Archive of entries posted by joshpincusiscrying
DCS: miriam seegar
The singing Seegar Sisters were gaining popularity, prompting their father Frank to open a hardware store to support their budding career. Miriam was the breakout star of the group and soon found herself heading to Hollywood to try her hand at the motion picture industry. Miriam made her film debut in 1928’s The Price of …
inktober52: climb
DCS: alan arkin
I vaguely remember going to a drive-in movie in 1966. My mom and dad were up in the front seat. My dad, with an omnipresent cigarette dangling from his lips, would adjust the hook on the back of that big, gray, metal speaker so it hung on the driver’s side window to allow for optimum …
inktober52: cuddle
DCS: anita berber
June is Pride Month. As an adolescent, Anita Berber was enrolled in traditional ballet classes in her native Berlin. She also learned acrobatics and gymnastics at the behest of her grandmother, by whom she was raised. Before the age of 20, Anita was performing regularly in Berlin’s burgeoning cabaret scene, often dancing nude. She favored …
inktober52: kaboom
In an episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, broadcast on November 24, 1973, the perennially-arrogant and equally-dimwitted WJM news anchor “Ted Baxter” listed Kaboom and Cocoa Puffs as his favorite cereal. I remember eating (and liking) Kaboom, as well… but I was a child.
DCS: charles silverstein
June is Pride Month. Charles Silverstein was a respected author, lecturer and psychologist. In 1973, his presentation before the American Psychiatric Association led to the declassification and eventual removal of homosexuality as a mental illness from the organization’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. In 1977, he and writer Edmund White, co-authored the groundbreaking The Joy of Gay Sex. They …
inktober52: kettle
DCS: leelah alcorn
June is Pride Month. Leelah Alcorn just wanted to be happy. At 14, Leelah came out to her parent as transgender. Doug and Carla Alcorn, devout followers of the Church of Christ, were mortified. They refused to accept Leelah’s identity. Leelah pressed and stood firm, despite her parent’s denial. At 16, instead of supporting Leelah’s …