-KNOW Homo-

LGBTQ* Equality and Love (YouTube) Video You May Have Missed

The Wedding Dance

LGB* Charts and Graphs

OkCupid’s Personality Charts  2011 (Straight V. Gay/Lesbian)

(text below from OKCupid)

Beyond Sex: Gay & Straight Personalities 

More than just asking about specific desires and behaviors, our match questions are designed to tease out our users’ underlying personalities. We’ve collected over 669 million answers from users so far. 

LBGTQ* Pride History and Insight

Forty Years After Stonewall

Youtube Discription: Historian Tim McCarthy, director of Human Rights and Social Movements program at Harvard, sees pros and cons to using the riots as a point of origin for the gay rights movement.

Personal Note:

I cannot agree more with his discussion about the lacking understanding and education of lgbtq* history. This blog started because I wanted to push my understanding deeper. This history is really important for me. Had I not started KNOWhomo’s page, I may have never learned about Lisa Ben typing and creating the first lesbian publication in the US, or Henry Gerber’s work in Chicago which predates the Mattachine Society, or The Black Cat Tavern or Compton Cafeteria Riots which both occurred BEFORE Stonewall.

This is my history as a queer* woman. I have to seek it. It isn’t supplied in grade school (or almost any college) textbooks. It is very fragmented. 

Should there be a push for more dialogue/discussions/history?

What do you think?

LBGTQ* Comic Book Moments You Should Know

Astonishing X-Men #51, Marvel Comics First Gay Wedding

Canadian X-Man Northstar will tie the knot with longtime boyfriend Kyle Jinadu the newest Astonishing X-Men comic. (June)

Images Above:

Top: Cover of  Astonishing X-Men #51

Left: Proposal from  Astonishing X-Men #50

Right:  Astonishing X-Men #51          

** You can read more about Northstar online or HERE in a KNOWhomo post*

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HARVEY MILK.

(May 22, 1930)

“Somewhere in Des Moines or San Antonio there is a young gay person who all of a sudden realizes that he or she is gay; knows that if their parents find out they will be tossed out of the house, their classmates will taunt the child, and the Anita Bryant’s and John Briggs’ are doing their part on TV.
And that child has several options: staying in the closet, and suicide. And then one day that child might open the paper that says ‘Homosexual elected in San Francisco’ and there are two new options: the option is to go to California, or stay in San Antonio and fight. Two days after I was elected I got a phone call and the voice was quite young. It was from Altoona, Pennsylvania. And the person said ‘Thanks’.

And you’ve got to elect gay people; so that thousands upon thousands like that child know that there is hope for a better world; there is hope for a better tomorrow. Without hope, not only gays, but those who are blacks, the Asians, the disabled, the seniors, the us’s; without hope the us’s give up.
I know that you can’t live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you, and you, and you, and you have got to give them hope.” 

LBGTQ* Appreciation Post

Vintage Gay Men & Vintage Male Friendships