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Born This Day: Willa Cather
December 7, 1873- Willa Cather:“The end is nothing; the road is all.”When she was just 14 years old and living in Nebraska, Willa Cather began dressing as a boy and calling herself William. This...
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Born This Day: Edythe Marrenner
I'll Cry Tomorrow"When you`re dead, you`re dead. No one is going to remember me when I`m dead. Oh, maybe a few friends will remember me affectionately. Being remembered is not the most important thing...
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Born This Day, June 23, 1912: Alan Turing
For me,The Imitation Game(2014) was a somewhat pedestrian film about an extraordinary man. It is a good film, you should see it. It was nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award. GrahamMoore’s Oscar...
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Born This Day, June 8th: Joan Rivers
June 8, 1933- Joan Alexandra Molinsky's death, sudden & unnecessary continues to shock me. I have been a fan for 50 years & I must admit I miss her very much. A comedy pioneer, Joan Rivers was...
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Born This Day, June 7: James Ivory
June 7, 1928- James Ivory is a great filmmaker. When asked to name a favorite film I usually answer with A Room With A View (1985), although that choice changes from moment to moment. But, the famous...
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Born This Day, June 3: Maurice Evans
June 3, 1901- How astonishingly gay was that cast of Bewitched(1965-72): Paul Lynde, Dick Sargent, Agnes Moorehead, plus the star of the series ElizabethMontgomery, a supporter of gay rights before it...
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Born This Day, June 1st: Norma Jeane Mortenson
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius & it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."53 years after her death, Marilyn Monroe remains an enchanting enigma. She was once the...
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Born This Day, May 30: Christine Jorgensen
Before the lovely Laverne Cox, before Alexis Arquette, before Chaz, even before Bruce broke the big news to Diane Sawyer& the world, a little boy from the Bronx became a lovely lady. It was 1952...
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Born This Day, May 29th: Beatrice Lillie
It gives me a heavy heart that so many people under 50 don't know about, or care about, many of the personalities that engaged those that came before them. I recently mentioned Mae West & Raquel...
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Born This Day: The Chrysler Building
I am zany about architecture & design. Certain buildings & structures really grab my attention & move me, among them (these are structures that I have actually visited): The Woolworth's...
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Born This Day, May 22nd: Harvey Milk
May 22, 1930- Harvey Milk, a middle-class Jewish guy from NYC, served in the US Navy during the Korean War, who like so many other closeted gay people, chose San Francisco in the 1970s as that place to...
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On This Day, May 21st... White Night Riots
On this day, May 21st, in 1979, inside a jury room in San Francisco, 12 people had been deliberating whether to find former City Supervisor Dan White guilty of murdering Mayor George Moscone& gay...
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Born This Day, May 20th... Cherilyn Sarkisian Bono Allman.
Today is a High Holy Day in Gaydom: The birthday of Cher.Cher & I have something in common & I don't mean sleeping with DavidGeffen. We have both been on our Living Proof: The Farewell Tour for...
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Born This Day: May 16th, 1919- Wladziu Valentino Liberace
“You know that bank I used to cry all the way to? Well, I bought it.”Here is the craziest part, The Husband & I briefly lived in Las Vegas (long story) & even nuttier, we didn’t have an...
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Born This Day, May 15th... Jasper Johns
I have a passion for 20th century American Art & I have always been fascinated with the NYC of the 1950s, when these geniuses produced their astonishing works while in the closet, but whose gayness...
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Born This Day, May 4th... Keith Haring
Someone stole my beloved Keith Haring Swatch watch. I think I know who it was, but when queried, they denied any possibility that they were responsible for it having gone missing. This morning, I saw...
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Born This Day, May 3rd... William Inge
I have never performed in a play by William Inge although I have studied & admired his work. I have it on good authority that my terrier Juniorwants the chance to play the title role in Come Back,...
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May Day, My Way
May Day has to be the Teabaggers favorite holiday; they just love to celebrate the seeds of Socialism & Labor Unions, mixed with a little Paganism. I am sure that they would find solidarity with...
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#BornThis Day, April 30th... Alice B. Toklas
Alice Babette Toklas left Seattle for Paris when she was 30 years old. In Paris she met writer Gertrude Stein. The 2 women fell in love & were a couple for the next 39 years, living through WW1...
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Born This Day, April 28th... Nell Harper Lee
Seemingly impossible, I did not read TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD as a young person & I didn’t see the film until 2005, at the Husband’s insistence. I certainly would have been better briefed for...
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