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A couple of friends of mine who run White Crane Journal, have a
site www.gaywisdom.org
and you can sign up for a weekdaily
email of voices from the GBLTV* past
[V is for vegetarians who doen't like BLT and * for those of us who don't identify with compound acronyms]
Example:
they recently shared this snarky tidbit on Friday 4/24:
1858 - on this date the British composer Dame Ethel Smyth was born (d. 1944). What to say. Ethel Smyth had guts. A composer of note and one of the foremost feminists of her day, she achieved even greater fame as the author of some seven volumes of explicitly candid memoirs. She made no bones about being a Lesbian and did not tire of presenting herself as something of a female Don Juan. Dame Ethel had a positive talent for sexual intrigue and specialized in sleeping with the wives of men who wanted to sleep with her. She nursed a strong attraction to Virginia Woolf, who, both alarmed and amused, said it was "like being caught by a giant crab." The two became friends but Smyth never succeeded in getting it on with her. The fragile novelist was apparently her only major failure. By her own account, Dame Ethel was still going strong in the bedroom in her late 60s. It makes one wonder why, if there's a "y" in "Smyth," there isn't one in her first name in place of the second "e."
-DK
site www.gaywisdom.org
and you can sign up for a weekdaily
email of voices from the GBLTV* past
[V is for vegetarians who doen't like BLT and * for those of us who don't identify with compound acronyms]
Example:
they recently shared this snarky tidbit on Friday 4/24:
1858 - on this date the British composer Dame Ethel Smyth was born (d. 1944). What to say. Ethel Smyth had guts. A composer of note and one of the foremost feminists of her day, she achieved even greater fame as the author of some seven volumes of explicitly candid memoirs. She made no bones about being a Lesbian and did not tire of presenting herself as something of a female Don Juan. Dame Ethel had a positive talent for sexual intrigue and specialized in sleeping with the wives of men who wanted to sleep with her. She nursed a strong attraction to Virginia Woolf, who, both alarmed and amused, said it was "like being caught by a giant crab." The two became friends but Smyth never succeeded in getting it on with her. The fragile novelist was apparently her only major failure. By her own account, Dame Ethel was still going strong in the bedroom in her late 60s. It makes one wonder why, if there's a "y" in "Smyth," there isn't one in her first name in place of the second "e."
-DK
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