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Tallulah Who, You Ask?
By Dr. Bill Lipsky–
Leave this article immediately. Surrender your ruby slippers and put your Ken doll back in the closet. One of the greatest and most famous actors of her time, Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968) also was the most scandalous. She was outrageous, outspoken, and gloriously uninhibited. Laurence Olivier claimed that she “had more glamour than almost anybody alive.” Among Gaydom’s Magnificent Seven, she surely ranks second only to Bette Davis, who ranks second only to Judy Garland. Judy, of course, ranks second to no one.
There was only one Tallulah, astonishingly open about her behavior and herself when celebrities tried desperately to hide their truth. Described as “Humphrey Bogart in silk panties” and the “most thoroughgoing libertine and free-swinging flapper of the age,” she claimed having more than 500 affairs during her life. She was very much aware of her reputation, too, once admitting, “I’m as pure as the driven slush
By Dr. Bill Lipsky–
Five years ago this month, on April 25, 2016, terrorists disguised as deliverymen arrived at the apartment of LGBT activist Xulhaz Mannan in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. They removed the machetes hidden within the package they carried, then in front of his mother, hacked him and his friend Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy to death. His affront to their fanatic righteousness? Being an openly gay man working to gain human rights for LGBT people in a country where legal codes, religious dogma, and social convention marginalize their existence.
Xulhaz was 39 years old, Tonoy even younger. As the journalist Raad Rahman wrote after his assassination, “Bangladesh was never a safe place for a queer person, but for someone as out as he was it was especially dangerous.” Many advised him to leave the country. He refused. “He had the option of living anywhere in the world,” his niece explained, “but he chose to live in dangerous Dhaka, standing up to what he believe