Famous/Highly Visible Queers

[Martina]

Originally Posted by MsMerrick

Check here for More Rachel Maddow, and GF ... Who hired RM originally to do lawn work....! Desperate Housewives notwithstanding they make a really really cute BF couple...
( Why don't I have a house damn it !!!!!!! )

Its a bunch of photos, so I am providing the whole link ; )
click here

i LOVE these. THANKS!! i love their story too. i want a Rhodes Scholar yard boy to show up at my house and fall instantly in love with me when i open the door. Sigh.

Rachel has said that if her partner asked her to quit her job and move to the UP or some remote place, she'd do it in an instant.

i love that the partner is no high powered whatever. She is an accountant who does some kind of art. An interesting and i am sure wonderful person. But it's not some power couple thing.

THanks again for the pics!!

[MsMerrick]

Originally Posted by Martina

i LOVE these. THANKS!! i love their story too. i want a Rhodes Scholar yard boy to show up at my house and fall instantly in love with me when i open the door. Sigh.

Rachel has said that if her partner asked her to quit her job and move to the UP or some remote place, she'd do it in an instant.

i love that the partner is no high powered whatever. She is an accountant who does some kind of art. An interesting and i am sure wonderful person. But it's not some power couple thing.

THanks again for the pics!!

You're welcome, someone turned them up on a Fabu List ! Looking closer they are from StumbleUpon, an interesting internet thing...I probably should have also mentioned they are clearly from the photo shoot, for the People Magazine Article, which I don't yet have, but am making it a minor priority to find ; )

[Rook]

hmmm... ~quietly visits Kroger's to buy magazine~

[Queerasfck]

Originally Posted by Rook

hmmm... ~quietly visits Kroger's to buy magazine~

Are you looking for famous/highly visible queers at the market?

[Gemme]

Originally Posted by EzeeTiger

Are you looking for famous/highly visible queers at the market?

He should start with Starbucks. They all go there eventually.

[Dante]

Dr. Susan Love,
Is considered the leading authority on breast cancer in America. She has written many books to help women cope with the disease. She now works full time on research to help find a cure. I had the priviledge of meeting her, as she is My personal hero. She has a wife, and they are raising a daugter. she appears quite often on Good Morning America. drsusanlove.com

[The_Lady_Snow]

Alan Cumming, OBE (born 27 January 1965) is a Scottish stage, television and film actor, writer, director, producer and author. His roles have included the Emcee in Cabaret, Boris Grishenko in GoldenEye, Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler in X2: X-Men United, and Fegan Floop in the Spy Kids trilogy. He has also appeared in independent films like The Anniversary Party, which he co-wrote, co-directed and co-starred in; and Ali Selim's Sweet Land, for which he won an Independent Spirit award as producer. His London stage appearances include Hamlet, Madman in Dario Fo's Accidental Death of an Anarchist, for which he received an Olivier award, the lead in Martin Sherman's Bent, and as Dionysus in The National Theatre of Scotland's The Bacchae. On Broadway he has appeared as Mac the Knife in The Threepenny Opera, the Emcee in Cabaret, for which he won the Tony in 1998, and "Design for Living". Cumming also introduces "Masterpiece Mystery" for PBS. He has also written a novel, Tommy's Tale, had a cable talk show ("Eavesdropping with Alan Cumming") and produced a line of perfumed products labeled "Cumming". He has contributed opinion pieces to many publications and performed a cabaret show I Bought A Blue Car Today. Retaining his British citizenship, Cumming also became a U.S. citizen in November 2008.

Cumming lives in New York City with his husband, graphic artist Grant Shaffer, and their dogs, Honey and Leon.[13] The couple dated for two years before entering into a civil union at the Old Royal Naval College Greenwich on January 7, 2007.[14]

Once described as "a frolicky pansexual sex symbol for the new millenium", Cumming has stated that he considers himself bisexual, "although the pendulum has obviously swung".[15] Prior to the civil union, Cumming dated both men and women. Previous relationships include a two year relationship with actress Saffron Burrows, a six year relationship with theater director Nick Philippou, and a 1985 marriage to actress Hilary Lyon which lasted eight years.

Source: WikiPedia

[Nat]

[Nat]

Eleonor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok

Hick darling,
All day I've thought of you & another birthday I will be with you, & yet tonite you sounded so far away & formal. Oh! I want to put my arms around you. I ache to hold you close. Your ring is a great comfort to me. I look at it and think she does love me, or I wouldn't be wearing it.

[Nat]

Neil Patrick Harris

[Nat]

George Takei

[Venus007]

http://www.heathermacallister.net/homepic.jpg

Heather MacAllister was a delicious wicked fat activist and sex positive activist and living a full free life activist who was born in MI and later moved to CA.

Her gorgeous ripe lush self was photographed by no less than Leonard Nimoy for his book of photography "The Full Body Project"

Heather was an activist for many projects, see below for much more info. . .

http://www.heathermacallister.net/

[The_Lady_Snow]

Leslie Feinberg (b. September 1, 1949, in Buffalo, NY) is a transgender activist, speaker, and author. Feinberg's novel Stone Butch Blues is widely considered a groundbreaking work about gender.[1][2][3] Feinberg also authored two non-fiction books, "Transliberation: Beyond Pink or Blue," and "Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman," as well as the fictional novel, "Drag King Dreams." Feinberg is also a high-ranking member of the Workers World Party and a managing editor of Workers World newspaper.[4][5][6]

Feinberg's partner is the prominent lesbian poet-activist Minnie Bruce Pratt.

[The_Lady_Snow]

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.

[Soon]

"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."

[Nat]

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.

[Nat]

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?"

[Nat]

Former Olympic swimmer Daniel Kowalski



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."

[Nat]

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?
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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!

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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?

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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!

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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.

[Nina]

suzie orman...the one who does all the money stuff...

(I dunno how to do all the picture posting stuff...this is the best I got!)