UK's LGBT History Month!

For my UK readers -- and I know of at least one -- Happy LGBT History Month! (We did it back in October.) 

There seems to be a whole month of events -- honestly, I wish this would have been this big over here :-(.

gohi... Where are you when we need you?

LGBT HISTORY: Worthless Trivia and GOHI!

Apparently it's not international GLBT History month, it's only national GLBT History Month. See, Britain celebrates it in February. Which is Black History Month here in this country. Inconvenient. Seeing as how October is Black History Month in UK.

I really wish the British and the American minorities would get their history months together.  

Um. This should be filed under, "Barry should most definitely not attempt to blog when avoiding homework, watching movies, and drinking." 

Oh, and if you are in Columbus, make sure you go out tonight to support GOHI's fundraiser on OSU's campus! GOHI is the Gay Ohio Historical Initiative, which is trying to archive Ohio's Gay History. 

Their event tonight is The History of Drag: Remembering the Berwick Ball. I have no idea what the Berwick Ball is. GOHI-- can you fill me in???

It's a great organization, and I've run into them briefly at Dayton's Gay Pride.


Though they never added me to their listserv :-).

GAY STUFF: Two bits found quickly

I found two things on the web that I'm surprised had not yet passed my ears:

1) Milestone for Equality
From Cleveland.com, reported by Jeff Coryell, Governor Ted Strickland (D-OH) appointed the state's first openly LGBT judge -- Mary Wiseman, a former city commissioner of the city of Dayton, who fills the spot of the retiring Montgomery County Common Pleas Court Judge John Kessler. She is up for election this year, and I hope that she wins :-). It's amazing ... I'm on a lot of listservs and I never heard about this.

2) Gay Ohio History Initiative
I can't quite figure this one out, as there's not a lot of content on the site. But it seems rather... interesting. I'm thinking of contacting them and seeing what they have so far. Outlook Weekly and the Ohio Historical Society are involved. They have a special endowment too... which, I'm sure, got a lot of giggles when they posted that on the web for the first time. The following is a collection of seeming missions they have on the website:

The purpose of the Gay Ohio History Initiative is to collect, archive and curate the history and culture of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender [GLBT] community in Ohio...We want to share LGBT culture and history with all Ohioans, to create opportunities for understanding of both the past and what is hoped for in the future...

No, really. They seem, well, at least truthful in their intent. I signed up for their listserv, so we'll see what comes through, yes? I am always interested on learning about special endowments.

But this is neat, Columbus Pride from 1982 (the year I was born) on their website -- be warned, it's 1.5 hours long :-):