#jim egan

[theofficialdramallama]

8 Simple Rules S2E4 || Goodbye (Part 1)

Kerry: Bridge? Bridget: What? Kerry: Gran and Gramps are here. Bridget: Is Dad with them? Kerry: No. Bridget: Well, then I really don't give a damn.

[governmentissuedclone]

Queer people have lost so much of our history and it deeply saddens me.

Having to live and operate in secrecy for most of history means there's so little documentation to begin with, then add the fact that queer people usually haven't lived very long lives so there is a lack of elders to pass down their knowledge, and then subsequently having what little there is suppressed and excluded from easily accessible education or discussion.

I talk to so many people, queer and not, who have never heard of things like Stonewall, The Aids Crisis, The Lavender Scare, and so many other significant events. I don't want the names of people like Frank Kameny, Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, or Jim Egan to be forgotten.

[shy-fairy-levele3]

Heritage Minutes: Jim Egan

Pioneering gay activist Jim Egan publicly challenged a culture of rampant homophobia in the press starting in the late 1940s, when it was dangerous to speak ...

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Gay activist Jim Egan's fight for equality becomes first LGBTQ Heritage Minute

Heritage Minute focuses on LGBTQ leader

A new Heritage Minute recounting the story of gay activist Jim Egan is drawing attention to the fight for equality waged by Canada's LGBTQ community.

Producers at Historica Canada, the organization behind the popular bite-sized moments of history, say the latest addition to its ongoing series will debut online Wednesday.

It's the first time the LGBTQ community has been the focus of a Heritage Minute.

The one-minute clip follows the career of Egan, who spent most of his life trying to change negative perceptions of gay culture in mainstream media.

He started by writing opinion columns to newspapers in the early 1950s before eventually becoming one of the first openly gay politicians in Canada.

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[americaneldritch]

As Queen Elizabeth’s advisor, John Dee’s concept of North America was purely speculative - he never set foot on the continent...

If you’re interested in the intersection of history and mythology, cryptography, or the mystery of the Newport Tower, check out our review for Jim Egan’s 600 page non-fiction behemoth, John Dee’s America. It’s a focalization of all available research (which is surprisingly little) on the subject of a 1583 colonization effort, spearheaded by John Dee, to establish Queen Elizabeth’s eminence on the North American continent. 

John Dee, if you aren’t familiar, was a polymath, a political strategist, an astrologer, an alchemist, and much more. He is considered an inspiration for Shakespeare’s Prospero, and is often purported to be the original 007 of the British Crown (which is a pervasive hoax from the late 1960′s, but Dee certainly did intelligence work for Her Majesty). He is, perhaps, best remembered for his conversations with spirits, and the development of the Enochian Alphabet. He is also credited by HP Lovecraft with a partial translation of the Necronomicon from Greek.