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Hedy Lamarr (November 9, 1913 – January 19, 2000)
With one of the most beautiful faces ever to appear in films, Hedy Lamarr was a sophisticated, highly intelligent woman who shares a patent for the invention of "frequency hopping spread spectrum," the technology that later made cellular telephones practical.Lamarr’s earliest lesbian encounter was when she was seduced by a sixteen-year-old schoolmate named Georgia. Her autobiogaphy, Ecstasy and Me, was remarkably frank when it was published in 1966. She described her strong attraction to other women and detailed numerous sexual encounters with women as well as men.
Lamarr describes meeting a young actress named Marcia on the MGM lot: "... my heart was pounding a bit. I kept telling myself to keep control... I knew that the magnetic current had flowed both ways... As luncheon progressed, I knew she was on the make for me. Her hand often rubbed against my thigh under the table and once to make a point she squeezed my leg and looked into my eyes... [Later] we cuddled on the seat of the car... Her hands went under my dress and all over me and I let her do what she wanted to and all my frustration and hate left me."
Another encounter was with a wardrobe mistress named Lolly: "She began deliberately kissing me all over, starting at my breasts and working down across my stomach until she was on her knees. At my first moan, which was involuntary, she carried me to the bed and now I tried to fight her off. But she had won."
The notoriously litigious Lamarr sued Mel Brooks for making jokes about her in Blazing Saddles. She sued Corel Corporation for using her image in their advertising. She sued six husbands for divorce, in often nasty proceedings. She eventually sued her publisher, claiming that many of the anecdotes in her book had been fabricated by the ghostwriter.
Stern, Keith. Queers in History: The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Historical Gays, Lesbians and Bisexuals. Perseus Books Group. Kindle Edition.
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More LGBT History at my website: http://www.elisarolle.com/, My Ramblings/Gay Classics
Jerry Blatt, a composer and lyricist who had collaborated with Bette Midler since 1975, died on January 19, 1989, in Amsterdam. He was 47 years old.
Thomas Luke Macfarlane (born January 19, 1980), better known as Luke Macfarlane, is a Canadian actor and musician. Macfarlane came out as gay during an interview with The Globe and Mail on April 15, 2008. After Wentworth Miller, came out as gay in an open letter addressed to Russia declining an invitation over that nation’s anti-gay law ("I cannot in good conscience participate in a celebratory occasion hosted by a country where people like myself are being systematically denied their basic right to live and love openly"), Luke Mcfarlane is now making headlines as his rumored boyfriend. Miller and Macfarlane have been linked together since 2007 after Perez Hilton forcibly outed Wentworth and then said the two were dating according to a "reliable source." (http://www.thegailygrind.com/2013/08/22/is-recently-out-prison-break-star-wentworth-miller-dating-actor-luke-macfarlane/)
Robert B. Nofsinger (July 11, 1963, Peoria, Illinois - January 19, 1993, San Francisco, California) was a composer, pianist and singer.
Natalie Louise Cook OAM (born 19 January 1975) is an Australian professional beach volleyball player and Olympic gold medallist. Cook currently resides in Brisbane and is married to fellow beach volleyballer Sarah Maxwell. They exchanged vows in an intimate New Zealand ceremony on November 2008, and then enjoyed an extended honeymoon on Queensland's Hamilton Island. They decided on a Celtic hand-fastening ritual for the commitment ceremony and the couple exchanged necklaces handed down by their mothers instead of rings.
Cook was born in Townsville, Queensland. She was the dux of her school, Corinda State High (located in the western suburbs of Brisbane). She enrolled in pre-medicine college courses, and also took up volleyball, captaining the Australian Indoor Junior Team in 1992. In 1993 she began playing beach volleyball. In 1994 she went professional and gave up her pursuit of a medical degree.
Dr. Jay Michaelson (born 1971) is a writer, teacher, and scholar in the USA. His work involves spirituality, Judaism, sexuality, and law. He is a contributing editor to The Forward, associate editor of Religion Dispatches, and a featured blogger for the Huffington Post. He has written four books, God vs. Gay? The Religious Case for Equality (2011), Everything is God: The Radical Path of Nondual Judaism (2009), God in Your Body: Kabbalah, Mindfulness, and Embodied Spiritual Practice (2006) and Another Word for Sky: Poems (2007). Michaelson has been a leading voice in "New Jewish Culture," alternative Jewish spirituality, and LGBT activism. He is openly gay and Jewish and often works in the intersecting fields of LGBT people and Jewish traditions. He has written 200 articles for The Daily Beast, Salon, The Jerusalem Post, Slate, Tikkun, Zeek, Reality Sandwich, and other publications.
God vs. Gay?: The Religious Case for Equality by Jay Michaelson
The story is very long, maybe a tad too long, especially cause, the bittersweet ending, while with hope, it left me like robbed, I spent so much time with these two guys, that I wanted to know more about their future, and hopefully, happily ever after. So my feeling was that, if I spent a little less time with them before, and a little more time after, the balance would have been perfect.