BCE to The Suffragettes
1791:
In France, the new law code, enacted as part of the French Revolution, effectively decriminalizes sodomy by including no mention of sex between consenting adults.
09-25-1939 Sheila Ortiz-Taylor – Born in Los Angeles, California. Her father was an Anglo lawyer and musician, and her mother was a Chicana.
She is a novelist, poet, and scholar. Her first novel, Faultline, published in 1982, is considered to be the first lesbian novel with a Chicana hero. Through this book and her other works, Ortiz-Taylor has helped illuminate the Mexican-American experience. In 1999, she and her life-partner Joy Lewis applied to move to the Westminster Oaks retirement community in Tallahassee, Florida. They were turned down because the community’s parent company, Presbyterian Retirement Communities, Inc., refused to recognize their relationship. In 2002, the couple, armed with a civil union certificate from the state of Vermont, tried again and turned down again. In June 2004, with help from the National Center for Lesbian Rights in Equality Florida, they reached a settlement and happily moved into the facility.
1940s The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code
09-25-1949 Angela Bowie (born Mary Angela Barnett) – Born in Ayios
Dhometios, Nicosia, Cyprus. An American citizen, her father was a US Army veteran working in Cyprus when she was born. She is an American model, actress, and journalist, best known as the ex-wife of David Bowie. The couple influenced the glam rock culture and fashion of the 1970s, especially their openness about bisexuality. She married David Bowie in 1970 and divorced him in 1980. They had one child together, Duncan Jones, film director. In her autobiography, Backstage Passes: Life On the Wild Side with David Bowie, published in 1993 and updated in 2000, it details her drug use and open bisexual lifestyle with her former husband and many other well-known musicians.
1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex
1952 Cherrie Moraga – Born in Whittier, California to a Mexican mother and an Anglo father. She is an American Chicana writer, feminist activist, poet, essayist, and playwright. Her works examine the ways in which gender, sexuality, and race intersect in the lives of women of color.
Moraga was one of the few writers to write and introduce the view of Chicana lesbianism. After her college years, Moraga openly accepted her lesbianism. She said, “ My lesbianism is the avenue through which I have learned the most about silence and oppression, and it continues to be the most tactile reminder to me that we are not free human beings” describing lesbianism as poverty, just as being dark, women or simply poor. Her play, Watsonville: Some Place Not Here (1996), won the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Fund for New American Plays Award.
1960s: When the Boomers were under 30
1965
US LP Charts #2 Look At Us from Sonny & Cher. The amazing Soundtrack to “The Sound of Music” was third, and the Soundtrack to “Mary Poppins” at #8,
1968
Welsh singer Mary Hopkin was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Those Were The Days’. Hopkins had signed to The Beatles Apple label after appearing on UK TV talent show Opportunity Knocks.
1970s: Civil Rights: Feminist, Gay Liberation and Lesbian Separatists:
1970
Janis Joplin recorded “Me And Bobby McGee”.
The first episode of The Partridge Family was shown on US TV, featuring Shirley Jones, David Cassidy, Susan Dey and Danny Bonaduce.
1971
Joan Baez ruled the Easy Listening chart for a fourth week with “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” and was #4 on the pop chart, while the Carpenters moved into the Top 10 at #7 with “Superstar
Carole King spent a 15th week at #1 with her monumental album Tapestry. That was three weeks shy of the Rock Era record at the time held by More of the Monkees.
09-25-1977 Clea DuVall – Born in Los Angeles, California. She is an American actress, writer, producer, and director. She’s known for her
appearances in the films The Faculty (1998), three films in 1999, She’s All That, But I’m a Cheerleader, and Girl Interrupted, in 2003 she appeared in Identity and 21 Grams, The Grudge (2004), Zodiac (2007), Conviction (2010), and Argo (2012). She has also appeared in many television programs including The Handmaid’s Tale (2018-2019). In 2016, DuVall made her feature directorial debut with The Intervention, which she wrote and co-produced. She is an out lesbian and lives in Los Angeles.
1978
Linda Ronstadt’s Hasten Down the Wind was #3 on the usa charts
1980s Gen X: The Genderfuck Apathetics vs Yuppies : Aids the new STD on the list
1982
USA song charts Melissa Manchester remained at 5 with “You Should Hear How She Talks About You and Donna Summer earned the 12th Top 10 of her career with “Love Is In Control (Finger On The Trigger)”.
1989
Bette Midler launches a lawsuit against Ford Motor Company for their use of a sound-alike artist, former Midler back-up singer Ula Hedwig, in their commercials for the Mercury Sable. She eventually wins a $400,000 settlement.
1990s: The Queer Slur Reclaimed: Act Up! Lesbian Avengers and Queer Nation
09-25-1991 Meleana “Mana” Shim – Born in Honolulu, Hawaii. She is an American soccer midfielder who plays for the Portland Thorns FC of the National Women’s Soccer League
Shim publicly came out as a lesbian on August 30, 2013, in an interview with Outsports.
1995
Mariah Carey‘s “Fantasy” became only the second single to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The first artist to accomplish this feat was Michael Jackson with “You Are Not Alone.”
Blogger Nina Notes: Because the Billboard Hot 100 is from 1958 onwards and ignores 1956 and 1957 the years Elvis debuted and held on to #1 many times as well as preselling million copies before release.
Elvis Fact:
sept 25 1956
Elvis received a telegram from RCA with official congratulations for an industry first when additional orders made the single Love Me Tender a gold record before it was even released. RCA got 918230 orders before even releasing the single.
2000s – “gay and lesbian” to “lesbigay” to “Lgbt/Lgbtq/Lgbtq2”
2003
Shania Twain began a world tour at Copps Coliseum in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
2004: California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signs “AB 2900,” a bill to unify all state anti-discrimination codes to match the California Fair Employment and Housing Act. In essence it adds “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” anti-discrimination protections to the California government, labor, military and veterans, public utilities, unemployment and insurance, and welfare and institutions codes.
2006
‘I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’ by the Scissor Sisters was at No.1 on the UK singles chart
2010s It Should Be The Q-Word for the same N-Word Reasons
2013 Released to the press on this day: The former president, George Bush Sr. was an official witness at the same-sex marriage of two longtime friends. Bush and his wife, Barbara Bush, attended the ceremony for Bonnie Clement and Helen Thorgalsen as private citizens and friends. The ceremony took place on Sat., Sept 21, 2013.
2020s: Gender Ideas vs Global Observable Sexed Reality
2023
LGBTQ Nation uses Lesbians to annoy conservatives even as LBGTQ nation demand lesbians fuck men who self id
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/09/conservatives-are-enraged-at-this-adorable-hotel-ad-featuring-a-lesbian-couple/
Conservatives are enraged at this adorable hotel ad featuring a lesbian couple
Neighbours who spy on me because I’m in a lesbian couple
Men are not same sex attracted lesbians
#CottonCeilingEndedPride
cited sources
Today in LGBT History by Ronni Sanlo
LGBT History Month
https://lgbtdailyspotlight.com/ (site)
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from my previous blog:
other discontinued blogs:
the As I peaked blog (2019 – 2022)
Gen X Mid Life changes: December 2012 – August 2020
My Original Blog to December 2, 2012
for which there were spin off blogs:
- Confessions of a teenaged poet
- Lez Flirt
- Living Well
- NatGeo Gallery
- The Shut-in Stand-Up Comedic look at life from the POV of a virtual shut-in
- Wayback Machine
- Youtube Channel
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