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Minne Bruce Pratt
Minnie Bruce Pratt (b. September 12, 1946 in Selma, Alabama) is an U.S. educator, activist, and award-winning poet, essayist, and theorist. Pratt was born in Selma, Alabama, grew up in Centreville, Alabama and graduated with an honors B.A. from the University of Alabama (1968) and a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of North Carolina (1979). She is a Professor of Writing and Women’s Studies at Syracuse University where she was invited to help develop the university’s first Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender Study Program. She emerged out of the women’s liberation movement in the 1970s and 1980s and has written extensively about race, class, gender and sexual theory. Pratt, along with lesbian writers Chrystos and Audre Lorde, received a Lillian Hellman-Dashiell Hammett award from the Fund for Free Expression to writers "who have been victimized by political persecution." Pratt, Chrystos and Lorde were chosen because their experience as "a target of right-wing and fundamentalist forces during the recent attacks on the National Endowment for the Arts."[1] Her political affiliations include the International Action Center, the National Women's Fightback Network, and the National Writers Union. She is a contributing editor to Workers World newspaper. Pratt's partner is author and activist Leslie Feinberg. http://www.mbpratt.org/Gallery/MBPLF...reTaipei03.jpg |
Alice Walker--author, poet, essayist (etc.)
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"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow." "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." "I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart." "When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me." "What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood." |
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Langston Hughes Cafe: 3 a.m. Detectives from the vice squad with weary sadistic eyes spotting fairies. Degenerates, some folks say. But God, Nature, or somebody made them that way. Police lady or Lesbian over there? Where? ---------------------------------- I Dream a World I dream a world where man No other man will scorn, Where love will bless the earth And peace its paths adorn I dream a world where all Will know sweet freedom's way, Where greed no longer saps the soul Nor avarice blights our day. A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the earth And every man is free, Where wretchedness will hang its head And joy, like a pearl, Attends the needs of all mankind- Of such I dream, my world! --------------------------- Minstrel Man Because my mouth Is wide with laughter And my throat Is deep with song, You do not think I suffer after I have held my pain So long? Because my mouth Is wide with laughter, You do not hear My inner cry? Because my feet Are gay with dancing, You do not know I die? ------------------------------------ Joy I went to look for Joy, Slim, dancing Joy, Gay, laughing Joy, Bright-eyed Joy- And I found her Driving the butcher's cart In the arms of the butcher boy! Such company, such company, As keeps this young nymph, Joy! ----------------------------------- Port Town Hello, sailor boy, In from the sea! Hello, sailor, Come with me! Come on drink cognac. Rather have wine? Come here, I love you. Come and be mine. Lights, sailor boy, Warm, white lights. Solid land, kid. Wild, white nights. Come on, sailor, Out o' the sea. Let's go, sweetie! Come with me. |
suzie orman...the one who does all the money stuff...
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President James Buchanan http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._President.jpg William Rufus DeVane King from wikipedia: King was close friends with James Buchanan, and the two shared a home in Washington, D.C. for fifteen years prior to Buchanan's presidency. Buchanan and King's close relationship prompted Andrew Jackson to refer to King as "Miss Nancy" and "Aunt Fancy", while Aaron V. Brown spoke of the two as "Buchanan and his wife". Further, some of the contemporary press also speculated about Buchanan and King's relationship. Buchanan and King's nieces destroyed their uncles' correspondence, leaving some questions as to what relationship the two men had, but surviving letters illustrate the affection of a special friendship, and Buchanan wrote of his communion with his housemate. Buchanan wrote in 1844, after King left for France, "I am now solitary and alone, having no companion in the house with me. I have gone a wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any one of them. I feel that it is not good for man to be alone; and should not be astonished to find myself married to some old maid who can nurse me when I am sick, provide good dinners for me when I am well, and not expect from me any very ardent or romantic affection." |
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Walt Whitman And when I thought how my friend, my lover, was on his way coming, then O I was happy, Each breath tasted sweeter – and all that day my food nourished me more – and the beautiful day passed well, And the next came with equal joy – and with the next, at evening, came my friend, And that night while all was still I heard the waters roll slowly continually up the shores, I heard the hissing rustle of the liquid and sands, as directed to me, whispering to congratulate me, For the friend I love lay sleeping by my side, In the stillness his face was inclined toward me, while the moon's clear beams shone And his arm lay lightly over my breast – and that night I was happy. |
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Edna St. Vincent Millay From Sappho.com: In Great Companions, Max Eastman relates an interesting story about Millay that, if true, reveals something of her attitude about own sexuality. According to Eastman, while at a cocktail party Millay discussed her recurrent headaches with a psychologist. He asked her, "I wonder if it has ever occurred to you that you might perhaps, although you are hardly conscious of it, have an occasional impulse toward a person of your own sex?" She responded, "Oh, you mean I'm homosexual! Of course I am, and heterosexual, too, but what's that got to do with my headache?" |
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Mercedes de Acosta b. 1893, & d. 1968 in NYC. Wealthy socialite, Playwrite, screenwriter, poet, novelist. Little remembered for any literary work, but notoriously famous for being lover to the most beautiful and glamourous stars of classic cinema.
Truman Copote's naughty game of International Daisy Chain, whose object is to link people sexually using as few beds as possible, quipped: "Mercedes is the best card to hold - you can get to anyone from the Duchess of Windsor to Cardinal Spellman." Mercedes' most famous lovers were Marlene Dietrich & Greta Garbo. But add to that list the likes of Tallulah Bankhead, Alla Nazimova, Ona Munson (played Belle Watling in Gone With The Wind), Isadora Duncan, Elenor Roosevelt (so rumored), Catherine Cornell, Eva Le Gallienne, etc., etc., etc. Names relatively unknown today, but giants of the theater and cinema in their time. Mercedes was a very busy 'lady' indeed!! She is at once a fascinating and riviting individual. Her story reads like a who's who (or who's sleeping with who) of Hollywood & Broadway! |
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Eddie Izzard describes himself as "a complete boy plus half a girl" |
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And, you can have her. Sorry, but I don't think I've ever seen a more ugly girl...guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Harsh, much? While she may not be my cuppa, I don't think she's ugly. If she is, then what the FUCK am I, because I assure you, she is more attractive than I am. *shakes head* |
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ugly?...what's the point?... voicing an opinion is just that...and, when said opinion causes a reader to shudder or have *their* own opinion...and makes a comment it's not really 'grief' then is it?---seems it's just one more personal opinion... (yes...I am ultra sensitive today and should keep my fingers shut, but just can't at the moment) |
"...voicing an opinion is just that...and, when said opinion causes a reader to shudder or have *their* own opinion...and makes a comment it's not really 'grief' then is it?---seems it's just one more personal opinion..."
Yes, just one more *personal* opinion. I used the word 'grief' because the previous poster appeared to take this as a personal insult, and implied by comparison that I was calling *her* ugly. I don't know what she looks like, so how can I possibly comment on her looks, which comment would again be my own personal opinion. Opinions are just that, oppinions, not necessarily fact. From some of the postings I've read on this site, and the language used to express oppions, I am really surprised that the word 'ugly' is creating such controversy. It seems to me that there are some 'thick-skinned' folks on here, who have voiced or heard words that are much worse then 'ugly'. Ok, silly me for perpetuating this line of convo. This will be my last post on the matter...let's move on to other discussions instead of going back and forth about what we find attractive, and what we don't. Quote:
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Calpernia Addams
Addams grew up in Nashville, Tennessee.[2] She served as a Hospital Corpsman with the Navy and United States Marine Corps. During her last year in the military she came out as a transgender woman.[3] Addams chose the name "Calpernia" from the William Shakespeare play Julius Caesar (a variant spelling of Caesar's wife Calpurnia) and its appearance on a tombstone in the film The Addams Family.[3] In 1999, while working as a performer, Addams began dating PFC Barry Winchell. Word of the relationship spread at Winchell's Army base where he was harassed, and ultimately murdered, by fellow soldiers.[4] Addams' and Winchell's romance and the crimes of their abusers are depicted in the film Soldier's Girl, released in 2003. Addams was portrayed by Lee Pace. A subsequent New York Times article, "An Inconvenient Woman", documented the marginalization and misrepresentation of transgender sexuality even by gay rights activists.[5] http://www.deepstealthmedia.com/imag...ress_thumb.jpg |
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Calperna Addams does it for me. Yowza! :drool::tease::thud: Lynn Conway is also another looker for me, but she is married, and living stealth with her husband. Her eyes are gorgeous. |
Anthony Perkins ....... actor
Best known for playing the deranged Norman Bates, in Psycho...... Born in 1932, died of AIDS in 1992. |
Former Olympic swimmer Daniel Kowalski
http://www.mcv.gaynewsnetwork.com.au...0-kowlaski.jpg Announced two days ago "Things pop in my head that make me realise that I clearly suppressed these thoughts of being gay … because it was 'wrong', as a male it's 'wrong' but even more as an elite athlete," he said. "I always knew that I lacked confidence when I stood up on the blocks and I do wonder sometimes if that lack of confidence was fear – fear of not really knowing who I am. "On the sporting side, I lost to some amazing champions, so I'm not for a second saying that this is the reason I didn't win. I often wonder if the lack of self-confidence and lack of identity in many ways held me back from reaching my potential." He added that he hoped to find love soon, saying: "I look for all the things straight people do. I want to fall in love and be happy and be proud of who I am." |
Welsh Rugby Player Gareth Thomas
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Annie Leibovitz
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Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore 2007 - In front of a full house of hardcore Potter fans at Carnegie Hall in New York, Rowling, sitting on the stage on a red velvet and carved wood throne, read from her seventh and final book, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," then took questions. One fan asked whether Albus Dumbledore, the head of the famed Hogwarts School of Wizardry and Witchcraft, had ever loved anyone. Rowling smiled. "Dumbledore is gay, actually," replied Rowling as the audience erupted in surprise. She added that, in her mind, Dumbledore had an unrequited love affair with Gellert Grindelwald, Voldemort's predecessor who appears in the seventh book. After several minutes of prolonged shouting and clapping from astonished fans, Rowling added. "I would have told you earlier if I knew it would make you so happy." |
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Chely Wright
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I wasnt surprised about Chely comeing out. Her best friend in the early 90's went on a trip and bought her and Chely matching pearl rings which they both wore on their left hands for a very long time..makes ya go hmmm...
I say congrats to her for finally coming out and being happy ! She lives in NY now,its the perfect place for her at this time of her life :) |
Iphis (or Iphys)
According to Greek mythology and the Roman poet Ovid, who wrote about transformations in his Metamorphoses, Iphis (or Iphys) was the daughter of Telethusa and Ligdus in Crete. Ligdus had already threatened to kill his pregnant wife's child if it wasn't a boy. Telethusa despairs, but is visited in the middle of the night by the Egyptian goddess Isis, attended by Anubis and Apis, who assures her that all will be well.
When Telethusa gives birth to Iphis, she conceals her daughter's sex from her husband and raises her daughter as a boy. Iphis falls in love with another girl, Ianthe. Iphis is deeply in love and prays to Juno to allow her to marry her beloved. When nothing happens, her mother Telethusa brings her to the temple of Isis and prays to the goddess to help her daughter. Isis responds by transforming Iphis into a man. The male Iphis marries Ianthe and the two live happily ever after. Their marriage is presided over by Juno, Venus, and Hymenaios, the god of marriage |
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Lady Sovereign
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Former Republican National Committee chair and Bush campaign manager Ken Mehlman says he's gay after years of denial.
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Was going to put this in the breaking news section, but it just cannot compete with the creation of anti-matter in a lab(!), but since our friend Eleanor was family, I thought I'd post this here:
'Franklin And Eleanor': A Marriage Ahead Of Its Time from NPR Both Franklin and Eleanor also "gave each other space" to cultivate romantic friendships outside of the marriage. Whether or not these relationships were physical is still up for debate, but the language of existing letters shows there's no question they were passionate. In Eleanor's case, those romantic friendships were with men, like her beloved bodyguard Earl Miller, as well as with women, like the journalist Lorena Hickok. It was no secret to her colleagues in the press corps that "Hick," as she was called, was a lesbian; nor was it a secret that she and Eleanor seemed to be deeply in love. A few months after FDR's first inauguration, Eleanor wrote to "Hick" about their open secret: "And so you think they gossip about us ... I am always so much more optimistic than you are. I suppose because I care so little about what 'they' say." By the way, Rowley can quote those fearless words because Lorena Hickok preserved almost all of the 3,500 letters she and Eleanor wrote to each other from 1932 until Eleanor's death. The Roosevelt's nonconformist love lives, as well as their expansive impulses to turn the White House into a World War II-era hippie crash pad, have been recounted by other superb biographers, notably Blanche Wiesen Cook and Doris Kearns Goodwin. What distinguishes Rowley's chronicle is her focus on the evolution of the Roosevelt marriage from a standard-issue high-society alliance of its day to a ... what? We don't even have a term for such an unconventional relationship — certainly "open marriage" sounds too naughty, although "open" is what the Roosevelts clearly became. Of course, they didn't transform their marriage out of mere happy whim. There was the harrowing tragedy of FDR's polio and his rehabilitation, which naturally forced the couple apart. During the late 1920s, Rowley points out, Franklin was away from home for 116 weeks: Eleanor was with him for four of those weeks; his secretary, Missy LeHand, was with him for 110. And then there were the failures that loosened both the marital and family ties: FDR's affair with Lucy Mercer; Eleanor's rather strained style of parenting the couple's six children. Eleanor, an eternal daddy's girl, sadly confessed later in life that: "I do not think that I am a natural born mother. ... If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father." Rowley doesn't excuse these flaws but traces how the hard times helped the couple achieve what she dubs "one of the most interesting and radical marriages in history." |
Though it sounds like this was an episode rather than a life-long issue -
http://www.britannica.com/blogs/wp-c...-kaczunski.jpg This morning for some reason I began reading about Ted Kaczynski's psychological profile and I ran across this: While at the University of Michigan he sought psychiatric contact on one occasion at the start of his fifth year of study. As referenced above, he had been experiencing several weeks of intense and persistent sexual excitement involving fantasies of being a female. During that time period he became convinced that he should undergo sex change surgery. He recounts that he was aware that this would require a psychiatric referral, and he set up an appointment at the Health Center at the University to discuss this issue. He describes that while waiting in the waiting room, he became anxious and humiliated over the prospect of talking about this to the doctor. When he was actually seen, he did not discuss these concerns, but rather claimed he was feeling some depression and anxiety over the possibility that the deferment status would be dropped for students and teachers, and that he would face the possibility of being drafted into the military. He indicates that the psychiatrist viewed his anxiety and depression as not atypical. Mr. Kaczynski describes leaving the office and feeling rage, shame, and humiliation over this attempt to seek evaluation. He references this as significant turning point in his life. |
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"He claimed that by putting on an act he could con the psychiatrist into thinking him suitable for a feminine role even though his motive was exclusively erotic. " "As I walked away from the building afterwards, I felt disgusted about what my uncontrolled sexual cravings had almost led me to do and I felt - humiliated, and I violently hated the psychiatrist. Just then there came a major turning point in my life. " |
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