News Briefs for 07.12.19
Beyond the Carolinas
News briefs from across the globe for 07.12.19.
SF trans cultural district slowly moves forward
LGBT History Month: Designations highlight diversity, lived experience
It’s been a little over a year since San Francisco designated the nation’s first transgender cultural district in the city’s Tenderloin neighborhood.
LGBT History Month — October 31: Chely Wright
Award-Winning Country Music Star
Chely Wright is an award-winning country singer-songwriter and LGBT activist.
LGBT History Month — October 30: Perry Watkins
Pioneering Military Activist
Perry J. Watkins was an African-American soldier who won a landmark lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of his military discharge due to his homosexuality.
The Emma Jones Society Convention
LGBT History Month: Florida’s panhandle once hosted the largest LGBT gathering in the country
Emma Jones was one of the greatest LGBT allies in the 1960s in northern Florida. Too bad she didn’t actually exist.
LGBT History Month — October 28: Ethel Mary Smyth
Composer & Suffragette
Ethel Mary Smyth was a pioneering British composer who helped popularize opera in the United Kingdom.
LGBT History Month — October 27: Michelangelo Signorile
Journalist & Radio Host
Michelangelo Signorile is an outspoken American journalist, author and radio personality.
LGBT History Month — October 26: Danica Roem
Transgender State Legislator
Danica Roem is a journalist and the first openly transgender person in the United States to win a seat in a state legislature.
50 years on, busting the myths of Stonewall
LGBT History Month: Looking at the LGBT Revolution
Each of us who were at Stonewall has a different view of the event. They run the gamut from it being a rebellion, a riot, a revolution, or simply a night of the queens having fun and taking over their home, Christopher Street.
LGBT History Month — October 25: Adam Rippon
Olympic Figure Skater
Adam Rippon is an Olympic figure skater and an advocate for LGBT rights. In 2018 he became the first openly gay American athlete to win a medal at the Winter Olympics.
