via Alexandre Felipe Présente/YouTube January 20, 1943- Janis Joplin: "You know you've got it, if it makes you feel good." An indelible icon of the 1960s, and a sort of Gay Icon too, Janis Joplin had affairs with women, men, and Southern Comfort. She would cruise the … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Writer, Patricia Highsmith
Highsmith in a cameo in Strangers On A Train via YouTube January 19, 1921 - Patricia Highsmith: "The only difference between us and heterosexuals is what we do in bed." Patricia Highsmith is much on my mind these days, after recently re-watching Carol (2015), … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Gay Icon, Cary Grant
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) via YouTube January 18, 1904– Cary Grant: "In my earlier career, I patterned myself on a combination of Englishmen: Rex Harrison, Noël Coward, and especially Jack Buchanan, who impressed me as a character actor. He always looked … [Read more...]
#Flashback1947: The Black Dahlia
Bundled up because of the cold weather that had held Los Angeles residents in its grip for several days, Betty Bersinger and her three-year-old daughter Anne were walking on Norton Street in the Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Midway down the block Bersinger noticed … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Gay Icon, Eartha Kitt
Photo via YouTube screen-grab January 17, 1927 - Eartha Kitt: "I fall in love with Myself. And I want someone to share with me." Eartha Kitt has precisely the qualities that make for a true Gay Icon: A history of anguish, abandonment and alienation, mixed with a campy … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Gay Icon, Ethel Merman
In Girl Crazy, NY Public Library Archives January 16, 1908– Ethel Merman: "I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank." Jacob J. Lew, President Barack Obama's Treasury secretary, proposed the idea of putting Harriet Tubman, a former slave and … [Read more...]
#QueerQuote: “Only in the Darkness Can You See the Stars.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
photo by Mark Gulezi, Creative Commons Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia on this day, January 15th, in 1929. He was the pivotal advocate for African-Americans during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. King experienced racism from an early … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Actor / Songwriter / Author, Ivor Novello
Photo from BBC via YouTube January 15, 1893– Ivor Novello: "Lovemaking is an art which must be studied and practiced." After seeing Robert Altman's bright and brilliant Academy Award-nominated film Gosford Park (2001) for the third time, I had to … [Read more...]
MJ Rodriguez! Amy Schneider! Bradley Cooper! Toni Collette! The WOW Report for Radio Andy!
World of Wonder Co-Founder Fenton Bailey, Chief Creative Officer Tom Campbell, and WOW Report Editor James St. … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: “Ragged Dick” Writer, Horatio Alger
January 14, 1832 - Horatio Alger, Jr.: "There are many boys, and men too, who have never had a fair chance in life. Let us remember that, when we judge them, and not be too hasty to condemn." He may not exactly be a household name these days, but Horatio Alger was … [Read more...]
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