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June 12th ………

1892 – American Feminist writer and illustrator Djuna Barnes was born. Her writings are believed to be the first English language poems with lesbian content.

Barnes played an important part in the development of 20th century English language modernist writing and was one of the key figures in 1920s and 30s bohemian Paris after filling a similar role in the Greenwich Village of the teens. Her novel “Nightwood” became a cult work of modern fiction, helped by an introduction by T. S. Eliot. It stands out today for its portrayal of lesbian themes and its distinctive writing style. Since Barnes’s death, interest in her work has grown and many of her books are back in print.

1950 – Birth date of Nick Brown, British Member of Parliament. He was forced by the “News of the World” newspaper in 1998 to announce that he is gay. This he did with characteristic good humour, telling an audience of farmers: “It’s a lovely day. The sun is out – and so am I.”

1959 – Birth date of Scott Thompson, openly gay actor 1967

1959 – The US Supreme Court issued its ruling in Loving v. Virginia. The case was brought by an interracial couple who challenged the constitutionality of laws banning interracial marriage. The court ruled in favor of the couple, and ruled marriage to be a civil right.

1970 – Neva Joy Heckman and Judith Ann Belew attempted to become legally married. The ceremony was held at Metropolitan Community Church in Los Angeles and performed by Rev Troy Perry, the founder of the denomination. Under California law, a couple who has lived together at least two years can be legally joined without a license by having a church ceremony and being issued a church certificate.

1975 – The Austin Lesbian Organization was given airtime on the Texas public interest interview program “For Your Information.”

1981 – A Provincial Court judge in Toronto found two employees guilty and three owners not guilty of keeping a common bawdyhouse. Charges related to the Barracks steambath, raided by police December 9, 1978.

1983 – “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker made its appearance on the New York Times bestseller list.

1989 – A rally was held outside the state house in Boston to demand approval of a gay rights bill. 300 people attended.

1995 – The Employment Non-Discrimination Act was re-introduced in Congress. Transgender individuals were purposely excluded from the official bill presented to Congress because it was thought to be too risky in getting the bill to pass. Congressman Barney Frank and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) were behind the exclusion as they saw this reframing as a way to make the bill more marketable. However, 350 national queer organizations opposed the exclusion of gender identity from the bill in an act of solidarity with trans communities. To this day HRC is resented by many for this cowardly act and helped create a rift between the Trans and LGB community that still has not been repaired to this day.

1997 – San Francisco Human Rights Commissioners voted five-to-one to retain laws regulating sex clubs and bathouses, including the banning of private rooms. Because we all know a banning a private room stops AIDS not education and condoms.

1997 – A New York appeals court revoked all legal rights as a parent from a lesbian who had been granted limited visitation with a child born to her ex-lover.

2002 – Philip Walsted, 24, was beaten with a baseball bat and robbed on a downtown Tucson street.

Walsted was walking home on June 12, 2002, when he was attacked and beaten with a baseball bat by 22-year-old David A. Higdon in the course of a robbery. Walsted was struck in the head with the bat up to 20 times, and received more than 50 wounds as a result of the attack. He died later that day at University Medical Center. A self-styled White Supremacist was sentenced to life in prison for the killing.

His murderer David A. Higdo, an avowed neo-Nazi was sentenced to life without parole

2003 – Philadelphia’s Boy Scout council, which defied the national BSA organization in May 2003 by promising not to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, ousted a Scout, Gregory Lattera, 18, for publicly announcing he is gay. The same council, the nation’s third largest, voted May 28 to add sexual orientation to its nondiscrimination policy.

2006 – Australia’s Attorney General, Phillip Ruddock, overturned a same-sex marriage law in the Australian Capital Territory.

2011 – On this date, Episcopal clergy in the diocese of San Joaquin, California, officially recognized gay and lesbian partnerships as “sacred unions.”
 
A group of people I met, we are going to the LGBT festival this month.

We've decided it's now the LGBTS, S = straight. It's more inclusive!
 
A group of people I met, we are going to the LGBT festival this month.

We've decided it's now the LGBTS, S = straight. It's more inclusive!

I feel that there are two parallel political strains of the pro-gay/pro-feminist/pro-Poc movement in the States:
- The far Left, which is merely interested in weaponising them against White Christian mainstream culture.
- And the centrist one.

It's interesting how different people turn their plight (being a stigmatised minority member) into either a source of bitterness (like the GB), or of better insight or empathy (like rae's thread suggests).

Most Jewish European intellectuals and philosophers did the latter, and brought invaluable, fresh insights to Europe's culture.
I just googled "gay philosophers and writers" and saw that Plato was in fact gay. Surprising but not really, if you think of his criticism of society.
 
No one understand Plato's divine eros vs vulgar eros.
Plato was such a prude that he didn't like art either.
 
No one understand Plato's divine eros vs vulgar eros.
Plato was such a prude that he didn't like art either.

Didn't read those tbh. I'm mostly familiar with the mainstream ones the shadows from the cave and such.

Btw: just found this list. It's fun to read through, I extracted a few:

The Best Gay Authors of All Time
- Ranker
Oscar Wilde
Walt Whitman
Virginia Woolf
Tennessee Williams
Truman Capote
Marcel Proust
E. M. Forster
Langston Hughes
D. H. Lawrence
T. S. Eliot
Federico García Lorca
Alice Walker
Anaïs Nin
Michel Foucault
Herman Melville
Sylvia Plath
W. Somerset Maugham
Gore Vidal
André Gide
Thomas Mann
Chuck Palahniuk
Henry James
Thornton Wilder
Honoré de Balsac
John Milton"
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=ranker+list+gay+authors


Virginia Woolf - meh
Maugham and Balsac - unexpected
Chuck Palahniuk - so rae.:)
 
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so much history! never a moment for myself!

Today in LGBT History – JUNE 12: Remembering Pulse

LGBTQ PRIDE: 50 Years since Stonewall

1730, Netherlands – During a major anti-gay purge of the eighteenth century, five men are hanged and their bodies thrown into the sea at Scheveningen for the crime of sodomy. Hundreds of others were killed or banished. This was described as a pogrom or a reign of terror. The astonishing purges of 1730 were widely reported in the English newspapers during June and July. English news reports state that many Dutch sodomites fled to England where they were not accorded the same reception as refugees from religious persecution.

1799 – Gilbert du Motier (September 6, 1757 – May 20, 1834), better known as the Marquis de Lafayette, wrote a very affectionate letter to George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799)dated on this day. While there is no evidence that the two men were lovers, this and other letters describe a very intimate friendship. Expression of same-sex platonic love was not considered queer during this time. Lafayette spent his lifetime as an abolitionist , proposing slaves be emancipated slowly, recognizing the crucial role slavery played in many economies. He hoped his ideas would be adopted by George Washington in order to free the slaves in the United States.

1929, Germany – Anne Frank (June 12, 1929 – February or March 1945) is born. One of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, Anne Frank gained fame posthumously following the publication of The Diary of a Young Girl (originally Het Achterhuis; English: The Secret Annex) in which she documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944, during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. It is one of the world’s most widely known books and has been the basis for several plays and films. Born in Frankfurt, she lived most of her life in or near Amsterdam. There is speculation that she may have been bisexual but her diary had been edited many times and her life as an adolescent was in a hideaway. She was killed at the age of 15 inBergen-Belsen concentration camp.

1930 – James Thurston Nabors (June 12, 1930 – November 30, 2017) was an American actor, singer, and comedian. Nabors was born and raised in Sylacauga, Alabama, but he moved to southern California because of his asthma. He was discovered by Andy Griffith while working at a Santa Monica nightclub and later joined The Andy Griffith Show as Gomer Pyle. The character proved popular, and Nabors was given his own spin-off show, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.. Nabors married his partner of 38 years, Stan Cadwallader, at Seattle, Washington‘s Fairmont Olympic Hotel on January 15, 2013, a month after same-sex marriage became legal inWashington. Although he had been closeted before this, his sexual orientation was not completely secret; for instance, Nabors brought his then-boyfriend Cadwallader along to his Indy 500 performance in 1978.

1967 – The Loving v. Virginiadecision legalized interracial marriage in the United States. It had significant impact on the LGBT fight for marriage equality.

1981, Canada – A Provincial Court judge in Toronto finds two employees guilty and three owners not guilty of keeping common bawdyhouse. Charges relate to the Barracks Steambath, raided by police December 9, 1978. Toronto’s oldest steambath at 56 Widmer Street had been open since 1974. They had the privilege of watching Toronto come from the days of raids, arrests, fear and oppression to general acceptance. After over 30 years of service to the gay leather community, The Barracks (in Toronto) closed in 2005.

1989 – Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC director Christina Orr-Cahill announces the cancellation of “The Perfect Moment,” a show of 150 photos and objects by Robert Mapplethorpe (November 4, 1946 – March 9, 1989)that includes 13 S&M images. The museum was afraid of losing National Endowment for the Arts funding. ”Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment” was exhibition of more than 150 works, many of them explicit homoerotic and violent images. It was partly financed with a grant of $30,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts, an agency that was already under fire from Congress for its grant policies. The exhibition was to have opened on July 1.

2003, France – The European Court of Human Rights rules in favor German transgender woman Van Kuck (Van Kück v. Germany) whose insurance company denied her reimbursement for sexual reassignment surgery. The Court held that there had been a violation of Article 6 § 1 (right to a fair hearing) of the Convention. The German courts should have requested further clarification from a medical expert. With regard to the Court of Appeal’s reference to the causes of the applicant’s condition, it could not be said that there was anything arbitrary or capricious in a decision to undergo sex reassignment surgery and the applicant had in fact already undergone such surgery by the time the Court of Appeal gave its judgment. The Court also held that there had been a violation of Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life) of the Convention. Since gender identity was one of the most intimate aspects of a person’s private life, it appeared disproportionate to require the applicant to prove the medical necessity of the treatment. No fair balance had been struck between the interests of the insurance company on the one hand and the interests of the individual on the other.

2012 – Kylar Broadus, founder of the Trans People of Color Coalition, is the first openly transgender person to testify before the U.S. Senate, speaking in favor of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). Kylar W. Broadus is a professor, attorney, activist and public speaker from Missouri. He is an associate professor of business law at Lincoln University of Missouri, a historically black college where he previously served as the chair of the business department. He has maintained a general practice of law in Columbia, Missouri, since 1997. In February 2011 he was awarded the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force’s Sue J. Hyde Award for Longevity in the Movement. He was featured on BlackEnterprise.com discussing his personal experience with workplace discrimination. In 2010 he founded Trans People of Color Coalition (TPOCC), the only national civil-rights organization dedicated to the needs of trans people of color. He currently serves on the board of the National Black Justice Coalition and was the board chair from 2007 to 2010. ENDA has yet to pass.

2016 – At the Pulse Night Club in Orlando, a terrorist who pledged allegiance to ISIS sprays bullets from an automatic weapon, killing 49 people and wounding 53 others at a popular gay club in Orlando. It is the deadliest shooting in U.S. history. Pulse was a gay barnightclubin Orlando, Florida, founded in 2004 by Barbara Poma and Ron Legler. On June 12, 2016, the club gained international attention as it was the scene of the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunmanin U.S. history, and the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil since the events of September 11, 2001. Poma’s brother, John, had died in 1991 from AIDS; the club was “named for John’s pulse to live on.” The Washington Post described the Pulse’s first 12 years as “a community hub for HIV prevention, breast-cancer awareness and immigrant rights,” and reported it had partnered with educational and advocacy groups such as Come Out with Pride, Equality Florida, and the Zebra Coalition. In November, 2016, the city of Orlando offered to buy the nightclub for $2.25 million. Mayor Buddy Dyer expressed plans to convert the nightclub into a memorial to honor the memory of the victims, but the owner refused to sell.
 
Didn't read those tbh. I'm mostly familiar with the mainstream ones the shadows from the cave and such.

I think you're pulling my leg. You haven't read Lysis and Symposium?
I'm pretty sure I've heard you talking about how people need to read more Plato and less Aristotle.
 
I think you're pulling my leg. You haven't read Lysis and Symposium?
I'm pretty sure I've heard you talking about how people need to read more Plato and less Aristotle.

lol no, unfortunately. I always had the bug, but what gave me the best education were..... American commercial movies and you tube talks.
Plus you Lit. 'racists' gave me sources for the sociology stuff. Like you did with Camille Paglia and the Joe Rogan guy.

Americans have their own morons too, but they also have a knack for making things like politics and philosophy feel so much more exciting and fun.

I think this docu on the movie Matrix made me go to Plato's cave vs. Aristotle, and other concepts like traditional versus gnostic Christianity.
Philosophy and the Matrix - Return to the Source (Full Documentary)
https://vimeo.com/53000177

It's so enjoyable and awesome! Please listen to at least 10 minutes of it, if ypu have time.
 
and three yrs ago today

your lovers, the MUSLIMS killed FIFTY of you

and

you blamed the NRA
 
1967 – The Loving v. Virginia decision legalized interracial marriage in the United States. It had significant impact on the LGBT fight for marriage equality.
BotanyBigot opined that this decision was "unconstitutional" since it involved conduct and wasn't an "enumerated right". Stuff like interracial marriage 'n abortion should be regulated by the states not the Federal gummint don'tcha know.

That would make ole Nanner Boy a bastard, btw, given Tennessee's anti-miscegnation laws.
 
T.S. Eliot was gay?


it's debatable. a recent biography of his first wife claims that was why they had such problems. i don't think he actually liked sex with anyone, of any gender. before he married his second wife he was planning on becoming a monk.
 
Didn't read those tbh. I'm mostly familiar with the mainstream ones the shadows from the cave and such.

Btw: just found this list. It's fun to read through, I extracted a few:

The Best Gay Authors of All Time
- Ranker
Oscar Wilde
Walt Whitman
Virginia Woolf
Tennessee Williams
Truman Capote
Marcel Proust
E. M. Forster
Langston Hughes
D. H. Lawrence
T. S. Eliot
Federico García Lorca
Alice Walker
Anaïs Nin
Michel Foucault
Herman Melville
Sylvia Plath
W. Somerset Maugham
Gore Vidal
André Gide
Thomas Mann
Chuck Palahniuk
Henry James
Thornton Wilder
Honoré de Balsac
John Milton"
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=ranker+list+gay+authors


Virginia Woolf - meh
Maugham and Balsac - unexpected
Chuck Palahniuk - so rae.:)


i've read a few palahniuk but wasn't crazy about them. i prefer edmund white for a current writer. actually, when i read fiction it's usually something a hundred years old or so. and d h lawrence was bi, he only had one documented gay lover.
 
A group of people I met, we are going to the LGBT festival this month.

We've decided it's now the LGBTS, S = straight. It's more inclusive!

I finally figured out why some of the pro-gay/ pro-people of color/feminist movements from the States irritate the heck out of me,

whereas I have the opposite attitude towards those from Australia: I empathise with such movements & am put off by Their conservatives.

I think that it's because:
while backbiting or the crab mentality/tall popy syndrome are more prevalent in countries like mine or other Commonwealth countries,
narcissism is more widespread among Americans.

The American Right and the White Straight Left have been infiltrated by overt narcissists, while the American non White or Gay Left - by covert narcissists.
 
Didn't read those tbh. I'm mostly familiar with the mainstream ones the shadows from the cave and such.

Btw: just found this list. It's fun to read through, I extracted a few:

The Best Gay Authors of All Time
- Ranker
Oscar Wilde
Walt Whitman
Virginia Woolf
Tennessee Williams
Truman Capote
Marcel Proust
E. M. Forster
Langston Hughes
D. H. Lawrence
T. S. Eliot
Federico García Lorca
Alice Walker
Anaïs Nin
Michel Foucault
Herman Melville
Sylvia Plath
W. Somerset Maugham
Gore Vidal
André Gide
Thomas Mann
Chuck Palahniuk
Henry James
Thornton Wilder
Honoré de Balsac
John Milton"
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=ranker+list+gay+authors


Virginia Woolf - meh
Maugham and Balsac - unexpected
Chuck Palahniuk - so rae.:)


I've always heard Henry James described as asexual and in all likelihood a lifelong virgin, though it's certainly true that if he had been gay, he would have been so deep in the closet as to be subterranean.

And I have never heard any suggestion that Sylvia Plath was a lesbian. Being a poet who went to a women's college isn't evidence all by itself.
 
i remember liking chuck until i noticed he a weird habit of reusing sentences. also, he was just kind of repetitive.

and anyone who has read the bell jar would find the suggestion that plath was a lesbian at least somewhat strange.
 
I think you're pulling my leg. You haven't read Lysis and Symposium?
I'm pretty sure I've heard you talking about how people need to read more Plato and less Aristotle.

Damn, you make me think and read about things. But I'm sure that you came up with the comparison, not I.
I also found the segment that I was referring to:
Here's the transcript (from 10.45- 12.00):

QUOTE:
"The Matrix uses overt Christian imagery. But it's not just about traditional Christianity, it's Gnostic Christianity.
Gnostic Christianity fluorished in the early centuries of the first millenium, and it was a fierce competitor with Traditional Christianity as we understand it today.
Gnosticism frames the fundamental human problem in terms of ignorance, the solution being Enlightenment. We are diamonds in the rough, a soul, spirit trapped in a material body.
Whereas traditional Christianity tends to frame the problem in terms of sin and repentance.

The Matrix, which is a web of illusion in which people are trapped, is also parallel with the Budhist nation of Samsara. Ignorance is the problem within Budhism and the Matrix, and the solution is awakening."
END QUOTE

The documentary goes on to make similar parallels between The Matrix and Plato's cave of shadows.
https://vimeo.com/53000177


So taking the above concepts into account, and not having read much of the originals, I would speculate that both Plato and Aristotle (like most early Greeks and Jews and early Christians) were gnostics, Plato to a larger degree:

Plato, with his cave theory of shadows, was more intuitive and had more affinities with Eastern religions.
Aristotle was more rational and biological, more towards the modern European mode of thinking.
 
Jonathan Sacks' views are fascinating too, and round up the above so nicely:


"The ancient Hebrew language and community and The Hebrew Bible operated out of right brain thinking.
Most of the Old Testament was written in Ancient Hebrew. It is a right brain language, says Sacks, because to understand the meaning of any word, “you have to understand the total context in which it occurs.”
It was then translated into Greek which was the worlds first left brain language.

‘We can go farther still and speculate how Christianity became a synthesis of the two. Its founder was Jewish and steeped in the religious values of Judaism. But the first Christian texts were written and read in Greek. The result was a set of right-brain ideas transcribed into a left-brain alphabet and culture. Out of that creative tension, Western civilisation was born.

Western society over the last thousand years has further added to this by preferring left brain thinking. It has elevated left brain activities to the neglect of right brain thinking.
Rationality and verbally centered mental processes often associated with masculinity are left brain activities. These have been elevated whilst at the same time, right brain thinking which is intuitive, imaginative and holistic thinking is associated with feminine modes and processes and has been devalued and looked at condecendingly. This is patriarchy."


https://sundayeveryday.me/2017/04/27/left-brained-religion/



Yes, I'm a fan of Jews. :D
 
"Most of the Old Testament was written in Ancient Hebrew. It was translated into Greek between 300 BC and 200 BC. It was the Greek translation of the Old Testament that the early Christians used to spread the religion.

This (...) also coincided with the first instances of “left brain thinking”: the philosophy of Aristotle, Epicurus and other Greek scholars. This atomistic, evidence-based approach to interpreting the world..."

https://patrickcox.wordpress.com/
 
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