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🏳️🌈 Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!
LGBTQ people across the United States should credit their civil rights and social acceptance to one woman: Marsha P. Johnson. While the history of the Stonewall riots isn’t quite clear, it’s believed that Johnson — an African-American trans woman — is the first one to fight back by throwing “the…
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🏳️🌈 Raising the Bar
In 1966, three gay men in New York, inspired by the sit-ins in the South, protested anti-gay laws with a “sip-in” at a Manhattan bar. At the time, it was illegal for bartenders to serve LGBTQ people. Of course, this didn’t pose much of a problem, as you can’t conclusively…
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🏳️🌈 Karl-Maria Kertbeny Gives Gays a Name
The term “homosexual” was created in 1868 by journalist Karl-Maria Kertbeny. Before that, there wasn’t really a nonjudgmental word (at least in the Western world) that described gay people, which meant we couldn’t define ourselves or create communities. (Consider how hard it would be to identify or understand yourself if…
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🏳️🌈 Welcome to Gayskool
June is the most rainbow-tactic, glitteriffic, fabulous month of the year! It’s when we in the LGBTQ community celebrate Pride. Every year, I post daily LGBTQ History Lessons all month long on Facebook. This year, I’ll be doing it on the Daily Dave — it will take the place of…
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Hoop-De-Do!
The Complimentary Spouse and I went to an NBA game Saturday night. It was my first basketball game in more than two decades — my brother and I went to an Orlando Magic game sometime in the ’90s, but I don’t recall exactly when. After this weekend’s experience, I’m hooked…
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Hiring Shaq Doesn’t Guarantee a Slam Dunk
There are few things that delight me more than seeing a poorly conceived ad on teevee. It’s wasteful, and I cringe when I think about the armies of people who tossed wads of dollars into a creative effort that entirely missed the mark. And that’s why I enjoy them —…
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My Fine-Feathered Friends
I see these birds all the time on my morning runs. I have identified them in the past as double-breasted cormorants, but people seem to insist they are actually anhingas because their beaks are straight and not curved. I stand by my belief that these are cormorants. They clearly have…
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They Call Him Flipper, Flipper, Faster Than Lightning
I saw lots of dolphins on Bayshore this morning on my run. They weren’t close to the balustrade, but you can see them frolicking in this video. I really hope these weren’t the dolphins from Treehouse of Horror XI. We live close to the water.
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I Thought This Song Had Been Outlawed by the United Nations
The Complimentary Spouse arrived at our fancy-schmancy dinner last night and heard the tail end of this song being played in the bar. Listen for a few seconds and you’ll recognize it. Is this really the right tune for an expensive steakhouse?
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Yo MoMA’s so Big …
I was going to start this post by saying that MoMA in New York is my second-favorite art museum in the world. But, as I started to write, it no longer seemed right to rank art museums because, like doggos, they’re all the absolute best. Any place that makes art…
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