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Rita Singer Apr 3

The #DiversityProject of the #Bywgraffiadur may be over, but its articles live on!

Here's my personal top-ten list of articles we managed to publish over a frighteningly short period of time.

Authors and colleagues in tootland: we couldn't have done it without you!

https://bydbach.hcommons.org/enwogion-o-fri-the-history-of-wales-just-got-more-vibrant/

#Wales #histodons #BlackHistoryIsWelshHistory #BlackHistory #LGBTQI #Deaf #DeafHistory #LGBTQIHistory

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Joan, but festive 🎅🏼🎄Dec 10, 2023

#OTD 10 December 1984: The Pits and Perverts gig, hosted by Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners, took place.

‘You have worn our badge, “Coal not Dole”, and you know what harassment means, as we do. Now we will pin your badge on us; we will support you.’ — Dai Donovan

via Tribune Magazine (from elsewhere)

#LGSM #LesbiansAndGaysSupportTheMiners #LGBTQIHistory #History #OnThisDay #IHRD #InternationalHumanRightsDay

Joan, but festive 🎅🏼🎄Dec 10, 2023

#OTD 10 December 1924: the first gay rights organisation in the US, the Society for Human Rights, was founded in Chicago by postalworker and army veteran, Henry Gerber, inspired by the work of Magnus Hirschfeld in Germany. It lasted a few months, until police arrested Gerber and several others.

via Working Class History (from elsewhere)

#HenryGerber #SocietyForHumanRights #LGBTQIHistory #History #OnThisDay #IHRD #InternationalHumanRightsDay

The Wild Gees Jul 25, 2023

Dr James Barry died #OTD 1865. Born female in Cork but lived his adult life as a man. He got his medical degree from Edinburgh and joined the British Army in South Africa. Rose to rank of Inspector General of Hospitals. He performed 1st (successful) caesarean by a European in Africa.
The doctor who signed his death cert said: "it was none of my business whether Dr Barry was a male or a female – that I thought it as likely he might be neither"
#LGBTQIhistory #Mastodaoine
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Barry_(surgeon)

James Barry (surgeon) - Wikipedia

The Wild Gees Jul 2, 2023

Revolutionary Julia Grenan was born #OTD in 1883. She was a member of Cumann na mBan, suffragette and socialist. One of the last women to leave GPO Headquarters in 1916 and one of 77 women held in Richmond Barracks after the Rising.
Julia (aka Síghle) was the life partner of Elizabeth O'Farrell (who carried the surrender in 1916). They both carried dispatches in War of Independence and were Anti-Treaty during Civil War.
#IrishWomensHistory #LGBTQIhistory #mastodaoine
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Grenan

Julia Grenan - Wikipedia

The Wild Gees Jun 25, 2023

Elizabeth O'Farrell died #OTD in 1957. Nurse, republican and Cumann na mBan member, Elizabeth delivered the Easter Rising surrender but was famously 'airbrushed' from that moment in history. In 2021 Sinead Guckian's painting 📷 'Her Surrender' shows different perspective. Commemorated at City Quay, Dublin and park named for her. Buried alongside partner Julia Grenan in Glasnevin cemetery
#IrishWomensHistory #LGBTQIhistory #mastodaoine

📷 public domain; in Seanad Éireann
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_O'Farrell

Elizabeth O'Farrell - Wikipedia

The Wild Gees Jun 11, 2023

Violet Florence Martin, one half of writing partnership Somerville and Ross, was born #OTD in 1862 in Connemara. Studied at Alexandra College. With her 2nd cousin and life partner Edith Somerville, she wrote the Irish RM and other books (as Martin Ross). VP of Munster Women's Franchise League and Gaelic Revivalist. Trinity College Dublin awarded her posthumous Hon DLitt

#IrishWomenWriters #LesbianWriters #IrishLGBTQIwomen #LGBTQIhistory

📷 PD on Wikicommons

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Florence_Martin

Violet Florence Martin - Wikipedia

The Wild Gees May 28, 2023

Breithlá shona to Margaret Skinnider born #OTD 1892 in Scotland to Irish parents. 'Schoolteacher turned sniper', the only woman wounded in action in 1916. Irish Citizen Army, Cumann na mBan. Imprisoned during WoI. Battle of Four Courts in Civil War. Paymaster General of IRA. Denied military pension! Later INTO president. Life partner of Nora O'Keeffe. Wrote Doing My Bit for Ireland
#IrishWomensHistory #mastodaoine #LGBTQIhistory
📷 centre, dressed as man. Public domain.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Skinnider

Margaret Skinnider - Wikipedia

The Wild Gees May 9, 2023

Journalist, author and feminist Nuala O'Faolain died #OTD in 2008. Published novels, history, selected journalism, memoir: Are you somebody? Award-winning TV producer on RTE. Long relationship with Nell McCafferty.
"Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that"
#IrishWomenWriters #LGBTQIhistory
📷 Percy Ogden. No photo on Nuala's Wikipedia page :(
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuala_O'Faolain

Nuala O'Faolain - Wikipedia

The Wild Gees Mar 16, 2023

Born #OTD in Tallaght 1978, Jemma Redmond was an award-winning bioscientist. Pioneered research into bioprinting organs so intersex people like herself could have children. Awarded Silicon Valley prize shortly before premature death in 2016. Opposed intersex surgeries on children: "Raising children in some stupid binary way is harmful... children should just be allowed to be themselves. They know who they are"
#IrishWomensHistory #LGBTQIhistory

📷 MakingQueerHistory.com

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jemma_Redmond