Tag: lgbtqia+

Swatch Beats Malaysia and Takes PRIDE to Heart!

On Nov 25th, AP News reported that Swiss watchmaker Swatch won a lawsuit against the Malaysian government after a court ordered the return of 172 Swatch watches that were seized last year due to designs that authorities said bore LGBT elements. Further, the Kuala Lumpur High Court ruled that the watches were seized illegally without…
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December 19, 2024
Cyndi Lauper And the Art of Appreciation

Cyndi Lauper just finished her North American portion of the “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour”. In her first arena tour since 1986’s True Colors World Tour and first world tour since 2016, she masterfully combined art, storytelling, fashion, and music into a harmonious and perfectly curated end of an era. She also gave…
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December 9, 2024
Total Eclipse of the Heart Was a Vampire Love Song

In 1983 Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart entered October as the #1 song in America. It stayed on the number 1 through most of the month of October. It did not make it to Halloween, which is a shame. The song is about vampires hooking up. The song was meant to convey something…
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October 2, 2024
Women Write Banned Books & What We Must Do Now

What happens six weeks after a First Amendment Activist and members of Amnesty International and the American Library Association have a conversation in the 80’s? What were they fighting for? And who is winning that war over 40 years later? The 80’s gave us Banned Books Week. They were fighting “to teach the importance of…
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September 27, 2024
Dolly Parton And the Choices We Make

Can where we come from shape our views? Is the joke on us? Can our words show truth? Did the choices of others both deter and inspire a young writer? Dolly Parton embodies the best of the yeses to these questions with Country Class and kindness that enlightenment and education doesn’t always provide. This is…
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August 23, 2024
How Maya Angelou’s Life Continues to Inspire Change

Dr. Maya Angelou was an activist, poet, dancer, actor, civil rights leader, screenwriter, playwright and so much more. Not only did she win numerous humanitarian awards and received over 50 honorary degrees, but she won and inspired the hearts of more people we will ever know about. She is an iconoclast who spoke truth to…
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August 2, 2024
Queering The Lens Of History To Understand Our Present Chaos

The transphobic and homophobic nature of some Christians led to them judging everything they saw through those lenses. To argue with that perception is to argue with a wall that has been fortified through years of reenforced conservative building blocks.
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July 30, 2024
Thank You for Being a Friend Bea Arthur

Do Bea Arthur and Cyndi Lauper have something in common? Could artist and art be unified in cause? Did Bea Arthur inspire me and change me in my 50’s? Yes. The Golden Girls is a rare and special gem in entertainment. A television sitcom that premiered in 1985 captured the hearts of the Silent Generation,…
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July 26, 2024
Cyndi Lauper and Other Powerful Women Pass the Torch

As the Era of Cyndi Lauper comes to an end with her final tour she passes the torch to Taylor Swift who is on her Eras tour! When I asked for reader feedback and ideas for Fem Fridays, Gen X Watch reader Charity asked for articles where I project who the future Fem Fridays would…
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July 5, 2024
Gen X Watch Recap And New Adventures!

The June Recap In June the theme was, of course, PRIDE month. As the editor in chief I had concerns on how we were going to approach this month. Striking the balance of making sure our queer readers are recognized properly without performative allyship that is so much the corporate norm today. We wanted to…
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June 30, 2024