#Ruth Ellis

[yourdailyqueer]

Ruth Ellis (deceased)

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: 23 July 1899  

RIP: 5 October 2000

Ethnicity: African American

Occupation: Activist, entrepreneur

Note 1: Her printing business, the Ellis & Franklin Printing Co., was the first woman-owned printing shop in the state of Michigan.

Note 2: Her house served as a refuge for African American gays and lesbians. She would continue to support those who needed books, food, or assistance with college tuition.

Note 3: The Ruth Ellis Center honors the life and work of Ruth Ellis and is one of only four agencies in the United States dedicated to homeless LGBT youth and young adults.

#Ruth Ellis #lgbt history #lesbian history #black history #lgbt #female #lesbian #1899 #rip #historical #black #poc #african american #activist #entrepreneur #popular #popular post #300

[queerasfact]

Black History Month: Ruth Ellis

Lesbian centenarian Ruth Ellis was born in the 19th century, and lived into the 21st. Despite having no queer role-models, Ruth came out as a lesbian in her teens, and in the 1930s, she began a relationship with Babe Franklin.

Ruth and Babe were together for 30 years, with their home in Detroit forming a centre for queer Black life, and a refuge for queer Black people in the years before the Civil Rights movement and Stonewall.

In 1999, when she turned 100, Ruth was celebrated as the USA’s oldest living out lesbian.

Learn more

[Image: Ruth as an elderly woman, wearing a t-shirt which reads ‘DYKE MARCH’]

#ruth ellis #black history #black history month #queer history #lesbian history #lgbtq #lgbt #lgbt history #queer #lesbians

[rosalie-starfall]

Miranda Richardson

Blackadder - 1986

Sleepy Hollow - 1999

Merlin - 1998

Dance With a Stanger - 1985

Good Omens (Season One) - 2019

The Crying Game - 1992

Snow White: The Fairest of Them All - 2001

Good Omens (Season Two) - 2023

Enchanted April - 1991

Damage - 1992

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - 2005

Phantom of the Opera - 2004

#Miranda Richardson #Blackadder #Sleepy Hollow #Merlin #Dance with a Stanger #Good Omens #The Crying Game #Snow White: The Fairest of them all #Good Omens 2 #Enchanted April #Damage #Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire #Phantom of the Opera #Queenie #Lady Van Tassel #Queen Mab #Ruth Ellis #Madame Tracy #Jude #Queen Elspeth #Shax #Rose Arbuthnot #Ingrid #Rita Skeeter #Madame Giry #my gifs #Actress edits #mredits #I've loved Miranda longer than time has had meaning in my life #Miranda is PERFECT as Rita! I'm still mad af it's been tainted and I can't enjoy it anymore

[bizarrepotpourri]

Mary Stockley as Ruth Ellis in Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman (2005).

Very important images that influenced my recent stories, as I mentioned, particularly "Unlucky Thirteen".

#Pierrepoint #The Last Hangman #Ruth Ellis #Mary Stockley #execution #hanging #Women Hanged in Movies

[tinyvariations]

"The only way we can get any place is by being together."

Ruth Ellis is an icon, particularly in the city she and her partner called home for most of their lives: Detroit. Born to former slaves, Ruth came into this world in 1899, and in the 101 years she was on this earth, she lived her life fully and openly, often touted as the oldest "out" lesbian when she passed in 2000. She became open about her identity at the age of 16 in 1915, but claims never to have "come out" to her family, as they always knew and accepted her. She spent her days working at a printing press in Illinois, where she met her partner, "Babe" Franklin. The pair moved to Detroit in search of a better life, and after several years, the pair opened their own printing shop on the first floor of their home.

In a time when homosexuality was illegal, Ruth and Babe opened the doors of their home to the LGBTQ community, who were denied access to both white gay clubs and black straight clubs. It was colloquially known as "the gay spot," a place where folks could congregate and enjoy a welcoming atmosphere decades before the Black Civil Rights Movement and the Stonewall Riot would begin to alter their outlook and options. She also opened up the extra rooms in her home to help house LGBTQ community members and helped find resources for those in need, even putting a few through college.

Prior to her passing, the Ruth Ellis Center opened in her adopted city, Detroit, where it continues to honor her legacy by providing shelter and aid to the LGBTQ community and youth.

#lgbt history #lgbtq history #pride month #lgbtq pride #ruth ellis #black history #detroit history #the gay spot #vintage lesbians #sapphics #wlw #gay history #lesbian history #queer history

[edgarmoser]

dance with a stranger (1985) - the life of ruth ellis

#dance with a stranger #film #ruth ellis

[intriguingpeoplebyangelafloyd]

RUTH ELLIS

RUTH ELLIS

1926-1955

LAST WOMAN TO BE HANGED IN ENGLAND IN 1955

            Ruth Ellis was born in Rhyl, Wales and was raised in Manchester. A former model and waitress. At 17, she fell in love with an American who was killed in action in 1944, Ellis gave birth to their son. Six years later she married a dentist and they had a child, he divorced her on the grounds that she was mentally cruel.

            Ellis moved to London and became a club-hostess and hooker and in 1953 she met David Blakely, 29, a racing driver who initially became obsessed with Ruth. Ellis refused to marry him and even though she got involved with him, she also got involved with his friend. Blakely became jealous and physically abused her, gave her a black eye, broke her ankle and continued to see other women. Ellis threw him out the door, but he begged for her to return to him but she refused. She later gave in and they moved in together in Egerton Gardens, Kensington.

            Blakely was still seeing other women, and after he hit her, Ellis miscarried their child. Worried he was having an affair, she followed him to an apartment in Hampstead, and heard him inside a room with a woman who she heard laughing. She knocked on the door and screamed, a window was broken and the police were called. The next day she returned, and saw Blakely walking down the stairs arm-in-arm with a young woman.

            On 10 April, Easter Sunday, Ellis found Blakely walking out of the ‘Magdala’ a Hampstead pub, she took a gun out of her handbag and shot him six times.

            Ellis admitted she was guilty and that she intended to kill him.Ellis trial lasted 14 minutes before it handed down a guilty verdict and she received the death penalty. Ellis didn’t appeal the conviction, however; thousands called for her sentence to be suspended. Ellis, 28, was executed at Holloway Gaol by famous hangman Albert Pierrepoint. Ellis became the last woman to be hanged in England.

#ruthellis

#ruth ellis #ruthellis

[cinemaquiles]

Dançando com um estranho: a trágica e chocante história real de uma aspirante a atriz no streaming!

#Dance with a Stranger #Mike Newell #miranda richardson #rupert everett #Ruth Ellis #Ian Holm #true crime #David Blakely #convicted murderer #Youtube

[satedanfire]

R.I.P. Ruth Ellis. October, 9, 1926 - July, 13, 1955

Mrs. Ellis was the last Woman to be hanged in UK because she killed her Boyfriend

#ruth ellis

[ozu-teapot]

The Yellow Teddy Bears (AKA Gutter Girls) | Robert Hartford-Davis | 1963

Although sometimes promoted as a schoolgirls-gone-wild exploitation movie The Yellow Teddy Bears (AKA Gutter Girls, AKA Thrill Seekers) is actually a rather earnest social (melo)drama.

A clique of girls at an English grammar school have taken to wearing yellow teddy bear brooches as a secret sign that they've lost their virginity. Good girl Pat (Georgina Patterson) tries to save her girl-in-trouble pal Linda (Annette Whiteley) from making a terrible mistake, predatory abortion fixer June Wilson (Jill Adams) lures girls to her drinks and sex parties, while young teacher Anne Mason (Jacqueline Ellis), who has discovered the secret of the teddy bears, finds her impassioned pleas for some honest communication acreoss the generational divides between teens, teachers, and parents, only serve to bring her own morals and suitability as a teacher into question.

It's a bit dated now but it's subject matter must have been pretty frank in 1963, and it's "message" pretty progressive for the time. Apparently The Beatles were offered a part in the film but gave it a swerve.

#Robert Hartford-Davis #The Yellow Teddy Bears #1963 #Gutter Girls #Thrill Seekers #Jacqueline Ellis #Annette Whiteley #Georgina Patterson #Jill Adams #Anne Kettle #Victor Brooks #Noel Dyson #Ruth Kettlewell

[mywingsareonwheels]

The stratification (in marketing at least) between "grimdark" crime fiction (inc books) and "cosy" crime fiction grates on me sometimes, because I like nothing that's at either extreme. I don't want relentless pain (and I find both organised crime and serial killer plots pretty boring unless they're really well-handled), and I don't want cheerfully callous "ooh, the bodies are piling up! how inconvenient! have another slice of Victoria sponge!".

I want humanity and compassion and humour and treating deaths like they do actually matter even when they're of awful people, thank-you-so-very-much. I want the satisfaction of a puzzle solved. I want an awareness by the author that yes the human fascination with murder mysteries (going right right back to Oedipus Tyrannus etc.) is kind of odd, while also not apologising for it. I want characters I warm to and care about, even if I sometimes want to throw things at them. I want a predictable structure to some extent, because it helps my autistic brain when I'm having a rough time (see also romances!). If at all possible I like at least some awareness that there is structural oppression in the world and that capital punishment is Not Great even if by the very nature of the genre (especially in police procedurals) I never expect murder mysteries to have the same politics or morality as me[1].

Some of the murder mysteries/crime fiction I do really love: the Cadfael books, Endeavour, the Lord Peter Wimsey books, the Ruth Galloway mysteries, the Discworld Watch books, the Ian Rutledge mysteries, and every time KJ Charles or T Kingfisher get a bit murder mystery on us. And so on and so forth. There are a good number! And a fair variety in tone in all of these they just... still all operate in that blessed middle space between grimdark and cosy, and involve Caring About People, and I just wish there were even more. <3

(Do recommend your own favourites if you wish!) [1] In real life, I am very much of the opinion that ACAB, that prison is a horror, that capital punishment is one of the greatest evils there is, and that retributive justice in general is wrong and unhelpful; those views affect which murder mysteries I like and how I read/watch/listen to them to some extent but, well, fiction is not reality. And being aware of that gap helps me to keep true to my views while still enjoying stories that go very much the other way!

#the cadfael mysteries #itv endeavour #lord peter wimsey #brother cadfael #ruth galloway #elly griffiths #sam vimes #gnu terry pratchett #kj charles #t kingfisher #ian rutledge

[queerasfact]

Happy birthday Ruth Ellis!

Lesbian centenarian Ruth Ellis was born on 23 July 1899, and lived into the 21st century. Despite having no queer role-models, Ruth came out as a lesbian in her teens, and in the 1930s, she began a relationship with Babe Franklin.

Ruth and Babe were together for 30 years, with their home in Detroit forming a centre for queer Black life, and a refuge for queer Black people in the years before the Civil Rights movement and Stonewall.

In 1999, when she turned 100, Ruth was celebrated as the USA’s oldest living out lesbian.

Learn more

[Image: Ruth as an elderly woman, wearing a t-shirt which reads ‘DYKE MARCH’]

#ruth ellis #lesbian #lesbian history #queer history #lgbt #lgbtq #queer #lgbt history #black history

[rosalie-starfall]

Dance with a Stranger - 1985

Miranda Richardson as Ruth Ellis

#Miranda Richardson #Dance with a Stranger #Ruth Ellis #1985 #my gifs #movie edits #movies : Drama #She is SOOO GOOOOD in this movie! #mredits #blonde bombshell #Femme Fatale #BABE!!!

[bizarrepotpourri]

Good that I downloaded most of the data from my previous account. This set of GIFs comes from 2014 British documentary miniseries Inside Holloway, more precisely - from the episode about Ruth Ellis.

There's something about the way she looks at the executioner before being hooded.

#Inside Holloway #my weird fetishes #Ruth Ellis #execution #hanging #ravenka hornyposting #animated

[trustlife2day]

The Last of Us art by Greg Ruth.

13” x 13” graphite on paper

#art #the last of us hbo #drawing #greg ruth #tlou hbo #the last of us #tlou show #ellie tlou #joel and ellie #joel tlou #bill and frank #mushrooms #fungus

[ijustreadthisbook]

Top Five Books I've Read (so far) In 2023:

5. Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr (Audiobook): One of the more unique novels I've read in a while, this book bounces around in time and place slowly weaving each dispirate story together around the fictitious ancient greek story of Cloud Cuckoo Land. Each character is so well created, and the slow thrill of putting the pieces together was so satisfying. The ending made me stare at the wall for a few moments before I could come back to earth.

Read if you like: Ted Chiang short stories, The Birds by Aristophanes, Margaret Atwood sci-fi

4. Truth of the Divine by Lindsay Ellis (Physical book): The sequel to her debut novel, Axiom's End, this book takes the monster fucking story to a whole new level exploring the concepts of attraction, loyalty, love, and humanity. The world building is incredible, the main character doesn't have that awful trait that a lot of sci-fi audience inserts have where they cannot possibly make logical connections and answer questions themselves. Cora is smart, and Ellis assumes you are smart too. Plus the recreation of 2007 era America is fucking perfect.

Read if you like: Early 2000's nostalgia, Jeff VanderMeer books, Axiom's End, 90s alien movies like Contact, Independence Day, Aliens

3. The Roughest Draft by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegmund-Broka (Physical book): I've read a bunch of romance this year, and this was one of my absolute favorites. Certainly not the spiciest I've read, but the interplay between the two points of view creates a romantic, sexual, and professional tension that is so palpable and delicious. I loved the meta narrative of two people writing a book together about two people writing a book together, and the exploration of what making art together means and the intimacy required to do it. It's a little predictable, but that's what you want from a romance novel. This was a fun book with just enough stakes and just enough stress to make the payoff so worth it.

Read if you like: Emily Henry books, movies like You've Got Mail, Something's Gotta Give, Always Be My Maybe

2. The It Girl by Ruth Ware (audiobook): I love Ruth ware. I love her. I have read everything she has written so far and will read anything she puts out. I selected this one for my list because I love the setting of a close knit school campus, a shining bright young woman with a dark secret, and the real time unravelling of a murder mystery through the eyes of someone on the ground. This book explores the idea of how little we can know about the people we are closest to, and how easy it is to blind ourselves to the truth because of what we want to be true. It's a captivating read, easily finished in a day or two.

Read if you like: One by One by Ruth Ware, Gossip Girl, Jennifer's Body

1. The Secret History by Donna Tart (physical book): I cannot believe how long it took me to read this book. It was one of those books that kept getting recommended to me, but I was worried it was over hyped and would be awful. I tried to read it about two years ago and couldn't even get through the first chapter. And yet, somehow, I picked this book up and did not put it down for a week and a half. It's incredible. An absolute masterclass on Dark Academia, tension building, atmospheric storytelling, all the things I love the most about literature with all the modern trappings of an aesthetic I have also come to love. Rich kids in a private school testing the boundaries of privilege through the POV of an outsider desperate to be accepted is one of my favorite tropes and this book is the definition of how to do it right. It's dark, its academic, it's murdery, it's the 90s, it's excellent. I'll be reading this one again.

Read if you like: A Separate Peace, Brideshead Revisited, Gentlemen and Players, The Talented Mr Ripley

#books and reading #my favorite books so far #the secret history #the it girl #truth of the divine #the roughest draft #cloud cuckoo land #anthony doerr #donna tart #lindsay ellis #ruth ware #emily wibberley #austin siegmund-broka #book recommendations #book review #book reviews #i just read this book