One Year Older!: June 2020

LGBTQ Book's and Films

LGBTQ Book's:

1: Call my by your name by Andrea Aciman

2: Gay Britania

3: Red, White and Blue by Casey Mcquiston

4: We were always here by Ryan Vance

5: Maurice by E. M Forster

6: Fanny and Steller by Neil Mckenna

7: The joy of sex by Charles Silver stein

8: They both die in the end by Adam Silvera

9: The son of Achilles by Madeline Miller

10: Queer City by Peter Ackford

LGBTQ Film's:

1: My own private Idaho

2: Call me by your name

3: Boys don't cry

4: Dallas buyers club

5: Queer As Folk - Series

6: Happy together

7: Method

8: Long time no see

9: Boys Love

10: Dark blue kiss

Recent News: On June 15, 2020, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that it is illegal for an employer to fire someone because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. The 6-3 ruling adds LGBTQ people to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which forbids discrimination based on sex, race, color, national origin and religion.

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What does LGBTQ stand for:

L - Lesbian

G - Gay

B - Bisexual

T - Transgender

Q - Queer/ Questioning

Stone Riots a brief history: Very few establishments welcomed gay people in the 1950s and 1960s. At the time Stonewall Inn was owned by mafia, it catered to the poorest and most marginalised people in the community: Butch Lesbians, Effeminate young men, Drag Queens, Male Prostitutes, Transgender people and Homeless Youths. A year after Stonewall on June 28th 1970 the first gay pride marches took place in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

The Stonewall Monument was established at the site in 2016.

Lillian Faderman calls the riots the 'Shots heard around the world' saying 'The Stonewall Rebellion was crucial because it sounded the rally for that movement, it became emblem of gay and lesbian power'.

Stonewall 50

LGBTQ timeline: 1688 to 2020

1688 - 1704 - Kagemachaya a Japanese gay bar first opens in japan
1785 - Jeremy Betham is one of the first people to argue for the decriminalization of sodomy in England.
1794 - The kingdom of Prussia abolishes the death penalty for sodomy.
1794 - Luxemburg decriminalises sodomy
1794 - Belgium decriminalises sodomy.
1807 - The Duchy of Warsaw is created and re - legalizing same sex sexual intercourse.
1835 - The last known execution for homosexuality in Great Briton. James Prall and John Smith are hanged at Newgate after being caught together in private lodgings.
1890 - Homosexuality is legalised in the Vatican.
1895 - The trail of Oscar Wilde resulted in him being prosecuted under criminal law amendment act 1885 for gross indecency and sentenced to two years in prison.
1906 - The first gay American novel with a happy ending Imre is published.
1921 - England attempts to make lesbians illegal for the first time in Britain history fails.
1931 - Madchen in uniform is one of the first explicitly lesbian films and the first pro - lesbian film released.
1938 - The word gay is used for the first time in film reference to homosexuality in the film Bringing Up The Baby.
1941 - Transsexuality was first used in reference to homosexuality and bisexuality.
1952 - The male homosexual magazine 'Adonis' is launched with the writer Yukio Mishima as a contributor in Japan.
1972 - Sweden becomes the first country to allow transsexuals to legally change their sex and provide free hormone therapy.
1991 - The Red Ribbon was first used as a symbol for HIV/AIDS campaign.

1993 - Brandon Teena was raped and murdered, he was a trans man.

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2001 - Same sex marriage laws came into effect in the Netherlands with joint adoption.
2003 - Buffy the vampire slayer showed girlfriends Willow and Tara in bed together (not a sex scene) but a first for its kind for the Network.

2005 - Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni were executed in Iran for allegedly raping a 13 year old boy or for just being gay??

(this one doesn't make sense to me so I have posted the official link to see if you can understand it) Here's the story

2009 - Carol Ann Duffy was chosen as the first openly gay poet laureate in the UK.
2012 - Taiwan's first same sex Buddhist wedding was for Fish Huang and her partner You Ya-Ting ❤
2013 - Todd Hughes became the first openly gay US Circuit Judge.
2014 - The first open transgender woman got married in Malta.
2016 - Amanda Nunes become UFCs first openly gay champion.
2017 - Queer art show leads Tate 2017 programme
2018 - The first time in history of the winter Olympics that male athletes competed in who were openly gay.
2019 - Prince Harry and Megan became the first British royals to celebrate LGBTQ Pride Month.
2020 - The US Supreme Court ruled a federal law protecting gay, lesbian and transgender employees from work place discrimination.

There's a million other mile stones that have happened over the years good and bad above are a few that jumped out at me.

What are your most memorable things throughout LGBTQ History?

Life Update, I'm Back

And we are back in the blogging game after 2 years!

As we all know and have been in lockdown (kill me) I'll be very honest with you guys its been so hard, so hard. I hope it has been do-able for you guys, I hope you have coped better than me as I turned to food!

I officially went into self isolation on the 24th March and the shop I work in shut on the 25th March so since then we have been on furlough pay (its shit) but we are luckier than others so I am grateful for that.

Also the pub I worked in closed and wont be reopening so I don't have that no more which is a shit because I really liked it but it cant be helped.

How many days have I been in lockdown? - As of today my computer says its the 11/06/2020 I have been in lockdown for 80 days, I tracked it on my calendar.

What have I done in lockdown? - Honestly nothing!

I will not becoming out of this lockdown professional at anything other than eating, no new skills, no new languages, I am not tiktok famous, I am still single still.

The only thing I did do was perfect my skin care routing and start brushing my hair and that's ok.

This is how bad my hair has gotten!!

I need a hair dresser badly... and the eyebrows lord heaven help me.

Wired has outlined some of the new rules of lifting lockdown check them out Here for those of you who didn't know like me because I have been avoiding the news.

15th June is faze 2 the official day when None essential shops can start opening clothes shops and books shops.