“Is homosexuality a ‘soul-deadening’ perversion? Let’s try an experiment:
I’m going to rip out the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling; burn Handel’s Messiah; slash the Mona Lisa; bury Walt Whitman’s ‘Leaves of Grass;’ incinerate every Tchaikovsky score; torch every Greta Garbo film; ban every Bessie Smith song; and grind every Marlene Dietrich performance to dust.
Then we can evaluate what kind of ‘soul-deadening’ world we would live in without gay people.”
Preston Reese - Excerpt from a 1999 Letter to the Editor of the Sacramento Bee.
And the list above is merely a iota of the countless number of homosexual people who contributed to make the world a better place for ALL of us to live.
🇫🇷 Blue, White and Red 🇫🇷
— Jérémie Robert (@JeremieRobertCG) November 30, 2021
Tonight, we celebrated the Pantheonization of #JosephineBaker by illuminating the @EmpireStateBldg with the colors of the French Flag. Thank you @EvanFourmizz and William Abadie for taking part in the event! pic.twitter.com/mmHOXtX8vC
My father was lucky enough to go and see her in La Revue Nègre for his 16th birthday under the patronage of his parents. Fifty years later, when he told me, his eyes were still sparkly smiling.
