1969 - New York City police, attempting to serve a search warrant, charged into the well-known gay hangout, the Stonewall Inn. Events quickly got out of hand. Police ejected customers, managers, bouncers. Everyone got booted outside onto the sidewalk. The crowd became increasingly unruly and someone threw a bottle at the police. The plain-clothes police team was trapped inside the bar for over two hours before the the NYPD Tactical Patrol Force arrived and drove the mob from in front of the Stonewall. Police arrested and jailed many of the chanting gays. For the next few nights, the Stonewall Inn became the focal point of gay protests. The gay community began to organize and form committees to bring about change. Many feel that the Gay Liberation Movement had its beginnings with the Stonewall Inn Riots.



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Today In History~

1787 - Edward Gibbon completed The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

1884 - Lawrence Corcoran pitched his third no-hit baseball game, leading Chicago to a 6-0 win over Providence. Corcoran set a baseball record for no-hitters for the feat.

1885 - Chichester Bell and Charles S. Tainter applied for a patent for the gramophone. The patent was granted on May 4, 1886.

1949 - Captain Video and His Video Rangers premiered on the Dumont Television Network. Captain Video was initially played by Richard Coogan. The voice of radio’s Green Hornet, Al Hodge, replaced Coogan in 1951. Don Hastings played the roll of the ranger until the series ended in 1955. Maybe, if you check the basement or the attic, you’ll find your Captain Video decoder ring. Now’s the time to use it, kids!

1955 - The first Wide Wide World was broadcast on NBC-TV. Dave Garroway, of the Today show, was the program host.

1958 - After nearly three years on NBC-TV, Matinee Theatre was seen for the final time. And a good thing, too. Critics called the show one of the most successful failures in theatrical history.

1959 - West Side Story, with music by Leonard Bernstein, closed after 732 performances on Broadway. The show remains one of the brightest highlights in the history of the Great White Way.

1962 - Two albums of melancholy music by Jackie Gleason received gold record honors. Music, Martinis and Memories and Music for Lovers Only got the gold. Both were issued by Capitol Records in Hollywood.

1963 - Brenda Lee inked a new recording contract with Decca Records. She was guaranteed one million dollars over the following 20 years.

1964 - Ernest Borgnine and Ethel Merman were married. It did not turn out to be one of Hollywood’s most enduring marriages. The couple broke up 38 days later.

1970 - The Jackson 5: Marlon, Tito, Jackie, Randy and Michael, jumped to number one on the music charts with The Love You Save. The song stayed at the top of the charts for two weeks. It was the third of four number one hits in a row for the group. The other three were I Want You Back, ABC and I’ll Be There. In 15 years (from 1969 to 1984), The Jackson 5/Jacksons had 23 hits, scored two platinum singles (Enjoy Yourself and Shake Your Body [Down to the Ground]) and one gold record (State of Shock).

1971 - Promoter Bill Graham closed the Fillmore East in New York City. It was a spin-off of San Francisco’s legendary rock ’n’ roll palace, Fillmore West (closed several days later). The Allman Brothers and J. Geils Band were among those performing on the final night. The New York City landmark and its San Francisco sister hosted just about every major rock group of the 1960s.

1972 - Bobby Hull signed a 10-year hockey contract for $2,500,000, as he became a player and coach of the Winnipeg Jets of the World Hockey Association.

1975 - Sonny and Cher (Bono) called it quits as husband and wife. They were divorced soon after their CBS-TV variety show was canceled. Sonny went on to become mayor of Palm Springs and then a U.S. Congressman from California. (He was killed Jan. 5, 1998 in a skiing accident.) Cher married rocker Gregg Alman just days after saying “bye-bye” to Sonny. She continued her recording career and became an Academy Award-winning actress.

1980 - The the National Anthem Act, making O Canada Canada's national anthem, was unanimously accepted by the House of Commons and the Senate. Royal assent was also given this day. O Canada, written by Calixa Lavallee and Adolphe-Basile Routhier, was officially proclaimed Canada's national anthem on July 1, 1980.

1981 - Hi Infidelity, by REO Speedwagon, was replaced at number one by the LP, Mistaken Identity, by singer Kim Carnes. Hi Infidelity had been number one on the album charts for 14 weeks.

1984 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that individual colleges could make their own TV package deals. The National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) contracts with ABC, CBS and Turner Broadcasting were said to violate federal anti-trust laws.

1987 - After spending a decade with NBC News, Linda Ellerbee gave her last, “And so it goes.” NBC had tried to encourage Ellerbee to take a 40 percent cut in pay. And so she went. She wrote a most interesting book on her broadcasting career titled And So It Goes.

1988 - Mike Tyson quickly retained his undisputed world heavyweight title by knocking out Michael Spinks in the first round. Fight fans at Atlantic City Convention Hall had paid big bucks (up to $1,500) to see this one. The match, touted in advance as “Once and for All” was all over in 91 seconds. No report on how many people blinked at the wrong time.

1992 - Michael Jackson kicked off the Dangerous Tour in Munich, Germany. 70,000 fans saw Jackson, with a helmet on and a fake rocket pack on his back, appear to fly off stage (or, maybe he really did). The tour would continue through November 11 stopping in some 42 cities.

1999 - Juli Inkster won the LPGA Championship in Wilmington, Delaware. She was the second woman to win the modern Grand Slam in the LPGA. Of the eight players who have won the four major championships of their era, no one took as long as Inkster: 16 seasons from the time she won the Dinah Shore as a rookie [1984] to her victory in the LPGA Championship as a 39-year-old mother.

1999 - Sporting leather thongs, feather boas and political banners, gays and lesbians took to streets around the world in festive pride parades. The 29th annual Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Pride Parade and Celebration took place in San Francisco, New York, Berlin, Manila and many other cities. Among the organizations taking part were the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a gay veterans group, an antique auto club for gays and Roman Catholics in favor of gay rights. The pride marches commemorate the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, when patrons of a gay bar in Greenwich Village (New York) fought back against a police raid. The bar, the Stonewall Inn, is now on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.


Music For The Day~



Click on the picture! Gay Pride-I am who I am


Quote For The Day~

Jesse Helms and Newt Gingrich were shaking hands congratulating themselves on the introduction of an antigay bill in Congress. If it passes, they won't be able to shake hands, because it will then be illegal for a prick to touch an a$$hole.
Judy Carte


Chuckle For The Day~

What a drag it is getting old...

When I went to the bar tonight, I noticed this old boy about 75-80 years sitting all alone in the corner and he was crying over his cocktail.

I stopped and asked him what was wrong.

He said: "I have a 22 year old lover at home. I met him a month or so ago, right here in this very bar!" He continued; "He makes love to me every morning and then he makes me pancakes, sausage, fresh fruit and freshly ground, brewed coffee."

I said: "Well, then why are you crying?"

He said: "He makes me homemade soup for lunch and my favorite brownies and then he makes love to me half the afternoon."

I said: "Well, so why are you crying?"

He said: "For dinner he makes me a gourmet meal with wine and my favorite dessert and then he makes love to me until 2:00 am."

I said: "Well, for goodness sakes! Why in the world would you be CRYING!"

And he said: "I CAN'T REMEMBER WHERE I LIVE!"





Picture For The Day~



Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence float at a San Francisco< CA Gay Pride Parade


Trivia For The Day~

The question of gay marriage is controversial, to put it mildly. As Vermont successfully permitted gay and lesbian civil unions, other states hopped on the bandwagon to make sure that those unions would not be recognized on their turf. Western Europe, for the most part, is a bit more forward thinking in that matter. In 1989, Demark became the first country to allow full rights to a same-sex couple.

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!



From the Church of Ineffable Stupidity:

a) Perfect conditions for life found on Mars

Not only is there plenty of water in the topsoil, the mineral make-up would appear able to support plant life, even more. If intelligent life exists on Mars, we would love to import it here. Our planet could sure use some.

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b) Bank of America to buy out Countrywide, fire 7000 employees.

We can only hope they start at the top. Countrywide, the most visible face of the subprime disaster, now faces at least four class action suits for widespread "bait & switch" tactics, pushing clients unknowingly into infamous "refi" mortgages higher rates, higher upfront costs, and far worse financial deals.

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c) News Items:

Antonin Scalia blames Al Gore for 2000 Supreme Court decision
Karl Rove blames Democrats for Iraq occupation
Dick Cheney blames Democrats for gas prices
Steve Hadley blames Democrat leaders for illegal domestic spying
George Bush blames Democrat leadership for US budget woes
John Bolton blames Democrat Senators for global mistrust of US
Don Rumsfeld blames Clinton for sending unarmed troops to Iraq

Anyone see a pattern here?

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d) Bush finds Zimbabwe on map!



He probably regrets not using similar techniques in 2006. "Think of how much trouble we could have avoided without the Democrat Party leadership ruining it all the last two years."

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e) You can't high five a woman's breast?



This is comedy?

Fantastic homage to the gay community, Scout.
Nice opener.

re Amtrak from yesterday: I forgot to add to my response to Ag, I heard a blurb on NPR a couples of days ago that ridership is way up since gas prices have soared.
Maybe Congress will take the hint?

Morning everybody.
I'm out early to the gym, then a day off before Temple tonight.
Have a good one.
Olyve

ahhh a vision of the future, billions would be spent on making the place livable, then we will get there and reverse the process.

huzzah progress

Our flag


...from the above video:



"...people were to stop dancing, assume heterosexual, as best they could, roles."

That's pretty hard to do in a taffeta gown and pumps, as a man...




We have t-shirts that say: I can't even think straight!

...and when we give directions, we never say, for example "then, go straight", we say: "go forward."

Thanks, Scoutgal, our honorary LGBT Princess.

Pigs accept that all things must end.

Madge and Guy head for divorce. It's always sad to see a couple break up and I was really rooting for Madge as she doesn't have much success in the relationship department. I was really hoping that this relationship would work out for her.

ooops, Scout. I just noticed your typo in the date of this roundtable (freaked me out a bit as I'm working on mine for tomorrow... )

Today is the 27th, dahling

Tiz all relative...arbitrary...dahling...