Photographer unknown, 1940, Smithsonian Institute, public domain June 26, 1907- Gladys Bentley: "From the time I can remember anything, I never wanted a man to touch me. Soon I began to feel more comfortable in boys’ clothes than in dresses." In 1934, King's Terrace, a … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Writer, Mary McCarthy
1963, Library of Congress. New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, Creative Commons, public domain June 21, 1912– Mary McCarthy: ”Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the … [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...]
#BornThisDay: LGBTQ Rights Pioneer, Lotte Hahm
Photo via Spinnboden Lesbian Archive and Library May 23, 1890 - Lotte Hahm During our own very troubling times, I often come back to the collapse of Germany' s first democracy. The short-lived Weimar Republic lasted from the fall of the Prussian monarchy in 1918 to the … [Read more...]
#FlashBack79: The White Night Riots
Via Wikimedia Commons On May 21, 1979, inside a jury room in San Francisco, 12 people had been deliberating whether to find former City Supervisor Dan White guilty of murdering Mayor George Moscone and openly gay City Supervisor Harvey … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Playwright, Lorraine Hansberry
Photo from Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart, American Masters-PBS, via YouTube May 19, 1930 - Lorraine Hansberry: "Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?" Lorraine Hansberry's parents fought hard and won a drawn out legal battle against … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Writer, Daphne du Maurier
1930, Wikimedia Commons May 13, 1907 - Daphne du Maurier: "Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story." She is mostly remembered today for of the film adaptations of her work, but her stories helped define the Gothic Romance genre of literature. Other writers of … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Happily Ever After with Eleanor Butler
Miss Ponsonby and Lady Eleanor Butler In Their Library, engraving by Richard James Lane, Wikimedia Commons May 11, 1739 – Eleanor Butler This month, we find ourselves surrounded by political turmoil once more with the leak of a draft opinion showing that the U.S. Supreme … [Read more...]
That Time Shirley MacLaine & Audrey Hepburn Were Accused of Being Lesbians!
Based on Lillian Hellman's 1934 Broadway hit, The Children's Hour (1961) is about a real-life 1809 case of two women running … [Read more...]
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