January 2012
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“You’re neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you’re as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else; only you’re unexplained as yet — you’ve not got your niche in creation.”
~ The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall, 1928” —
~ The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall, 1928” —
LGBTQ* Books You Should Know
The Well of Loneliness
(Quote Above, Author Below)
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Judy Garland
LGBTQ* Anthems 101
The anthem that started them all…
Judy Garland “Over the Rainbow”
A (LBTQ*) By Any Other Name
- Spanish: mal-flor/manflora (tomboy)
- Spanish: Marimacho (masculine Mary)
- Spanish: Pantalonuda (tomboy/trouser wearer)
- Spanish: Donna con Donna (woman with woman)
- German: Mädchen Schmeker (girl-taste)
- Klamath Tribe: sawa linaa (to live as partners)
- French: vrille (a gimlet)
- Chinese: dui shi (paired eating/term for female homosexual couples/not cunnilingus)
- Hindi: Shanda/shandali (a woman desiring like a man; a woman having the properties of a man, etc)
- Hindi: Samlaingikta (homosexuality)
- Cheyenne: Heemaneh (half-men, half-women)
- Pueblo of Zuni: Katsotse (boy-girl)
- Shoshoni: Tainna wa'ippe (man-woman)
- *** All terms/spellings/definitions from the book Queer Facts by Baker & Tropiano
“Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others.
- Eleanor Roosevelt” —
- Eleanor Roosevelt” —
Quotes, Quips and Wise Words
First Lady, Great Thinker, Sincere Soul
