Photo via Wikimedia Commons August 3, 1936– Jesse Owens wins Olympic Gold in the 100 Meters Race In 1931, the International Olympic Committee awarded the 1936 Summer Olympic Games to Berlin. The choice brought Germany's return to the world … [Read more...]
#WomenWeLove: Nazi Hunter, Myrna Loy
"Some perfect wife I am. I’ve been married four times, divorced four times, have no children, and can’t boil an egg." She was a woman who was the very essence of sophistication even though she was born Myrna Adele Williams in rural Montana. She moved to Southern … [Read more...]
#OnThisDay: 85 Years Ago, Nazi Olympic Games
Photo: US Holocaust Museum In August 1936, Adolf Hitler's Nazi dictatorship hid away its racist, antisemitic, militaristic essence while hosting the Summer Olympic Games, presenting an image of a peaceful, tolerant Germany. The United States rejected a proposed boycott of … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Gay Writer, James Baldwin
Photograph from James Baldwin Archive, NY Public Library August 2, 1924– James Baldwin: "Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law." The very first "gay" book I read was James Baldwin's beautiful, … [Read more...]
A Hollywood Landmark Is Losing Its Racist Elephants
The site of the Oscars has long included visual references to famous films, but the new owners of Hollywood & Highland are removing the elephants from Intolerance by D.W. Griffith, whose Birth of a Nation led to the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan. Via [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Early Gay Rights Activist, Barbara Gittings
July 31, 1932– Barbara Gittings: "Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts." When I was 12 years old, I would scour the stacks of books and the bibliographies for information, any … [Read more...]
UPDATE: Madonna, Elton John, and Pretty Much Everyone Else School DaBaby Over Anti-Gay Rant
Since we reported on the … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Writer, George Bernard Shaw
1881 via Wikimedia Commons July 27, 1856 - George Bernard Shaw: "If You Want to Tell People the Truth, Make Them Laugh, Otherwise They'll Kill You." Shaw is one of my favorite figures in history. He was a man of Theatre and Film, a vegetarian, a Socialist, and a rabble … [Read more...]
#OnThisDay: 2016, Hillary Rodham Clinton Becomes the First Female Nominated for POTUS by a Major Political Party
Photo via Wikimedia Commons Less than a century after women first earned the right to vote in America, at the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Democrats officially nominated Hillary Rodham Clinton for president, making her the first female presidential … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Pooped Pope, Julius III
Painter unknown July 23, 1487 - Pope Julius III The Cathedral of Sienna is one of my favorite structures, certainly my favorite House of the Holy. A medieval church, the alternating bands of dark and light marble that make the cathedral's façade are so striking and they … [Read more...]
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