Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Via White Crane Institute \\ Denmark & South Africa!
1996 -
South Africa becomes the first nation in the world to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation in its constitution.
1987 -
The Danish Parliament in Copenhagen voted to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation.
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Gay Wisdom for Daily Living from White Crane Institute
"With the increasing commodification of gay news, views, and culture by powerful corporate interests, having a strong independent voice in our community is all the more important. White Crane is one of the last brave standouts in this bland new world... a triumph over the looming mediocrity of the mainstream Gay world." - Mark Thompson
Exploring Gay Wisdom & Culture since 1989!
www.whitecraneinstitute.org
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Via White Crane Institute \\ EDWARD LEAR
1812 -
EDWARD LEAR, British poet, born (d: 1888); Whether Lear was Gay or not is of little consequence. His nonsense poetry has never been equaled, nor have his whimsical illustrations. No one who reads his limericks, a form that he virtually perfected, can doubt that he was anything other than a comic genius on the order of Lewis Carroll, his contemporary.
Still, all the signs of probable queerness are present. What he called his “natural affinity for children” went well beyond garden-variety naturalness and beyond mere affinity. His entire life is characterized by close friendships with handsome young men many years his junior, by dozens of reasons – from poor eye sight to a big nose – found or invented for never marrying, and by references in his journal to intense suffering each time one of his pretty young men married.
If you weren’t brought up on Lear, you’ve missed one of the joys of childhood; if you still don’t know his as an adult, get out there and start reading “How pleasant to know Mr. Lear! / Who has written such volumes of stuff: / Some think him ill-tempered and queer, / But few think him pleasant enough.
That’s Lear to a T. Queer, pleasant and very funny. One more...
There was an old man with a beard/Who said "It is just as I feared!"/Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren/Have all built their nests in my beard!
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Gay Wisdom for Daily Living from White Crane Institute
"With the increasing commodification of gay news, views, and culture by powerful corporate interests, having a strong independent voice in our community is all the more important. White Crane is one of the last brave standouts in this bland new world... a triumph over the looming mediocrity of the mainstream Gay world." - Mark Thompson
Exploring Gay Wisdom & Culture since 1989!
www.whitecraneinstitute.org
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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation \\ Words of Wisdom - May 8, 2024 💌
Compassionate action is a path on which you grow in awareness and insight. As you grow, you become a purer instrument for change. You become a hollow reed for the healing music of life.
- Ram Dass -
Via Daily Dharma: Natural Capacity for Empathy
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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Speech: Refraining from Frivolous Speech
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