June 26, 2010 Saturday
"The Lord's searchlight penetrates the human spirit, exposing every hidden motive. God loathes the sacrifice of an evil person, especially when it is brought with ulterior motives."
Proverbs 20:27;21:27
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy one is unhappy in its own right."
-Leo Tolstoy
Both of these quotes are important to me. I do not think any Higher Power would allow violence of an evil person. But it does happen every day. Read the newspaper or watch television. I have stopped doing both. There are some people who live day by day for the media, the stock market, the political climate et al. This creates no harmony but increases your stress. Listening to how a father abused his child, or a boyfriend killed his girlfriend or retracing history back to the Stonewall Riots in June 1969. I was only nine years old at the time. I remember that my great Uncle Charlie died in 1969, the Mets won the World Series, and Neil Armstrong landed on the moon. I also know that Judy Garland died in June 1969, and her burial was at Campbell's Funeral Home in New York City.
Years later I read that grief stricken homosexuals mourning for their gay icon began the Stonewall Riots. The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. They are frequently cited as the first instance in American history when people in the homosexual community fought back against a government-sponsored system that persecuted sexual minorities. These riots have become the defining event that marked the start of the gay rights movement in the United States and around the world.
American gays and lesbians in the 1950s and 1960s faced a legal system more anti-homosexual than those of some Warsaw Pact countries. Early homophile groups in the U.S. sought to prove that gay people could be assimilated into society, and they favored non-confrontational education for homosexuals and heterosexuals alike. The last years of the 1960s, however, were very contentious, as many social movements were active, including the Civil Rights Movement, the Counterculture of the 1960s, and antiwar demonstrations. These influences, along with the liberal environment of Greenwich Village, served as catalysts for the Stonewall riots.
Very few establishments welcomed openly gay people in the 1950s and 1960s. The Stonewall Inn catered to an assortment of patrons, but it was known to be popular with the poorest and most marginalized people in the gay community: drag queens, representatives of a newly self-aware transgendered community, effeminate young men, hustlers, and homeless youth. Police raids on gay bars were routine in the 1960s, but officers quickly lost control of the situation at the Stonewall Inn, and attracted a crowd that was incited to riot. Tensions between New York City police and gay residents of Greenwich Village erupted into more protests the next evening, and again several nights later. Within weeks, Village residents quickly organized into activist groups to concentrate efforts on establishing places for gays and lesbians to be open about their sexual orientation without fear of being arrested.
After the Stonewall riots, gays and lesbians in New York City faced gender, class, and generational obstacles to becoming a cohesive community. Within six months, two gay activist organizations were formed in New York, concentrating on confrontational tactics, and three newspapers were established to promote rights for gays and lesbians. Within a few years, gay rights organizations were founded across the U.S. and the world.
On June 28, 1970, the first Gay Pride marches took place in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, commemorating the anniversary of the riots. Similar marches were organized in other cities. The information above is from WIKIPEDIA.
Tomorrow marks the 40th Anniversary of the NYC Pride March. It seems it can't be that long. Yet I am 50, so it must be. I have been to many a parade, and have seen "Last Day in June", a play about watching the parade with 9 friends from an NYC Apartment.
Was there hate in 1969? Of course there was! Is there hate today? Of course there is! Maybe not openly, but there is still hate in many a town in the United States and in other countries. I often ask, WHY?
I do not know the answer.
I pray for peace, serenity and happiness among all people.
Back to herbs...
Since blue and green are in the Rainbow flag colors I want to discuss Spirulina. Spirulina is rich in chlorophyll. It makes digestion easier and is an excellent source of energy. It is used for patients with liver failure resulting from malabsorption and alcoholism. It contains massive amounts of beta carotene, GLA and other nutrients which are useful to the immune system for healing cancer and other diseases.
The blue pigment, phycocyanin, has been shown to inhibit cancer cells. There needs to be more research into the role of spirulina in medicine. I have used spirulina for patiemts who have heavy metal intoxication especially if the toxin is mercury. Spirulina lives in both fresh and sea water. It is produced primarily from two species of cyanobacteria: Arthrospira platensis, and Arthrospira maxima.
Facts: The Rainbow Flag was made by Gilbert Baker in 1978. He was a friend of Harvey Milk.
Until tomorrow...
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