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🏳️🌈 A Gay Ol’ Times
You can expect fair and balanced coverage of LGBTQ issues in The New York Times today, but that wasn’t always the case. The paper wouldn’t even print the the word “gay” till 1987 — its style was to use “homosexual,” and you all know how I feel about that. The…
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🏳️🌈 Born This They
The singular they — that is, using the pronoun “they” as a non-gendered alternative for “he” or “she” — isn’t a new invention. In fact, it first emerged in English in the Fourteenth Century, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Next time you hear someone raising a fuss about the…
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🏳️🌈 Transformational Technology
If it weren’t for Lynn Conway, the Daily Dave wouldn’t be online. It would be handwritten. Or mimeographed. Or carved on a stone tablet. Conway, a trans woman, changed the way computers ran programs, and later revolutionized the way we create and produce microchips. It’s not hyperbole to say that…
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🏳️🌈 Take Me Out to the Ballgame
Since I wrote about baseball yesterday, let’s switch gears today and talk about … (checks notes) … baseball. Depending on who you ask, the first Pride night at an MLB stadium was held in 1994, 2000, or 2001. In 1994, the San Francisco Giants held an “Until There’s a Cure…
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🏳️🌈 Up High!
Did you know that the high five was invented by a gay man? As the story goes, on October 2, 1977, L.A. Dodger Glenn Burke, the first MLB player to come out, was on deck and Dusty Baker was about to cross the plate and score his 30th home run.…
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🏳️🌈 Gayskool: Friends of Judy
Jinkx Monsoon, Seattle’s premier Jewish narcoleptic drag queen, lit up the gay internet last month with her uproarious — yet somehow reverent — impersonation of Judy Garland. I insist you watch it right now: Every gay man I know is still talking about it. The Complimentary Spouse and I text…
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🏳️🌈 It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Queer
It’s June, which can only mean one thing1 — it’s Pride month! And that calls for another 30 days of Gayskool, my LGBTQ history project here at the Daily Dave. You can brush up on old Gayskool posts here. Come back tomorrow for my first post, which may or may…
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Katrina and the Caves
The Complimentary Spouse and I went to the Cave of the Winds near Colorado Springs yesterday. I’m happy to report that we didn’t have to wear miners’ helmets or get muddy — it was a pretty tourist-friendly place. As I don’t remember the names of any of the formations, I…
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There’s no Questions Like The Four Questions Like no Questions I Know
What is Dave wearing today? Dave is wearing a short-sleeve blue shirt and a pair of shorts. Please alert Anna Wintour. What is making Dave happy today? Dave had a good day at work. What is Dave’s inspirational thought for the day? Dave recently read the following: “When you admit…
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The Four Questions Have Been Thunderstruck
What is Dave wearing today? Dave is wearing a Victor Hedman Lighting jersey and a pair of khaki shorts. What is making Dave happy today? Dave and Complimentary Spouse are at the Lightning game. It’s a draw after one period, but Dave is still hoping for a Lightning blowout over…