tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28970185186882411942024-02-19T01:30:09.334-06:00**** T I M E S à C H A N G I N ' ****We' Po' Now, Crapaud!http://www.blogger.com/profile/15628784064853173388noreply@blogger.comBlogger453125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2897018518688241194.post-10345112470507500652012-03-16T08:41:00.003-05:002012-03-16T08:54:02.981-05:00Today in Gay History<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcu2jj6lFVu4t8rAAS8MDcHSynkGR4aIud_BXEWAXI7J-dXdgUZmHxu06zSdize1jjallv3MSZpmXCRlUt1eQmDAhFym2RM-iSD2-Nvm-gl90j3CE5tC6n-pbLoomI4Tss9YTpt0RvGlKx/s1600/fred+martinez.JPG"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 414px; height: 143px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcu2jj6lFVu4t8rAAS8MDcHSynkGR4aIud_BXEWAXI7J-dXdgUZmHxu06zSdize1jjallv3MSZpmXCRlUt1eQmDAhFym2RM-iSD2-Nvm-gl90j3CE5tC6n-pbLoomI4Tss9YTpt0RvGlKx/s320/fred+martinez.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720492700099285250" border="0" /></a><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif][if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif][if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif][if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0pt 5.4pt 0pt 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0pt; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span class="body"><b style="">HAPPY 27TH BIRTHDAY</b></span></span><p style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"> FRED C. MARTINEZ <br /></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="body"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">March 15, 1985</b></span></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="body"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 21pt; text-indent: -18pt; font-weight: bold; font-family:courier new;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;font-size:7pt;" > </span></span>One of our martyrs, our many martyrs, FRED C. MARTINEZ was born on this date. Martinez was a 16-year-old Navajo boy who thought of himself as female. Another term for Martinez among indigenous peoples is nadleehi or "two-spirit." His friends adored him. Had he been born a woman, one of his teacher's said, he'd have been the most popular girl in town. They also feared what a violent world might have in store for someone like Fred C. Martinez Jr. Martinez died on June 16, 2001 at the hands of a man who beat him to death because he was different. He was beaten to death by one Shaun Murphy who bragged about the killing. Murphy was later sentenced to 40 years in prison for murdering Martinez. Martinez's mother spoke about his son a few days after his murder: No one could say it better:<br /><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:21.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list 21.0pt"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:courier new;" class="body" ><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;font-size:7pt;" > </span></span></span><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:courier new;" >"I am his mother and now I want to make sure the truth is told about Fred by people who loved him. With more and more talk about his death, the police looking into his murder, and the details of my son's personal life in the media, it is time to speak the truth about Fred's life. The most important thing I can say is that I loved Fred. I loved my son exactly for who he was, for his courage in being honest and gentle and friendly. It is sad that he had to face pain in his daily life and in school. "What I wanted for my son was for him to be accepted and loved, just like I accepted and loved him. Fred was always proud to be Navajo. Fred did not struggle with who he was, but he was hurt because of the people who had problems with my son expressing himself honestly. I hope that the police and the District Attorney will talk about this and bring justice for the death of my son. I am grateful to Fred's friends for accepting him the way he was and remembering him for who he was. Fred's family loved and cared deeply for all of who he was. We firmly believe that Fred's murder was a hate crime. Because he was different his life was taken from him, and we will never know the person Fred would have become."</span><br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:courier new;"> <br style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:courier new;"><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:courier new;" > An excellent documentary film was made about this called Two Spirit Directed by Lydia Nibley. 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font-family: Arial;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: Arial;">Wisperin’ Bill<br /></span><br /><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Tahoma;">So yer takin' the census, eh Mister.<br />Lemme tell ye about my son.<br />He was a soldier thet fought fer the North<br />Until the war wuz won.<br /><br />This dooryard's now his battlefield.<br />Lesee, he wuz nigh sixteen<br />When Sumpter fell and as likely a boy<br />As this world's ever seen<br />And what with the news of battles lost<br />And shoutin' and all the noise<br />Ah giss every farm in the neighborhood<br />Lost a part of it's crop of boys.<br /><br />‘Twas harvest time when Bill left home<br />Every stalk in the field of rye<br />Seemed to stand tip toe to see him off<br />And wave him a fond goodbye.<br />His momma used to tell him<br />When she knowed he wuz goin' away<br />That God’d surely take care of him<br />If'n he didn't fergit to pray.<br /><br />And on the bloodiest battlefields<br />When bullets whizzed through the air<br />And Bill wuz a-fightin' desprit<br />He used to whisper a prayer.<br />His comrads has often tol' me<br />That Bill never flinched a bit<br />When every second a gap in the ranks<br />Showed where a ball had hit.<br /><br />Then one night when the field wuz covered<br />With the awful harvest of war,<br />They found my boy 'mongst the martyrs<br />Of the cause he wuz fightin' for.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Tahoma;"> His fingers wuz clutched in the dewy grass,<br />Oh no Sir, he wasn't dead.<br />He just lay there sort of helpless and crazy<br />With a rifle ball in his head.<br />And if Bill had only died that night<br />I'd give all I got worth givin'<br />'Cause ya see that bullet killed his mind<br />But left his body livin’.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Tahoma;"> An officer he wrote and told us<br />How the boy'd been hurt in a fight<br />But he said that the doctors reckoned<br />They could bring him 'round alright.<br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Tahoma;">Well, we waited and watched fer a month or more.<br /> The summer wuz almost past<br />When we got a letter one day that said<br />Bill had started fer home at last.<br /><br />I'll ne'er fergit when Bill come home,<br />"Twas harvest time again.<br />The air blowing o’er the yaller fields<br />Was sweet with the smell of grain.<br />The dooryard wuz full of neighbors<br />That come to share our joy<br />And we all set out a rousin' cheer<br />At the sight of that solier boy.<br /><br />Then all of a sudden some-one said,<br />"My God, don't that boy know his mother?"<br />And Bill stood a-whisperin' fearful like<br />And starin' from one to another.<br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Tahoma;">"Don't be afraid Bill." said he to himself<br /> As he stood in his coat of blue.<br />"God'll take care of you, Bill<br />God'll take care of you."<br /><br />Bill seemed to keep loadin' and firin' a gun<br />And actin' like a man who hears<br />The awful sounds of the battlefield<br />A-poundin' in his ears.<br />Ten thousand ghosts from that bloody day<br />Was a-marchin' through his brain<br />And his feet they kind of picked their way<br />As if they could feel the slain.<br /><br />He ain’t never knowed us since that day<br />Nor his sweetheart and never will.<br />Mother and father and sweetheart,<br />We all the same to Bill.<br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Tahoma;">And he groans like a wounded soldier<br /> Sometimes the whole night through<br />And we just smooth his head and say, "Yes Bill,<br />God'll take care of you."<br /><br /></span></b><b><i><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">Irving Batchelder</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; 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Without your leadership, who knows when, if ever, this injustice would have ended.</span></span><br /><br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/cK7QEJGwvJM" allowfullscreen="" width="560" frameborder="0" height="315"></iframe>We' Po' Now, Crapaud!http://www.blogger.com/profile/15628784064853173388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2897018518688241194.post-71613889390864568002011-09-14T09:30:00.000-05:002011-09-14T09:31:25.521-05:00<iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/44ixcrgAfjk" allowfullscreen="" width="560" frameborder="0" height="345"></iframe>We' Po' Now, Crapaud!http://www.blogger.com/profile/15628784064853173388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2897018518688241194.post-80090281051410445312011-09-03T08:52:00.001-05:002011-09-03T08:52:00.763-05:00Why Labor Day?<object style="height: 390px; width: 640px;"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/iObqguaNDdA?version=3"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/iObqguaNDdA?version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="640" height="390"></embed></object>We' Po' Now, Crapaud!http://www.blogger.com/profile/15628784064853173388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2897018518688241194.post-60737666672707171522011-07-14T08:11:00.003-05:002011-07-26T10:54:41.905-05:00Le Jour de Gloire est Arrivée !<iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/KP2z7eP7zUI?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" width="640" frameborder="0" height="510"></iframe>We' Po' Now, Crapaud!http://www.blogger.com/profile/15628784064853173388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2897018518688241194.post-68016773849174708492011-07-12T04:07:00.002-05:002011-07-12T04:07:00.824-05:00Today in Gay History<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiMIKif61Yk41knrfEOgXOsJ-LP8V0DlouP6bZpPs4vVQJODThJODJr8JSB0ui41fiEU07zvl4k5eNDSpvpFs8DKX2G4wVSAbdmZhgPdTEmx6N1zAmKcGB9BCaUV52Lo3Jh-thFH_fY3eU/s1600/Henry+David+Thoreau.JPG"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 215px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiMIKif61Yk41knrfEOgXOsJ-LP8V0DlouP6bZpPs4vVQJODThJODJr8JSB0ui41fiEU07zvl4k5eNDSpvpFs8DKX2G4wVSAbdmZhgPdTEmx6N1zAmKcGB9BCaUV52Lo3Jh-thFH_fY3eU/s320/Henry+David+Thoreau.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627469672434903234" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Happy 194th Birthday<br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;">July 12th</span></span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Henry David Thoreau, (1817-1862) </span></span><img src="file:///C:/Users/Thomas/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot-12.png" alt="" /><br /><br /><img src="file:///C:/Users/Thomas/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot-11.png" alt="" /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" >For more go to <a href="http://www.glbtq.com/literature/thoreau_hd.html">glbtq.com</a><qtlend></qtlend> to which credit gratefully acknowledged for following excerpts</span>:<br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><blockquote><span style="font-family:arial;"> . . . .Thoreau is perhaps best known for his stay at Walden Pond, chronicled in Walden (1854), and his night in jail after refusing to pay a poll tax to a government that supported the Mexican War and endorsed slavery. He wrote about this latter act of protest in "Resistance to Civil Government," popularly known as "Civil Disobedience," an essay that has inspired many, including Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">. . . .</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Biographers remain undecided about Thoreau's sexuality. He never married. He proposed to Ellen Sewall in 1840, but she rejected his offer. Some believe he was a "repressed" homosexual and others that he was asexual and remained celibate all of his life.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">But his Journals, his essay "Chastity and Sensuality," and the long discourse on "Friendship" in A Week are prolific expressions of the beauty, and the agony, of love between men.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Some of these discussions are said to refer to his brother or to Ralph Waldo Emerson. Others clearly refer to two men whom Thoreau found particularly attractive: Tom Fowler, whom Thoreau chose as a guide on a trip to the Maine woods; and Alek Therien, the Canadian woodchopper who visited Thoreau at Walden Pond.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The passion evident in his discourses on love and friendship, and the utter lack of reference to women in his writings, has made Thoreau of great interest to scholars of gay and lesbian literature. Jonathan Katz included a section on Thoreau in his Gay American History. Walter Harding, the distinguished Thoreau scholar, argued quite convincingly in 1991 that Thoreau's "actions and words . . . indicate a specific sexual interest in members of his own sex."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Complicating matters concerning Thoreau's sexuality is historical research suggesting that homosexual identity is a late nineteenth-century phenomenon. But, as Michael Warner suggests, Thoreau's writing resists normalization even within nineteenth-century "rhetorics of romance and sexuality."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Although Thoreau may not have identified as "homosexual" in the way a twentieth-century gay man might, his rhetoric of sexual difference strikes a chord with gay readers and anticipates an emerging homosexual identity: "I love man with the same distinction that I love woman--as if my friend were of some third sex--some other or some stranger and still my friend" (Journal 2:245).</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></blockquote>We' Po' Now, Crapaud!http://www.blogger.com/profile/15628784064853173388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2897018518688241194.post-66270208725998499842011-07-04T04:57:00.002-05:002011-07-04T05:36:49.616-05:00H a p p y B i r t h d a y U S A<p align="center"><a href="http://www.wilsoninfo.com/" target="_blank"><br /><img src="http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc229/wil5037/july4th-13.gif" alt="Free Clipart" border="0" /></a></p><br /><br /><iframe width="640" height="510" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/n9ePaETGQZ0?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>We' Po' Now, Crapaud!http://www.blogger.com/profile/15628784064853173388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2897018518688241194.post-72890778617975413752011-06-24T07:35:00.005-05:002011-06-24T07:35:00.158-05:00Today in Gay History<span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span>June 24, 1973</span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span> in New Orleans</span></span></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">32 People Murdered in</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Firebombing of </span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Upstairs Lounge</span></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1gaA0cXsxDT-ZaDI4HaBq8hOX9FIKFuDfOoK5DkJkKqj9iVFinoG5lOvDaPebMOtbArtZ4Ap_oTeL-SZwoPc9Mm8bwn4DWBxaO89tkLaj7noDshshixragxQSyDBoYNH3DWSwRkG-J986/s1600/upstairs+lounge+fire.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 526px; height: 562px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1gaA0cXsxDT-ZaDI4HaBq8hOX9FIKFuDfOoK5DkJkKqj9iVFinoG5lOvDaPebMOtbArtZ4Ap_oTeL-SZwoPc9Mm8bwn4DWBxaO89tkLaj7noDshshixragxQSyDBoYNH3DWSwRkG-J986/s400/upstairs+lounge+fire.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602658861243181970" border="0" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><br />See <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/erik-ose/gay-weddings-and-32-funer_b_110084.html">HERE for a good summary</a> of this unsolved tragic crime and a sense of the intolerance of the time.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: courier new;"><span style="font-size:180%;">|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||<br /><br /></span></div></div></div>We' Po' Now, Crapaud!http://www.blogger.com/profile/15628784064853173388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2897018518688241194.post-31612773803762713842011-06-11T15:24:00.000-05:002011-06-11T15:25:59.587-05:00Today in Gay History<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/IM5A8kiNA6o?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="510" width="853"></iframe><br /></div>We' Po' Now, Crapaud!http://www.blogger.com/profile/15628784064853173388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2897018518688241194.post-12792763198245804082011-05-22T08:26:00.006-05:002011-05-22T08:26:00.088-05:00Today in Gay History<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXmqu_OBqFbDPem1QzrMMJhmjSusCoV80BdBnoGrF1wdOfQC2GxbGt-B-O8HhUwPvn6URlJPH-omw8YXmdbteZID_85Q4C1kJ2uyOvujd2E_xAl1pthG-1FmSCYdgur-pVFz8Iif7yTrPD/s1600/Millk.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 291px; height: 482px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXmqu_OBqFbDPem1QzrMMJhmjSusCoV80BdBnoGrF1wdOfQC2GxbGt-B-O8HhUwPvn6URlJPH-omw8YXmdbteZID_85Q4C1kJ2uyOvujd2E_xAl1pthG-1FmSCYdgur-pVFz8Iif7yTrPD/s320/Millk.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607309397301223874" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Happy 81st Birthday!</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Harvey B. Milk</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);font-family:Trebuchet MS,Trebuchet,Times,Times New Roman,serif;" >May 22, 1930 - November 27, 1978<br /><br />Harvey Milk was the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the United States (and only the second openly homosexual, after Massachusetts State Assembly member Elaine Noble). His tragic assassination in San Francisco's City Hall made him the American gay liberation movement's most visible martyr.</span><br /><br /><blockquote style="font-family: arial; font-style: italic;">I ask my gay sisters and brothers to make the commitment to fight. For themselves, for their freedom, for their country ... We will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets ... We are coming out to fight the lies, the myths, the distortions. We are coming out to tell the truths about gays, for I am tired of the conspiracy of silence, so I'm going to talk about it. And I want you to talk about it. You must come out. Come out to your parents, your relatives...<br /></blockquote> <span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><blockquote><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Stonewall anniversary speech 1978</span></span></blockquote><br /><br /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MbWDNM0wuAc&autoplay=&fs=1&showinfo=0&showsearch=0&rel=0&autoplay=&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="opaque" id="myytplayer" height="415" width="480"></embed><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"></span><br /><img src="http://stats.vodpod.com/stats/view/1814691/402831/8709/pod.gif" style="margin: 0pt -1px -1px 0pt; border: medium none; padding: 0pt; display: inline; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);" height="1" width="1" /><img src="http://s.vodpod.com/stats/video/1189585/1//zMDKBPCQTiyluro6Z_US4VVTFDIHbz0hj_LIXjOoNZk=" style="margin: 0pt -1px -1px 0pt; border: medium none; padding: 0pt; display: inline; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);" height="1" width="1" /></span> <div style="font-size: 0.9em;"><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://vodpod.com/watch/1189585-harvey-milk-speech">Harvey Milk Speech</a><br />- Watch more <a href="http://vodpod.com/">Videos</a> at Vodpod.</div>We' Po' Now, Crapaud!http://www.blogger.com/profile/15628784064853173388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2897018518688241194.post-1744098526473302062011-04-28T08:36:00.003-05:002011-04-28T08:43:24.875-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyu1xE51Sp3mIWh994z6X0XoS_QIcAtD0poDWo8kuGh4FsxSEXnuU7FkqwZavPjFUVZjsWfGgk2uSMt2S4b0z_w5kTnEzZMX26-OxXXT3N8_EMQA02v4u4TKeNWroYodFIDX-KY6cuTgDV/s1600/Queer+Nation.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 473px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyu1xE51Sp3mIWh994z6X0XoS_QIcAtD0poDWo8kuGh4FsxSEXnuU7FkqwZavPjFUVZjsWfGgk2uSMt2S4b0z_w5kTnEzZMX26-OxXXT3N8_EMQA02v4u4TKeNWroYodFIDX-KY6cuTgDV/s320/Queer+Nation.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600629054116962194" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">On April 28, 1990 -</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" ><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">A pipe bomb exploded in Uncle Charlie's, a Greenwich Village Gay bar, injuring three people. In protest, Queer Nation mobilized 1,000 protesters in a matter of hours.</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" >Angry marchers fill the streets, carrying the banner "Dykes and Fags Bash Back."</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><qtlend></qtlend><br />Credit GayWisdom.com and White Crane InstituteWe' Po' Now, Crapaud!http://www.blogger.com/profile/15628784064853173388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2897018518688241194.post-70434140627460787432011-04-21T07:54:00.004-05:002011-04-21T08:06:33.137-05:00Today in Gay History<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjisVAiK-CccIihdBYreTiNAHcIWlvX0vsJuea3stxx4_BCehACtmoA7V_m9PVuTmlgUpp1T4UhrQpccXpOyEeRK08f9ADGMEsiiuVITrQOiB_q-an1cePVVP_kfWxgbwW_2OmAoUsBT6bE/s1600/John+Maynard+Keynes.JPG"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 227px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjisVAiK-CccIihdBYreTiNAHcIWlvX0vsJuea3stxx4_BCehACtmoA7V_m9PVuTmlgUpp1T4UhrQpccXpOyEeRK08f9ADGMEsiiuVITrQOiB_q-an1cePVVP_kfWxgbwW_2OmAoUsBT6bE/s320/John+Maynard+Keynes.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5598022115335771122" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Happy 128th Birthday</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES</span><br /><br />1946 - the British economist John Maynard Keynes died on this date (b. 1883). Also known as 1st Baron Keynes, his ideas have had a major impact on modern economic and political theory as well as on many governments' fiscal policies. He advocated interventionist government policy, by which the government would use fiscal and monetary measures to mitigate the adverse effects of economic recessions, depressions and booms. His ideas are the basis for the school of thought known as Keynesian economics. Time magazine named him as one of the greatest minds of the 20th century. Keynes's early romantic and sexual relationships were almost exclusively with men. Attitudes in the Bloomsbury Group, in which Keynes was avidly involved, were relaxed about homosexuality. One of his great loves was the artist Duncan Grant (they're together in the photo above), whom he met in 1908, and he was also involved with the writer Lytton Strachey.<br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||</span><qtlend></qtlend></span><br /></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span>We' Po' Now, Crapaud!http://www.blogger.com/profile/15628784064853173388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2897018518688241194.post-85372363959600678462011-04-13T03:57:00.004-05:002011-04-13T04:05:41.084-05:00Today in Gay History<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTm8-VEZQ17lQX9qssE9RzXsExNGM755uox6TAuJfPFJE9rTiCHAgl69DxtezYGDY5A6pFUGGwF7tmiEdSzzbl8AMLMHDH6RXOchgPgiXvy3frc9CYtOf_yqHLgxALw-1uayJipXkfl0Wi/s1600/Justice+Frank+Murphy.JPG"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 278px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTm8-VEZQ17lQX9qssE9RzXsExNGM755uox6TAuJfPFJE9rTiCHAgl69DxtezYGDY5A6pFUGGwF7tmiEdSzzbl8AMLMHDH6RXOchgPgiXvy3frc9CYtOf_yqHLgxALw-1uayJipXkfl0Wi/s320/Justice+Frank+Murphy.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594990877719099010" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Happy 121st Birthday</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Justice Frank Murphy</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >b. 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Born William Francis Murphy, he was a politician and jurist from Michigan. He served as First Assistant U.S. District Attorney, Eastern Michigan District, Recorder's Court Judge, Detroit. Mayor of Detroit, the last Governor-General of the Philippines, U.S. High Commissioner of the Philippines, the 35th Governor of Michigan, United States Attorney General, and United States Supreme Court Associate Justice. Murphy was pretty beloved in Michigan.<br /><br />Murphy was elected the Governor of Michigan in 1936 and served one two-year term. During his two years in office, an unemployment compensation system was instituted and mental health programs were improved. The United Automobile Workers engaged in an historic sit-down strike at the General Motors' Flint plant. The Flint Sit-Down Strike was a turning point in national collective bargaining and labor policy. After 27 people got injured in a battle between the workers and the police, including 13 strikers with gunshot wounds, Murphy sent the National Guard to protect the workers. The governor didn't follow a court's order requesting him to expel the strikers, and refused to order the guards troops to suppress the strike. Murphy successfully mediated an agreement and end to the confrontation; G.M. recognized the U.A.W. as bargaining agent under the newly adopted National Labor Relations Act. This had an effect upon organized labor. In the next year the UAW saw its membership grow from 30,000 to 500,000 members. As later noted by the British Broadcasting System, this strike was "the strike heard round the world."<br /><br />Murphy was first nominated by Franklin Delano Roosevelt to be Attorney General and then in 1940 Roosevelt promoted him to the Supreme Court where he served till his death in 1949. Murphy authored 199 opinions: 131 majority, 68 in dissent and took an expansive view of individual liberties, and the limitations on government he found in the Bill of Rights.<br /><br />Opinions differ about him and his jurisprudential philosophy. He has been acclaimed as a legal scholar and a champion of the common man. Justice Felix Frankfurter disparagingly nicknamed Murphy "the Saint", criticizing his decisions as being rooted more in passion than reason. It has been said he was "Neither legal scholar nor craftsman" who was criticized "for relying on heart over head, results over legal reasoning, clerks over hard work, and emotional solos over team play."<br /><br />Murphy's support of African-Americans, aliens, criminals, dissenters, Jehovah's Witnesses, Native Americans, women, workers, and other outsiders evoked a pun: “tempering justice with Murphy.” As he wrote in Falbo v. United States (1944), “The law knows no finer hour than when it cuts through formal concepts and transitory emotions to protect unpopular citizens against discrimination and persecution.”<br /><br />The reason Murphy's being mentioned here is for his lifelong companion and roommate, Edward Kemp. The two met while in college, attended law school together, started a law practice together and were basically inseparable for Murphy's entire life. They travelled overseas together, and lived together before and during Murphy's time on the Supreme Court. Kemp said he was only Murphy’s personal assistant and political advisor. That's odd because Justices have clerks for personal assistants and, with lifetime tenure, Murphy had little need for political advisors. We can at least hope they were happy together.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"> </span></p> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: maroon;">CREDIT: Entire text to~ Dan Vera of<span style=""> </span></span><a href="http://www.gaywisdom.org/main.html"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: maroon;">GAY WISDOM for Daily Living</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: maroon;">... from White Crane Institute</span></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-family: courier new;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||</span><qtlend></qtlend><br /></span></div><qtlend></qtlend><qtlend></qtlend>We' Po' Now, Crapaud!http://www.blogger.com/profile/15628784064853173388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2897018518688241194.post-74549756083233061312011-04-07T13:12:00.002-05:002011-04-07T20:56:45.144-05:00Today in Gay History<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0pt 5.4pt 0pt 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0pt; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:13.5pt;" >HAPPY 99<sup>th</sup> BIRTHDAY APRIL 7TH<br /></span><b><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:18pt;" >Harry Hay<br /><br /></span></b><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:13.5pt;" >(April 7, 1912 – October 24, 2002)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:13.5pt;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:13.5pt;" >Chief Founder of the Mattachine Society and Radical Faeries. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">"We pulled the ugly green frog skin of heterosexual conformity over us, and that's how we got through school with a full set of teeth," Hay once explained. "We know how to live through their eyes. We can always play their games, but are we denying ourselves by doing this? If you're going to carry the skin of conformity over you, you are going to suppress the beautiful prince or princess within you."</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">For a great deal more, see previous post<span style="font-size:180%;"> <a href="http://timeschangin.blogspot.com/2009/04/happy-birthday-april-7th-harry-hay.html">here</a><qtlend></qtlend><qtlend></qtlend>: </span></p><qtlbar id="qtlbar" dir="ltr" style="display: inline; text-align: left; line-height: 100%; padding: 0pt; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236); -moz-border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; cursor: move; z-index: 999; left: 345px; top: 692px; opacity: 0.9;"><img class="qtl" title="Copy selction" src="http://www.qtl.co.il/img/copy.png" /><a title="Search With Google" target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/search?q=here"><img src="http://www.google.com/favicon.ico" class="qtl" /></a><img src="http://www.babylon.com/favicon.ico" title="Translate With Babylon" class="qtl" /><iframe id="qtlframe" src="" style="display: none; border: 1px solid rgb(236, 236, 236); background-color: white;"></iframe></qtlbar>We' Po' Now, Crapaud!http://www.blogger.com/profile/15628784064853173388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2897018518688241194.post-19019589138456249992011-03-19T19:33:00.002-05:002011-03-19T19:52:22.231-05:00Today in Gay History<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZEDAOerw6zpf3XZgRQhtAoJOUR0fYGuF6-c3s2nnHDoj1l1kBX0VJjPe73EvuVm_i761_4Uc4JhVjrbZ25fBVSbv0YHgzqE5pz5ra3mBtaAUXiOBErHmvdnYDZiO7wNpegkMes6QLgSIC/s1600/Capture.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 314px; height: 195px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZEDAOerw6zpf3XZgRQhtAoJOUR0fYGuF6-c3s2nnHDoj1l1kBX0VJjPe73EvuVm_i761_4Uc4JhVjrbZ25fBVSbv0YHgzqE5pz5ra3mBtaAUXiOBErHmvdnYDZiO7wNpegkMes6QLgSIC/s320/Capture.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585958407185429394" border="0" /></a><br /><img src="file:///C:/Users/Thomas/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot-9.png" alt="" /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br />On <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">March 19, 2010</span></span> celebrity Kathy Griffin headlined a rally at Freedom Plaza in DC calling for the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Openly gay West Point graduate, Lt. Dan Choi, and Capt. James Pietrangelo marched from the rally site to the White House and handcuffed themselves to the fence. They were arrested and spent the night in jail, being denied the right to make a phone call and bail until the next day. "But what I was taught at West Point and learned in war is -- hope is not a strategy. As officers, James and I both find it a dereliction of our moral duty to remain silent while thousands of our brothers and sister are not allowed to serve openly and honestly."</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">Within a year, the Democratic Congress voted to repeal the 18 year old policy, and before he signed the bill into law, President Obama stated that ending the ban will mean that "thousands of patriotic Americans" won't be forced to leave the military "despite years of exemplary performance, because they happen to be gay…" and that gay people will no longer be be "asked to live a lie in order to serve the country they love." </span>We' Po' Now, Crapaud!http://www.blogger.com/profile/15628784064853173388noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2897018518688241194.post-72686238479548281652011-03-12T07:38:00.001-06:002011-03-12T07:38:00.799-06:00Today in Gay HistoryOn March 10-12, 1987, ACT UP is founded by Larry Kramer.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCrZHuIZI9t4IKdR3asojKDhWI6-hPmgt9qRcSA04jA99lNgFO1AxNyjyd0e_BtlfrjBcPDn3KE3-GMq4OcpmFnBwjgZnkVXvGwvueqiIyQAneRI6UfhGIzB1UFFt78YRL6BFjfl199ge-/s1600/ACT+UP.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 217px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCrZHuIZI9t4IKdR3asojKDhWI6-hPmgt9qRcSA04jA99lNgFO1AxNyjyd0e_BtlfrjBcPDn3KE3-GMq4OcpmFnBwjgZnkVXvGwvueqiIyQAneRI6UfhGIzB1UFFt78YRL6BFjfl199ge-/s320/ACT+UP.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582463061385293378" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Credit to <a href="http://gaywisdom.org">GayWisdom.org</a><br />1987 - ACT UP was formed [on March 12,1987 following a meeting-speech on March 10th] at the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center in New York. The writer Vito Russo wrote at the time that "living with AIDS in this country is like living through a war that's happening only for those people in the trenches. Every time a shell explodes you look around to discover that you've lost more of your friends. But nobody else notices, it isn't happening to them." Larry Kramer had been asked to speak at the Lesbian and Gay Community Center as part of a rotating speaker series, and his well-attended speech focused on action to fight AIDS. Kramer spoke out against the Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC), which he perceived as politically impotent. Kramer had actually co-founded the GMHC but had resigned from its board of directors in 1983. According to Douglas Crimp, Kramer posed a question to the audience: "Do we want to start a new organization devoted to political action?" The answer was "a resounding yes." Approximately 300 people met two days later [March 12] to form ACT UP.<br /><br />They became confrontational about the government's complete lack of urgency towards the plight of the thousands of Gay men dying of AIDS. That was the face of AIDS at the time and no one seemed to care that so many were dying. And many were actively blocking (as many still do) the use of condoms for AIDS prevention. They called out Ronald Reagan and Cardinal O'Connor and Pope John Paul for their responsibility in the deaths of millions while they prevented treatment and prevention. Because of ACT UP, political leaders and the media were forced to pay attention to what was happening. Because of ACT UP things moved for the care and treatment of people living and dying with AIDS. Their work is not finished and their model is one that has been replicated by many dealing with entrenched hostility and animus.We' Po' Now, Crapaud!http://www.blogger.com/profile/15628784064853173388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2897018518688241194.post-45935939147286674732011-03-11T09:14:00.000-06:002011-03-11T09:15:34.444-06:00Today in Gay HistoryMarch 11, 1967 – Today is the birthday of Scottish singer, actor, and activist JOHN BARROWMAN. Best known for his role as Captain Jack Harkness in the science fiction series Doctor Who and Torchwood. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Barrowman and his family emigrated to the U.S. when he was nine. Growing up in the state of Illinois, his high school teachers encouraged his love for music and theatre and he studied performing arts at the United States International University in San Diego before visiting the United Kingdom and landing the role of Billy Crocker in Cole Porter's Anything Goes in London's West End.<br /><br /><br /><br />Barrowman met his partner Scott Gill in 1993 and in 2005 they registered as civil partners under British law. They do not call their relationship a marriage: "We're just going to sign the civil register. We're not going to have any ceremony because I'm not a supporter of the word marriage for a Gay partnership." Barrowman explained later: "Why would I want a 'marriage' from a belief system that hates me?" A small ceremony was held in Cardiff with friends and family, with the cast of Torchwood and executive producer Russell T Davies as guests.<br /><br /><iframe title="YouTube video player" width="640" height="510" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/M3Prshgtga4?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br /><br /><br />In 2009, Barrowman published I Am What I Am, his second memoir detailing his recent television work and musings on fame. In the book, Barrowman reveals that when he was just beginning his acting career, a Gay producer told Barrowman that he should try to pretend to be heterosexual in order to be successful. Barrowman was offended by the incident, and it made him more aware of the importance of his role as a Gay public figure: "One of my explicit missions as an entertainer is to work to create a world where no one will ever make a statement like this producer did to me to anyone who s Gay." To this end, Barrowman is active in his community supporting the issues that matter to him most. He worked with Stonewall, a Gay rights organization in the UK, on the "Education for All" campaign against homophobia in the schools. In April 2008, the group placed posters on 600 billboards that read, "Some people are Gay. Get over it!" Barrowman contributed his support to the project asking people to join him and "Help exterminate homophobia. Be bold. Be brave. Be a buddy, not a bully." In the same month, Barrowman spoke at the Oxford Union about his career, the entertainment industry, and gay rights issues. The event was filmed for the BBC program The Making Of Me, in an episode exploring the science of homosexuality<br /><br />In 1998, Barrowman was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical, and in 2006 he was voted Stonewall's "Entertainer of the Year."<br /><br />credit gaywisdom.orgWe' Po' Now, Crapaud!http://www.blogger.com/profile/15628784064853173388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2897018518688241194.post-74444232773838986162011-03-10T06:19:00.000-06:002011-03-10T06:19:00.275-06:00Another Great Hallelujah<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="853" height="510" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/MYDvdJoLxpc?rel=0" frameborder="0"></iframe>We' Po' Now, Crapaud!http://www.blogger.com/profile/15628784064853173388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2897018518688241194.post-65756433831659530982011-02-28T08:31:00.000-06:002011-02-28T08:53:49.465-06:00Today in Gay History<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTTy_a-IKT1IPwVuWjBO0hQDHMkCVobk0n6AjXENvgfHNXg0Zs9nB4E2c72wtm1IJ19B-kppP1FZDzv9vci2Lf79nKFmcb3XMLwLra287xkP9PRYXOUSYYBrNKEp787ukfwNvUc5OOn3UF/s1600/Kertbeny.JPG"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 156px; height: 241px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTTy_a-IKT1IPwVuWjBO0hQDHMkCVobk0n6AjXENvgfHNXg0Zs9nB4E2c72wtm1IJ19B-kppP1FZDzv9vci2Lf79nKFmcb3XMLwLra287xkP9PRYXOUSYYBrNKEp787ukfwNvUc5OOn3UF/s400/Kertbeny.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578753075353400786" border="0" /></a><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0pt 5.4pt 0pt 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0pt; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Monday, February 28, 2011</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">credit to <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >Dan Vera </span></span>and <span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-family: arial;" href="http://whitecrane.typepad.com/gaywisdom/">SEE MORE @ gaywisdom.org</a></span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />1824 - on this date Karl-Maria Kertbeny or Károly Mária Kertbeny (born Karl-Maria B</span><span style="font-size:130%;">enkert) (d. 1882) was born in Vienna, the son of a writer and painter. He was an Austrian-born Hungarian journalist, memoir-ist and human rights campaigner who in 1869 coined the word homosexual. This was part of his system for the classification of sexual types, as a replacement for the pejorative terms "sodomite" and "pederast" that were used in the German- and French-speaking world of his time. In addition, he called the attraction between men and women "heterosexualism", masturbators "monosexualists", and</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> practitioners of anal intercourse "pygists." [Please note that "homosexuality" was defined first. Then they had to come up with the term for "heterosexuals."]<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0pt 5.4pt 0pt 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0pt; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;">1973 - on this d</span></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1FLzS6yOZRlkawVhQkjNcMEmy29as1AgZv8FRMLmIFR9uZn-WtkGPLpQYDPXtapHYvf2mBww2cZd-RIW-jb1DDVX64Y8tjZnLs0eAiHxB6O59YGz1_TCr9dmFEdtcBDiVZ9cTwXlIH3QF/s1600/Gay+Activist+Alliance.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 336px; height: 216px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1FLzS6yOZRlkawVhQkjNcMEmy29as1AgZv8FRMLmIFR9uZn-WtkGPLpQYDPXtapHYvf2mBww2cZd-RIW-jb1DDVX64Y8tjZnLs0eAiHxB6O59YGz1_TCr9dmFEdtcBDiVZ9cTwXlIH3QF/s200/Gay+Activist+Alliance.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578753440328360498" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;">ate two members of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Activists_Alliance">GAY ACTIVIST ALLIANCE</a> appeared on the popular national television program JACK PAAR TONITE show to demand t</span></span></span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;">hat the host stop using the terms "fairies", "dykes" and "fags" to disparage Gay people. It was the first such conversation on network television and resulted in Paar apologizing for his deluge of anti-gay remarks (he had a long track-record of homophobic remarks over his career). </span></span><br /></span>We' Po' Now, Crapaud!http://www.blogger.com/profile/15628784064853173388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2897018518688241194.post-16535815058446481472011-02-18T15:33:00.004-06:002011-02-18T20:55:21.718-06:00Hymn to Love<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0pt 5.4pt 0pt 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0pt; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--><iframe title="YouTube video player" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1gTGmbA40ZQ?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" width="640" frameborder="0" height="510"></iframe><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >HYMNE </span><b><span><b><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >à L'Amour</span><br /></span></b></span></b><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">(Lyrics by Edith Piaf ~Music by M. Monnot / E. Constantine)<br /></span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">Edith Piaf (France), and many covers such as Thierry Amiel, nice one by Josh Groban</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">Le ciel bleu sur nous peut s'effrondrer</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">Et la terre peut bien s'écrouler</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">Peu m'importe si tu m'aimes</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">Je me fous du monde entier</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">Tant que l'amour inondera mes matins</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">Tant que mon corps frémira sous tes mains</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">Peu m'importent les grands problèmes</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">Mon amour, puisque tu m'aimes... </span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">J'irais jusqu'au bout du monde</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">Je me ferais teindre en blonde</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">Si tu me le demandais...</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">J'irais décrocher la lune</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">J'irais voler la fortune</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">Si tu me le demandais...</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">Je renierais ma patrie</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">Je renierais mes amis</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">Si tu me le demandais...</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">On peut bien rire de moi,</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">Je ferais n'importe quoi</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">Si tu me le demandais... </span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">Si un jour la vie t'arrache à moi</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">Si tu meurs, que tu sois loin de moi</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">Peu m'importe, si tu m'aimes</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">Car moi je mourrai aussi...</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">Nous aurons pour nous l'éternité</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">Dans le bleu de toute l'immensité</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">Dans le ciel, plus de problèmes</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">Mon amour, crois-tu qu'on s'aime?...</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">...Dieu réunit ceux qui s'aiment!</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">HYMN TO LOVE~<span style=""> </span>ENGLISH LYRICS</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">Original : Hymne À L'Amour</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">(Eddie Constantine / Marguerite Monnot)</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">Recorded by : Edith Piaf, Thierry Amiel, Christine Albert; Corey Hart; Cyndi Lauper.</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">NOT a literal translation, but an artistic one</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">If the sky should fall into the sea</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">And the stars fade all around me</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">All the times that we have known here</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">I will sing a hymn to love</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">We have lived and dreamed we two alone</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">In a world that's been our very own</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">With it's memories ever grateful</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">Just for you I sing a hymn to love</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">I remember each embrace</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">The smile that lights your face</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">And my heart begins to sing</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">Your eyes have never lied</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">And my heart begins to sing</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">And my heart begins to sing</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">If one day you should ever disappear</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">Always remember these words</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">If one day we had to say goodbye</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">And our love should fade away and die</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">In my heart you will remain here</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">And I'II sing a hymn to love</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">O for love, we live eternally</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">In the blue we'll roll this harmony</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">With every day we are in heaven</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">As for you, I'll sing a hymn to love</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">Don't you ever worry, dear</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">And the stars shall fade from the sky</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">All the times that we have known here</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">I will sing a hymn to our love</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">Oh darling,</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">Just for you I sing</span></b></pre><pre style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">A hymn to love</span></b></pre><br /><pre style=""><b><span><b><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">ENCORE PAR THIERRY AMIEL</span></span></span></b></span></b></pre><iframe title="YouTube video player" width="640" height="510" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/I07JknO1sk4?rel=0" frameborder="0"></iframe>We' Po' Now, Crapaud!http://www.blogger.com/profile/15628784064853173388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2897018518688241194.post-4451460975492277202011-02-17T11:42:00.003-06:002011-02-17T11:46:01.643-06:00Strange Videos<span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:courier new;" ><br /><br />||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||<br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">This is just plain wrong on so many levels<br /><br /><iframe title="YouTube video player" width="640" height="510" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/0VPcPCwK_G0?rel=0" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:courier new;" >||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:courier new;" ><br /><br /></span>We' Po' Now, Crapaud!http://www.blogger.com/profile/15628784064853173388noreply@blogger.com0