Showing posts with label the 80's. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the 80's. Show all posts
Monday, January 08, 2018

45th Anniversary of School House Rock

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Back in 1973 as my brother and I, and later my sisters watched Saturday morning cartoons on ABC, some of the advertising breaks were taken...
Wednesday, February 08, 2017

Coretta Scott King's 1986 Letter About Jeff Sessions

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US Senate Rule 19 doesn't affect me.   Here's the letter that Senator/Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)tried to read in the Senate chambers ...
Thursday, September 22, 2016

Texas Trans Pioneer Linda Phillips Passes Away

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Was sad to hear the news via Gordene MacKenzie's Facebook page that pioneering Texas trans woman Linda Phillips has passed away sudd...
Thursday, June 23, 2016

Moni's First Gay Bar Experience

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In the wake of the Pride Orlando shooting, we've had a few celebrity TBLG people talk about their first time visiting a gay bar in a...
Wednesday, May 25, 2016

The 'Venus Envy' Village Voice Article

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By the time I was in the late 80's I was becoming more cognizant of the fact that I wasn't happy not living as my true self, I was...
Thursday, April 21, 2016

Prince, His Royal Badness Is Dead

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Just heard the sad and shocking news that Prince has died at his Paisley Park estate at age 57. According to local and multiple news sou...
Monday, February 15, 2016

Denise 'Vanity' Matthews Has Died

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Like most people in the 80's I was a huge Prince fan and loved Vanity 6, the girl group he started that was fronted by Canadian born m...
Thursday, January 28, 2016

30th Anniversary Of Challenger Disaster

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Today is the 30th anniversary of the space shuttle Challenger disaster.   It ,exploded 73 seconds after it was launched from Cape Canavera...
Friday, January 01, 2016

RIP Natalie Cole

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Another iconic singer from my childhood has gone.   Was shocked to hear that iconic singer Natalie Cole joined the ancestors last night a...
Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Moni's Thoughts On The 35th Anniversary Of The Houston Anti-Crossdressing Ordinance Repeal

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I, wanted to post this on the anniversary date, but with all the breaking news that week, slipped my mind I needed to finish my thoughts a...
Monday, January 05, 2015

Hour Magazine 1980 Trans Interview

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While looking for something to watch on YouTube stumbled across this video of a 1980 Hour Magazine host Gary Collins interviewing trans wo...
Sunday, November 09, 2014

25th Anniversary Of The Fall Of The Berlin Wall

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Like the Cold War and Jim Crow segregation, the Berlin Wall was a part of the world when I was born in 1962.   It was erected in August 1961...
Wednesday, June 04, 2014

Today's The 25th Anniversary Of A Massacre..

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The world will never forget .    It's the 25th anniversary of the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in which it is estimated that...
Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Spike Lee Confirms 'School Daze' Sequel On The Way!

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School Daze has always been one of my favorite Spike Lee movies and I still pull out my DVD to watch it from time to time even though t...
Saturday, November 02, 2013

30th Anniversary of Able Archer 83

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I wrote last year about the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis that nearly led to a global nuclear war.   Today is the 30th an...
Sunday, October 13, 2013

Happy 55th Birthday, Cherrelle!

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I had the pleasure of meeting her while working an LAX flight in the late 90's.   She was traveling under her birth name, but I knew who...
Tuesday, June 04, 2013

Naw China, We STILL Haven't Forgotten What Today Is

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June 4, 1989 , the 24th anniversary of t he crushing of the Tiananmen Square student led protests with PLA tanks and troops.  Since someb...