BCE to The Suffragettes
02-02-1923 – 11-12-2017 Liz Smith (Mary Elizabeth Smith) – Born in Fort Worth, Texas. She was an American gossip columnist. She was known as “The Grand Dame of Dish.” She is the only columnist to ever have her column printed in three major New York City papers at the same time.
Her 2000 memoir, Natural Blonde, made the New York Best Seller list. As of September 11, 2012, she wrote a blog for the Huffington Post. She acknowledged her bisexuality in her memoirs. But in the December 5, 2000 issue of The Advocate, Smith confided in Editor in Chief, Judy Wieder, that it isn’t her nature to be a role model in the LGBT movement. However she admitted: “I think that my relationships with women were always much more emotionally satisfying and comfortable [than with men]. And a lot of my relationships with men were more flirtatious and adversarial. I just never felt I was wife material. I always felt that I was a great girlfriend.” She raised millions of dollars for charities. She had a long-term relationship with archaeologist Iris Love.
1940s The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code
1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex
Petula Clark scores her first major hit on the UK chart with a song called “Majorca”. The single will kick off a string of Top Twenty hits in the UK and Europe, but it will be ten years before she gains any attention in the United States.
1959
Former Mouseketeer Annette Funicello sees her first hit, “Tall Paul” enter the Billboard Pop chart, where it will reach #7. The record was only 1 minute and 38 seconds long.
The Civil Rights 60s: When the Boomers were under 30
1963
In the UK, Helen Shapiro tours the nation at the top of a six-act bill with opening act The Beatles. John, Paul, Ringo and George will split wages of 80 Pounds ($225) a week.
1970s: Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists: Civil Rights
1971
history – Western University
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It documents the goals and objectives of the meeting on February 2, 1971. … provide a social group for the gay and lesbian students at Western University.
The Midnight Special premieres on NBC-TV with Helen Reddy as host. Wolfman Jack would later take over for an eight-and-a-half-year run.
1974
Barbra Streisand’s “The Way We Were” topped the Billboard hit parade, becoming her first number one. It would go on to win an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.
#6 Gladys Knight & the Pips with “I’ve Got To Use My Imagination”, #7 Olivia Newton-John with “Let Me Be There”, #8 Aretha Franklin joined the list with “Until You Come Back To Me (That’s What I’m Gonna’ Do)”,
The Carpenters started a four week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with ‘The Singles 1969-73’, featuring 12 hits and the US No.1 ‘Top Of The World’ it went back to the top of the charts on three other occasions.
1980s The Genderfuck Apathetics vs Yuppies : Aids the new STD on the list
1980
Linda Ronstadt was really proving her versatility, changing musical direction once again with a New Wave album. She had the highest-debuting song with “How Do I Make You”.
LP charts #7 the Donna Summer compilation On the Radio-Greatest Hits-Volumes I & II,
1981
Sheena Easton and on this date, she released her first single–“Morning Train (Nine to Five)”.
1988
UK – Three women protest the potential Clause 28 by swinging on ropes off the public gallery into the chamber of the House of Lords. Their shouts of “Lesbians are angry!” and “It’s our lives you’re dealing with” distill the current mood of British lesbian and gay activists, galvanized as never before in opposition to the bill. Clause 28 was enacted on 24 May 1988, and stated that a local authority “shall not intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality” or “promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship”. It was repealed on 21 June 2000 in Scotland by the Ethical Standards in Public Life etc. (Scotland) Act 2000, one of the first pieces of legislation enacted by the new Scottish Parliament, and on 18 November 2003 in the rest of the United Kingdom by section 122 of the Local Government Act 2003. The law’s existence caused many groups to close or limit their activities or self-censor. For example, a number of lesbian, gay and bisexual student support groups in schools and colleges across Britain were closed owing to fears by council legal staff that they could breach the act.
Lesbians abseil into House of Lords to protest Section 28
https://www.gayinthe80s.com › 2018/02 › 2nd-februar…
Feb 2, 2018 — 2nd February 1988: Lesbians abseil into House of Lords to protest Section 28 … Britain’s lawmakers clearly under-estimated the fury of the LGBT+ …
1990s: The Queer Slur Reclaimed: Act Up! Lesbian Avengers and Queer Nation
1991
Whitney Houston achieved her 12th Top 10 in her last 13 releases with “All the Man That I Need”.
1993
Barbara Gittings (1932-2007), Interviewed February 2, 1993
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Jun 26, 2021 — Philadelphia LGBT History Project, Marc Stein, Creator. Interviews focusing on Philadelphia lesbian and gay history from the 1940s to the …
1995
Celine Dion’s album “The Color Of My Love” was certified Triple Platinum.
2000s – “gay and lesbian” to “lesbigay” to “Lgbt/Lgbtq/Lgbtq2”
2001
The Wedding Planner, starring Jennifer Lopez, was the #1 movie in the United States, making Ms. Lopez the only person in history to own a #1 album (J. Lo) and #1 movie simultaneously. Barbra Streisand nearly pulled it off in 1974, but her album and movie (The Way We Were) were #1 a week apart.
2002
Britney Spears was the host and musical guest on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live.”
2003
Falsely marketed as a lesbian Russian girl duo: Tatu, started a four-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘All The Things She Said’. The song had been a hit on the Russian charts three years earlier. Tatu were the first Russian act to score a UK No 1.
Jennifer Lopez led the way with the #1 song “All I Have”.
2004
TV network CBS apologised for its broadcast of the American Super Bowl after Janet Jackson was left exposed when Justin Timberlake ripped her top. The pair had been performing a raunchy half-time duet when one of Jackson’s breasts was exposed as Timberlake pulled at her top. CBS quickly cut away from the scene but was still flooded with calls from angry viewers about the half-time entertainment, produced by MTV. Timberlake insisted it had been an accident saying “I am sorry that anyone was offended by the wardrobe malfunction during the half-time performance of the Super Bowl.”
2008
The Spice Girls cut short their reunion world tour.
2010s Avocado Toast is the new Latte cheaper made at home, tastes better out
2020s: Unnamed Common Oppressor/Religion VS: Sex/Gender Ideas vs Global Reality
2023
The problem is that archive materials are being destroyed as men are allowed to self id and are erasing lesbian organizations as much as the date rape culture directed at lesbians
Community welcomes Lesbian Herstory Archives’ Brooklyn landmark
It was a big deal when the home of the Brooklyn-based Lesbian Herstory Archives officially became a New York City landmark in November.
You’re a Lesbian and You Want To Buy an Engagement Ring
“There are so many ways to make your ring super unique.”
Lesbian Sports Icons Announce Pregnancy
Anita Asante and Beth Fisher are expecting a baby.
so here is the very thing
the creeps are allowed in women’s bathrooms
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/feb/01/gym-weirdos-tiktok-videos-women-recording-sexual-harassment
‘Watch this creep’: the women exposing gym harassment on TikTok
The hashtag ‘gym weirdos’ has received nearly 2m views as women covertly record their experiences
2024
- https://www.autostraddle.com/sapph-o-rama-the-film-forum-series/AutostraddleWatch the Best Sapphic Cinema This Week at the Film ForumStarting today, the Film Forum begins their series Sapph-O-Rama.
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35 of the Best Lesbian Films of All Time
Edgy lesbian history documentary Rebel Dykes to air on Channel 4
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Feb 2, 2018 — Today in LGBT History – February 2 · Rallies and marches are the preparation and the pep rally of the work we need to do. · Learning our history …
Today in LGBT History – FEBRUARY 2 – Ronni Sanlohttps://ronnisanlo.com › today-in-lgbt-history-february-…Feb 2, 2019 — His monumental seven volume Studies in the Psychology of Sex(1897- 1928) changed the Western attitude toward sex in the late Victorian age. In …
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