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1994: You Bomb You!
Allen Ginsberg throwing out the first pitch at a San Francisco Giants game on June 1, 1994. The team had invited him to be the first in a “City of Poets” series in which writers read their work before games. … Continue reading
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Tagged 1990's, 20th Century, Allen Ginsberg, LGBTQ, Poetry, Sports, USA, War
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1529: Fortifications
In 1527, a republican government was established in the city-state of Florence after residents ousted the ruling Medici family. The pope at the time, Clement VII, was himself a Medici—and he took affront at the rebellion and resolved to capture … Continue reading
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Tagged 16th Century, Architecture, Art, Drawing, Emperor Charles V, Italy, LGBTQ, Michelangelo, Pope Clement VII, War
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1792: The Chevalier d’Éon
Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d’Éon de Beaumont—known more simply as the Chevalier d’Éon—was a French soldier, diplomat, and spy who settled in London, living from 1762-1777 as a man and from 1786-1810 as a woman. Born to a poor noble family in Burgundy … Continue reading
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Tagged 18th Century, Chevalier d'Éon, Diplomacy, France, Great Britain, LGBTQ, Russia, Seven Years' War, Women
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1989: Drain
Robert Gober: Drain (1989)
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Tagged 1980's, 20th Century, Art, LGBTQ, Painting, Robert Gober, USA
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100 AD: Leucippus
Galatea, daughter of Eurytius, who was son of Sparton, married at Phaestus in Crete Pandion’s son, Lamprus, a man of good family but without means. When Galatea became pregnant, Lamprus prayed to have a son and said plainly to his … Continue reading
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Tagged 2nd Century, 5th Century BC, Antoninus Liberalis, Books, Children, Greece, LGBTQ, Mythology, Rome, Sculpture
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1661: Elizabeth Russell
[———–] Russell, always known under the guise or habit of a woman, and answered to the name of Elizabeth, as registered in Streatham parish, Nov. 21, 1661, but at death proved to be a man. He was buried April 14th, … Continue reading
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Tagged 17th Century, 18th Century, Art, Christian Seybold, ELizabeth Russell, Germany, Great Britain, LGBTQ, Painting, Portraits, Women
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600 BC: How Can Someone Not Be Hurt and Hurt Again
πῶϲ κε δή τιϲ οὐ θαμέω̣ϲ̣ἄϲαιτ̣ο, Κύπρι, δέϲπ̣ ̣ο̣ιν̣ ̣’, ὄττινα [δ]η̣ ̀ φιλ̣́ ̣[ηϲι,] [κωὐ] θέλοι μάλιϲτα πάθα̣ν̣χ̣άλ̣[αϲϲαι;] [ποῖ]ον ἔχηϲθα [νῶν] ϲά̣ λοιϲί μ’ ἀλεμά̣τω̣ ̣ϲ̣ δ̣αιϲ̣̈́ δ̣ ̣[ην [ἰμέ]ρω⟨ι⟩ λύ{ι}̣ ϲαντι γ̣όν’ ωμε-̣ [x [ ̣ ̣ ̣] … Continue reading
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Tagged 1860's, 19th Century, 6th Century BC, 7th Century BC, Art, Diane Raynor, Great Britain, Greece, LGBTQ, Love, Painting, Poetry, Sappho, Simeon Solomon, Women
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