October 13, 1921 – Yves Montand: "I think a man can have two, maybe three, affairs while he is married. But three is the absolute maximum. After that, you're cheating." I will shamefully admit, I had no idea who he was until as a 16-year-old musical theatre queer, … [Read more...]
#QueerQuote: “A Woman Is Like a Tea Bag – You Can’t Tell How Strong She Is Until You Put Her in Hot Water”. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt, Hyde Park, 1920, Photo: Roosevelt-Vanderbilt National Historic Site In their 13th year as a couple, Eleanor Roosevelt (1983-1962) discovered, from letters her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt had left lying around, that he was having an … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Mahātmā Gandhi
Via Wikimedia Commons October 2, 1869 – Mahātmā Gandhi: "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." In case you might not know, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian activist who was the … [Read more...]
#OnThisDay55: James Dean Dies in a Car Accident
At 5:45 PM on September 30, 1955, 24-year-old James Dean was killed when the Porsche he was driving hit a Ford sedan at an intersection. The driver of the other car, 23-year-old California Polytechnic State University student Donald Turnupseed, was dazed but mostly … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Smoky-Voiced Actor, Lizabeth Scott
September 29, 1922 – Lizabeth Scott: “The world will knock you down plenty. You don't need to be doing it to yourself.” In September 1954, a front-page story in Confidential magazine claimed that Scott was a lesbian and was linked to “the little black books kept by … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Nazi Fighter, Isabel Townsend Pell
Via Wikimedia Commons September 28, 1900 - Isabel Townsend Pell The French Resistance (La Résistance) was a collection of anti-fascist individuals and groups who fought the Nazi occupation of France and the collaborationist Vichy régime during World War II. Resistance cells … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Polymath, Eric Bentley
September 14, 1916 – Eric Bentley "No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come." Distinguished academic, critic, author, playwright, cabaret performer, and translator, Bentley wrote more than 20 books including The Playwright As Thinker (1946), In … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Mad Poets Society’s Bisexual Poet,”H.D.”
Photo via Wikimedia Commons September 11, 1886 - Hilda "H.D." Doolittle Popular in her day, H.D. (a pen name) has not been totally forgotten; many poem anthologies have two or three of her pieces, including the verses she showed Ezra Pound, her former fiancé … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: “Mary Poppins” Writer, P.L. Travers
Travers via Wikimedia Commons August 9, 1899 - Pamela Lyndon Travers “Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?” P.L. Travers was the Australian creator of the quintessentially English nanny Mary Poppins. The story of Travers is more familiar now … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Bisexual Filmmaker, Nicholas Ray
Ray with Joan Crawford filming Johnny Guitar, 1954, photo via Wikimedia Commons August 7, 1911– Nicholas Ray He grew-up as Raymond Nicholas Kienzle in Wisconsin and he was a little juvenile delinquent, skipping school, drinking, fighting, with quite the … [Read more...]
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