A Look Back

Where were you 50 years ago?  I realize some of my readers may not have been around in June of 1963.  I had just turned twelve and was preparing to enter Forest Oak Junior High School (now Forest Oak Middle School) in the fall.  I was coming to realize my different-ness, although I could not define it, I just knew I was different.  I had also already had my first same sex experiment with my best friend at the time.  A lot has changed in the last 50 years, most of it due to a lot of unsung heroes who were never a household name.  Yet they threw open their closet doors, came out and challenged the status quo, which made life easier for all of us because of their sacrifices for the cause.  In celebration of Boston Pride, The Edge, Boston published an article on Saturday, In 50 Years, Huge Strides for the Gay Rights Movement, that took "a look back at three of the gay-rights movement’s pivotal phases and some of the people who chose to get involved."  Well worth the read to find out how we got from there then to here now and some of the people that made it happen.  It does pay to know your Gay History, if for no other reason so you can appreciate what it took to gain what freedoms we have today as we sit on the cusp of some really important events that could change all our lives in one way or another.  

In the same vein, I have decided your Musical Moments this week will be reprises of some of my favorite play lists that have previously been posted here.  Great music is always worth more than just one listen.  Especially so in the case of Monday's Musical Reprise where the music of the Master, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, is featured in a play list I originally posted in January of 2012 in celebration of the 256th anniversary of Mozart's birthday.  Included in the play list are Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major (Turkish) K219, performed by Janine Jansen violin, with the European Union Youth Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy conducting from a performance at the BBC Proms in 2006 followed by the Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K622 performed by the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra conducted by Gerard Schwarz featuring David Shifrin on an A Basset Clarinet. To complete the reprise, I have my favorite Mozart Symphony, Number 40 in G Minor, K550 performed by the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra with Dennis Russell Davies conducting.

Your visual entertainment is not a reprise, it is an all new collection of twinks, twunks, hunks and hotties strutting their stuff in their Monday's Undies, all for your examination and appreciation as you scroll down the page.  Thanks for spending part of your Monday here at Nichevo.  Come again soon and bring your friends!!  Until next time as always, Enjoy!