Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Saturday, June 27, 2020

Courting Nikki

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She's been with the ancestors for the last seven months and her 44 year life was way too short for all of us who loved her, but Nikki ...
Tuesday, June 04, 2019

30th Anniversary of the Crushing of the Tiananmen Square Demonstrations

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'It's a reminder to those of us who live in democracies that as much as we gripe about the imperfect nature of the governments we ...
Friday, January 11, 2019

Sarah Thomas Making NFL History Again

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It's often said in sports circles that the best officials are ones whose names don't get in the headlines or don't make ESPN S...
Friday, January 04, 2019

Congratulations Judge Rabeea Collier!

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Yesterday afternoon I got to witness some Texas history being made. While many people have heard of the 17 African American women being ...
Wednesday, January 02, 2019

Historic Change Comes To Fort Bend County!

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When I was growing up in Houston,  I had a great uncle and aunt who lived in Rosenberg that we used to visit every Christmas until they mo...
Monday, December 24, 2018

Apollo 8 50th Anniversary

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Fifty years ago today the Apollo 8 mission was launched just four days before Christmas. 1968 had been a rough, tumultuous year.  We'...
Friday, October 12, 2018

Dewey's Historical Marker Erases and Gaywashes Black Trans History

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'It's always sad to me when a historic site closes,   Here's hoping that someone in the Philly LGBT community will work to h...
Wednesday, July 25, 2018

30th Anniversary Of Ann Richards DNC Keynote Speech

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Thirty years ago today Ann Richards, who was our state treasurer at the time, gave  the keynote address to the Democratic National Convent...
Thursday, May 10, 2018

85th Anniversary of Nazi Book Burning

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" Where they burn books, they will ultimately also burn people." -Heinrich Heine, 1920  85 years ago today Nazi Germany commi...
Thursday, March 08, 2018

Finn Jones Makes Texas Trans Political History

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As many of you are aware of, the Texas primary elections were held on Tuesday night.   In addition to seeing who won, who lost, who made i...
Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Here's A Real SOTU Speech By A Real POTUS

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For those of you who are boycotting (like I am) Dear Orange Misleader's State of the Union speech and are wishing you could once again...
Thursday, September 21, 2017

My Houston Statue Replacement Suggestions

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Don't think that because we're still recovering from Hurricane Harvey's aftermath that we've forgotten about that hideous ...
Monday, August 07, 2017

Dallas' Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade Names First Ever Trans Grand Marshal

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During our pride parade here in Houston history was made when Lou Weaver was elected to become our first ever trans masculine parade grand...
Monday, June 12, 2017

50th Anniversary of Loving v. Virginia SCOTUS Case

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Today is the 50th anniversary of the US Supreme Court dropping the landmark Loving v Virginia case decision which killed the laws prohibit...

Texas Trans History- The Texas 'T' Party

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In the wake of the recent death of Linda Phillips, one of the co-organizers of this event along with her wife Cynthia, been needing to t...