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

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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

• International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia

• World Hypertension Day

• World Information Society Day

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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