The British Museum is helping to kick off preparations for next year's LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans) History Month with a special event for teachers and youth workers and a reception.
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Zora Neale Hurston, a folklorist, novelist and anthropologist, was a staple figure during the Harlem Renaissance.
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The British Museum will host an event in November to help teachers and youth workers to plan ahead for LGBT History Month.
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Yves Saint-Laurent is one of the most renowned figures in 20th century French fashion.
As a child, Laurent was incessantly taunted by his peers.
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A school board in Michigan decided last week that a display by the Diversity Club had put up for gay history month which showed pictures of successful gay Americans was just too offensive for their precious high school aged children.
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Seldom do LGBT historians have the chance to write about pre-1800 historical figures whose orientation was clearly non-hetero.
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Urvashi Vaid is an openly lesbian civil rights activist and attorney. She has dedicated herself to pursuing equal rights for LGBT persons for over 25 years.
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Todd Oldham is an openly gay American fashion designer.
He was born in Texas in 1961. He discovered his love of fashion and design after designing his first dress at age 15.
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It's Week 5 of GLBT History Month. This week's featured icons are Hilary Rosen, Yves St. Laurent, Esera Tuaolo, Urvashi Vaid, Gus Van Sant and B.
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Tammy Baldwin is the first woman from Wisconsin to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives and is the first openly gay person elected to Congress.
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Suze Orman is a financial advisor, motivational speaker, television personality and book author.
Her financial career began in 1980 when she became an account executive at Merill Lynch.
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Ruth Ellis is regarded by many as "America's Oldest Lesbian."
She was an African-American woman who came out as a lesbian in 1915 before graduating from Springfield High School in Illinois.
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Robert Rauschenberg was an American artist whose work provided the transition between Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art.
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This week’s featured music video is the original 1978 YMCA music video by the Village People. (I’m in a nostalagic mood and it is LGBT History Month…)
Village People: YMCA
Related Links:
- Wikipedia: Y.
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a polemic filmmaker associated with the New German Cinema movement.
Fassbinder was born in 1946 to a bourgeois family in Munich.
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Our success can be measured by the influence we are having on the world around us. October, which marks GLBT History Month, has truly been a momentous month for the GLBT community both state and nationwide.
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Rachel Maddow is the first openly gay anchor to be hired to host prime-time news in the United States.
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During Week 4 of GLBT History Month, better-know these 2009 Icons: Pauli Murray, Joan Nestle, Todd Oldham, Suze Orman, Christine Quinn, Robert Rauschenberg, Jerome Robbins.
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Pauli Murray was an American lawyer, civil rights activist and ordained priest who fought for race and gender equality.
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Launched in 2006, GLBT History Month in October honors 31 Icons—one each day—with a video, bio, bibliography, downloadable images, educational resources, and special features for students.
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