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Did Greta Garbo Really Want to be Left Alone?

By Stephen Rutledge on September 18, 2023 3:03 am

Did Greta Garbo Really Want to be Left Alone?

Anna Christie, 1930, Photo via Wikimedia Commons Greta Lovisa Gustafson: "Being a movie star means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game." Greta Garbo was born on this day, September 18, in 1905, but she knew … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Born This Day, Celebs, Entertainment, Gay, History, LBGTQ, Lesbian, Life, Movies

#BornThisDay: Actor, Claudette Colbert

By Stephen Rutledge on September 13, 2023 3:03 am

#BornThisDay: Actor, Claudette Colbert

Colbert in Tonight Is Ours (1933) publicity still, public domain Claudette Colbert was born in Paris in 1903 as Emilie Chauchoin. Her family moved to Manhattan when she was three years old, making her French, yet thoroughly American. She began acting professionally when she … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bisexual, Born This Day, Culture, Entertainment, History, LBGTQ, Lesbian, Life, Misc, Movies, On Stage

#Condragulations: ‘GMA’ Co-Anchor Robin Roberts Married Amber Laign

By Andrea James on September 11, 2023 11:30 am

#Condragulations: ‘GMA’ Co-Anchor Robin Roberts Married Amber Laign

Robin Roberts came through on her January announcement that she planned to marry longtime partner Amber Laign. The couple got hitched in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LBGTQ, Lesbian, Life, Marriages

#BornThisDay: Activist, Jane Addams

By Stephen Rutledge on September 6, 2023 3:03 am

#BornThisDay: Activist, Jane Addams

Addams, Bain News Service Restoration by Adam Cuerden, Public domain September 6, 1860– Jane Addams, perfect for the week of Labor Day: Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Born This Day, Culture, Gay, History, LBGTQ, Lesbian, Politics

#BornThisDay: Actor, Nancy Kulp

By Stephen Rutledge on August 28, 2023 3:03 am

#BornThisDay: Actor, Nancy Kulp

1970 portrait via Wikimedia Commons, public domain August 28, 1921– Nancy Kulp: "If one is past 50 or 60, coming out is almost like saying that most of your life you've been too embarrassed to admit it or to speak up." I came out of the closet in 1971 at 17 years … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Born This Day, Culture, Entertainment, Gay, History, LBGTQ, Lesbian, Life, Politics, TV & Video

#BornThisDay: Tennis Great, Ellen Roosevelt

By Stephen Rutledge on August 20, 2023 3:03 am

#BornThisDay: Tennis Great, Ellen Roosevelt

Via Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library Archives August 20, 1868 - Ellen Roosevelt Australian tennis star Margaret Court made headlines and the record books when she won the U.S. Open in 1973. She was the first mother in history to win three of the biggest … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Born This Day, Culture, Gay, History, Lesbian, Life, Sports

#QueerQuote: “A Closed Mind is a Dying Mind.” – Edna Ferber

By Stephen Rutledge on August 15, 2023 3:33 am

#QueerQuote: “A Closed Mind is a Dying Mind.” – Edna Ferber

1928, Theatre Magazine photograph via Wikimedia Commons I have enjoyed a long crazy obsession for The Algonquin Round Table, a celebrated group of New York City writers, critics, actors and wits. Members of "The Vicious Circle," as they dubbed themselves, met for lunch each … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Born This Day, Culture, Entertainment, LBGTQ, Lesbian, Life, Misc, Movies, On Stage, Politics

#BornThisDay: Character Actor, Alice Ghostley

By Stephen Rutledge on August 14, 2023 3:30 am

#BornThisDay: Character Actor, Alice Ghostley

Screen-grab via YouTube I have had some real pushback recently over using the term "character actor", with one reader insisting that I was designating it to describe actors that did not possess conventional beauty. There have always been leading male and female actors who … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Born This Day, Culture, Entertainment, History, LBGTQ, Lesbian, Life, Movies, On Stage, TV & Video

#BornThisDay: “Mary Poppins” Writer, P.L. Travers

By Stephen Rutledge on August 9, 2023 2:02 pm

#BornThisDay: “Mary Poppins” Writer, P.L. Travers

Travers in 1924, from family and personal photographs collected by P.L. Travers, ca 1891-1980, State Library of New South Wales, via Wikimedia Commons August 9, 1899 - Pamela Lyndon Travers “Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?” P.L. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bisexual, Books, Born This Day, Culture, Entertainment, History, LBGTQ, Lesbian, Life, Movies

Remembering Gay Photographer Berenice Abbott on Her 125th Birthday

By Stephen Rutledge on July 17, 2023 1:12 pm

Remembering Gay Photographer Berenice Abbott on Her 125th Birthday

Abbott by Hank O'Neal, 1979 Berenice Abbott: "Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past." I have a passion for Photography, whether it is formal portraiture, ads or commercial work, art photography, or just … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Born This Day, Culture, Gay, History, LBGTQ, Lesbian, Life, Photography

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