March 18, 1886– Edward Everett Horton From the very start of film as an art form, slightly coded gay characters were used for the easy laugh: Sissies, Gallery Owners, Interior Decorators, Fussy Bachelors, and Prissy Artistic Types. These incidental characters added … [Read more...]
#QueerQuote, Special Irish Edition: “He Had That Curious Love of Green, Which in Individuals is Always the Sign of a Subtle Artistic Temperament, and in Nations is Said to Denote a Laxity, If Not a Decadence of Morals.” – Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 – 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. He is remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture Of Dorian Gray, and the fearless way he lived his life, plus the circumstances of his criminal conviction for … [Read more...]
#ArtDept: The Art of the Dance Movie Poster
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...]
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