celebrates-son-eissa-6th-birthday/

2018

Corrections: January 3, 2018

The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com › 2018/01/02 › pageoneplus

An article on Sunday about acceptance for openly gay, lesbian and transgender people in Lebanon referred incorrectly to the country’s exceptionality in the …

Legal Aid at Work client Helen James holding up a photo album of her time in the military

On January 3, 2018, Legal Aid at Work, together with co-counsel WilmerHale, filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Helen James, a ninety-year old veteran who was discharged from the Air Force in the 1950s because she is a lesbian.

More than six decades after the U.S Air Force discharged her, Helen James is still seeking the honors she earned. Helen entered the military in 1952 as a radio operator on a base in Roslyn, N.Y., following in the footsteps of her father, who had served in the Army. No one talked in those days about being a lesbian, Helen recalls, but she was grateful to have found a “community.” Everything changed when Helen and three friends were picked up on their way back from New York City one night and interrogated as part of what she now sees as a much larger effort to purge the military of lesbians and gay men. Helen received a “Dishonorable Discharge” and found herself suddenly unemployed, unable to return to the teaching career she’d started before joining the Air Force, and ineligible for veterans’ benefits. It took her more than 60 years to shake the shame and anxiety.

https://legalaidatwork.org/90-year-old-lesbian-veteran-seeking-justice-federal-court/

2019

Kyrsten Sinema is sworn in as a junior U.S. senator from Arizona. Sinema is freely bisexual, which means this second made the woman the most important freely bisexual U.S. senator. She had been chosen to restore retired GOP senator Jeff Flake â and oh, yeah, she took the woman oath of office on a law publication in place of a Bible.

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

2023

Janet Jackson Celebrates Son Eissa’s 6th Birthday with Sweet Tribute: ‘So Proud of Who You Are’

Janet Jackson shares her 6-year-old son Eissa with ex-husband Wissam Al Mana

people.com

https://www.theroot.com/janet-jackson-to-reportedly-implement-metoo-checks-on-1849943964

Janet Jackson to Reportedly Implement #MeToo Checks on Dancers, Crew Members Ahead of 2023 World Tour

The iconic artist is set the embark on her Together Again tour with special guest Ludacris.

www.theroot.com

2023
https://www.cnn.com/videos/celebrities/2022/11/29/gloria-estefan-daughter-come-out-lgbtq-grandma-cprog-wtcw-vpx.cnn

Video: Gloria Estefan explains why she didn’t want her daughter to come out to her grandmother | CNN

Gloria Estefan talks to CNN’s Chris Wallace about her reluctance to have her daughter come out to the singer’s mother before she died. Watch “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace” at 7 PM every Sunday on CNN.

www.cnn.com

https://www.autostraddle.com/some-things-i-didnt-expect-when-planning-my-lesbian-wedding/

Autostraddle

Vanessa

Some Things I Didn’t Expect When Planning My Lesbian Wedding

2. I’m in not infrequent contact with a woman named Daphne who is renting me a Fancy Portable Toilet Trailer with air conditioning.

‘The View’s Sherri Shepherd Recalled How Barbara Walters Told Her ‘To Be A Lesbian’ During Sherri’s Bridal Shower

UPROXX

Mike Redmond

‘The View’s Sherri Shepherd Recalled How Barbara Walters Told Her ‘…

Former ’The View’ co-host Sherri Shepherd recalled the on-brand relationship advice she once received from Barbara Walters.

https://uproxx.com/tv/yellowstone-lesbian-kiss/ Kay spoke with Deadline to reveal the mystery person behind the kiss, and the story is actually quite amusing. The actors were under strict Covid-related precautions while filming, which inspired a last-minute change: “It was written that Clara is making out with someone in the background behind John and Summer. And we were trying to figure out who was easy and comfortable [to cast] who was also in the testing cycle,” Kay explained. The series was filmed over the summer in Missoula. “My partner, Juli Kocemba, was there with me in Montana so they said, ‘oh, let’s just have you guys make out in the background.’ My partner’s non-binary, se were like, ‘well it’s a gender fluid make out in the background.’” Kay explained, adding that they didn’t think much of it. “We thought, nobody’s gonna make a big a big deal about it. And then a lot of people made a very big deal about it.” As it turns out, some people did notice, and they weren’t happy with the (single, quick, and harmless) kiss. Kay continued, “It was very funny because I did not expect anyone to even really catch it. And then people were like, lesbians on the range! It was very, very funny. But it was a fun little evening.” Despite the backlash from various unnamed Twitter users, Kay and her partner weren’t fazed. “We got to listen to some really good music and hang out and quietly make out in the background. Lesbians on the ranch!” Lesbians on the ranch! Let’s go lesbians on the ranch!UPROXX Nina Braca ‘Yellowstone’ Actress Lilly Kay Seems Surprised That The ‘Lesbians …The mid-season finale aired this week, and not everyone was thrilled by a certain kiss.

Message #tv📺-and-films📽

Lesbians or men who claim to be lesbians? different audiences different demographics: and I do not need to read the article to know it is not likely lesbians. the word lesbian is now pornhub and clickbait.

https://www.pcgamer.com/super-lesbian-animal-rpg-is-a-big-hit-with-the-target-audience/

pcgamer

Super Lesbian Animal RPG is a big hit with the target audience

They call it SLARPG.