December 30 update 2023

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December 30

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BCE to The Suffragettes

1940s The Friends of Dorothy Era and The Hayes Code

1950s The Decade the public learned heterosexual women wanted sex

1960s: When the Boomers were under 30

1961

The Marvelettes registered a seventh week at #1 on the R&B chart with “Please Mr. Postman”.

1962

Ike & Tina Turner and the Ikettes played the Cocoanut Grove in Sacramento, California.

The Chiffons released the single “He’s So Fine”.

Brenda Lee is slightly injured when she runs into her burning Nashville home to rescue her poodle, Cee Cee. However, it is too late as the pet succumbs to smoke inhalation and the home is destroyed by the flames. Brenda’s hit, “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”, that featured Boots Randolph on saxophone, was still riding high on the charts. Gladys Knight & the Pips couldn’t advance with “I Heard It Through The Grapevine”

1967

Gladys Knight & the Pips couldn’t advance with “I Heard It Through The Grapevine”, Aretha Franklin raced up to #7 with “Chain Of Fools”,

Diana Ross and the Supremes Greatest Hits was still #2, The Sound of Music” at #7 after 146 weeks, and #8 Farewell to the First Golden Era by the Mamas & Papas,

1969

The Peter, Paul & Mary single “Leaving On a Jet Plane” was certified Gold.

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

1976

ABBA, the world’s most successful singing group of the seventies, are awarded a US Gold record for their “Greatest Hits” album. Despite the compilation title, only half of the tracks had actually charted as hit singles in America.

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

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

1995

“Waiting To Exhale (Shoop Shoop)” by Whitney Houston blew past the competition for a fifth straight week at #1 on the R&B chart.

Daydream moved into the #1 spot on the Album chart for Mariah Carey, bumping Anthology 1 by the Beatles. the Soundtrack to “Waiting to Exhale” was fourth on the LP Chart Alanis Morissette was at #7 with Jagged Little Pill,

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

2002

According to a Nielsen SoundScan survey, total CD album sales were down 10.7% in 2002, marking the sharpest sales decrease from the previous year in the 11-year tracking history. It was the second straight year the market declined, following steady growth since Nielsen first began tracking the US market in 1991. Total album sales in 2002 were 681 million, compared with 762.8 million the previous year. Country album sales posted the largest increase, as sales rose 12.2% from 2001. This rise was largely fuelled by such crossover sensations The Dixie Chicks, Shania Twain, and Faith Hill.

Former Supremes singer Diana Ross was allegedly caught driving under the influence in Tucson, Arizona. The 58 year old Ross was pulled over by police responding to a report that her vehicle had been swerving. Her blood-alcohol content was determined to be 0.20, more than twice the legal limit. Ross, who was alone in the car, was polite to police at the scene and was driven by them to the location where she was staying in the area. She was cited with three counts of DUI, all misdemeanors.

2010s It Should Be The Q-Word for the same N-Word Reasons

2020s: Gender Ideas vs Global Observable Sexed Reality

2023

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from my previous blog:

Daily Elvis: December 30

including technology shifts and legal social shifts in human rights.

and the music and movie information, of the heterosexual women who lesbians fan crushed on along with the some of the closeted lesbian and bisexual women not included on the sites from where the majority of the lesbian and bisexual women information is copied and credited on the LGBTQ sites below the Sanlo Site in the above Cited Primary Sources for “Dykes and Lesbians” my last blog

My own previous blogs are described here as:

the As I peaked blog (2019 – 2022)

Gen X Mid Life changes: December 2012 – August 2020

My Original Blog to December 2, 2012

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