Sharon Thompson

It's a day before Mother's Day 2025 & this is mom before she was mom. Wish I'd known her then. I knew all her sisters before they were moms, and they were so fun.

Trump talks as if every penny the govt spends -- the cost of every meal on wheel, fedl grant, housing subsidy, Medicaid & Medicare payment, Social Security chk, scholarship, doll, baby carrier -- is coming out of his pocket. Is it because his plan is to steal it all?

More lesbian home movie project visibility -- in Slovenia! Hvala, Dagmar Brunow. (Thank you.) From almost the very beginning, you've helped us understand ourselves.)

Remember the victories. Celebration after defeating Colorado's Prop 2. 1996. Barbara Jabaily Collection

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Check your papers for spelling diffs. Name changes, say, in adolescence? Cast-off married names? Where did you get divorced? Mexico maybe? Everyone in your family born to US citizens in the USA? ICE is disappearing folks for tiny discrepancies. Think. Call Congress 202-224-3121

Ahem.

It's still Black History Month! And here's another 8mm clip from Lesbian Home Movie Project's Ruthchild/Gabriner Collection. It was shot in Fayette County, Tennessee by, we believe, Vicki Gabriner herself. The bravery these marches required. vimeo.com/1059312072

Inspiring 8mm footage shot by Vicki Gabriner from Lesbian Home Movie Project's Ruthchild/Gabriner Collection. Somerville, TN, during Freedom Summer (1964)
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So billionteers & evangelicals are now going after Catholics & Lutherans for dispensing charity? The war is really on kindness?

Thks. Not going so well so far. Glitches. E.g., my opening page here tells me something's wrong and advises me to inform an entity that doesn't have anything to do with anything. Expecting it'll all smooth out in time.

Yes, it's me. New Yorker turned Mainer. ED, Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP). Went to Carnegie Tech & Columbia. Co-editor, Powers of Desire. Wrote Going All the Way & a bunch of other stuff.