Dr.E #104: Good point about the broadcast rights. However,I’m sure many of already donate to public and independent media.

Lyon and Martin(1972)wrote also that they chose the name D.o.B.in 1955 because it sounded like it could be a benign organiation,like Daughters of the Nile or Eastern Star. These were women’s auxiliaries to men’s fraternal organizations,very active until the early 70s; e.g., Elks,Moose,Shriners. That way if a card-carrying DoB member got caught during a bar raid & had her wallet seized,she could simply say it was a women’s auxiliary. What a smart idea!

Hey! Can you do something to turn off those STOOPID Walmart-looking smileys every time we type an emoticon?

I hate those damn things (and the details on them are so poor I can never tell which variant of emoticon was originally typed unless I turn off image loading).

Thanks.

P.S. Are you paranoid now that you’ve experienced the nit-picking geeks on this blog who find a zero-pixel dot, and look over your HTML and CSS with a fine-toothed comb? Just wait until we fire up the webcam when you’re not expecting it.

(…previewing ways around emoticon-graphics… just add a stray period after it…)

. . . ;(.

…’kay, I’m back…one of my students lost his stuffed animal and was all upset (some of my best internet-ing happens in the naproom of the preschool where I work. I’m in a dark room with snoring children at the moment).

The DOB documentary:
As far as I remember, it focused a lot on Del and Phyllis, their histories. there were lots of photos and first-hand information.

I did a quick google search, and it’s called “No Secret Anymore” and is more about Dell and Phyllis than anything else. It traces the early lesbian activism, and follows their work through the decades. It was made in 2002.

My work internet filter is not letting other sites through, so I have to just give that quick overview.

Interestingly, the name of the organization comes from the poems “Les chansons de Bilitis” which were purportedly written by a contemporary of Sappho, and discovered in Greece by the poet Pierre Louÿs in 1894.

Louÿs, in fact, wrote them himself, and Bilitis is an entirely fictional character.

The first three poems “La flute de Pan,” “La chevelure” and “Le tombeau des Naïades” were set for Mezzo-Soprano and piano by Claude Debussy.

Deborah Chasnoff made a sequel to It’s Elementary,called It’s Still Elementary,in the last few years. I found out about it through Rethinking Schools, a progressive teachers’ publication/network. Among the interviewees are some of the then-fifth graders filmed in Madison,WI; they talk about how their lives have changed in the ensuing years. Some came out,others became allies,and some are now activists.

Tell us more about the DOB doc.

Here’s my question, though:
How come all of the documentaries and stuff that PBS shows for pride month come from, at best 1990. I’ve seen the DoB documentary at least 5 times, same for “It’s Elementary” and seemingly everything else!

Haven’t any documentaries about the LGBT communities (and ESPECIALLY the women in those communities) been made in the last 15 years? How bout the last 5 years? Hey, are any brand new?!

Oh, one last thing:
If I see that “walking tour of the Castro” one more time, I think I’ll scream.
“It’s just like a small town! Everyone feels welcome and comfortable!”
……um, no….not so much.

You’re absolutely right. In fact,as we left the film,I noted that Anne Kronneberg was the only lesbian featured. My sister and I both agreed that a lesbian-centric film needs to be produced,starting with the Daughters of Bilitis in the 50s and including the varieties of lesbian feminism in the 70s.

When I team-taught Intro to Women’s Studies one term,one of my co-teachers was Andrea Weiss. She went on to make films like The International Sweethearts of Rhythm, about a hidden-from-his/herstory Black women’s big band and a follow up to that film,Ruby and Tiny,featuring two band members in their elder years. I recommend both.

Tiny’s famous quote about the Sweethearts: “I just loved them gals.”

I was there.

Er, I actually did learn how to use a sextant for navigation. As of 5 years ago, someone on board a commercial vessel still had to be able to navigate without electronic hoo-has, though apparently training in Morse code has fallen by the wayside. Morse is great as a communication-of-last-resort because all you need is something binary.

Thanks for the name compliment! I are a geek, fer sher.