The World Isn't Fair...
But You Can Be.
To me, this photo is a perfect example of “a picture is worth a thousand words.”
It says everything I want to say today.
Wishing you a fair and fun weekend!
Thank YOU for being a friend…
Clint 🌈✌️
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NEW + RECENT
SUNDAY = Let's Celebrate...Good Times
MONDAY = Better Late Than Never
TUESDAY = Revisiting 'Tales Of The City'
WEDNESDAY = Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld
THURSDAY = One Size Does Not Fit All
FRIDAY = Honoring Our LGBTQ Elders
ON THIS DAY = MAY 17
BIRTHDAYS
1911 = Maureen O'Sullivan = Irish-American actor
1916 = Robin Maugham = British writer 🌈
1919 = Antonio Aguilar = Mexican singer-songwriter, actor, and screenwriter
1929 = Jill Johnston = British-born American author and critic 🌈
1934 = Ronald Wayne = American computer scientist and Apple co-founder
1936 = Dennis Hopper = American actor and director
1941 = Grace Zabriskie = American actor
1950 = Howard Ashman = American playwright and lyricist 🌈
1955 = Bill Paxton = American actor and director
1956 = Annise Parker = American politician 🌈
1956 = Bob Saget = American comedian, actor, and tv host
1961 = Enya = Irish singer-songwriter
1962 = Craig Ferguson = Scottish-American comedian, actor, and talk show host
1964 = David Eigenberg = American actor
1964 = Rose Troche = American filmmaker 🌈
1965 = Trent Reznor = American singer-songwriter
1970 = Jordan Knight = American singer-songwriter and actor
1976 = Kandi Burruss = American singer-songwriter and tv personality
1984 = Lena Waithe = American screenwriter, producer, and actor 🌈
1985 = Derek Hough = American actor, singer, and dancer
1990 = Ross Butler = Singaporean-born American actor
EVENTS
1861 = The first color photograph, made by Thomas Sutton (using the three-color method suggested by James Clerk Maxwell) is shown publicly in London.
1900 = The children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, is first published in the US.
1954 = The SCOTUS hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, outlawing racial segregation in public schools.
1976 = The Love Boat premieres on ABC.
1977 = Nolan Bushnell opened the first Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre (later renamed Chuck E. Cheese) in San Jose, California.
1990 = The General Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) eliminates homosexuality from the list of psychiatric diseases.
1990 = Queer Nation’s name is officially adopted. Queer Nation is an LGBTQ activist organization founded in March 1990 in NYC by HIV/AIDS activists from ACT UP. The founders were outraged at the escalation of anti-gay and lesbian violence on the streets and prejudice in the arts and media.
1995 = The first Lavender Graduation took place at the University of Michigan, with three graduates. Lavender Graduation is an annual ceremony conducted on 200+ campuses to honor lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and ally students.
2004 = The first legal same-sex marriages in the US are performed in the state of Massachusetts.
HOLIDAYS + OBSERVANCES
PORTRAIT + QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Little Shop has proven to me that there is a large public demand for musicals about leafy greens and I am consequently at work on a very exciting new project. This one will be more elegant, though. More continental, more sophisticated. More Noël Coward. You see, there’s this very large head of Belgian endive…”
Howard Ashman
So True!! Happy "24" Weekend (Victoria Day) Canada.
What a wonderful sign!