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homomenhommes · 4 months

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THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … December 24

1305 – France: Grand Master Jacques de Molay and over 500 Knights Templar recant their confessions of homosexual activities to which they had admitted under torture. King Phillip IV burned 54 of them soon after the false confessions. Philip had de Molay burned upon a scaffold on an island in the River Seine in front of Notre Dame de Paris in March, 1314. The sudden end of both the centuries-old order of Templars and the dramatic execution of its last leader turned Molay into a legendary figure.

1573 – French diplomat and law professor Hubert Languet wrote to Sir Philip Sidney, "My affection for you has entered my heart far more deeply than I have ever felt for anyone else, and it has so wholly taken possession there that it tries to rule alone."

1905 – Howard Hughes Jr. (d.1976) was a USA business magnate, investor, record-setting pilot, engineer, film director, and philanthropist, known during his lifetime as one of the most influential and financially successful individuals in the world. He first became prominent as a film producer, and then as an important figure in the aviation industry.

Later in life, he became known for his eccentric behavior and reclusive lifestyle—oddities that were caused in part by his worsening obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), chronic pain from a near-fatal plane crash, and increasing deafness.

Hughes dated many famous women, including Joan Crawford, Billie Dove, Faith Domergue, Bette Davis, Yvonne De Carlo, Ava Gardner, Olivia de Havilland, Katharine Hepburn, Hedy Lamarr, Ginger Rogers, Janet Leigh, Pat Sheehan, Mamie Van Doren and Gene Tierney. He also proposed to Joan Fontaine several times.However, a rumour persists that Hughes and another notorious womanizer Errol Flynn had a sexual relationship, with Flynn at the top man!

Robert Joffrey (rear) with Gerald Arpino

1930 – Robert Joffrey, born Abdullah Jaffa Bey Khan, (d.1988) was an American dancer, teacher, producer, choreographer, and co-founder of the Joffrey Ballet, known for his highly imaginative modern ballets. He was born Abdullah Jaffa Bey Khan in Seattle, Washington to an Afghan father and Italian mother.

As a teenager, Joffrey met 22-year-old Gerald Arpino, then serving in the Coast Guard. Arpino moved into the Joffrey home. From then on, the two were inseparable. They became best friends, artistic collaborators, and lovers.

Joffrey studied ballet and modern dance in New York City and made his debut in 1949 with the French choreographer Roland Petit and his Ballet de l'Opéra National de Paris. From 1950 to 1955, he taught at the New York High School for the Performing Arts, where he staged his earliest ballets. He founded the Joffrey Ballet School in New York City in 1954.

In 1954 he formed his own company, which premiered Le bal masqué (The Masked Ball, 1954; music by French composer Francis Poulenc) and Pierrot Lunaire (1955; music by Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg). Joffrey's other works include Gamelan (1962) and Astarte (1967), which was set to rock music with special lighting and motion-picture effects.

The Robert Joffrey Ballet took up residence at New York City Center in 1966. In 1982 it moved its principal activities to Los Angeles, California and in 1995 to Chicago, Illinois. Noted for its experimental repertoire, the company was called the "Joffrey Ballet of Chicago" after its move but has since returned to being called simply the Joffrey Ballet. Besides Joffrey's works its repertoire includes many works by Gerald Arpino, Joffrey's long-time lover, co-director, and eventually artistic director emeritus until his 2008 death, and ballets commissioned by Joffrey from new choreographers as well as works by such established choreographers as George Balanchine, Alvin Ailey and Twyla Tharp.

Joffrey was sexually promiscuous but discreet. His pattern was to have Arpino at home for domestic stability, one principal romantic attachment, and numerous one-night stands.

In 1973, Joffrey fell in love with A. Aladar Marberger, a 26-year-old gay activist and manager of the Fischbach Gallery in New York. In the 1980s, both men contracted AIDS. While Marberger was outspoken about his illness, Joffrey remained silent. He was ashamed and wanted his obituary to say that he died of liver disease and asthma. Arpino agreed to his pleas, but the secret could not be maintained, as AIDS took a staggering toll on the dance world in general and on Joffrey's company in particular.

Robert Joffrey died of AIDS on March 25, 1988 in New York City. Aladar Marberger died eight months later.

1958 – Bob Smith (d.2018) was an American comedian and author. Smith, born in Buffalo, New York, was the first openly gay comedian to appear on The Tonight Show and the first openly gay comedian to have his own HBO half-hour comedy special. Smith, along with fellow comedians Jaffe Cohen and Danny McWilliams, formed the comedy troupe Funny Gay Males in 1988.

With Funny Gay Males, Smith is the co-author of Growing Up Gay: From Left Out to Coming Out (1995). Smith is also the author of two books of biographical essays. Openly Bob (1997) received a Lambda Literary Award for best humor book. Way to Go, Smith! (1999) was nominated for a 2000 Lambda Literary Award in the same category. Smith published his first novel, Selfish and Perverse, in 2007, and Remembrance of Things I Forgot in 2011. He published a new collection of essays, Treehab: Tales from My Natural Wild Life, in 2016. The essays cover a wide range of subjects including his career in stand-up, his love of nature, and his experience with ALS. He performed at the inaugural We're Funny That Way! comedy festival in 1997, and appeared in the festival's documentary film in 1998.

While taping a 2007 comedy special for Logo, Smith disclosed that he was suffering from a neurological disorder. He described his symptoms at that time as slurred speech, making him sound inebriated. In response to an August 2012 New York Times article on openly gay male stand-up comedians, Smith posted a comment stating he had ALS.

On February 2013, Smith gave a candid interview to Canada's Global News, where he elaborated about his condition. The article also revealed that Smith assisted with the conceiving of fellow LGBTQ comedian Elvira Kurt's children, who with Kurt reside in Canada, and that he was a direct descendant of Henry Smith, an early settler of Canada's Niagara Region for whom the Henry of Pelham Winery is named.

Bob Smith died on January 20, 2018 from Lou Gehrig’s Disease in his Manhattan, New York home at 59 years of age.

1971 – On this date the international singer and actor Ricky Martin was born. Born Enrique Martín Morales in San Juan, Puerto Rico, he is known to millions of fans by his stage name Ricky Martin, is a Puerto Rican pop singer and actor who achieved prominence, first as a member of the Latin boy band Menudo, then as a solo artist after 1991. During his career he has sold more than 60 million albums worldwide. He is the founder of Ricky Martín Foundation (in Spanish Fundación Ricky Martin) a non-profit charity organization.

Martin rose to fame as a member of the Latin American boy band Menudo, after which he became a solo artist in 1990. During forays into acting on Broadway ("Les Miserables") and soap operas (General Hospital) he released numerous albums of Spanish music, which sold millions of copies throughout Latin America and Europe. In 1995, Martin refocused on his music career through his third album, A Medio Vivir. With this album, Martin made a shift from formulaic hit ballads to a more risky fusion of music centered around traditional Latin sounds, with the hit "Maria", which epitomizes this new sound. "Maria" broke Martin into Europe through Spain. With the ballad "Te Extraño, Te Olvido, Te Amo", Martin began his expansion from Latin American and Spanish-speaking audiences to the European and Asian markets. He was chosen to sing the anthem of the 1998 FIFA World Cup, the famous hit "The Cup of Life"/"La Copa de la Vida", that reached number one on the charts in 60 countries.

He broke into the English-language market with his mega-selling hit single "Livin' la Vida Loca," which reached number one in many countries around the world, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, France, Greece, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Guatemala, Mexico, Russia, Turkey, and South Africa. He followed up with the hit "She's All I Ever Had" which peaked at #2 on The Billboard Hot 100. This album became one of the top-selling albums of 1999, and was certified 7 times platinum, selling over 22 million copies worldwide to date.

During the Livin' la Vida Loca era, Martin's personal life went under the microscope due to his large Gay following, and he was questioned about his sexual orientation. In December, 2000 during an interview in The Mirror, Martin was asked, '"So what about all these rumors?" "There's not a lot I can do about that," he said. "I guess these rumors were started by people who don't have a life, or perhaps it's because they want me to be like them and I'm not. I try not to pay attention to any of these allegations. I could have been married with kids for years or have 27 girlfriends, and if people still want to go around saying that I'm gay, they will."'

In August 2008, Martin became the father of twin boys, named Matteo and Valentino. The babies were delivered via gestational surrogacy.

On March of 2010, Martin publicly came out as Gay in a post on his official web site by stating, "Today is my day, this is my time, and this is my moment. These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed ... I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man. I am very blessed to be who I am."

"What will happen from now on? It doesn't matter. I can only focus on what's happening to me in this moment. The word 'happiness' takes on a new meaning for me as of today. It has been a very intense process. Every word that I write in this letter is born out of love, acceptance, detachment and real contentment. Writing this is a solid step towards my inner peace and vital part of my evolution."

In January 2018, Ricky Martin married his long-time partner artist Jwan Yosef.

Ricky and Jwan

2012 – The Serbian Parliament approves changes to the Penal Code to include sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes when it comes to hate crimes.

2013 – Alan Turing considered the father of computer science, was a code-breaker who helped shorten WWII. Since he was gay, the British government offered him the choice of prison or chemical castration after he was convicted of gross indecency. He selected hormonal castration via estrogen. He died in 1954 of cyanide poisoning. In 2009, Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an official apology, and Queen Elizabeth II issued Turing a royal pardon on this day in 2013.

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sheehalloween · 2 years

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This is Sheehalloween…

Everybody make a scene/fic/gifset

Psst, Sheepeeps, remember last year when we brought you Sheehanksgiving, well this year we're back with something new...

✨ Introducing: Sheehalloween! ✨

What is it?

Nine whole days of spooky fun from October 23rd - 31st, featuring our favourite gorgeous Irish actor, Robert Sheehan. Once more hosted by your favourite neighborhood Sheefanatics, Salv (@salvador-daley) & joz (@seanfalco)!

The Prompts:

This time we're doing things a little differently and have chosen general prompts for each day that you can interpret and use in any way you like, or throw them out and do your own thing entirely, if you'd rather.

🔮 Day One: Seance

🔮 Day Two: Trick or Treat

🔮 Day Three: Scary Movie

🔮 Day Four: Reanimation

🔮 Day Five: Free Space

🔮 Day Six: Ghosts

🔮 Day Seven: Ouija

🔮 Day Eight: Possession

🔮 Day Nine: Magic

The Rules:

☛ This event is open to all creators: whether you’re an artist, a writer, a gif-maker or someone who carves sculptures out of mash potato. If you make fanworks relating to Rob and/or his characters, we want to see them. If you’ve never made a fanwork before, now is your chance! We welcome collabs, first-time artists, established writers, people from peripheral fandoms… this event is open to everyone.

☛ Please tag your work appropriately and hide any NSFW content behind a read more. If you are creating NSFW art, make sure adhere to tumblr's rules so your art won't get flagged.

☛ There is no word limit on fics, however, if your fic is longer than 500 words, please use a readmore so as not to clutter the dash.

☛ The only thing we ask is that you don’t submit noncon or underage content. If you are a minor, please do not submit NSFW content as it will not be shared.

☛ When posting your fan works, make sure to tag your work with #sheehalloween 2022 & also tag us here at @sheehalloween so we can share your works!

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finwithonen · 1 year

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Robert Sheehan | he/him | cismale | Have you met [Finley “Fin” Casey] yet? They’re the [33] year old [photographer] that lives around [Finch Park]. I think they’ve lived in Seattle for [6 years]. From what I’ve heard, they’re [confident] but they can also be [unserious] if you get on their bad side. When I think of them, I usually think of [Change by DJO].

Stats

Name: Finley Declan Casey

Age/D.O.B: 33, May 9th, 1989

Hometown: Cobh, Ireland

Gender/pronouns: cismale, he/him

Sexuality: bisexual, biromantic

Occupation: photographer

General appearance: gif for reference

Positive traits: confident, friendly, patient

Negative traits: unserious, conceited, disruptive

Family: Aoife O’Connor (mother, 58), Sean Casey (father, 62), Cillian O’Connor (stepfather, deceased), Nora Casey (stepmother, 50) Bridget Casey (half sister, 20), Saoirse Casey (half sister, 18)

Bio (death tw, car accident tw, pregnancy tw)

Fin was planned, but at what cost? His parents’ relationship was certainly not solid enough to raise a baby together. But still, Aoife tried her best to give her little son a good life. He was a little spoiled, a little doted on - if he came home with a complaint about another student, you better believe that mother was getting a phone call as soon as Aoife could find the right phone number. But he was happy that was.

Sean Casey was a different story, on the other hand. He was your classic Irishman; stoic, emotionless, and detached. Fin never felt close with his father. Whenever they’d talk, it was either because he’d gotten in trouble at school, over the dinner table, or if they were for whatever reason stuck in the car together. Never out of want for a conversation. By the time Fin was seven, his parents were split up, and his already distant relationship with his dad lessened significantly. His dad was remarried by the time Fin was ten, and he had two younger half-sisters in the years that followed.

Aoife also remarried, but when Fin was thirteen, to a man named Cillian O’Connor. Cillian had never had children, never felt it was in the cards, so he immediately tried to form a relationship with Fin. He wasn’t really about it at first - at thirteen, it wasn’t like he was going to suddenly form a father-son relationship with this dude. Besides, Fin was kind of a rebel in most regards by then. He didn’t do his schoolwork, he skipped class whenever he could, he started fights with other kids. Not really a bad kid by any means, but with so much going on in his still young life, any attention felt like good attention to him.

His new stepdad was patient, though. He tried to connect with him for a while, until Fin was fifteen and something finally clicked. Cillian was a professional photographer, and one day his assistant called in sick so he asked Fin to come help him on a whim. And Fin fell in love. He loved the art behind getting a good picture; the way Cillian explained everything and taught him everything sparked a joy in him that he just hadn’t had before. He fell in love with it. So from then on, he worked with his stepfather. Once he’d graduated, he started working with him full time, eventually becoming a partner in his practice.

And that was how it went for years. Fin and Cillian worked together, both loving their craft and the bond it gave them, until Fin was 26 years old. Cillian died, very suddenly, in a car crash. It devastated both Fin and his mother greatly. After a brief hiatus, he tried to go back to work, but it wasn’t the same. He couldn’t bare to look at the same studio he’d shared with his stepdad for ten years. So, after closing up shop and getting his life together, Fin impulsively moved himself from Cobh to Seattle, Washington, where he’s been working as a freelance photographer ever since.

Not long after settling in, a couple moved in across the hall from Fin. One of whom shared an immediate liking with him, while the other... noticed. And didn’t appreciate it. For Fin and Stevie Dupree, it wasn’t really an issue, until her girlfriend up and left her. Fin didn’t blame himself or his flirty friendship with Stevie for it, because there was nothing between the pair of friends anyway, right? Wrong - for the first time in his life, he gladly accepted the ‘boyfriend’ title just shy of two years ago, and he’s been lovesick for Stevie ever since. They recently bought a cozy, two-bedroom house in Finch Park together, for them and for Baby Casey-Dupree, who will be arriving in the next few months.

Fun facts / wanted connections

Before settling down, Fin was .... a lil casanova. He was a flirt, he had Tinder Gold, and he was not ashamed of either of those things. He’s definitely still flirty in a more innocent, platonic way, but I imagine he’d have a few past flames around town

Goes without saying but thick Irish accent on this motherfucker. Can barely pronounce “th”

He does a lot of event photography (with Delilah Carreño sometimes!) and he’s a talkative fella. I’m sure he knows a lot of people from old gigs

He talks to his dad a little, but mostly just because he likes his half sisters and always wanted a relationship with them

Allergic to cats, afraid of cats, but will never pass up an opportunity to pet one. He’s a typical cat hater until one is in front of him, and then that’s A Baby that he must pet

Baby Casey-Dupree is UNPLANNED and A SHOCK that he never thought he’d want, but oh boy is he thrilled. Nervous, but thrilled!! If you play a parent and Fin knows them, he will be texting them at 2am like “what do I do if the baby doesnt like me, what then”

Has his best friend Edgar’s face tattooed on his buttcheek (NOT very well) and he will show you if you ask

He and Stevie used to live across from each other at West Point Homes and I would love if he had a former roommate that he lived with!

#sewa.intro #why is this so long!!#death tw #car accident tw #pregnancy tw

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merrilark · 1 year

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I posted 5,023 times in 2022

That's 4,327 more posts than 2021!

606 posts created (12%)

4,417 posts reblogged (88%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@i-seeaspaceshipinthe-sky

@youcandalekmyballs

@endiness

@anglophile-rin

@circumstellars

I tagged 4,878 of my posts in 2022

Only 3% of my posts had no tags

#the umbrella academy - 763 posts

#personal - 443 posts

#klaus hargreeves - 374 posts

#not my art - 267 posts

#not fandom - 262 posts

#save for a rainy day - 225 posts

#misfits - 192 posts

#robert sheehan - 185 posts

#doctor who - 175 posts

#nathan young - 172 posts

Longest Tag: 136 characters

#☝️☝️☝️ end point? enjoy what you like and don't rag on people for things they like—esp. if that ragging leads to demanding personal info

My Top Posts in 2022:

I love that the Sonic movies are just big old found family stories. It gives me such happy butterflies seeing it grow, and Sonic getting to be a hero and yet not having to totally sacrifice being a kid. They've given us such a soft Sonic. A soft Sonic who says I love you, gives hugs, and treats his friends as more than just friends or teammates, he treats them like family.

Sonic has never been cruel, exactly, or even very cold, but these movies have given him a special familial kind of warmth that I think is often neglected in the games. And it's so, so nice to see it.

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Holy cow, guys. I took a bunch of screenshots with the intention of trying to see what items Sparrow Ben has in his room but instead I think I just accidentally discovered that Klaus and Sparrow Ben have the same room.

So two incredibly clever fans @writing-by-candlelight and @nikkiwriteswords have already done some amazing work trying to figure out the layout of the Umbrella Academy in these two posts [1, 2] respectively.

Thanks to them, we can assume that Klaus’ bedroom was eventually expanded and merged into Viktor’s bedroom as evidenced by Viktor’s brick wall also being present in Klaus’ room:

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The growing in popularity theory that Allison's actions in S3 are because she rumored herself to be happy just doesn't sit right with me. I loved her anti-hero arc, adored it actually, but that doesn't mean I also don't find those actions abhorrent. She's made horrible decisions as a person, but as a character, she's as fantastic as she is fascinating.

The idea that Allison went off the rails because she rumored herself is an understandable attempt to reconcile with some of the bad things she's done, and I get that. It sucks when characters you love disappoint you and do something shocking and horrible. But it's a solution that's far too simple and does a complete disservice to her character by cancelling all accountability for her actions and ignoring her depth as a damaged, struggling human being.

Allison has always, always been accustomed to using her power for personal gain. It's how she got what she wanted as a child and later as an adult. Besides rumoring Claire which resulted in her losing custody, she rumored her first husband, Patrick, into loving her, which is no different than what she did to Luther, we just don't see it first hand. To say that her behavior in S3 is only in-character through taking away her own agency by rumoring herself is canonically untrue, and flattens her into something boring and perfect which Allison is anything but.

She's compassionate, she's spiteful. She's gentle, she's cruel. She's understanding, she's selfish. She's put-together, she's a trainwreck. She's a great mom friend, she's the worst enemy you could ever have.

Allison Hargreeves isn't all good or all bad, she's both in varying, shifting shades just like all of the other Hargreeves or any well-written character. She's faceted, incredible, and in a lot of pain. And pain isn't always pretty; often times it's ugly, and occasionally it brings out our very worst.

517 notes - Posted August 10, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

If TUA S4 actually does put Five in school to help him “blend in” or whatever, all I beg is that at some point “Teenagers” by MCR plays over a montage of Five really going through it in school and barely containing his homicidal rage while some snotty teen shoves him into a locker.

Finally Five has enough and verbally eviscerates Head Bully until they run, tail-tucked between their legs. Some other kids see and Five accidentally becomes the champion of school losers. All the nerds and outcasts flock to him for protection and absolutely no one gets pushed around on his watch. Oh were you thinking of stealing Jimmy’s lunch money? Too bad, Five Hargreeves is smiling at you from across the cafeteria, which means you have about three seconds to run.

Eventually Five begrudgingly discovers that he’s fond of the awkward gaggle of teens that look up to him. This is the only reason he goes from “I’m almost 60 years old with an IQ of 190, goddammit, I’m not going to school!” to “Yes, I am getting up at 6am to catch the bus; school starts at 8 o’clock sharp and I refuse to be late”. Those idiot kids NEED him, okay, and he won’t disappoint.

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