#ProudToBe …. “Celebrate Brave Voices this Pride …. as June, Pride Month, ends …. “!!

~~June 28, 2017~~ 

AS PRIDE MONTH CONCLUDES

June is a very special month.

I celebrate my community.

We recognize the fact that we are born this way and we will remain and life this way.

We are proudly out! 

HortyRex©

Gay Pride or LGBT Pride is the positive stance against discrimination and violence toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people to promote their self-affirmation, dignity, equality rights, increase their visibility as a social group, build community, and celebrate sexual diversity and gender variance.

Pride, as opposed to shame and social stigma, is the predominant outlook that bolsters most LGBT rights movements throughout the world.

~Wikipedia~

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~~#ProudToBe~~

Celebrate Brave Voices this Pride

~~Published on Jun 27, 2017~~

In a world where some people still try to silence LGBTQ+ voices, the act of being yourself is an act of bravery for all to see. And in the context of a global climate that highlights the vulnerability of LGBTQ+ rights. It’s more important than ever that LGBTQ+ voices and stories are shared and heard.

An inclusive, vibrant, ever-expanding LGBTQ+ community has been a vital part of YouTube since we started. And we’re proud to stand with a group that believes every human being deserves the right to be who they are and love who they love.

So to all those brave voices who continue to make Youtube the colorful, diverse and supportive place it is, we’re #ProudToBe with you.

YouTube Creators for Change is proud to launch #ProudToBe, our fifth annual Pride campaign.

Creators for Change is YouTube’s global initiative dedicated to amplifying the voices of role models who are tackling difficult social issues with their channels. From combating hate speech, to countering xenophobia and extremism, to simply making the case for greater tolerance and empathy toward others, these creators are helping generate positive social change with their global fan bases.

We ALL are ONE!! 

Google Doodle for today …. “Celebrating the Man Behind the Rainbow Flag … Gilbert Baker …. “!!

~~June 2, 2017~~ 

THANK YOU, GILBERT

Baker passed away last year at the age of 65.

Today, he would have turned 66.

Google on Friday, June 2,  used its latest Doodle to celebrate American artist and gay rights activist Gilbert Baker, creator of the rainbow flag that has become a symbol of pride for LGBTQ individuals around the world.

Baker made his way from Kansas to San Francisco with the U.S. Army.

After leaving the military, Baker taught himself to sew and volunteered his skills to make protest banners for the city’s gay community.

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In 1978, influential gay leader Harvey Milk challenged Baker to create a new symbol for activists to rally around. The most widely used icon at the time was the pink triangle, reclaimed from the symbol used during World War II to identify gay prisoners being held in Nazi concentration camps.

While it may have been a potent symbol of common suffering and struggle, Baker wanted to create something more positive and celebratory to bind the growing LGBT movement together.

The first rainbow flag Baker put together with volunteers in the attic of the Gay Community Center included eight differently colored horizontal stripes with their own meaning. After Milk’s assassination later that year, demand for the flag exploded and the limited availability of some fabric meant reducing the number of stripes to today’s six.

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http://time.com/4802639/google-doodle-rainbow-flag-lgbt-lgbtq/

~~GALLERY~~ 

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~~Google Doodle For Today~~

Gilbert Baker

~~Published on Jun 1, 2017~~

The Search Engine Google is showing this Animated Doodle in few countries for the Gilbert Baker’s 66th Birthday Gilbert Baker was an American artist and gay rights activist who designed the rainbow flag in 1978 Baker served in the United States Army from 1970 to 1972. He was stationed in San Francisco at the beginning of the gay rights movement. After his honorable discharge from the military, he taught himself to sew.

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IOTD …. Images of the Day …. Special Edition …. “GIVE OUT DAY …. 24-hour online fundraising event …. “!!

~~April 20, 2017~~ 

GIVE OUT DAY 

In Time of Critical Need for LGBTQ Americans, “Give OUT Day” 2017 is today

San Francisco, CA, April 19, 2017

(GLOBE NEWSWIRE)

LGBTQ Americans are in a state of urgent need: an administration actively hostile to the community now occupies the White House; homophobic and transphobic hate crimes have spiked following the election; over 130 laws attacking LGBTQ rights are pending in state legislatures around the country; and the one-year anniversary of the horrific Pulse shooting in Orlando is fast approaching. In this difficult climate, Give OUT Day, a national day of giving for the LGBTQ community, will once again coordinate a 24-hour online fundraising event to support over 300 LGBTQ organizations across all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia.

Give OUT Day 2017 will take place on April 20, 2017 from 12:00 am to 11:59 pm Eastern. Last year, Give Out Day raised over $550,000.

Throughout the day-long event, thousands of people make gifts to support a diverse array of LGBTQ nonprofits, ranging from the arts to social services agencies, advocacy groups to sports leagues, and community centers to health care nonprofits.

Give OUT Day is a project of Horizons Foundation.

Founded as a community foundation of, by, and for LGBTQ people, Horizons has been supporting LGBTQ nonprofit organizations, leaders, and donors for more than 35 years.

For more information on Give OUT Day, go to:

https://www.giveoutday.org/c/GO/p/Media/

For more information on Horizons Fund, go to http://www.horizonsfoundation.org

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https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2017/04/19/962218/0/en/In-Time-of-Critical-Need-for-LGBTQ-Americans-Give-OUT-Day-2017-is-April-20.html

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IOTD …. Images of the Day …. Special Edition …. “Rainbow Flag …. created by Gilbert Baker …. “!!

~~April 1, 2017~~ 

REST IN PRIDE

~Rainbow Flag Creator Gilbert Baker Dead at 65~

Thank you Gilbert for giving our community one of our greatest gifts.

You are a trailblazer for #LGBTQ youth around the world.

You will be missed!

It Gets Better Project

Gilbert Baker (June 2, 1951 – March 31, 2017) was an openly gay American artist and civil rights activist who designed the rainbow flag in 1978. Baker’s flag became widely associated with LGBT rights causes, a symbol of pride that became ubiquitous in the decades since its debut.

The colors on the Rainbow Flag reflect the diversity of the LGBT community.

When Baker raised the first rainbow flags at San Francisco Pride (his group raised two flags at the Civic Center) on June 25, 1978, it had eight colors, each with a symbolic meaning:

Hot Pink: sexuality
Red: life
Orange: healing
Yellow: sunlight
Green: nature
Turquoise: magic/art
Blue: serenity/harmony
Violet: spirit

~Wikipedia~

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~~How The Pride Rainbow Flag Came To Be~~ 

NBC News

~~Published on Jun 23, 2016~~

It all started with $1,000 and 1,000 yards of fabric. Hear from Gilbert Baker, the creator of the rainbow pride flag.

We ALL are ONE!! 

‘When We Rise’ …. “The Epic Mini-Series Premieres February 27, tonight …. on ABC …. “!!

~~February 27, 2017~~ 

WHEN WE RISE 

Whoever you are, you are not alone

How I wish I’d heard those words as I was coming up in my life.

I lived through this alone.

I was born and raised in Puerto Rico, far away from this struggle.

I struggled on my own until I discovered that I wasn’t the only one who was different.

I discovered others like me.

The process was long and prolonged. There was no internet then. The books that were available were few and difficult to come by.

Yet, I totally identify with the struggle.

That’s why we are not standing down now after the advances made since then.

I thank all of those who came before me.

I refuse to go back into the closet.

HortyRex©

~A Love Letter to LGBT Activism~

“When We Rise” was written and created by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black.

This mini-series event chronicles the real-life personal and political struggles, set-backs and triumphs of a diverse family of LGBT men and women who helped pioneer one of the last legs of the U.S. Civil Rights movement, from its turbulent infancy in the 20th century to the once unfathomable successes of today.

“As it appears in … full read/full credit”

http://abc.go.com/news/insider/when-we-rise-miniseries-is-coming-to-abc-112016

~Cleve Jones landed in San Francisco too late for the Summer of Love~

Fifty years ago, about 100,000 young people from around the country converged on San Francisco.

They were flower children and hippies, queers and artists, radicals and draft dodgers. A generation of freethinkers looked to the city for change, with resistance, liberation, and free expression unfurling in every corner.

Because of them, the city gave rise to movements in support of the rights of women, African-Americans, gays, farm workers, Native Americans, animals, and even the planet.

Change was everywhere.

ABC’s groundbreaking miniseries When We Rise introduces us to the lives, loves, and struggles of these activists, covering a 40-year span in the long battle for LGBT equality.

“As it appears in … full read/full credit”

http://www.advocate.com/current-issue/2017/2/27/when-we-rise-love-letter-lgbt-activism

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~~When We Rise Official Trailer~~

~~Published on Jan 10, 2017~~

When We Rise, we rise for justice

This story of family, struggle, and hope comes to ABC February 27, inspired by the stories of real families in the LGBT civil rights movement.

We ALL are ONE!! 

Thoughts for today, #463 …. “Preparing for the possible anti-LGBT assault …. Not going back into the closet …. “!!

~~January 30, 2017~~ 

THE CLOSET DOOR WAS DESTROYED

The LGBT community has existed since the early days of time.

It wasn’t called that back then.

Great advances were made during the Obama administration which gave our community a sense of equality.

Many came before us who sacrificed to lead us to where we are now.

Harvey Milk was one of the many.

There are also plenty of heroes whose names aren’t know.

With rumors of executive orders coming our way, we mus remain vigilant and ready to stand for our God-given rights as equal human beings.

Not going back into the closet.

HortyRex©

Harvey Bernard Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978) was an American politician who became the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California, when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

Politics and gay activism were not his early interests; he was not open about his homosexuality and did not participate in civic matters until around the age of 40, after his experiences in the counterculture of the 1960’s.

~~Wikipedia~

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IOTD …. Image of the day, #598 …. “Never Surrender …. no matter what …. come what may …. “!!

~~December 4, 2016~~ 

THERE IS NO GOING BACK

Many are aware of the struggle the LGBT community has gone through since immemorial time.

Let me start at the Stonewall Inn riots in 1969.

This is usually a cut-off point where the LGBT community of the time decided: no more.

We are standing up to abuse and discrimination.

Major goals have been attained since then.

Check list below.

The President-Elect has selected nominees for Cabinet positions.

No one of them has a favorable view of the of the LGBT community and they have expressed their feelings.

It’s not the time to stand down, to go back in the closet.

It’s a time to continue the fight, be vigilant and proud.

Never surrender!

HortyRex©

6 milestones for LGBT rights in the last 6 years

2010 – Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repealed

2010 – Health Care Insurance Discrimination Prevented

2012 – Housing Discrimination Prohibited

2013 – Same-sex Marriage Ban deemed unconstitutional

2014– Workplace Discrimination Prevention Executive Order

2015 – Same-sex marriage legalized nationwide

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http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/6-milestones-for-lgbt-rights-in-the-last-6-years/238911698

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Thoughts for today, #401 …. “Never Surrender …. Not Going Away …. “!!

~~September 9, 2016~~

NOT A WHITE FLAG

“Never despair. Never surrender.”

~Alan Moore, Watchmen~

PARTIAL LYRICS

The road is long
With many a winding turns
That leads us to who knows where
Who knows where

But I’m strong
Strong enough to carry him
He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother

So on we go
His welfare is of my concern
No burden is he to bear
We’ll get there

Hollies – He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother Lyrics

She’s my sister too.

She’s my concern.

I will carry her.

We won’t surrender.

HortyRex©

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To start the day …. “Two months …. seems like an eternity … “!!

~~August 12, 2016~~ 

WE REMEMBER

I woke up early this morning.

Two months ago, around this time,  I learned about the senseless killing of members of the LGBT community in Orlando.

We all know by now that they were at Pulse, a local gay club, celebrating Latin night.

Since that day, many other ugly/sad things have happened.

More details have come out, autopsy results are available.

The killer shot victims more than 200 times in 2o minutes.

The actions of the local and, maybe federal authorities, are under scrutiny.

I wonder why it took that long to go into the club and stop this maniac.

For 49 families their lives will never be the same.

We remember!!

HortyRex©

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~~GALLERY~~ 

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~~Outlaws of Love~~

(Orlando Shooting Tribute Video)

~~Published on Jun 13, 2016~~

My reaction to any hurt I feel is to turn to music.
This song really speaks to me, and really speaks about the pain it can feel to be judged for who you love, who you are, or what you look like.
My heart goes out to all of those who have been effected by the killings at Pulse in Orlando, Florida.
Hate never ends well, and love is the only way this world will ever pull through. #LoveIsTheMessage

Adam Lambert

NEVER FORGET THE HORROR AND THE PAIN

We ALL are ONE!!

A picture says a thousand words …. This one, a cartoon, screams!! #14 …. “Flying half mast …. “!!

~~June 14, 2016~~ 

RAINBOW AT HALF MAST

The state of Florida is in mourning.

By this time, the reason has spread worldwide.

The messages of condolences and solidarity are pouring in.

For that, we are thankful.

The Orlando LGBT community needs that and more.

A black background where the rainbow flag stands out.

Thank you!

HortyRex©

Half-mast or half-staff refers to a flag flying below the summit on a pole.

In many countries this is seen as a symbol of respect, mourning, or distress.

The tradition of flying the flag at half-mast began in the 17th century. According to some sources, the flag is lowered to make room for an “invisible flag of death” flying above.

“As it appears in … full read/full credit”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-mast

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Andy Marlette, Cartoonist

He lives and works in Pensacola, FL

Born and raised by underpaid public school teachers in Sanford, Fla., Andy Marlette graduated from the University of Florida and became staff editorial cartoonist at the Pensacola News Journal in 2007.

Andy’s editorial cartoons have become both hated and adored by daily readers. His work has been awarded by the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors for best editorial cartoons on state issues.

~~SOURCES~~

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008504012338&fref=ts

https://www.creators.com/editorialcartoons/andy-marlette-about.html

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