April 14

4/14/2023

Ann F. Hackler, Barbra Streisand, Billie Holiday, Come Out Comix, Diana Ross, Ellen Degeneres, Gloria Gaynor, I will survive, Joan Baez, June Millington, Katherine Hepburn, Lady Sings The Blues, Larissa França, Laura Nyro, Lilane Maestrini, Mary Wings, Priyanka Chopra, Sophie B. Hawkins, Yep I'm Gay

BCE to The Suffragettes

1922

Jeanette Vreeland sang the first radio concert from an airplane as she flew over New York City.

1940s The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

04-14-1948 June Millington – Born in Manila, Philippines. She is a Filipino-American guitarist, songwriter, producer, and instructor. The Millington family left the Philippines for the United States in 1961. The family settled in Sacramento, California, where her father became a systems analyst.

In 2011, Millington recalled: “We felt blatant prejudice when we first came here. It was horrible. We always felt like “other”, never quite fitting in, both in Manila and Sacramento. Being both bi-racial and bi-cultural was a really tough slot in the 50s into the 60s, our formative teenage years.” Millington is best known for being the co-founder and lead guitarist of the all-female rock band Fanny, which was active form 1970 to 1974. She was once described by Guitar Player magazine as the hottest female guitarist in the music industry. Millington knew when she was 20 years old that she was a lesbian. Since the 1970s she has been highly regarded for her work on behalf of women musicians and the LGBT community. In 1986 she and her longtime partner, education activist, Ann F. Hackler, founded the Institute for the Musical Arts in Bodega, California, now located in Goshen, Massachusetts.

04-14-1949 Mary Wings – Born in Chicago, Illinois. She is an America writer, artist, and musician. In 1973, she made history by releasing Come Out Comix, the first lesbian underground comic book.

Wings is best known for her series of detective novels featuring lesbian heroine Emma Victor. Her only Gothic novel, Divine Victim, won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery in 1993. Wings is an out lesbian and resides in San Francisco.

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

1953

Lita Roza was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘(How Much) Is That Doggie In Window.’ The 27 year old singer was the NME readers’ Top Female artist of 1953 and with this single became the first British female singer to top the UK singles Chart, (and the first Liverpudlian to do so).

1955: In the wake of a moral panic brought on by the sexual assault and murder of a boy in 1954, Iowa enacts a “sexual psycopath” law, allowing for the involuntary commitment of anyone charged with a public offense who possessed “criminal propensities toward the commission of sex offenses”. Twenty gay men from the Sioux City area, none of them suspected of having any connection with the crime that inspired the law, were committed in 1955.

1956

The Ampex Corporation of Redwood City, California demonstrated the first videotape recorder. Invented by Ray Dolby, Charles Ginsberg and Charles Anderson, it recorded both images and sound

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

1960

The original Broadway production of the musical “Bye Bye Birdie,” starring Chita Rivera, Dick Van Dyke, Dick Gautier, Paul Lynde, Kay Medford, and Michael J. Pollard, opened at New York’s Martin Beck Theater for 607 performances.

1965

Millie Small appeared on ABC-TV’s “Shindig!” and performed her song “My Boy Lollipop.”

1969

Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl) tied Katherine Hepburn (The Lion In Winter) for Best Actress at the Academy Awards.

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

1973

Diana Ross had the #1 album with the Soundtrack to “Lady Sings the Blues”.

Song charts USA – “The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia” by Vicki Lawrence was #1 for the second week in a row. Gladys Knight & the Pips once again were at #2 with “Neither One Of Us (Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye)”. Anne Murray was at 7 with “Danny’s Song”, Roberta Flack’s former #1 “Killing Me Softly With His Song” was at #9

1979

US LP Charts #6 Gloria Gaynor with Love Tracks

Pop chart Gloria Gaynor’s former #1 “I Will Survive” was at 2, Blondie had song #8 with “Heart Of Glass”, Suzi Quatro & Chris Norman had a top Ten record with “Stumblin’ In” #9

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

1980

ABC aired Olivia Newton John’s TV special “Olivia’s Hollywood Nights,” with guest performers Elton John, the Carpenters, and Andy Gibb.

04-14-1982 Larissa França – Born in Cachoeiro de Itapemirim, Espirito Santo, Brazil.

She is a beach volleyball player and is the all-time leader of beach volleyball titles, with 57 FIVB career gold medals, including the 2011 Beach Volleyball World Championship and the 2015 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour. In August 2013, Larissa married fellow player Lilane Maestrini. Larissa was one of 49 out LGBT athletes to participate in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

1982

USA LP Charts: #6 the Eurythmics’ album Touch and Cyndi Lauper remained 10th with She’s So Unusual.

The Texas Board of Education began requiring that the state’s public school textbooks describe evolution as “theory rather than fact.”

1983: Citing financial problems, Great Britain’s only national gay newspaper, Gay News, ceases publication after eleven years.

1984

The Texas Board of Education began requiring that the state’s public school textbooks describe evolution as “theory rather than fact.”

USA lP Charts #7 the Eurythmics’ album Touch,the Pretenders’ amazing album Learning to Crawl at #9 and Cyndi Lauper remained 10th with She’s So Unusual.

1986

Members of the First Church of the Nazarene in Ironton, Ohio, held a record burning after evangelist Jim Brown told them that the song “A Horse is a Horse,” the theme song from the U.S. TV show “Mr. Ed,” contained satanic messages when played backwards

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

1990

Madonna had the #1 song in the U.K. with “Vogue”.

Jane Child was at 2 with “Don’t Wanna’ Fall In Love”, Lisa Stansfield remained at #3 with “All Around The World”, Sinead O’Connor was headed for the top with “Nothing Compares 2 (sic) U (sic)” and Taylor Dayne fell from #1 to #5 with “Love Will Lead You Back”.

1993

In Bosnia, Joan Baez performed for 700 people in war-torn Sarajevo.

1997

Ellen DeGeneres is publicly out:

Tammy Wynette’s body was exhumed and an autopsy performed in an attempt to settle a dispute over how the country music legend died. No autopsy was conducted when Wynette was found dead on April 6, 1998. Her cause of death had been listed by the family doctor as resulting from a blood clot. The 1999 autopsy indicated heart failure. An official ruling in 2001 stated that Tammy Wynette died of natural causes.

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

2003

Out Q Radio – First air date on satellite radio. News, talk and entertainment channel for LGBT audiences. Last aired February 13, 2016

2004

Dolly Parton received the Living Legend Medal from the U.S. Library of Congress for her contributions to the cultural heritage of the United States.

Sophie B. Hawkins (“As I Lay Me Down”) won a lawsuit against a man selling pirated copies of her new album Wilderness.

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

2012

Cleveland’s Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame welcomes Laura Nyro, along with male acts.

The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com › music › jul › laura-nyr…

Jul 27, 2021 — With a soaring, open-hearted voice and ingeniously crafted compositions, Nyro transformed a range of influences into her own kind of art song.

Laura Nyro Biography, Songs, & Albums

AllMusic https://www.allmusic.com › laura-nyro-mn0000137474

An influential New York City-based singer/songwriter with a powerful, soulful voice who bridged the gaps between folk, pop, and soul. Read Full Biography. Laura …

Born: October 18, 1947, the Bronx

Laura Nyro

lauranyro.com http://www.lauranyro.com

Laura Nyro – American Dreamer: 1967 – 1978, an 8 LP limited edition … For your listening pleasure here is a beautiful love song from Laura, “Springblown”.

2017

The annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival opened near Palm Springs, California. Scheduled headliners during the 4-day event spread over two weekends were Radiohead, Lady Gaga and Kendrick Lamar, with more than 160 other music acts slated to perform.

2018

the 33rd annual Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony at Cleveland’s Public Auditorium.

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

2023

a one time does not make her a lesbian

it means she experimented

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When Priyanka Chopra revealed she has had a lesbian encounter; here is how Deepika Padukone teased ‘stunned’ Karan Johar

Actress Priyanka Chopra had once left Karan Johar speechless in an episode of ‘Koffee With Karan’ after she revealed that she has had a lesbian encounter. Not one this, Deepika Padukone who…

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more lesbian baiting..

do it or do not –

https://www.looper.com/1256895/makoto-shinkai-suzume-lesbian-romance-exclusive/

Makoto Shinkai Says Suzume Was Almost A Lesbian Romance – Exclusive

When it comes to the romance in “Suzume,” Makoto Shinkai originally intended for the titular character to have a relationship with a woman, but that changed.

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