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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'.

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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.

What have I learnt about myself in lockdown?

1: I love to eat everything and anything.... Except tomatoes!

2: I love cold coffee.

3: I hoard books

4: I don't prioritize money properly

5: I could live in my Pj'S, Forever!

6: I have no hobbies what so ever.

7: I have the attention span of a goldfish.

8: The only dishes I can cook pre lockdown are spaghetti bolognaise, curry oh and beans on toast.

9: I started at the Open University.

10: The only house work I like doing is washing my clothes.

11: I have got more steps in walking around my living room than I ever did outside.

12: I do not own a pair of trainers. (pre lockdown)

13: TikTok scares me! (everyone is so talented, I am not!)

14: I love everything Korean.

15: I will never be thin.

Just a little good news for you all I have made plans with my friend for dinner when everything is open again.

Tell me in the comments how your experience is going/ has been in lockdown.

wash your hands and wear a mask.

Stay safe and sane guys

Love

Kay

xoxoxoxo

Wild camping

Hello everyone I am so sorry about being quiet but I have just been getting on with life I am afraid! Anyway here's what I have been doing

First of all I went out for the first time in 3 years as you can guess there was drama as always but it was still a good night.

I landed a full time job working in a shoe factory.

Taking care of Rudi and myself.

Attending a vegan festival in Newcastle.

Did a bit of wild camping with the ladies in the pictures I learnt how to start a fire and keep it going, forage, I was designated camp cook, we also did spoon carving. It was great these ladies where so inspiring everyone was so different but very helpful and we shared so many stories around the campfire.

Sending light and love

Kay

BOOK: WAR ON WOMEN

WAR ON WOMEN

Feminism has not reached its goal yet.

For the white, Western woman, much has changed but the first wave of feminism taken place in many parts of the world it is dangerous for many women to be born.

Every now and then comes threw the Dutch media is a message on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), trafficking, or Indian child brides, but those messages disappear quickly and make little impression. Who knows what FGM is anyway? Details are uncomfortable, but Sue Lloyd-Roberts knows precisely that details make the difference and warns you of them in her book The War Against Women.

The World Health Organization defines FGM as "any procedure where in a part of or all of the external female genitalia are removed, or any other damage of the female genital organs for non-medical reasons. There are four types according to the organisation. In many cases, the clitoris is maimed or removed and sometimes labia, both inner and outer are cut through. The latter is done to narrow the vaginal opening; anything to make women sexual pleasure possible. Young girls are circumcised, and everything takes place without anaesthesia. Some girls bleed to death after such a cutting party. FGM still exists because of the belief that a girl will not marry if she is not circumcised, she would be unclean or indecent; people value tradition.

That is what we are talking about when we talk about misogyny; tradition. It is maddening, even for Lloyd-Roberts.

She writes: "I want to scream when I hear him invoke the word "tradition" as an explanation. How many crimes are all over the world against women committed in the name of tradition? Humanity is becoming better informed, globalised, and more educated, you might think, so why do people just refer to outdated and unexplained traditions mock common sense, and even with the law? What is it terribly convenient to carry on traditions to disguise misogyny and even legitimise criminal behaviour."

In Pakistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, India, the tradition is to treat a woman as property. she is married off as soon as possible because otherwise it costs too much money. According to the law you may not marry girls in India before 18 years old (boys must be at least 21 years), but it happens that girls have been choosen before they are teens.

Despite the low social status of women, the honour of a family does depend on chastity and unconditional obedience of daughter, sister, and / or spouse. A girl has however already no longer pure as noted by family that someone other than her (future) husband looks at her. In such cases, a girl's life is no longer certain, honour killings will be punished enough not to commit the murder. If the killer is already arrested and prosecuted, he is only a few months in prison and then welcomed home as a hero: the family honour is saved.

Sue Lloyd-Roberts (she died in October 2015 from a rare form of leukaemia) a courageous journalist, from the texts in the war against women show that they undisturbed questions kept asking, and would not be stopping by disgust or anger or dismay. Moreover, she knows how to put every story in context, making it clear to include these women stories because it can be a huge scandal, or because for bureaucratic reasons little or nothing is done.

Sue Lloyd-Roberts appoints in this book frankly what she sees or hears or thinks. Lloyd-Roberts was not necessarily feminist but came after thirty years of film making to the conclusion that women are very often the victims of situations that are maintained by men. How is it possible that women, a group comprising more than half the world's population, still treated as a minority? It is a political issue, suspected Lloyd-Roberts. It is an issue that is still not considered a priority, even in the Western world is misogyny often seen as a luxury problem.

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2016 Book's

Books I have read in 2016

January:

1: Pompeii by Robert Harris (recommend)

2: The diary of a young girl by Anne Frank

3: 101 Dalmatians by Disney

4: The little mermaid by Disney

5: UP by Disney

6: Bambi by Disney

February:

1: A walk in the woods by Bill Bryson

2: Then tenderness of wolves by Stef Penney

3: The curvy girls club by Michele Gorman

4: The Dove keepers by Alice Hoffman

5: The Hourglass Factory by Lucy Ribchester (totally recommend)

March:

1: The thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (totally recommend)

2: Voodoo killers by Joseph Carlson

3: City of Bones by Cassandra Clare (recommend)

4: City of glass by Cassandra Clare (recommend)

5: Winnie the pooh and the honey tree by Disney

6: Wall-e by Disney

7: The lion king by Disney

8: Tinker bell by Disney

9: The Fox and the Hound by Walt Disney

10: The Adventures of Henry Dent by Cathy Smith

April:

1: The City Of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare (recommend)

2: The Urban beekeeper by Steve Benbow (recommend)

3: City of lost souls by Cassandra Clare (recommend)

4: City of heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare (recommend)

5: Catherine of Aragon by Giles Tremlett

6: The bane chronicles by Cassandra Clare (totally recommend)

7: Let the right on in by John Lindqvist

8: Long walk to freedom by Nelson Mandela

May:

1: The Haunted book by Jeremy Dyson
2: A reunion of ghosts by Judith Mitchell (recommend)
3: We still kill the old way by Nick Oldham (recommend)
4: The daylight gate by Jeanette Winterson
5: The Buddha in the attic by Julie Otsuka
6: Kasyan from the beautiful lands by Ivan Turgenev
7: Killing the dead by Marcus Sedgwick
8: X Platoon by Steve Heaney
9: Public libraries and other stories by Ali Smith

June
1: The song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (recommend)
2: The collected works of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
3:The dictionary of mutual understanding by Jackie Copleton
4: I am Malala by Malala Y
5: The Celts by Alice Roberts
6: James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (recommend)
7: Ordinary Beauty by Mary McEvoy
8: This House Is Haunted by John Boyne
9: The Book Of Lies by Mary Horlock
10: Beatrix potters gardening life by Martha McDowell
11: Red Azalea by Anchee Min (recommend)

July
1: I'm quiet happy standing by Virginia Ironside
2: Red Riding hood by Sarah Blakely - Cartwright (recommend)
3: Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare
4: The Silk Factory by Judith Allnatt (recommend)
5: The Time Of My Life by Patrick Swayze
6: Me Before You by JoJo Moyles
7: The Secret by Decic Henderson
8: Not Quiet Nice by Celia Imrie

August
1: Frances: the tragic bride by Jacky Hyams
2: Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare (recommend)
3: We also served by Vivian Newman
4: More sawn - off tales by David Gaffney
5: Start wars: Ultimate Duels by Lindsey Kent
6: Sex Killer by Richard Jones
7: The Uninvited by Liz Jensen
8: The Secret Rooms by Catherine Bailey
9: Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliose

September
1: The woman who would be king by Kara Cooney
2: Bridge of spies by Giles Whittel
3: San Andreas by Alister Maclean (recommend)
4: In the heart of the sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
5: A death in Belmont by Sabastian Junger
6: The Dungeon by Leanne reid banks (recommend)

October
1: The reckless life of Marlon Brando by Stefan Manger
2: By the river piedra I sat down and wept by Paulo Coelho
3: The life of Lee by Lee Evans

November
I have not finished a book in November 😐