Happy Pride Month https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🏳️‍🌈" title="Rainbow flag" aria-label="Emoji: Rainbow flag">! here& #39;s to past, present & future LGBTQIA lives, and also to fighting oppression in all forms. This month I& #39;m going to try & share a few LGBTQIA individuals& #39; lives that I find esp interesting/inspirational. On that note...

Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, “mother of the blues”, 1886–1939, was the most popular 1920s blues singer-songwriter. In 1928, she sang “Went out last night with a crowd of my friends. They must’ve been women, ‘cause I don’t like no men”. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-queer-black-woman-who-reinvented-the-blues">https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/...

Meet Gladys Bentley, Harlem’s most famous gender-nonconforming lesbian and tuxedo-wearing 1930s blues star. During the McCarthy era, the story turns tragic, but a fascinating, illuminating life. Here’s her belated (2019) New York Times obituary: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/obituaries/gladys-bentley-overlooked.html">https://www.nytimes.com/interacti...

also, especial love to LGBTQIA people of colour & to anyone stuck (because of Covid-19 or generally) in a place where they can& #39;t be themselves at all, let alone celebrate their identity & fight for their rights. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🏳️‍🌈" title="Rainbow flag" aria-label="Emoji: Rainbow flag">