For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Angela Morley, a composer and conductor who became the first openly transgender person to be nominated for an Academy Award. Morley was a multi-instrumentalist who began her career playing in bands until in 1944 she joined the Geraldo Orchestra. As a composer, …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Amal Aden, a Somali–Norwegian author, lecturer and lesbian activist. Aden is a strong voice within the Norwegian LGBT movement. Aden published her first book in 2008. Her writing provides a unique insight into the social and psychological dynamics that exist in the …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Helen Zia, a Chinese-American journalist, award winning author and activist for Asian American and LGBTQ rights. Zia is a second generation Chinese American and has been outspoken on social justice issues ranging from human rights and peace to women’s rights and countering …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Christine Delphy, a French sociologist, feminist, writer and theorist known for pioneering materialist feminism. Delphy co-founded the French Women’s Liberation Movement (Mouvement de Libération des Femmes, or MLF) in 1970 and the journal Nouvelles questions féministes (New Feminist Issues) with Simone de …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Rosanna Flamer-Caldera, a Sri Lankan LGBT rights activist and founder of Equal Ground, the only mixed organization advocating for LGBTI rights in Sri Lanka. Flamer-Caldera is a co-founder of the Sri Lankan LBT organization, Women’s Support Group, which was established in 1999 …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Mercedes de Acosta, an American poet, playwright, and novelist. Her autobiography detailed her love affairs with some of the world’s most famous women. De Acosta, the daughter of affluent Cuban immigrants, grew up in New York where, in the 1920s, she was …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Jean Chong, a Singaporean LGBT rights activist who co-founded Sayoni, the LGBT rights organization. Chong “always wished there were lesbian role models” and this led her to became an LGBT activist. She volunteered with a gay Christian support network, Safehaven where she …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, who became the world’s first openly LGBT head of government when elected as the Prime Minister of Iceland in 2009. Jóhanna was active in the trade union movement before entering politics in 1978 when she was elected as an MP. …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Renee Richards, a tennis player who became a transgender icon in 1977 when she won a lawsuit against the United States Tennis Association. Richards started playing tennis at an early age, and at the height of her tennis career, she ranked 20th …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Willa Cather, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and one of the most prominent American writers of the early 20th century. She is best known for her novels “O Pioneers!” and “My Antonia.” Cather is now widely understood to be a lesbian. She lived …