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Katharine Hepburn and Constance Collier in STAGE DOOR (Gregory La Cava, 1937)

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Mini Poll!

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Constance Collier, James Stewart and Joan Chandler discuss current actors in Rope (1948)

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TIL that Constance Collier (the actress of Mrs. Atwater) was the first ever insulin patient in Europe and also one of Ivor Novello's closest friends.

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25 aprile … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

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Constance Collier [Laura Constance Hardie] (22 January 1878 – 25 April 1955) was an English actress and acting coach. She wrote hit plays and films with Ivor Novello and she was the first person to be treated with insulin in Europe.

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whirlpool, otto preminger 1949

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Buster Collier, Constance Talmadge, Buster Keaton, and Natalie Talmadge

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Constance Collier (January 22, 1878 – April 25, 1955)

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Mini Poll!

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#WIPWednesday Lean into it! Behind the scenes of filming “College,” 1927 L-R Buster Collier Jr, Constance Talmadge, Buster Keaton, Natalie Talmadge

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I dont go to Astrology but based on the Virgos I’ve met Mrs. Atwater just alluded to Ingrid Bergman being a lesbian

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Girls Dormitory (Girls' Dormitory) (1936) Irving Cummings

July 8th 2023

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25 aprile … ricordiamo …

25 aprile … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2023: Harry Belafonte, Harold George Bellanfanti Jr., è stato un cantante, musicista, attore e attivista dei diritti civili statunitense. Fu soprannominato “Re del calypso” per aver reso popolare la musica caraibica negli anni cinquanta: uno dei suoi brani più celebri è Banana Boat Song. Nasce da da genitori giamaicani nel quartiere Harlem di New York. Nel 1935 si trasferisce con sua madre ad…

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THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … December 13

1904 – The Iowa Supreme Court rules that "irresistible insane impulse" is a possible defense against a charge of sodomy.

1904 – Glen Byam Shaw (d.1986) was an English actor and theatre director, known for his dramatic productions in the 1950s and his operatic productions in the 1960s and later. Created CBE in 1954, he also received the Hon DLitt of the University of Birmingham in 1959.

In the 1920s and 1930s Byam Shaw was a successful actor, both in romantic leads and in character parts. He worked frequently with his old friend John Gielgud. After working as co-director with Gielgud at the end of the 1930s, he preferred to direct rather than act. He served in the armed forces during the Second World War, and then took leading directorial posts at the Old Vic, the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre and Sadler's Wells (later known as the English National Opera).

Byam Shaw was born in London, the youngest of five siblings. He was educated at Westminster School, where his contemporaries included his elder brother, James Byam Shaw, later a well-known art historian, and John Gielgud, who became a lifelong friend and professional colleague.

Byam Shaw's first appearance was at Torquay in the west of England, in C. K. Munro's comedy At Mrs. Beam's. In 1925 he made his London debut, playing Yasha in J.B. Fagan's production of The Cherry Orchard, in a cast that included Alan Napier as Gaiev, O.B. Clarence as Firs and Gielgud as the young student Trofimov. Over the next few years Byam Shaw appeared in three more plays by Chekhov, and in plays by Strindberg and Ibsen. He made his New York debut in November 1927 as Pelham Humphrey in And So To Bed.

Actress Constance Collier was impressed by Byam Shaw and used her influence to gain him roles. Among those to whom she introduced him was Ivor Novello, then a leading figure in London theatre. She directed them both in the play Down Hill in 1926. Byam Shaw and Novello became lovers for a short time. This drew him into contact with the poet Siegfried Sassoon, another friend of Collier; he and Byam Shaw became close. Their friendship lasted for the rest of Sassoon's life, although they ceased to be sexual partners quite quickly; Sassoon became involved with Stephen Tennant, and Byam Shaw fell in love with an actress, Angela Baddeley. They married in 1929. The marriage, which lasted until her death in 1976, was, Denison writes, "a supremely happy one, both domestically and professionally"; the couple had a son and a daughter.

1912 – England requires flogging for a second violation of the 1898 law prohibiting Gay solicitation.

Peter Dorey (L) with Ernest Cole

1947 – Peter Dorey (d.2021) was the co-founder of Gay’s the Word, the first bookshop in the UK dedicated to selling books and magazines for the LGBT+ community.

Dorey founded the shop in Bloomsbury, central London, together with Ernest Hole and Jonathan Cutbill, in 1979. Naming the shop after the Ivor Novello musical, the trio aimed to provide a safe space where LGBT+ people could meet and share a love of books, including many titles that were not available elsewhere.

Peter Dorey was born in 1947 in London to Frederick and Irene Dorey and educated at Preston Manor Grammar School in Wembley. Whilst at the University of Leeds he became interested in broadcasting, working for the student radio station on campus. Upon graduating he joined the BBC as a sound engineer, spending more than 20 years at studios in Belfast and Bristol. It was at a meeting of Gay Icebreakers, a social group, that he and his colleagues came up with the idea of a specialist bookshop for the LGBT+ community, with Dorey providing the funding.

During the miners’ strike of 1984-85, the bookstore became the meeting hub for Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM), a group which raised funds for striking coalminers in south Wales. Their story is celebrated in the film Pride (2014), directed by Matthew Warchus.

As the subject of long-term surveillance and institutional homophobia, Gay’s the Word was raided in 1984 by HM Customs and Excise, which claimed that “indecent or obscene” material was being held there. Thousands of pounds of stock was removed by Customs officers whilst Dorey and his colleagues were charged with conspiracy to import indecent books, under the archaic Customs Consolidation Act of 1876.

Questions in parliament from Chris Smith and Frank Dobson and pressure from campaigners forced a review of the case. A crowdfunding campaign raised £55,000, including £3,000 donated by the author Gore Vidal. Smith came out as Britain’s first openly gay MP a few months later. The charges against Dorey and his co-directors were eventually dropped.

Dorey met Timothy Groom in 1985 and they were partners until Groom's death in 2010.

1948 – Tom Walmsley, born in Liverpool, England, is a Canadian playwright, novelist, poet and screenwriter.

Born in Liverpool, Walmsley came to Canada with his family in 1952, and was raised in Oshawa, Ontario, and Lorraine, Quebec. He dropped out of high school and battled addictions as a young adult.

In addition to his plays, Walmsley was the winner of the first Three-Day Novel Contest in 1979 for his novel Doctor Tin. He later published a sequel, Shades, and another unrelated novel, Kid Stuff. Walmsley wrote the screenplay for Jerry Ciccoritti's film Paris, France in 1993. Ciccoritti also later adapted Walmsley's play Blood into a film.

Walmsley's style of writing ranges from the naturalistic to the poetic and, at times, the absurd. He moves easily between dramatic and comedic, and some of his "darkest" work is treated with a cutting sense of humour. His most common themes include sex (both hetero- and homosexual, often involving sado-masochistic fetishes, adulterous affairs, and, in the case of Blood, incest), violence, addiction (to alcohol and heroin in particular), and God (from a Christian perspective). He rarely deals with politics directly, although he openly displays a distaste for middle-class morality and social conservative interpretations of Christianity.Early in his career, Walmsley summarized his sense of personal identity as "blond, stocky, below average height, uncircumcised, bisexual, tattooed, with bad teeth and very large feet".

1975 – Lionel Baier, born in Lausanne, is a Swiss film director. He began his career with a short called "Good Enough To Eat" and two docs: one for Swiss television called The Pastor, the other about gay pride in the Valais.

At 28 he released his first feature, a breakout festival hit, Garcon Stupide, about a confused, uneducated, perpetually frisky 20 year-old named Loic who wants more than the quick tricks he turns with older men on the streets of Lausanne. The marketing department tried to sell Baier's follow-up, Stealth, as another gay romp but the character's main preoccupation is coping with the discovery that his family's background is Polish, which leads to a road trip, which leads to a providential hookup.

In 2009, Baier made Another Man about a straight writer who stumbles into a job as a small-town newspaper movie reviewer For something different, the next year Baier shot Low Cost on his cell phone in a month. Low Cost is a 60-minute drama about a 34 year-old who knows when he's going to die. In 2013 he released Great Waves, his first period drama, set in April 1974 during Portugal's Carnation Revolution.

1990 – Anton Hysén is a Swedish footballer who plays in the Swedish third division for Utsiktens BK, which is coached by his father Glenn Hysén. He is a former member of the Swedish national under-17 association football team and was given a trainee contract with BK Häcken from 2007 to 2009,[3] but was hindered by injuries and instead joined Utsiktens BK, for whom he plays in his third season. He was previously a member of Torslanda IK. His older brothers are football players Tobias Hysén (half-brother) and Alexander Hysén. He won the seventh season of Let's Dance, being the first openly gay person to win this competition.

He came out as gay to the Swedish football magazine Offside in March 2011. Daily Mail has described Anton as the "first high-profile Swedish footballer to announce that he is gay" and as the second active professional football player to come out, after English footballer Justin Fashanu in 1990. The BBC called him "a global one-off".

Hysén was profiled on Swedish broadcaster TV4 on March 9, 2011, in a debate show moderated by Lennart Ekdal titled "Can gays play football too?".

He works part-time as a construction worker.

1999 – US Defense Secretary William Cohen ordered a full review of the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy. The policy had recently been criticized for creating a hostile environment.

2002 – The Belgium Senate approves same-sex marriage, making Belgium the second country to do so.

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Rating Vulture Crowns, part 2

I'll be rating versions made for film and TV here and not rating ones being sold or cosplays because the latter seems a bit mean. I'll be giving two ratings: aesthetic and accuracy. The accuracy rating will be about the crown only, not about the other costume details or the person wearing it.

Jeanne Craine. Ear hole with no ear visible? No body feathers though there's a section though they'd fit right in? A midline ridge? The proportions are pretty good, and it has a vulture head, but no tail or legs. The vulture head looks a bit awkward and stiff, though the midline ridge makes the join to the rest of the crown look less awkward.

Accuracy: 7/10. Aesthetic: 7/10

Constance Collier. At last, we have a tail! It's missing the legs, but a few depictions of the vulture crown from ancient Egypt did too. The proportions looks good, even though I think the head looks odd- I think it is a vulture, but it just looks odd. The modius addition is accurate, though not proportioned quite right, but adding a whole extra bird is odd.

Accuracy: 8/10. Aesthetic: 7/10

Ileana Leonidoff. The proportions are okay, and I think the head is another cobra, which was used historically on this crown but not that common. I believe the square thing here is an interpretation of the modius, but that was round. The thing they put on top of the modus is again, inaccurate and an odd choice, as is the black material and spotted design. However, I actually like the dark color and spots.

Accuracy: 6/10. Aesthetic: 8/10

A "Margyl". This is another "peacock crown" offender. The faceted gems are inaccurate, as is the sculpting of the body feathers. The proportions are okay, and the snake modius is accurate, as well as sized correctly.

Accuracy: 6/10. Aesthetic: 7/10

Zita Johann. Accurate enough silhouette and proportions. The body feathers point in the wrong direction, and the band between them and the wings is inaccurate. The cobra is sculpted awkwardly. There looks to be no tail or legs. The way the under construction is visible looks cheap.

Accuracy: 6/10. Aesthetic: 4/10

Piper Laurie. Another "peacock crown". The jeweled headband is inaccurate. The horn and sundisk is accurate, but when connected to a vulture crown it uses a modius as the base, which would be more stable than this... lily? Pomegranate? Thing. No tail or legs here again.

Accuracy: 6/10. Aesthetic: 7/10

No clue who this is. This head looks more like a flamingo than a vulture, but an attempt was made. The feathers are a bit too dimensional in the front, and the modius is a bit too small, but overall accurate proportions. I've never seen a horned sundisk with these additional cobras. We get tail feathers again!

Accuracy: 7/10. Aesthetic: 6/10

Prince of Egypt. I really like this one, I think it does a good job considering animation makes it hard to have detailed character design elements. No feet, but that's not necessarily inaccurate. The head looks a little too small, but the proportions overall look fine.

Accuracy: 7/10. Aesthetic: 8/10

The crown from the Ten Commandments. Those one is really quite accurate! The proportions are good, and the sculpting of the elects isn't too bad. The head join is still a little awkward, it seems that's quite hard to get right.

Accuracy: 9/10. Aesthetic: 7/10

Barbara Smith Conrad. This is clearly an "owl crown". The wings come a bit too far down, and the body feathers sculpting isn't particularly accurate. The gems hypothetically could be accurate, and this time they aren't faceted, which is more accurate.

Accuracy: 6/10. Aesthetic: 7/10