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THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … December 31

HAPPY HOGMANAY! What's is Hogmanay you say? Why the roots of Hogmanay reach back to the celebration of the winter solstice among the Norse, as well as incorporating customs from the Gaelic New Year's celebration of Samhain.

In Europe, winter solstice evolved into the ancient celebration of Saturnalia, a great Roman winter festival, where people celebrated completely free of restraint and inhibition. The Vikings celebrated Yule, which later contributed to the Twelve Days of Christmas, or the "Daft Days" (really) as they were sometimes called in Scotland. The winter festival went underground with the Protestant Reformation and ensuing years, but re-emerged near the end of the 17th century. A very Scottish thing Hogmanay. Wear a kilt to this evening's festivities to set the mood right!

192 – The Roman emperor Commodus died on this date (b.161). It's New Year's Eve and, after a long year's journey, we are finally at the end of this year. To be on the safe side, why not stay home and watch old reruns of Guy Lombardo and spend a quiet evening in memory of the emperor Commodus, who called his exceptionally well-endowed cup-bearer "my donkey," and was strangled by an over- enthusiastic wrestler named Narcissus on this day.

In 2000's neo-blood and sandals epic Gladiator, Commodus was portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix in an Academy-Award-nominated performance. The historical character of Commodus is fictionalized in the movie as a deranged megalomaniac who murders Marcus Aurelius to usurp the throne. There is no historical evidence suggesting Marcus Aurelius was murdered, much less by his own son. However the movie removes some of the most bizarre eccentricities of Commodus. The film's protagonist, Maximus Decimus Meridius (played by Russell Crowe) is loosely inspired by Narcissus, and was named so in a previous draft of the screenplay, but as in The Fall of the Roman Empire Commodus is killed in hand-to-hand combat. Commodus's death

Dressing Tony Curtis for "Some Like It Hot"

1897 – Orry-Kelly was the professional name of Orry George Kelly (d.1964), a prolific Hollywood costume designer.

He was born in Kiama, New South Wales, Australia, and was known as Jack Kelly. His father William Kelly, was born on the Isle of Man and was a gentleman tailor in Kiama. Orry was a name of an ancient King of Man. Jack Kelly studied art in Sydney, and worked as a tailor's apprentice and window dresser.

He journeyed to New York to pursue an acting career. He shared an apartment there with Charlie Spangles and Cary Grant. Director Gillian Armstrong writes of this time:

''The big secret is that when Orry first got to New York and was trying to get his start, painting murals on walls and selling hand-painted ties, he ended up rooming with a young British actor called Archie Leach. They definitely became lovers and were living together for about five years.''

The job painting murals in a nightclub led to his employment by Fox East Coast studios illustrating titles. He designed costumes and sets for Broadway's Shubert Revues and George White's Scandals. His lover, Archie Leach, went on to become Cary Grant.

Orry-Kelly went to Hollywood in 1932, working for all the major studios (Warner Brothers, Universal, RKO, 20th Century Fox, and MGM), and designed for all the great actresses of the day, including Bette Davis, Kay Francis, Olivia de Havilland, Katharine Hepburn, Dolores del Río, Ava Gardner, Ann Sheridan, Barbara Stanwyck, and Merle Oberon.

He worked on many films now deemed classics, including 42nd Street, The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, Arsenic and Old Lace, Harvey, Oklahoma!, Auntie Mame, and Some Like It Hot.He won three Academy Awards for Best Costume Design (for An American in Paris, Cole Porter's Les Girls, and Some Like It Hot) and was nominated for a fourth (for Gypsy). A longtime alcoholic, he died of liver cancer in Hollywood. His pallbearers included Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Billy Wilder and George Cukor and his eulogy was read by Jack Warner. His Academy Awards went to Jack Warner's wife, Ann.

1948 – Joe Dallesandro, is an American actor and Warhol superstar. Although he never became a mainstream film star, Dallesandro is generally considered to be the most famous male sex symbol of American underground films of the 20th century, as well as a sex symbol of gay subculture

Born into a dysfunctional family, Joe was placed in foster homes. Dallesandro began acting out and became aggressive. He repeatedly ran away from his foster home until his father finally relented and allowed him to live with him. At the age of 14, Dallesandro and his brother moved to Queens to live with their paternal grandparents and their father.

At 15, he was expelled from school for punching the principal, who had insulted his father. After his expulsion, Dallesandro began hanging out with gangs and started stealing cars. In once such instance, Dallesandro panicked and smashed the stolen car he was driving through the gate of the Holland Tunnel. He was stopped by a police roadblock and shot once in the leg by police who mistakenly thought he was armed. Dallesandro managed to escape being caught by police, but was later arrested when his father took him to the hospital for his gunshot wound. He was sentenced to Camp Cass Rehabilitation Center for Boys in the Catskills in 1964

The following year, Dallesandro ran away from Camp Cass. He supported himself by prostitution and later nude modeling, appearing most notably in short films and magazine photos for Bob Mizer's Athletic Model Guild.

Dallesandro met Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey in 1967 while they were shooting Four Stars, and they cast him in the film on the spot. Warhol would later comment "In my movies, everyone's in love with Joe Dallesandro."

Dallesandro played a hustler in his third Warhol film, Flesh (1968), where he had several nude scenes. Flesh became a crossover hit with mainstream audiences, and Dallesandro became the most popular of the Warhol stars. New York Times film critic Vincent Canby wrote of him: "His physique is so magnificently shaped that men as well as women become disconnected at the sight of him."

A Warhol photograph of the crotch bulge of Dallesandro's tight blue jeans graces the famous cover of the Rolling Stones album Sticky Fingers. Dallesandro explained to biographer Michael Ferguson, "It was just out of a collection of junk photos that Andy pulled from. He didn't pull it out for the design or anything, it was just the first one he got that he felt was the right shape to fit what he wanted to use for the fly."

As Dallesandro's underground fame began to cross over into the popular culture, he graced the cover of Rolling Stone in April 1971. He was also photographed by some of the top celebrity photographers of the time.

He continued to star in films made mainly in France and Italy for the rest of the decade, returning to America in the 1980s. He made several mainstream films during the 1980s and 1990s. One of his first notable roles was that of 1920s gangster Lucky Luciano in Francis Coppola's The Cotton Club. He also had roles in Critical Condition (1987), Sunset (1988) , Guncrazy (1992), Cry-Baby (1990), and The Limey.

In addition to films, Dallesandro has also worked in television. In 1986, he co-starred in the ABC drama series Fortune Dane. The series lasted only five episodes. Dallesandro has also made guest appearances on Wiseguy, Miami Vice, and Matlock.

In 2009, Dallesandro wrote and produced the documentary film Little Joe. The film chronicles Dallesandro's life and career.

Dallesandro, who identifies himself as bisexual, has been married three times and has two children. He is semi-retired from acting, and currently manages an apartment building in Los Angeles.

1948 – The American singer Donna Summer, was born on this date (d.2012). She was an American singer, songwriter and artist, best known for a string of disco hits in the late 1970s that earned her the title "Queen Of Disco" and as one of the few disco-based artists to have longevity on the charts through the late 1980s and beyond.

The question with Donna Summer is, "is she or isn't she?" Homophobic that is!

In the mid 1980s, rumors began circulating that Summer had allegedly made anti-gay comments regarding the AIDS epidemic as being a punishment from God for homosexuality. The fallout from the alleged quote had a significantly negative impact on Summer's career, which saw thousands of her records being returned to her record company by angered fans. However, Summer denied making any such remarks and many years later she filed a lawsuit against New York magazine when it reprinted the rumors as fact, just as Summer was about to release her latest album Mistaken Identity in 1991. According to an A&E Biography program in which Summer participated in 1995, the lawsuit was settled out of court with neither side discussing details of the settlement.

D.L. Groover of Houston's OutSmart magazine wrote that after a 1983 concert in Atlantic City, Summer was talking to the fans, as she liked to do at this first- comeback point in her career. A man with AIDS asked her to pray for him, because he knew of her born-again Christian beliefs, and she said she would be delighted. Someone else piped up that she was being hypocritical. At that point, all accounts get fuzzy and overblown, but every witness says that the heated situation deteriorated, with many outraged patrons shouting as they left the auditorium. In more than one account, Summer said that AIDS appeared in the gay community because of its reckless lifestyle... but did not say that AIDS was God's punishment. She and the gay fan prayed together, she asked him to turn his life to Christ, and she embraced him - a courageous act at a time when most people would have run screaming from the room to get away from someone with the deadly disease.

For her part Summer told The Advocate in 1989 that "A couple of the people I write with are gay, and they have been ever since I met them. What people want to do with their bodies is their personal preference. I'm not going to stand in judgment about what the Bible says about someone else's life. I've got things in my life I've got to clean up. What's in your life is your business." Make of that what you will.

Rick Sandford as Ben Barker

1950 – Rick Sandford (d.1995) was a documentary research assistant, editor and actor of gay erotic movies and author.

Rick Steven Sandford was born in Denver, Colorado, and grew up in the Lake Tahoe area. His early difficulties learning to read led his parents to enroll him in a private school.

After his graduation in 1969, he first went to Los Angeles on vacation, to see the musical, Hair and the Russian motion picture version of War and Peace, and after 1972, Sandford remained in Los Angeles employed in various positions, from an usher at Grauman's Chinese Theatre to a television show stand-in.

In 1977 he met Josh Becker, American writer and director, of films and television, who would become his long-time friend, according to Becker, Sandford only heterosexual friend.

Initially living in a bungalow behind a house in West Hollywood, Sandford was evicted and with his best friend, Stacey, with whom he had grown up in Reno, he moved into a one-bedroom apartment at 666 N. Van Ness.

Sandford received credit as research assistant on 50 Golden Years of Oscar: the Official History of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences and Ronald Haver's David O. Selznick's Hollywood. Sandford served as assistant on the 1990 documentary Hollywood Mavericks.

Sandford appeared on television shows and in motion pictures as an extra and in a few bit parts: in episodes of Police Woman in 1974 and Step by Step in 1991. During the late 1970s and early 1980s he worked as an editor on 3 gay erotic films and appeared as Benjamin Barker or Ben Barker in 13 gay erotic motion pictures including Kip Noll and the Westside Boys, Rear Deliveries, Skin Deep, The Class of '84 Part 2 Jocks, Gold Rush Boys, The Boys of San Francisco, A Night at Halsted's, and Games.In the mid 1980s, Don Bachardy sketched Sandford for his book, Drawing of the Male Nude; both Bachardy and his partner Christopher Isherwood were friends with Sandford. During this time, Sandford introduced Bachardy and Isherwood to Yale-trained actor Peter Evans and his then lover Craig Lucas. Sandford and Lucas had a fling, and Lucas remembered

"He came to New York with a strip show. To [the song] 'Another Hundred People' from 'Company', he arrived onstage with a suitcase, and met invisible New Yorkers, stripping for them, looking for love. Afterward, we had to wait while older men went into his dressing room to make appointments. Or something."

In 1991, his short story Forster & Rosenthal Reevaluated: An Investigative Report was published. In 1994, another of his short stories, Purim was published. Two more of Sandford's short stories were published posthumously, The Gospel Of Bartholemew Legate: Three Fragments and Manifest White. In 2000, his novel, Boys Across the Street was published, also posthumously.

Boys Across the Street is a candidly hilarious look at the gay life of Rick, an exporn star, who lives near a boy's Hasidic school, as he becomes obsessed with building relationships with the boys, leading to a fascination with Hasidism, which reviles his sexual orientation.

Sandford died of AIDS during the evening of September 28, 1995.

1958 – David Pevsner is an American actor, singer, dancer, porn star, and writer. Pevsner appeared in the 1990 revival of Fiddler on the Roof, 1991 revival of Rags, and some other theatrical productions. He also wrote three songs for the 1999 musical Naked Boys Singing!, including "Perky Little Porn Star." He wrote and produced two one-person shows, To Bitter and Back (2003) and Musical Comedy Whore (2013). Pevsner portrayed mostly minor roles in films and television. His major screen roles are Ebenezer Scrooge in Scrooge & Marley, the 2012 film adaptation of A Christmas Carol, and Ross Stein in a 2011 web series Old Dogs & New Tricks. He recorded the 2016 album Most Versatile, whose album cover pays homage to Bruce Springsteen's album Born in the U.S.A.

David Pevsner was raised in Skokie, Illinois. He attended Niles East High School in the same Chicago suburb and participated in its theater program. He graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.

He appeared in the 1991 revival of the 1986 musical Rags, set in 1910, portraying the dual roles of Saul and Nathan. He appeared in the 1995 theatrical play Party, portraying the role of Kevin. In the play, Kevin, a college teacher who lives with his partner, hosts a party at his apartment, where the males characters play the naked truth-or-dare game. Pevsner appeared in the two-act gay revue musical When Pigs Fly from 1996 to 1998. Pevsner appeared in F*cking Men, the 2009 explicit play written by Joe DiPietro about the lives of gay urban men, portraying Jack, who commits adultery with another man, while his husband does the same.

Pevsner co-wrote the 1999 musical Naked Boys Singing! with the writing team. He wrote three songs for the musical, including "Perky Little Porn Star" and "The Naked Maid."

Pevsner appeared in films, mostly portraying minor roles in such films as The Fluffer (2001) and Adam & Steve (2006). He also portrayed a major role of Ebenezer Scrooge in Scrooge & Marley, the 2012 film adaptation that tells the gay interpretation of the 19th-century novel A Christmas Carol.

Pevsner also portrayed minor roles in television series, particularly a bartender of a gay bar in an episode of NYPD Blue.

Pevsner recorded the 2016 album Most Versatile, whose title was inspired by his being voted "Most Versatile" in a survey back in high school. The album's working title was Shameless, named after his Tumblr blog and "for [being] something with a little skin." The songs of the album explores "a whirlwind of one man's gay experiences" and feature Jim J. Bullock, Maxwell Caulfield, and some others as guest artists. He wrote the lyrics of all thirteen songs.

In his 60s Pevsner is today earning money doing erotic performances on OnlyFans.

Pevsner is Jewish. He is also openly gay.

1969 – The first performance of The Cockettes took place on New Years Eve 1969, at the Palace Theatre in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood and soon became a "must-see" for San Francisco's hip gay community, combining LSD-influenced dancing, set design, costumes and their own versions of show tunes (or original tunes in the same vein). Initially, shows were performed every six weeks, performing on stage prior to the Saturday midnight "Nocturnal Dream Show" of underground films at the Palace Theatre. Show titles included Gone With the Showboat to Oklahoma, Tinsel Tarts In A Hot Coma, Journey to the Center of Uranus, Smacky & Our Gang, Hollywood Babylon and Pearls Over Shanghai.

Word quickly got out that nothing like these shows had ever been seen before, and within a few months the Cockettes were getting enormous attention from the media. Not only hippie magazines, such as Earth and Rolling Stone, wanted stories on the Cockettes, but also mainstream magazines such as Look, Life and Esquire were anxious to do features as well. The Cockettes were the subject of a documentary called, of course, The Cockettes. If you haven't seen it, do. Torrent users can find it on isoHunt.com

1990 – Ian McKellen, English actor, is knighted by the Queen of England. He is the first openly gay man to be knighted.

2014 – Russian large gay club called Central Station was forced to close after countless attacks of sprays of bullets and being gassed. It later reopened with the use of bulletproof glass.

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Losers' Bracket Announcement

The top 16 losers from each bracket will be pitted against each other, starting this Sunday. See the bracket below with pairings underneath (the font is tiny).

St Sebastian vs Sts Louis and Zelie Martin

St Monica vs St Jadwiga of Poland

St Martha vs St Gemma Galgani

St Barbara vs St Gertrude of Nivelles

St Mary Magdalene vs St Faustina

St Maximus the Confessor vs St Kateri Tekakwitha

St Agatha vs St Katharine Drexel

St Macrina vs St Clare of Assisi

St Brigid of Kildare vs St Arnold Janssen

St Benedict vs St Teresa of Avila

St George vs Padre Pio

St Jerome vs St John of the Cross

St Cecilia vs St Edith Stein

St Moses the Black vs St Hildegard

St Dymphna vs St Therese of Lisieux

St Mary of Egypt vs St Francis of Assisi

St Lucy vs St Oscar Romero

St Augustine vs St Roch

St Catherine of Alexandria vs St John Henry Cardinal Newman

St Nicholas vs St Martin de Porres

St Guinefort vs St Mark Ji Tianxiang

St Gregory of Nyssa vs St Olga of Kiev

St Joseph vs St Bernadette

St Athanasius vs St Catherine of Siena

St Jude vs St Maria Goretti

St Blaise vs St Rose of Lima

St Elizabeth, mother of John vs St John Bosco

St Patrick vs St Thomas Aquinas

St Agnes vs St Charles Lwanga

St John Chrysostom vs St Ignatius of Loyola

St Michael the Archangel vs St Maximilian Kolbe

St Basil vs St Anthony of Padua

Keep sending beatified folks in! When there are enough beatified nominations we will hold the bracket!

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persephonenewton · 9 months

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All You Wanna Do from Six the Musical but instead of Katharine Howard is Nathalie and the men in the song are Gabriel Agreste in different stages of his life.

The music teacher is Gabriel as student, the writer Francis Dereham is Gabriel as her boss and king is as Hawkmoth - Monarch, the married part is when he give her Adrien´s ring. Also Thomas is Adrien and when he starts saying all this stuff...

Well... All I wanna do is just let it lay here in dust.

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tomoleary · 3 months

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Miguel Covarrubias “Hollywood's Malibu Beach Scene” Source

“Mid-left is John, Ethel and Lionel Barrymore are sitting with George Arliss and Helen Hayes who is holding a baby. Below left are Miriam Hopkins, Lilyan Tashman, Mae West, Edmund Lowe, Constance Bennett, Joel McCrea, Maurice Chevalier, Kay Francis with hands behind her head, Joan Crawford, and Leslie Howard. In the middle, Dolores Del Rio, Adolphe Menjou, Joseph Schenck, Samuel Goldwyn, Joan Blondell, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. with his arms up, Sylvia Sydney, Mary Pickford, Gary Cooper, and Douglas Fairbanks. On the right, Laurel and Hardy, Edward G. Robinson, Cecil B. Demille, Claudette Colbert, Marion Davies, Norma Shearer, Charlie Chapman, Fredric March, Marie Dressler, Gene Fowler, Nancy Carroll holding a beach ball, Howard Hughes, George Raft, Louella Parsons, Harpo Marx, Katharine Hepburn, Jean Harlow, Marlene Dietrich, Schnozzle Durante with his hands up, Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, Ernst Lubitsch, and Wallace Beery.”

#miguel covarrubias #Hollywood's Malibu Beach Scene

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That there was indignation and distress at the King’s mistreatment of his first wife, and widespread hatred of Anne Boleyn, is clear enough. But so much of the evidence of conspiracy comes through the single source of Chapuys’ letters, and so little actually happened, that it has to be treated skeptically. Six years later, in 1541, the French ambassador, Charles de Marillac, reported to Francis that many in England regretted the discarding of Anne of Cleves, ‘who has conducted herself wisely in her affliction […] and [is] more regretted and commiserated than Queen Katharine was in like case.’

Mary Tudor: A Life (Loades, David)

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katharined · 1 year

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𝗄𝖺𝗍𝗁𝖺𝗋𝗂𝗇𝖾 𝖻𝗋𝖺𝗇𝖽𝗈𝗇-𝗀𝗋𝖾𝗒, 𝖽𝗈𝗐𝖺𝗀𝖾𝗋 𝖽𝗎𝖼𝗁𝖾𝗌𝗌 𝗈𝖿 𝗌𝗎𝖿𝖿𝗈𝗅𝗄, 𝖿𝗈𝗋 𝖻𝗅𝗈𝗈𝖽𝗒 𝖽𝖺𝗒𝗌.

– Born Katharine Brandon on 16 July 1514 at Hatfield House in Hertfordshire, England, to Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk and his wife Mary Tudor, Queen of France (their marriage, having incurred a steep royal fine and nearly cost them their lives, was by now forgiven and widely admired throughout England). She is christened in robes sent to the Dowager Queen by King Francis I of France (which she will, many years later, christen each of her own daughters in). The second eldest of three, Katharine’s two full-brothers, Henry Brandon (1516-1522) and Henry Brandon Earl of Lincoln (1523-1534), both named in honour of their maternal uncle Henry VIII, tragically predecease her.

– Inheriting the red-gold hair (which darkens with time) and famous beauty of her mother, Mary Tudor, Katharine’s blood pumps with the characteristic hubris of her Tudor relatives. She is raised under her mother’s supervision and, along with her half-sisters Anne and Mary Brandon, blossomed under the tutelage of her nurse, Anne Kynge, at Westhorpe Hall in Suffolk, England. Her father and uncle are always distant, looming figures – great men to be prayed for, but rare to behold with one’s own eyes. In her later years, howbeit, both will be subject to Katharine’s scathing indignity.

– As the niece of the King of England, a swarm of marriage proposals buzzed about Katharine Brandon, suspiciously early into her childhood. One such involving Henry Howard, the Earl of Surrey, was mooted when Katharine freshly sprouted from the nursery, and scuppered in the same year. Though her ambitious father was a true ‘man on the make’ – that is, unscrupulous and grasping – her mother was a natural born princess, and rightly put her foot down when another avaricious offer came Katharine’s way: remembering well the strict warnings of her own grandmother, Margaret Beaufort, against the dwindling institution of child brides.

– But at the age of twelve, Katharine was at last betrothed to Henry Grey, Marquess of Dorset. In 1533, with her uncle king Henry’s hearty blessing, Katharine married Henry at Suffolk Place, her father’s recently built mansion in Southwark. Her mother, by now seriously ill and aggrieved by Charles’ string of lewd mistresses, thenceforth permanently retired from court and settled in ailing discomfort at Westhorpe Hall, where she died on June 25 1533; the Suffolk’s young ward, Catherine Willoughby, led Mary’s elaborate funeral processions. Heartbroken, but as keen-eyed as her father before her, her mother’s death paved the way for Katharine’s career at the royal court, where she assumed Mary’s role in ceremonial affairs.

– Three months after her mother’s death, her father Charles took Catherine Willoughby, then betrothed to Charles’ ten-year old son Henry, as his wife. Whilst also personally interested in Catherine, thirty-five years his junior, Catherine’s hand in marriage effectively made Charles Brandon the richest magnate in Lincolnshire. He then built a series of imposing manors throughout his new lands, gleaned from his fourth, and so far most lucrative, marriage. Katharine railed at her father for his indiscretions, and father and daughter, between 1533 until his death in 1545, spoke less than a handful of times; it is rumoured, and will be confirmed by a letter discovered in 2023, that Katharine never allowed Charles to meet his granddaughters.

– As the niece of King Henry, Katharine was one of the highest-ranking women at court and often took on public duties, lauded for her dignified air (though to some, her insistence on speaking French, lest anyone forget that her mother was once the Queen of France, proved a great irritant). Together with her royal cousins who were near to her in age, Princess Mary and Lady Margaret Douglas, she firmly supported Queen Catherine’s plight in the King’s Great Matter and stood as one of the Queen’s chief mourners upon her death in 1536. Briefly after Anne Boleyn’s coronation, Katharine retired from court to Bradgate House, where she gave birth to her three daughters and soon after returned to the King’s royal fold, taunting her uncle’s new wife, Anne Boleyn, with the string of healthy babes she’d produced in swift succession, and the outwardly ‘happy’ marriage she’d secured. But her union would soon spell trouble that not even Katharine’s ingrained opportunism could surmount, and for all her unbridled boasting, Katharine's private life was all smoke and mirrors.

– Katharine’s inability to bear her husband, Henry, an heir had permanently soured their union; in the end, it was a sin for which Henry could never forgive her. Unbeknownst to him, Katharine did give birth to a son – also named Henry – a stillborn, premature child, in the darkened halls of Bradgate House; it was her eldest daughter, Philippa, who found her mother in a pool of her own blood and shrieked for help. Katharine exhorted Philippa to secrecy and quickly covered up the scene as if nothing had ever happened; neither her husband, other daughters, nor horde of servants ever learned of the tragedy.

– After the death of both Katharine’s father and eldest brother in 1545, Henry and Katharine Grey inherited Charles Brandon’s title of Duke of Suffolk (Henry enjoyed the luxury ‘jure uxoris,’ by right of his wife, though their marriage was, for all intents and purposes, over). Well-aware of the roles her children could now perform in England, Katharine had each daughter remarkably educated (although this did not inhibit them from making inane decisions, evidently…) and employed John Alymer, later Bishop of England, to inoculate their fine, fresh minds with Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, and kept personally abreast of the marriage market of England, resolving that her daughters should have the very best husbands in all of Europe.

– As her husband, Henry Grey, lay dying, Katharine vowed to him that she would protect and advance their family, a promise that her daughters’ reckless incaution has made difficult to keep. As of the start of Bloody Days, Katherine has recently returned from a pleasure trip to France; she returns in grand flourish, keen to reunite with members of her cousin Queen Mary’s court and to continue promoting her daughters (and dotin’ on her secret grandson, Baby Jack). As for this whole 'true Queen' business, well, more of that remains to be revealed :^)

#bd.intro #<33

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The World in Vogue

Seven momentous decades of the namnes, the faces, and the writing that have held the public eye in The Arts Society Literature Theatre Fashion Sports Worls Affairs

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A stunning collection of 300 photographs of some of the most celebrated actors, artists, models, First Ladies, and social figures from around the world, drawing on stories from the pages of Vogue as well as never-before-published images by iconic photographers. These trendsetters and newsmakers are captured by such famous photographers as Cecil Beaton, Jonathan Becker, Eric Boman, Horst P. Horst, Edward Steichen, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, François Halard, Helmut Newton, Stephen Meisel, Snowdon, Toni Frissell, Bruce Weber, Herb Ritts, and Annie Leibovitz. Not only did these photographers take dazzling portraits—in studios or on location—that caught these iconic figures in classic, playful, or dramatic moments but they also documented their parties, weddings, houses, and gardens. Writers like Hamish Bowles, Paul Rudnick, Truman Capote, Francis Wyndham, Jeffrey Steingarten, Joan Juliet Buck, William Norwich, Gloria Steinem, Georgina Howell, Vicki Woods, Marina Rust, Michael Specter, and Jonathan Van Meter tell you the stories behind these figures and events. Here are the glamorous weddings of Plum Sykes in Yorkshire, Lauren Davis in Cartagena, and Minnie Cushing in Newport; Truman Capote writing about cruising the Yugoslavian coast with Lee Radziwill, Luciana Pignatelli, and the Agnellis; gardens from East Hampton to Corfu designed by landscape architect Miranda Brooks; Inès de La Fressange’s apartment in Paris; Gloria Steinem reporting on the 540 masked partygoers at the Black and White Ball Truman Capote threw for Katharine Graham at the Plaza hotel; the gardens of Valentino’s seventeenth-century Château de Wideville, outside Paris; the designers, the best-dressed, and the stars at the annual Costume Institute party at the Metropolitan Museum; Mick Jagger and his family in Mustique; Jacqueline Kennedy and Michelle Obama; Kate Moss, Madonna, Angelina Jolie, Cate Blanchett, Ali MacGraw, Anjelica Huston, Nicole Kidman, Cher, Iman and David Bowie, Penélope Cruz, Charlotte Rampling, and many more. Richly illustrated in black-and-white and color, The World in Vogue: People, Parties, Places is a stunning look at portraits, houses, gardens, and parties of celebrated figures from many worlds.

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The only female director in Hollywood at the time, Arzner defied expectations on multiple levels. She directed over 20 films in 24 years, taught Francis Ford Coppola and was the first female member of the Director’s Guild Association.

Film Director Dorothy Arzner

From Wikipedia: Dorothy Emma Arzner #bornonthisday (January 3, 1897 – October 1, 1979) was an American film director whose career in Hollywood spanned from the silent era of the 1920s into the early 1940s.

(...) Additionally, she was one of a very few women able to establish a successful and long career in Hollywood as a film director until the 1970s. Arzner made a total of twenty films between 1927 and 1943 and launched the careers of a number of Hollywood actresses, including Katharine Hepburn, Rosalind Russell, and Lucille Ball. Additionally, Arzner was the first woman to join the Directors Guild of America and the first woman to direct a sound film.

Director Dorothy Arzner in the Grip Department at Paramount Studios, 1934.

1933, Katherine Hepburn is in a metallic moth suit designed by Walter Plunkett for her second film “Christopher Strong" directed by Dorothy Arzner.

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what a great pick! emily, you would love this film btw.

so. katharine edwina gibbs..... she has many films on this list. i will not lie to you. mandalay is up there for me in that it is PURE kay francis drama. a woman is stranded in burma by her piece of shit lover, turns to sex work to get enough money to finally escape the town she's stranded in, and just as she finds the possibility of a new life on the riverboat she's boarded......... who shows up? god, it's just so good. wild in the way her pre-codes are, and she's just in top form here. absolutely gorgeous. i was captivated from the first minute and had tears in my eyes by the end.

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"SEND DRAFT DODGER TO JAIL, 6 MONTHS," Toronto Star. June 24, 1943. Page 35. ==== Rousseau Received Registration Card Contrary to Criminal Code ---- "C" Police Court, City Hall; Magistrate Prentice. Albert Rousseau, appearing for sentence on four charges involving national registration certificates, was given six months by Magistrate Prentiss. He was found guilty of failing to report for military service, failing to notify the department of a change of address, having an illegal registration card, and receiving a registration card contrary to the criminal code. On each of three charges he was fined $50 or three months, and on the fourth charge was sentenced to six months. All sentences are concurrent.

ROBBED MILK BOTTLES ---- "B" Police Court, City Hall, Magistrate Woodliffe. Sixty days in jail was the penalty imposed on Joseph Roland Jodin, a recent arrival from Montreal who pleaded guilty to the theft of coins from milk bottles. Crown Counsel F. T. Malone pointed out accused had a record for minor offences.

Charged with a breach of black-out regulations, Mrs. Katharine Johns stated she had been absent from the city on a farm for some days preceding and following the blackout and consequently knew nothing of a light one of nine roomers had left in the hall of her home on Dundas St. W. Air Raid Wardens G. Hyman and R. Mosher testified a light had been left on in the hall throughout the blackout.

"Suspended sentence upon payment of costs," said court.

Onie Brown, counsel for Francis Oliver, charged with theft of an electric drill, the property of M. J. Daley, and a pipe cutter, stock and dies and other tools, the property of Purdy Mansell Co., and with receiving the above goods, elected trial by a higher court. Daley, a tinsmith. executing a contract at Massey Harris Co., told of tools being stolen there. Witness identified a drill, produced by the crown. Detective Geo. Herron testified accused, employed at the plant, had stated he had got the drill from a man at work. The drill had been recovered in a pawn shop. Herron added.

"Committed for trial," directed the court. "I will consent to a committal on the other charges," said Mr. Brown.

Bail of $1,000 was renewed..

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¿Cuáles son las probabilidades de ganar en las apuestas de los premios Oscar?

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¿Cuáles son las probabilidades de ganar en las apuestas de los premios Oscar?

Probabilidades de ganar en las apuestas de los premios Oscar

Las apuestas en los premios Oscar se han convertido en una tradición popular para los amantes del cine y los juegos de azar. A medida que se acerca la ceremonia anual de los premios de la Academia, las casas de apuestas suelen ofrecer cuotas y probabilidades para que los apostadores puedan poner a prueba su suerte y habilidad predictiva.

Las probabilidades de ganar en las apuestas de los premios Oscar pueden variar dependiendo de diversos factores, como las preferencias de la Academia, el desempeño de la película en festivales anteriores, las críticas de la prensa especializada y las apuestas previas del público.

En general, las categorías más predecibles suelen ser las de Mejor Película, Mejor Director y Mejor Actor/Actriz Principal, donde las películas y artistas favoritos suelen tener una ventaja considerable en las cuotas de las casas de apuestas.

Sin embargo, en los premios Oscar siempre hay lugar para sorpresas y giros inesperados, lo que puede generar cambios significativos en las probabilidades de ganar de última hora. Por lo tanto, es importante para los apostadores mantenerse informados sobre las últimas noticias y tendencias de la industria del cine para tomar decisiones acertadas al realizar sus apuestas.

En conclusión, las apuestas en los premios Oscar pueden ser una forma emocionante y entretenida de disfrutar la ceremonia y poner a prueba nuestras habilidades predictivas, pero siempre es importante recordar que se trata de un juego de azar donde la suerte también juega un papel fundamental. ¡Buena suerte a todos los apostadores!

Estadísticas de premiaciones en los premios Oscar

Las premiaciones de los premios Oscar son uno de los eventos más esperados en la industria del cine. Cada año, se premia a destacadas películas, actores, directores, guionistas y técnicos por su excelencia en el mundo del séptimo arte. Las estadísticas de premiaciones en los premios Oscar nos muestran interesantes datos sobre quiénes han sido los más galardonados a lo largo de la historia de estos premios.

En la categoría de Mejor Película, se puede observar que películas como "Titanic", "El Señor de los Anillos: El Retorno del Rey" y "Ben-Hur" han sido algunas de las más premiadas en la historia de los premios Oscar. Por otro lado, actores como Meryl Streep, Katharine Hepburn y Jack Nicholson han sido reconocidos en múltiples ocasiones por sus actuaciones magistrales.

En cuanto a directores, nombres como Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese y Francis Ford Coppola destacan por la cantidad de premios que han recibido a lo largo de sus carreras. En el ámbito técnico, películas como "La La Land", "Gravity" y "Avatar" han sido galardonadas por su innovación y excelencia en efectos visuales, sonido y diseño de producción.

Las estadísticas de premiaciones en los premios Oscar nos permiten apreciar el talento y la dedicación de los profesionales del cine que han sido reconocidos a lo largo de los años. Cada premio otorgado es el resultado del arduo trabajo y la pasión por contar historias que inspiran, entretienen y emocionan a audiencias de todo el mundo.

Historial de ganadores en los premios Oscar

El premio Oscar es uno de los reconocimientos más prestigiosos en la industria del cine. A lo largo de su historia, ha premiado a actores, directores, guionistas, diseñadores y muchos otros profesionales del séptimo arte. El historial de ganadores en los premios Oscar es extenso y lleno de talento.

En la categoría de Mejor Película, títulos icónicos como "Titanic", "El Señor de los Anillos: El Retorno del Rey" y "El Padrino" han sido galardonados. Los actores más destacados han sido premiados en las categorías de Mejor Actor y Mejor Actriz, como Meryl Streep, Daniel Day-Lewis, Katharine Hepburn y Jack Nicholson.

Los directores también han dejado huella en la historia de los premios Oscar, con reconocidos nombres como Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola y Guillermo del Toro. Asimismo, el trabajo de los guionistas ha sido reconocido en categorías como Mejor Guión Original y Mejor Guión Adaptado.

Los diseñadores de vestuario, maquillaje, efectos visuales y otros aspectos técnicos del cine también han tenido su momento de gloria en la ceremonia de los premios Oscar. Cada año, la Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas premia el talento y la creatividad de la industria del cine, celebrando lo mejor del séptimo arte.

En resumen, el historial de ganadores en los premios Oscar es un reflejo del talento y la dedicación de los profesionales que trabajan en la industria del cine. Cada premio es un reconocimiento a la excelencia y una celebración del arte cinematográfico en todas sus formas.

Análisis de favoritos en las apuestas de los premios Oscar

El análisis de los favoritos en las apuestas de los premios Oscar es una práctica común entre los amantes del cine y los apostadores. Cada año, antes de la ceremonia de los premios de la Academia, se realizan pronósticos sobre quiénes serán los ganadores en cada categoría. Estos pronósticos se basan en diversos factores como el desempeño de las películas en festivales previos, las críticas de la prensa especializada, e incluso en rumores de la industria.

En general, las categorías de Mejor Película, Mejor Director y Mejor Actor/Actriz son las que generan mayor interés y debate entre los analistas y apostadores. En ocasiones, las casas de apuestas establecen a ciertos nominados como favoritos indiscutibles, mientras que en otras categorías la competencia es más reñida y los pronósticos varían constantemente.

Es importante tener en cuenta que las apuestas en los premios Oscar son solo una forma de entretenimiento y no garantizan resultados certeros. A pesar de ello, muchos seguidores del cine disfrutan participando en esta actividad y siguiendo de cerca las noticias y tendencias que puedan influir en las votaciones de los miembros de la Academia.

En resumen, el análisis de los favoritos en las apuestas de los premios Oscar es una forma emocionante de vivir la temporada de premiaciones y compartir la pasión por el séptimo arte con otros aficionados. ¿Quiénes crees que serán los grandes ganadores de la próxima edición de los premios de la Academia? ¡La emoción y la incertidumbre están servidas!

Estrategias para apostar en los premios Oscar

¡Los premios Oscar son uno de los eventos más importantes en la industria del cine, y muchas personas disfrutan de apostar en los posibles ganadores de las diferentes categorías! Si estás interesado en apostar en los premios Oscar, es importante que tengas en cuenta algunas estrategias clave que te ayudarán a tomar decisiones más informadas.

En primer lugar, es fundamental investigar y seguir de cerca la temporada de premios anterior a los Oscar. Los diferentes premios anteriores, como los Globos de Oro, los premios del Sindicato de Actores y los premios BAFTA, pueden darte pistas sobre quiénes son los favoritos para llevarse la estatuilla dorada.

Además, es crucial estar al tanto de las tendencias y predicciones de expertos en la industria del cine. Existen numerosos sitios web y revistas especializadas que ofrecen análisis detallados sobre las posibles opciones ganadoras en cada categoría, lo que puede serte de gran ayuda al hacer tus apuestas.

Otra estrategia importante es diversificar tus apuestas. En lugar de apostar todo tu dinero en una sola categoría, considera repartir tus apuestas en diferentes opciones para aumentar tus posibilidades de ganar.

Por último, recuerda que las apuestas en los premios Oscar son principalmente una forma de entretenimiento, por lo que es importante jugar de forma responsable y establecer un presupuesto claro para tus apuestas.

Con estas estrategias en mente, estarás mejor preparado para disfrutar de la emoción de las apuestas en los premios Oscar y, quién sabe, ¡tal vez hasta logres llevar a casa una victoria junto a tus favoritos en la noche más importante del cine!

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THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … December 24

1305 – France: Grand Master Jacques de Molay and over 500 Knights Templar recant their confessions of homosexual activities to which they had admitted under torture. King Phillip IV burned 54 of them soon after the false confessions. Philip had de Molay burned upon a scaffold on an island in the River Seine in front of Notre Dame de Paris in March, 1314. The sudden end of both the centuries-old order of Templars and the dramatic execution of its last leader turned Molay into a legendary figure.

1573 – French diplomat and law professor Hubert Languet wrote to Sir Philip Sidney, "My affection for you has entered my heart far more deeply than I have ever felt for anyone else, and it has so wholly taken possession there that it tries to rule alone."

1905 – Howard Hughes Jr. (d.1976) was a USA business magnate, investor, record-setting pilot, engineer, film director, and philanthropist, known during his lifetime as one of the most influential and financially successful individuals in the world. He first became prominent as a film producer, and then as an important figure in the aviation industry.

Later in life, he became known for his eccentric behavior and reclusive lifestyle—oddities that were caused in part by his worsening obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), chronic pain from a near-fatal plane crash, and increasing deafness.

Hughes dated many famous women, including Joan Crawford, Billie Dove, Faith Domergue, Bette Davis, Yvonne De Carlo, Ava Gardner, Olivia de Havilland, Katharine Hepburn, Hedy Lamarr, Ginger Rogers, Janet Leigh, Pat Sheehan, Mamie Van Doren and Gene Tierney. He also proposed to Joan Fontaine several times.However, a rumour persists that Hughes and another notorious womanizer Errol Flynn had a sexual relationship, with Flynn at the top man!

Robert Joffrey (rear) with Gerald Arpino

1930 – Robert Joffrey, born Abdullah Jaffa Bey Khan, (d.1988) was an American dancer, teacher, producer, choreographer, and co-founder of the Joffrey Ballet, known for his highly imaginative modern ballets. He was born Abdullah Jaffa Bey Khan in Seattle, Washington to an Afghan father and Italian mother.

As a teenager, Joffrey met 22-year-old Gerald Arpino, then serving in the Coast Guard. Arpino moved into the Joffrey home. From then on, the two were inseparable. They became best friends, artistic collaborators, and lovers.

Joffrey studied ballet and modern dance in New York City and made his debut in 1949 with the French choreographer Roland Petit and his Ballet de l'Opéra National de Paris. From 1950 to 1955, he taught at the New York High School for the Performing Arts, where he staged his earliest ballets. He founded the Joffrey Ballet School in New York City in 1954.

In 1954 he formed his own company, which premiered Le bal masqué (The Masked Ball, 1954; music by French composer Francis Poulenc) and Pierrot Lunaire (1955; music by Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg). Joffrey's other works include Gamelan (1962) and Astarte (1967), which was set to rock music with special lighting and motion-picture effects.

The Robert Joffrey Ballet took up residence at New York City Center in 1966. In 1982 it moved its principal activities to Los Angeles, California and in 1995 to Chicago, Illinois. Noted for its experimental repertoire, the company was called the "Joffrey Ballet of Chicago" after its move but has since returned to being called simply the Joffrey Ballet. Besides Joffrey's works its repertoire includes many works by Gerald Arpino, Joffrey's long-time lover, co-director, and eventually artistic director emeritus until his 2008 death, and ballets commissioned by Joffrey from new choreographers as well as works by such established choreographers as George Balanchine, Alvin Ailey and Twyla Tharp.

Joffrey was sexually promiscuous but discreet. His pattern was to have Arpino at home for domestic stability, one principal romantic attachment, and numerous one-night stands.

In 1973, Joffrey fell in love with A. Aladar Marberger, a 26-year-old gay activist and manager of the Fischbach Gallery in New York. In the 1980s, both men contracted AIDS. While Marberger was outspoken about his illness, Joffrey remained silent. He was ashamed and wanted his obituary to say that he died of liver disease and asthma. Arpino agreed to his pleas, but the secret could not be maintained, as AIDS took a staggering toll on the dance world in general and on Joffrey's company in particular.

Robert Joffrey died of AIDS on March 25, 1988 in New York City. Aladar Marberger died eight months later.

1958 – Bob Smith (d.2018) was an American comedian and author. Smith, born in Buffalo, New York, was the first openly gay comedian to appear on The Tonight Show and the first openly gay comedian to have his own HBO half-hour comedy special. Smith, along with fellow comedians Jaffe Cohen and Danny McWilliams, formed the comedy troupe Funny Gay Males in 1988.

With Funny Gay Males, Smith is the co-author of Growing Up Gay: From Left Out to Coming Out (1995). Smith is also the author of two books of biographical essays. Openly Bob (1997) received a Lambda Literary Award for best humor book. Way to Go, Smith! (1999) was nominated for a 2000 Lambda Literary Award in the same category. Smith published his first novel, Selfish and Perverse, in 2007, and Remembrance of Things I Forgot in 2011. He published a new collection of essays, Treehab: Tales from My Natural Wild Life, in 2016. The essays cover a wide range of subjects including his career in stand-up, his love of nature, and his experience with ALS. He performed at the inaugural We're Funny That Way! comedy festival in 1997, and appeared in the festival's documentary film in 1998.

While taping a 2007 comedy special for Logo, Smith disclosed that he was suffering from a neurological disorder. He described his symptoms at that time as slurred speech, making him sound inebriated. In response to an August 2012 New York Times article on openly gay male stand-up comedians, Smith posted a comment stating he had ALS.

On February 2013, Smith gave a candid interview to Canada's Global News, where he elaborated about his condition. The article also revealed that Smith assisted with the conceiving of fellow LGBTQ comedian Elvira Kurt's children, who with Kurt reside in Canada, and that he was a direct descendant of Henry Smith, an early settler of Canada's Niagara Region for whom the Henry of Pelham Winery is named.

Bob Smith died on January 20, 2018 from Lou Gehrig’s Disease in his Manhattan, New York home at 59 years of age.

1971 – On this date the international singer and actor Ricky Martin was born. Born Enrique Martín Morales in San Juan, Puerto Rico, he is known to millions of fans by his stage name Ricky Martin, is a Puerto Rican pop singer and actor who achieved prominence, first as a member of the Latin boy band Menudo, then as a solo artist after 1991. During his career he has sold more than 60 million albums worldwide. He is the founder of Ricky Martín Foundation (in Spanish Fundación Ricky Martin) a non-profit charity organization.

Martin rose to fame as a member of the Latin American boy band Menudo, after which he became a solo artist in 1990. During forays into acting on Broadway ("Les Miserables") and soap operas (General Hospital) he released numerous albums of Spanish music, which sold millions of copies throughout Latin America and Europe. In 1995, Martin refocused on his music career through his third album, A Medio Vivir. With this album, Martin made a shift from formulaic hit ballads to a more risky fusion of music centered around traditional Latin sounds, with the hit "Maria", which epitomizes this new sound. "Maria" broke Martin into Europe through Spain. With the ballad "Te Extraño, Te Olvido, Te Amo", Martin began his expansion from Latin American and Spanish-speaking audiences to the European and Asian markets. He was chosen to sing the anthem of the 1998 FIFA World Cup, the famous hit "The Cup of Life"/"La Copa de la Vida", that reached number one on the charts in 60 countries.

He broke into the English-language market with his mega-selling hit single "Livin' la Vida Loca," which reached number one in many countries around the world, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, France, Greece, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Guatemala, Mexico, Russia, Turkey, and South Africa. He followed up with the hit "She's All I Ever Had" which peaked at #2 on The Billboard Hot 100. This album became one of the top-selling albums of 1999, and was certified 7 times platinum, selling over 22 million copies worldwide to date.

During the Livin' la Vida Loca era, Martin's personal life went under the microscope due to his large Gay following, and he was questioned about his sexual orientation. In December, 2000 during an interview in The Mirror, Martin was asked, '"So what about all these rumors?" "There's not a lot I can do about that," he said. "I guess these rumors were started by people who don't have a life, or perhaps it's because they want me to be like them and I'm not. I try not to pay attention to any of these allegations. I could have been married with kids for years or have 27 girlfriends, and if people still want to go around saying that I'm gay, they will."'

In August 2008, Martin became the father of twin boys, named Matteo and Valentino. The babies were delivered via gestational surrogacy.

On March of 2010, Martin publicly came out as Gay in a post on his official web site by stating, "Today is my day, this is my time, and this is my moment. These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed ... I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man. I am very blessed to be who I am."

"What will happen from now on? It doesn't matter. I can only focus on what's happening to me in this moment. The word 'happiness' takes on a new meaning for me as of today. It has been a very intense process. Every word that I write in this letter is born out of love, acceptance, detachment and real contentment. Writing this is a solid step towards my inner peace and vital part of my evolution."

In January 2018, Ricky Martin married his long-time partner artist Jwan Yosef.

Ricky and Jwan

2012 – The Serbian Parliament approves changes to the Penal Code to include sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes when it comes to hate crimes.

2013 – Alan Turing considered the father of computer science, was a code-breaker who helped shorten WWII. Since he was gay, the British government offered him the choice of prison or chemical castration after he was convicted of gross indecency. He selected hormonal castration via estrogen. He died in 1954 of cyanide poisoning. In 2009, Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an official apology, and Queen Elizabeth II issued Turing a royal pardon on this day in 2013.

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