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This is less a Tale Of Carlos being funny than it is a Tale
of What A Fabulous Human Being Carlos is … The other night I came home from work in a mood; not a bad
mood, but not a good mood. A bitchy mood that I couldn’t explain. And as we ate
dinner I wasn’t very nice to him; I was naggy and sarcastic and just plain
unfriendly to the most important person in my life for no reason whatsoever.
And yet with every snide comment I made he didn’t get angry, he just answered
me back. After dinner I went back to the office by myself and did
some work on the computer but I kept going back to my nasty mood. I was about
to get up and go talk to him when he came into the office to ask a question,
and I said:
That’s why he’s the most important person in my life; he
takes that kind of mood and understands it and doesn’t get mad but lets me work
through it. That’s the Tale of Carlos I love most of all. |
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This Tuxedo Memory is creatively entitled ‘#TuxedoInABox,’ and is from November 2017
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Lynn Conway has died at age 86. She is credited with
developing a simpler method for designing microchips that are now used in cell
phones in the 1970s but it’s what
happened a few years earlier that’s important. In 1964, Lynn Conway joined IBM Research, where she made major innovations in computer design; recently married and with two young daughters, she lived a seemingly perfect life but she had a secret: she had been born a boy. Having struggled with her gender identity since childhood,
Conway had made a failed attempt at transition in the late 1950s but in 1967,
she learned of the pioneering gender-transition work of Dr. Harry Benjamin and sought
out his help, She began the life-changing, and perhaps lifesaving, transition
from male to female but when IBM’s
Corporate Medical Director learned of her transition plans in 1968, he alerted
CEO Thomas J. Watson, Jr., who fired Conway to avoid the public embarrassment
of employing a transwoman. Not just a transwoman, but a brilliant transwoman. In 2020, fifty years later, IBM apologized to Lynn Conway and
awarded her a lifetime achievement award for her work. Conway has had five U.S.
patents, a career at Xerox, the National Science Foundation and the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency, part of the U.S. Defense Department. She
also had honorary degrees from many universities, including Princeton
University. But most of all she was trans and she made it easier for y’all,
even the anti-trans haters, to use their phone. Say her name; and Thank her. |
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The person—and he will never be named on this blog—who
murdered five people and maimed nineteen others during a mass shooting at Club
Q, an LGBTQ+ bar in Colorado, has been sentenced to 55 concurrent life
sentences plus an additional 190 years in prison. Good. |
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This past week Romans came out for Pride dressed like Pope
Frankie, wearing papal hats and T-shirts that read: “There is never too much frociaggine.” That’s a reference to the offensive anti-gay slur that Frankie has been accused of uttering … twice … complaining that there was too much “gayness” in the church. Martina Lorina, an Italian actress, called the phrase “the slogan of the 2024 Pride”, using a longtime tactic to turn insults into words of pride. Homophobic bigot who says one thing about us, and behind
closed doors uses slurs against us. |
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A lady picked up several items at a discount store. When she
finally got to the checkout she learned that one of the items had no price tag
or bar code so the checkout girl got on the public address system and asked: "Price check for Tampax super-size." Sadly, someone at the rear of the store mistook the word 'Tampax' for 'thumbtacks'
and called back over the PA system: “Do you want the kind that you push in with your thumb or the kind that you belt in with a hammer?" Ouch. |
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Four
years ago Christian Cooper, an avid birdwatcher and out Black gay man, was in
the Ramble in Central Park, birdwatching he noticed a dog running off-leash,
violating park rules designed to protect his beloved birds, so he approached the
dog’s owner, Amy Cooper, requesting that she leash her dog. Instead, Amy, er, #CentralParkKaren,
threatened
to call the police and make a false claim that “an African-American man” was
threatening her life. Christian captured the incident on video, which quickly
went viral and Amy Cooper was rightly vilified in the press and also lost her
job. Then
Christian Cooper’s story caught the attention of National Geographic, leading
to the creation of his show, “Extraordinary Birder,” which premiered in 2023.
The show has since garnered critical acclaim, culminating in Christian Cooper
winning the Daytime Emmy Award this week for Outstanding Daytime Personality. Winning. |
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Money raised by The Felon’s 2024 campaign is being sent
right back into the con artist’s pockets in various forms, according to a The ALLEGED
billionaire criminal has not donated any money to his 2024 presidential
campaign, $4.6 million worth of donations has been transferred to his business
empire. And MAGAts keep sending checks. Tell me how this isn’t a cult. |
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Matty Carrington, a UK based model who once worked as a roofer and rugby player before walking in shows for Astrid Anderson, Givenchy, Sibling and Bobby Abley is this week’s Would You Hit It?  |
