![]() She is perhaps best known for her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. During her lifetime, she published four novels and more than 50 short stories, plays and essays. Zora Neale Hurston was an American folklorist, anthropologist, and author during the Harlem Renaissance. Rainey often found herself in trouble with the police for her lesbian behavior, including an incident in 1925 when she was arrested for taking part in an orgy at home involving women in her chorus. Ma Rainey was the first Vaudeville entertainer to incorporate the blues into her performances, which led to her to – perhaps justifiably – become known as the “Mother of the Blues.” Although she was married, Rainey was known to take women as lovers, and her song “Prove It on Me Blues” directly references her preference for male attire and female companionship. I again urge my followers, if you have not already, start supporting black lives and uplifting black voices today.īlack bi/lesbian women Day 1 - Gertrude “Ma” Rainey (1886-1939) ![]() As an Asian lesbian, it is my responsibility to combat anti-black racism in the Asian and LGBT communities. I will provide the links for them below.īoth NBPOC (non-black people of colour) and white people have the responsibility to combat anti-blackness in our communities. Please consider donating to any of these organizations shown in the picture. The LGBT community owes so much to black gays and lesbians both historically and today. As a non-black lesbian, I must speak up against the injustices faced by the black community, and I urge my followers to do the same. My blog is supposed to be solely for lesbian/LGBT content, but having the platform that I do, this is too important to not post about. In this heteronormative and patriarchal world, our existence is in itself revolutionary, and each and every lesbian is helping pave the way for our liberation. ![]() Let’s show our love for all the lesbians who have once lived on this earth, and all the lesbians who are still alive right now. Let’s remember all the other lesbians who have fought for gay rights, those outside of the United States and those who didn’t quite make it into the history books. Windsor, which overturned the Defence of Marriage Act in the United States in 2015, and legalized gay marriage all across the USA. Let’s remember Edith Windsor, the lead plaintiff in the Supreme Court case United States v. Let’s remember Marcia Kadish and Tanya McCloskey, the first gay couple to be legally married in the United States, after Massachusetts legalized same-sex marriage in 2004. Let’s remember Gladys Bentley, a black crossdressing lesbian blues singer who is said to have publicly married another woman in a civil ceremony in 1931, albeit not recognized by the state. Let’s remember Ruth Simpson, a former president of the New York chapter of the DOB, who also created the first lesbian community centre in the United States. Let’s remember Barbara Gittings, the lesbian activist who founded the New York chapter of the DOB, was a prominent figure in the movement to remove homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), and is now widely regarded as the mother of the LGBT rights movement. Let’s remember Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, the lesbian couple who founded the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB), which was the first lesbian organization in the United States. Let’s remember Stormé DeLarverie, the black butch lesbian drag king who threw the first punch that started the Stonewall Riots of 1969, possibly the most famous event in LGBT history. This pride, let’s remember all the lesbians who have been monumental in establishing rights for the LGBT community.
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