Above: Italian poster by Silvano Campeggi for Singing' In The Rain (1952), directed by the late, great Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly. Love the rainy grey-black background, reflecting the setting of Kelly's iconic dance sequence contrasting and highlighting the colorful are the … [Read more...]
Dying to Wear Green: Why Wearing Green On St. Patrick’s Day Has Meaning Today
Wearing a shamrock, or any green, was considered an insignia of the rebellion, and you were hanged for high treason. The British so feared the ethnic identity of the Irish that they would murder citizens under their rule for wearing the ethnic color. This was in a … [Read more...]
#QueerQuote: “To be Irish is to Know That in the End the World Will Break Your Heart.” ― Daniel Patrick Moynihan
We live an era when the president's personal lawyer says that "truth isn't truth" and when lies are excused as "alternative facts’". The prescient Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003) in 1971, stated: Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Civil Rights Icon, Bayard Rustin
March 17, 1912 - Bayard Rustin We are all one. And if we don't know it, we will learn it the hard way. Mostly forgotten today, Rustin was the chief organizer for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. He was a superb strategist, … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Writer, Sybille Bedford
March 16, 1911 - Sybille Bedford: In Europe, where human relations like clothes are supposed to last, one's got to be wearable. In France one has to be interesting, in Italy pleasant, in England one has to fit. Many years ago, soon after I moved to New … [Read more...]
#QueerQuote: “Today I Stand Here as Leader of My Country, Flawed and Human, but Judged by My Political Actions and Not by My Sexual Orientation, Skin Tone, Gender or Religious Beliefs.” – Leo Varadkar
Leo Varadkar is the ''Taoiseach'' of Ireland, a role which comprises the titles of prime minister, chief executive and head of government. The word means ''chieftain'' in Irish and was adopted in the 1937 Constitution of Ireland. But, to keep things breezy, let's just … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
March 15, 1933– Ruth Bader Ginsburg: All of the incentives, all of the benefits that marriage affords would still be available. So you’re not taking away anything from heterosexual couples. They would have the very same incentive to marry, all the benefits that come … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Actor / Singer / Dancer, Anita Morris
March 14, 1943 - Anita Rose Morris One of my favorite films of the 1980s, Aria (1987) is a British anthology that consists of ten short films by ten different directors, each showing the director's choice of visual accompaniment to one or more operatic arias. There … [Read more...]
QueerQuote: “Cuchi-Cuchi Has Taken Me All the Way to the Bank.” – Charo
In case you're not familiar with her, Charo is a pop culture oddity who appeared on television talk shows and variety hours seemingly all the time in the 1970s and 1980s. The host would snicker at her mangled English, she would do some sort of high-octane dance number … [Read more...]
#QueerQuote: “I Do Get Why Mitt Romney Likes Twinkies. They’re Exactly Like Him: White on the Outside, but Somehow Even Whiter on the Inside.” — Trevor Noah
Willard Mitt Romney is a United States Senator from Utah since January 2019. He previously was the Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 and was the GOP's nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 election. In 2016, Romney said of Trump: He is a … [Read more...]
