1919, via Wikimedia Commons, public domain August 11, 1895 – László Ede Almásy de Zsadány et Törökszentmiklós It remains confounding to me how figures from history are de-gayed by so many writers and filmmakers. László Almásy was a desert explorer and Nazi smuggler. … [Read more...]
#QueerQuote: “Men Who Never Get Carried Away Should Be.” – Capitalist Tool, Malcolm Forbes
The personality trait I most deplore in others? Entitlement. Malcolm Stevenson Forbes probably means nothing to anyone under 65 years old. Yet, when he died in 1990 at 70 years old, he was one of the most famous men in the USA thanks to his shameless showoff smarts about … [Read more...]
#OnThisDay: 54 Years Ago, A Human Walks on the Moon
Armstrong taking those first steps, photo: NASA, public domaine The Parental Units and I went to our friends, The Fitzgeralds, to watch. They were the owners of a large color television in a modern console, the biggest screen I had ever seen. I found every moment to be … [Read more...]
#OnThisDay: 111 Years Ago, April 15, 1912 – SOS, The Dogs of The Titanic
On its maiden voyage, photograph by Francis Godolphin Osbourne Stuart, Wikimedia Commons April 15, 1912 - That famous luxury liner hit that damn iceberg 111 years ago. The event gave us Atlantik (1929), a British early talking film starring Madeleine Carroll; a 1943 German … [Read more...]
Dying to Wear Green: Why Wearing Green On St. Patrick’s Day Has Meaning Today
Public Domain There was a time when 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 … [Read more...]
#WomenWeLove: Lesbian Writer & Bookstore Proprietor, Sylvia Beach
1920, photographer unknown, public domain March 14, 1887– Sylvia Beach: "I am a citizen of the world." Ernest Hemingway: "In those days there was no money to buy books. I borrowed books from the library of Shakespeare & Company, which was the bookstore of … [Read more...]
Remembering Russian Filmmaker, Sergei Eisenstein on His 125th Birthday
Film History class, I loved it. A big "If I could do it over again" for me would be why I chose Theatre over Film for my undergraduate degree. I received better marks for my work in Film classes than in my own major. Ah, youth. Soon, we will all be taking classes in Russian … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Writer/ Photographer/ Railroad Historian, Charles Clegg
Clegg (R) with his partner Lucious Bebee, public domain June 30, 1916 - Charles Clegg Clegg is mostly remembered now as the lifelong romantic partner of famed railroad writer Lucius Beebe and was a co-author of many of Beebe's best-known books. Clegg grew up in … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Pioneering American Theatrical & Literary Agent, Bessie Marbury
1922, Library of Congress, public domain June 19, 1856 - Elisabeth "Bessie" Marbury: "There is no intolerance in the world so great as the intolerance of tolerance, and no bigotry so excessive as the bigotry of the image breaker." Marbury is an important cultural figure … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Journalist, Evelyn Irons
Creative Commons, public domain* June 17, 1900 - Evelyn Graham Irons Irons was a Scottish journalist, the first woman war correspondent to be decorated with the French Croix de Guerre (awarded to individuals who distinguish themselves by acts of heroism involving combat … [Read more...]
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