Formally decided I am getting a hotel room and doing Denver Pride in June.
Boutique hotel, near the parade location, in-room tub.
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In 1945, a woman named Lucy Hicks Anderson was arrested for the crime of marrying her husband, Reuben Anderson, a soldier in the US Army.
Lucy Lawson seemingly always knew exactly who she was. In 1886, a beautiful black baby was born to Bill and Nancy Lawson of Waddy, KY. While this child was identified as male, she insisted that she was a girl. She chose the name Lucy and informed her parents that she would be wearing dresses to school.
At this point in history, the term 'transgender' had not yet been coined, and public knowledge about trans people was sadly lacking. Confounded, her mother and father took her to see the local doctor who advised them to raise her as they would any other little girl. Bill and Nancy did just that. And by all accounts, Lucy's childhood and school years were uneventful and happy.
At age 15, Lucy left home, taking domestic work to support herself, then moved west, first to Texas then to New Mexico where she married her first husband, a man named Clarence Hicks, in Silver City, NM. The couple settled in Oxnard, CA, a wealthy community about an hour up the coast from Los Angeles. There, Lucy's culinary skills opened doors for her, and she began to cater elaborate parties for Oxnard's rich and elite. Her rolls and fruitcakes reportedly won many local contests and awards. Lucy worked diligently and tirelessly, and saved nearly every penny she earned from her employment as a domestic worker, a nanny, and a cook. And in 1920, at the age of 34, Lucy managed to save enough to purchase business property — a local brothel.
Lucy's brothel operated between 1920 and 1933, a period in American history known as Prohibition. During this time, selling alcohol was illegal. But as a brothel madam, Lucy had already skipped merrily over the lines of propriety, so she served her customers alcohol anyway.
In 1929, Lucy divorced Clarence Hicks. Not much is known about her marriage or divorce to Clarence, so we can infer that the separation was mutual and uncontested by either party. Lucy kept her business, and kept bootlegging alcohol.
She was busted a few times, but her numerous social connections with wealthy socialites allowed her to avoid any aggressive prosecution. Rumor has it that one wealthy banker even posted her bail so that she could cater his party that evening.
In 1944, Lucy fell in love a second time. At 58 years old, she met and married the love of her life, Reuben Anderson. Reuben was a soldier stationed in Long Island, NY. But their happiness was not to last.
Just one year after their marriage, a sailor claimed he had caught a venereal disease from one of the women at Lucy's brothel. At that time, the law required all sex workers to undergo a medical examination, and the Ventura County examiner insisted on including Lucy. It was at this time that her trans identity was revealed, and subsequently made public. He chose to put her on trial for perjury, arguing that she lied on her marriage licence, impersonated a woman, and stole VA benefits to which military spouses were entitled. After the story ran in a small Pacific coast newspaper, Time Magazine ran an article on Lucy, exposing her as a trans woman to the entire nation.
During her trial, Lucy stated in her defense, "I defy any doctor in the world to prove that I am not a woman. I have lived, dressed, acted just what I am, a woman". However, the court convicted both her and Reuben of perjury, and they were both sentenced to incarceration in a male prison. Lucy in particular was court ordered not to wear women's clothes.
Reuben and Lucy's relationship survived these indignities, somehow. After serving ten long years in a male penitentiary, Lucy and her beloved Reuben retired to Los Angeles, where they quietly lived out the remainder of their lives together. At age 68, Lucy Hicks Anderson died and was mourned by all who knew her.
Lucy Hicks Anderson was not an activist. She was not even known as a trans woman for the vast majority of her life. She simply wanted to live her life, love her loves, and pursue the projects and interests that made her happy. Lucy wanted only one thing out of life, and that was to be the woman she knew herself to be. And it turns out she was willing to fight for that.
Tell our stories.
#PRIDE #TransHistory
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Out today: "I’m still not sure what kind of grooming could possibly occur at a neighborhood festival where toddlers and grandparents dance to a B-52s cover band." https://www.texasobserver.org/north-texas-pride-fest-rainbow-panic/
#Pride #LGBTQIA+ #NorthTexas #Texas #culture #politics #USpol #news
Target is scaling back LGBTQ+ merchandise this year after "right-wing backlash" last year. It can couch this decision in all the research-supported logic it wants, but it's still a capitulation to bigots. #Target is betting those of us who support equity will be more accepting of this decision than bigots will of the retailer carrying #Pride products. Those who care need to raise their voices and make their wishes heard by curtailing their spending at Target.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/10/business/target-pride-merchandise-june-2024/index.html
In 1978, a woman launched a global microchip revolution, and then disappeared from history.
Lynn Conway was born in Mount Vernon, New York on January 2, 1938. She was a shy and introverted child who did well in math and sciences. However, she was also assigned male at birth and struggled with intense gender dysphoria.
Conway entered MIT in 1955, earning high grades but ultimately leaving in despair after an attempted gender transition failed due to the medical climate at the time. After working as an electronics technician for several years, she went back to school at Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science, earning her B.S. and M.S.E.E. degrees in 1962 and 1963.
The following year, she was recruited by IBM and was soon selected to join the architecture team designing an advanced supercomputer. The project, called ACS, which stood for Advanced Computing Systems, has been described by historians as the world's first superscalar design, a computer architectural paradigm widely exploited in modern high-performance microprocessors.
In 1968, Lynn heard about the pioneering research of Harry Benjamin in healthcare for transgender women. And, realizing that gender affirmation surgery was now possible, Conway sought his help. Suffering from severe depression from gender dysphoria, Conway contacted Benjamin, who agreed to provide counseling and prescribe hormones. Under Benjamin's care, Conway began her medical gender transition. After the success of the ACS project, Lynn had hoped to be able to transition on the job, but IBM fired Conway immediately after she revealed her intention to transition.
So, in 1968, Conway restarted her career in computing, this time entering the field as a woman. She took a job at Computer Applications, Inc, then at Memorex, and then finally at Xerox in 1973. In her words, she was now in "stealth mode," under the not unfounded assumption that, should her past be discovered, she would be fired again.
In 1973, collaborating with Ivan Sutherland and Carver Mead of Caltech, Lynn co-developed a revolutionary new method of microchip design that allowed billions of individual components to be integrated into one chip with relative simplicity. Her design was called VLSI - or Very Large Scale Integration, and the importance of this invention cannot be understated in the modern world. Billions of digital devices worldwide, from iPhones to electronic cars to computerised coffee machines, were all made possible in part by her ideas. As the University of Michigan put it in 2014: "Thank Lynn Conway for your cell phone."
In 1978, she left Xerox and took a position at MIT, teaching a now famous course on VLSI design. While there, she co-authored "Introduction to VLSI Systems", with Carver Mead - a groundbreaking work that soon became a standard textbook in chip design, selling over 70,000 copies, and appearing in nearly 120 university curriculums by 1983. Basically, if you are in IT, and got your degree anywhere in America during the 80's you learned your trade, and owe your livelihood, in part, to a trans woman.
Following up on this, Lynn continued to be on the forefront of new technologies. The problem she was now trying to solve was how to cope with the increasing complexity of chip design. As the number of transistors per chip doubled every two years, keeping up with this required new ways to design and manufacture new microchips. In 1981, she invented dimensionless, scalable design rules that greatly simplified chip design, as well as a new form of internet-based infrastructure for rapid prototyping of new chip designs. This new infrastructure was called the Metal Oxide Semiconductor Implementation Service, or "MOSIS", and was funded in part by DARPA. Only two years into its success, Mead and Conway received Electronics Magazine's annual award of achievement. Since then, MOSIS has fabricated more than 50,000 circuit designs for commercial firms, government agencies, and research and educational institutions around the world.
Leaving MIT for DARPA, she became a key architect of the Defense Department's Strategic Computing Initiative, which was a research program studying high-performance computing, autonomous systems technology, and intelligent weapons technology. Working under Dr. Robert Cooper, Director of DARPA and Assistant Secretary of Defense, Conway led the effort that produced the Strategic Computing Plan published in November 1983.
Conway then joined the University of Michigan in 1985 as professor of electrical engineering and computer science and associate dean of engineering. It was here that, in 1987, Lynn met the man who would become her husband - Charles "Charlie" Rogers, a professional engineer who shared her interest in the outdoors, including whitewater canoeing and motocross racing. They started living together, and soon bought a house with 24 acres of meadow, marsh, and woodland in rural Michigan in 1994.
In 1998, Conway quietly retired from active teaching and research as professor emerita at Michigan, and four years later, on a beautiful bright day in August, Lynn and Charlie were married.
On June 9th of 2024, just 3 days ago, Lynn Conway passed away from a heart condition at her home in Jackson, Michigan, at the age of 86.
Lynn was a brilliant engineer and computer scientist, who never sought fame or recognition for her achievements and global contributions to the modern world. But, slowly, that recognition is coming to pass anyway. In 2009, she received an award from the engineering trade group, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE). In 2020, IBM finally apologized for firing her 42 years earlier. And, this past October, just 8 months before she died, Lynn Conway was inducted into the National Inventors’ Hall of Fame as the co-creator of VLSI – some 14 years after Carver Mead received the same honor.
Tell our stories.
#PRIDE #TransHistory
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This #Pride month, I don't want cishet people to change their profile to pride themed, or post about how they want queer people to feel safe around them.
I want them to be unbearable to people espousing casual prejudice around them. To call out sexist, homophobic, racist, transphobic comments, especially when framed as a "joke". To say this is unacceptable to their faces.
Keeping the peace is a privilege for those unharmed by the status quo. Raise hell instead.
LGBT History lesson!
There have been a lot of events peppered throughout history that were frog leaps toward #LGBT rights. These led up to the full on push in the 1970s that brought gay rights into the U.S. national conversation. These radical acts began the decades long push toward LGBT equality and social change.
The big one was the Stonewall Uprising but did you know there was a riot that happened almost three years prior to #Stonewall ?... the Riot at Compton's Cafeteria. Stonewall is often thought of as the event that started the modern gay rights movement but Compton's was equally important.
The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria happened in August of 1966 in San Fran's Tenderloin District. And why did this happen?... because #ACAB Drag queens and trans women had finally had enough.
The first #Pride was a riot!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-WASW9dRBU
It's not enough that #trans people are welcome with you. The transphobes have to be *unwelcome*.
These people must be challenged, corrected and shunned for what they say and do. It doesn't matter to me if they're your co-workers, friends or even family.
You've noticed the hate out there, right? It's rampant and only getting worse.
If you want to be my ally, please realize that I need someone willing to be my advocate. Not just someone to provide me shelter.
Thank you. 🏳️⚧️💖
THE ARROW - A Circus Film [Love. Pride. Truth.] - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtnJUS30olE
Recently, New York Mayor Mamdani reference The Cercle Hermaphroditos in a speech in support of Pride, and New York’s contributions to LGBTQ history. So, here is a little on this relatively obscure group, for those who haven’t heard of them:
The Cercle Hermaphroditos, founded in 1895 in New York City, was the first known transgender advocacy group in the U.S. This was at a time when In a time when cross dressing was a punishable crime. Their home at Paresis Hall provided a safe place for androgynes, queens, fairies, Uranians, and hermaphrodites (the terms transfeminine people used for themselves in those days) to gather and socialize. Most of what is known today about the secret organization comes from the memoirs of Jennie June, a female impersonator and regular at Paresis Hall, a gay bar and brothel near Washington Square Park, where the Cercle met. According to June, members were Ultra-Androgyne, & would always clothe themselves as female in their daily lives if the law permitted it. She also described the Cercle Hermaphroditos as a mutual aid society, where people assigned male at birth who lived as women could come together for safety and support.
In her book “The Female-Impersonators,” June chronicled her time as a sex worker in 1890s Manhattan. She described how transfeminine people were subjected to blackmail, violence, police harassment, theft, murder, and suicide. Paresis Hall club maintained a room to store women’s clothes for members, so they could avoid police harassment and street violence on their way to meetings. Discussions at the hall included topics like how to show solidarity with transmasculine people, and the latest science on gender and transfemininity.
In 2019, Shualee Cook wrote a play called “Circle Hermaphroditos” about a transmasculine person who goes to Paresis Hall to find a lady he can legally marry, then play the roles expected of them in public while pursuing the life they want in private. But finding the proper match is more difficult than he expected, especially after the club is raided by police.
References:
https://glreview.org/cercle-hermaphroditos/
https://getplume.co/blog/trans-history-spotlight-the-cercle-hermaphroditos/
https://parityproductions.org/cercle-hermaphroditos
#lgbtq #pride #pridemonth #trans #transgender #transrightsarehumanrights #cerclehermaphroditos #drag #crossdress
A small group has gathered to honor #Palestine at #Austin Pride. They initially planned to protest an apparent ban on symbols of Palestinian liberation at Pride, but are now having a rally after a meeting and Austin Pride apologized to the Palestinian community.
(edit to update: see thread below. Police actually made multiple arrests from this group as they tried to watch the parade.)
#LGBTQIA #Pride
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There's some shit happening in Santa Cruz & I'm trying my damndest to throw fuel on it... that is to say, I'm organizing a boycott & I need your help
also if you're the kind of person who's prone to say things like "you're overreacting" scroll all the way away, kid
If you celebrate Naughty #Nonbinary November, I have a mission for you: ⬇️ (cont)
https://www.reddit.com/r/santacruz/comments/1oqx4na/boycott_the_418_project/
#trans #queer #enby #pride #lgbtq #lgbtqia #boycott #resist #santacruz #santacruznews #community #mutualaid #mutualaidrequest
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Out today, a story months in the making...
In August, #Austin Police Department violently arrested two pro-Palestine activists at the city's annual #Pride march, and I investigated why and how it happened.
Even though Pride itself claimed to be welcoming to symbols of Palestinian liberation, police who were deployed to "protect" the #LGBTQIA+ community from violent threats ended up attacking us instead. https://thebarbedwire.com/2024/10/18/you-can-fly-any-flag-at-austin-pride-except-a-palestinian-one/
#police #Palestine @palestine #queer #news #Texas
Hey, so, Christmas is coming, and I have a little Redbubble store: https://www.redbubble.com/people/Rhube/shop?asc=u
Maybe there's something in there you'd like to buy for someone? Some of it is Pride themed, and you'd be supporting a non-binary, disabled artist.
#retro #60s #70s #MidCenturyModern #autumnal #geometric #art #design #redbubble #pride #gifts #Christmas #lgbtq+
Fútbol match tomorrow in Vancouver is the Pride game: https://www.whitecapsfc.com/news/spectator-aug-1-2026-pride-presented-telus
They’ve been doing this for years, but I’m not 100% sure this is their best-ever Pride promotion:
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🏳️🌈 Pour les Marches des fiertés 2025, je met à disposition un calendrier iCalendar (ICS)/CalDAV via mon Nextcloud, auquel vous pouvez vous abonner depuis votre PC ou smartphone.
Je tâcherai de le mettre à jour régulièrement, avec dans la mesure du possible les horaires et lieu de départ des Marches (qui ne sont souvent qu'une partie de l'évènement lui-même).
🔍 Je me base sur la page suivante : https://www.gaypride.fr/pride-2025/
🔗 Le lien : https://cloud.lucasbenard.fr/remote.php/dav/public-calendars/Abxjbm3iftC2FEBE?export
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Soon the rewritten version of #Moshidon should be ready, and also soon it will be my birthday again!
2nd of June is coming up, and if you wish to give me a little present for celebrating my third birthday with Moshidon (damn time flies) and for working on Moshidon for all this time, please consider throwing a little money at me on either:
Libeapay: https://liberapay.com/LucasGGamerM/donate
Or Github Sponsors: https://github.com/sponsors/LucasGGamerM
Thank you for staying with me for all this time, also, happy #Pride month!
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Pleased to announce that the Petaluma Pride Festival returns on National Coming Out Day – Saturday, October 11th!
We're now accepting applications from vendors, sponsors, and people who'd like to host pride events as part of the official event program. Details at: https://petalumapride.link/2025