This week: the psychology of lesbian aesthetics, the passing of gay icon Betty White, dialing up homophobia in Senegal, Miranda's gay kiss, reforming the UK's Gender Recognition Act, and much more.
Happy New Year to you as well! I’ve honestly forgotten how i came to sign up for this newsletter, but I truly enjoy it and your snappy style of writing! For those of us who live in ‘flyover” areas, it is much appreciated! Bruce Kleinschmidt
Dear Bruce. Thank you for your kind words. It means a lot to me: when you send a newsletter in the ether, you never know how it is received. So I really appreciate.
Please let me encourage you to keep writing! This summer we had our Covid delayed 50th high school reunion. One of my classmates had seen something I had written in the New Yorker and another knew I was interviewed by the New York Times. I had expected they would have seen some of the things I'd written in our local newspaper. One of my classmates told me her brother had committed suicide back in the day because I had written about a lover of mine who took his life in 1968. A few weeks ago I was in a very modest Mexican restaurant and a customer came over and thanked me for a column I had written in our local newspaper over a year ago. I finally decided to stop holding office the the LGBT Law Section of the Kentucky Bar Association (of which I was a co-founder) and I had a note from an attorney telling me how much she missed my newsy monthly emails to the group. I've easily spoken to over 6,000 attorneys in person at various programs on Diversity. If you had told me in high school that I would be so well known as a gay rights advocate, I would have never believed it! The most remarkable thing is that THREE different attorneys have asked me to mentor gay college students who were cut off by their own families. I'm incredibly proud that one of them has started at Georgetown Law this year. He grew up in a trailer in Eastern Kentucky, first one in his family to graduate college. Believe me, words have power. Blessings to you! Bruce
Merci Fabrice pour cette Newsletter et meilleurs voeux pour cet An Neuf !!!
Happy New Year to you as well! I’ve honestly forgotten how i came to sign up for this newsletter, but I truly enjoy it and your snappy style of writing! For those of us who live in ‘flyover” areas, it is much appreciated! Bruce Kleinschmidt
Dear Bruce. Thank you for your kind words. It means a lot to me: when you send a newsletter in the ether, you never know how it is received. So I really appreciate.
Please let me encourage you to keep writing! This summer we had our Covid delayed 50th high school reunion. One of my classmates had seen something I had written in the New Yorker and another knew I was interviewed by the New York Times. I had expected they would have seen some of the things I'd written in our local newspaper. One of my classmates told me her brother had committed suicide back in the day because I had written about a lover of mine who took his life in 1968. A few weeks ago I was in a very modest Mexican restaurant and a customer came over and thanked me for a column I had written in our local newspaper over a year ago. I finally decided to stop holding office the the LGBT Law Section of the Kentucky Bar Association (of which I was a co-founder) and I had a note from an attorney telling me how much she missed my newsy monthly emails to the group. I've easily spoken to over 6,000 attorneys in person at various programs on Diversity. If you had told me in high school that I would be so well known as a gay rights advocate, I would have never believed it! The most remarkable thing is that THREE different attorneys have asked me to mentor gay college students who were cut off by their own families. I'm incredibly proud that one of them has started at Georgetown Law this year. He grew up in a trailer in Eastern Kentucky, first one in his family to graduate college. Believe me, words have power. Blessings to you! Bruce