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-Lyrics of "You're the Top"
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Does anybody has the original lyrics of "You're the Top" ? Please send it to me. Thanks Gilberto. Ben. I agree with you about Ella in Berlin, with her Mack the Knife, but I think also "You're the Top" is a lovely performance. And makes me remember Jimmy Durante. Lovely guy. Gilberto NOTE from Ben Boxer: (Ella also recorded the below)
"You're The Top" Introduced by Ethel Merman and William Gaxton in the musical "Anything Goes." Sung by Miss Merman and Bing Crosby in the first film version in 1936 and by Crosby, Mitzi Gaynor, Donald O'Connor and Zizi Jeanmaire in the second film version in 1956. Sung by Ginny Simms and Cary Grant in the 1946 film "Night and Day."
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(chorus 7) Ben, have we ever had a gay president? If Bill clinton had chosen me instead of Monica, I would have kept my mouth shut!
Bob and Harley
James Buchanan (1791-1868), 15th U.S. President (from 1857 to 1861) [Short biography from both .The Alyson Almanac,. p. 101, and J.N. Katz, .Gay American History,. p. 647] .As the country.s only bachelor president, James Buchanan has often been the subject of speculation as to his sexual orientation. There is no conclusive evidence on the subject, but writer Carl Sferrazza Anthony fueled the debate with his discovery of two letters to Buchanan by Alabama Senator William Rufus de Vane King, with whom Buchanan shared rooms in Washington, D.C. for over two decades. One reads that .I am selfish enough to hope you will not be able to procure as associate who will cause you to feel no regret at our separation.. In 1834, Alabama Senator William Rufus de Vane King (a fifty-seven-year-old bachelor) met Pennsylvania Senator James Buchanan, and the two were inseparable until King.s appointment as U.S. minister to France. Their intimate relationship caused barbed comments in Washington. Andrew Jackson called King .Miss Nancy. (effeminate); Aaron Brown (in 1844, in a private letter) called King Buchanan.s .better half,. referred jestingly to King and Buchanan.s .divorce,. and referred to King as .she,. .her,. .Aunt Fancy.; King refers to his .communion. with Buchanan in a note of 1844. Buchanan won the presidency as a compromise Democratic candidate, and spent a single, uneventful term in office. When he turned the White House keys over to his successor, Abraham Lincoln, Buchanan said, .If you are as happy on entering this house as I am in leaving it, you are the happiest man on earth... William Rufus King (1786-1853), U.S. Vice President (in 1853) [Short biography from .The Alyson Almanac,. p. 129] .After graduating from college in 1803, King began a long political career that included serving in the North Carolina legislature, the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. legation to Russia, as minister to France, and as a U.S. senator from Alabama. After Buchanan lost the presidential nomination in 1852 to Franklin Pierce (D) [.in recent years, evidence has surfaced suggesting that Franklin Pierce . may have been [a] closeted homosexual. (Michelangelo Signorile, .Queer in America,. p. 196], party bosses offered the vice presidential spot to King, hoping to placate Buchanan supporters. The Pierce-King ticket won the election but King.s victory was short-lived. In Cuba seeking relief from tuberculosis, he died only twenty-nine days after taking office..
Historical note from Ben Boxer: Through my maternal grandmother, I am descended from the sister of Franklin Pierce, being his nephew about seven times removed. Pierce's only son was horribly killed in a train wreck as a child before his parents' eyes. Maybe my gay genes came through his sister. I would like to think that I am related to a gay president. He wasn't good for much else, except he was a better lawyer than he was a president.Or maybe, on the basis of the info supplied earlier in this posting. I am descended from a secret love child of Pierce, and "Aunt Fancy" King, who was actually a transsexual, who had a love affair with Pierce on the rebound after his/her "divorce" from Buchanan and went to Cuba on the pretext of tuberculosis, but really died in childbirth giving birth to my ancestor, the lesbian bitch/bastard of a gay president and a trannssexual vice president of the USA. And after Lincoln got the White House Keys from Buchanan, Walt Whitman introduced Linco!
ln to John WIlkes Booth and they used to have orgies in the Lincoln Bedroom at the White House (which is why it is so famous) and that, of course, led to the assassination when Johnny Booth decided he had to put Mary Todd Lincoln out of the way so he could have Abe all to himself, but he was a lousy shot,,,,and, well, as they say, the rest is history. Sort of. It has been suggested that Lincoln and a law partner of his in early days before he married was a lover. Don't remember the name but they shared a room and a bed, which was not as rare back then as now, though I somehow think sex was as likely to have occured back then.....two hard cocks in close proximity often meet. Ben, have we ever had a gay president? If Bill clinton had chosen me instead of Monica, I would have kept my mouth shut! Bob and Harley
NOTE from Ben Boxer: I had forgotten! Yes, we touched on Lincoln in Digest 259 (June 2001) with this line: "President Abraham Lincoln who enjoyed an intimate, live-in relationship with another man for many years, where it was known they slept in the same bed and hugged and kissed aplenty." And again in Digest 229 (May 2001): " Think of Abe Lincoln showing up in Springfield and the sharp-eyed Joshua Speed pegging Abe and asking him to work with him and sleep with him--for four years (Lincoln counted the days). Cuddle up, brother." And again in the notes on Walt Whitman, Part 6: "Believe it or not, there is a continuing argument
on the Internet on the Jolly Roger site about whether Whitman was ever
Abraham Lincoln's lover. Consensus is that they never met, but suspicions
of Lincoln's gay tendencies are no secret. It has even been suggested
elsewhere that John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's eventual assassin, was very
privately introduced well beforehand to the President as a potential
pretty-boy sex partner. The theory further spins the tale that Booth, a
gorgeous hunk who was probably hit on by gay men all of his life, was a
raving homophobe---and a Southern-sympathizer, to boot!---who became
so enraged by Lincoln's attentions that it led directly to the assassination
conspiracy. Food for thought, grist for the mill, but hardly to be accepted
as true. However, one thing we learn as gay people is that although in
general we may be as invisible to the straight world as the proverbial fly
on the wall, we are and were, like the fly, here, there, and everywhere, so
no "gay" theories, even far-fetched ones, should be dismissed out of hand.
I rather like the thought of our Great Gay Poet getting it on with our
Great Gay President. Ha! Ha!)" I am constructing a file on Lincoln, by the way, which will become an article one of these days. Yes, I would have to agree that if we are looking for a gay president, Abe Lincoln is the likeliest, and the name of the guy who lived with him in Springfield Ill was, as you read above, Josh Speed. Ben Boxer wrote: "I am constructing a file on Lincoln, by the way, which will become an article one of these days. Yes, I would have to agree that if we are looking for a gay president, Abe Lincoln is the likeliest, and the name of the guy who lived with him in Springfield Ill was, as you read above, Josh Speed." Just as someone to consider, what about James Buchanan as a possibility? I believe he was the only president we've ever had who never married. I'm not a real history buff, so I could be wrong about that, but I think that's right. There had to have been something going on there, don't you think? Just as a side-note, Lincoln's wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, was a distant relative of mine. Ethan in LA
NOTE from Ben Boxer: Hee hee! With a nut like Mary Todd Lincoln, the more distant, the better! The poor lady had an awful time of it after his death. She was already in more trouble than Mamie Eisenhower before she left the White House! Even the servants couldn't stand her. Cute little Mamie had a frightful reputation as a tyrant behind closed doors. She drove the White House staff bonkers over fluffing up the rugs. They said WW II saved Ike from losing his mind---he got away from Mamie a lot and had his girlfriend Kay to scratch his bald head and rev up his dick. Katherine Grayson played and sang Kim in Show Boat. Her voice was not as beautiful as Jeannette McDonald'd though Jeanette seldom got to sing such beautiful songs. Actually the best voice in Show Boat was hands down William Warfield Wonder if he was a relative of Bessie Wallis Warfield, later Mrs Simpson, later That Woman, later the Duchess of Windsor? He was much sexier.
NOTE from Ben Boxer: (Ben Boxer: "Bessie Wallis" as she was known to her family would turn over in her grave if anybody thought her related to William Warfield. Hee hee! She was a Baltimore and Virginia belle of old Southern family) Me: Of course judging from her behavior she was just rich white trash like many of the Kennedy's......and I suspect that Wm would be insulted at the question, which I should be ashamed of. I loved his voice and thought he was beautiful....few black men in my world and I have certainly made the most of those I've had. (BB: Warfield was from Arkansas, also of old family, but a different color...Bessie may well have had African-American relatives, but would never had admitted it, in the same manner as the latter-day white descendants of Thomas Jefferson still refuse to accept the DNA evidence of the bloodline passed on through at least one of his black mistress Sally Heming's children.) Me: Sally Hemings was half sister to Jefferson's wife who he promised that he would not remarry. I suspect that he wanted to remarry it would have been to Sally which couldn't have happened even in France and that had she not loved him, she would stayed in France where she probably could have married well, with looks and brains and manners and charm. The relationship doesn't seem wrong..the time seems wrong. (BB: Bessie Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, was distinctly a snob of the worst kind. She had an acerbic wit, though, and would have loved to get the goods on any white socialite other than herself in whose woodpile she might have found anything other than a honky. The Duchess had a great gift for blowjobs. New York society insisted that was how she enticed and held on to her tiny-dicked Prince Charming---by the lips.) Me: Supposedly she learned to give good head working incognito in an oriental whore house while married to Simpson and stationed in China. Bet I give better ones though, at least I can handle bigger and better cocks, though little pretty ones can be quite charming too. I was at a mostly nude party last week where I finally met the handsome big dicked uncut guy I'd been flirting with on line and discovered that his boyfriend with a much smaller cock is the really hot one.....but I'd be happy to have a three way. Of course I'm not a slut....I'm sexually generous.
P.S. from BB: Half-right on Bessie Wallis. They say she did learn to give blowjobs during her time in China, but not while married to Ernest Simpson (married 1928, divorced 27 April 1937). She was stationed in China with her first husband, hotshot Navy Lt. Winfield Spencer (married 1916, divorced 1927). That's where she became close friends with the people to whose villa in France she fled years later from England, and where she married her third husband, the ex-King Edward, on 3 June 1937. They say that her first husband was a wham-bam-thank-you-maam kind of lover and she was a bored mah-jongg player in China who hung out with some other bored Navy wives who got their kicks where they found them. She reminds me of Karen, the character in James Jones' "From Here to Eternity" who was bored and unhappy in her marriage and fucked everybody at Pearl Harbor but her wimp husband. God knows Wallis got bored with all her husbands, including the Duke, and every one of them was a wimp. She was a fag hag of the first water. Her court always included gay men, "a coterie of cocksuckers" as they used to say in New York of her buddy Jimmy Donohue, a Woolworth heir and cousin to Barbara Hutton, and his nasty gang of rich and dangerous queens who were always around in the Duchess' wake and bought their way out of bigtime trouble when they cut the cock off of a drunken sailor. She lived by some interesting credos: (1) "I'm nothing to look at, so the only thing I can do is dress better than anyone else." (2) "Never explain, never complain." (3) "I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers..." (4) For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat." (5)"A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience." and (6---although she may not have really been the one that originated this:) "You can never be too rich or too!
thin."
I enclose "The British 'Section 2'" recently received, courtesy Stonewall.org in the U.K., which pertains to gay individuals immigrating there. U.K. Positive developments: Immigration Rules In October 1997, after a long campaign by Stonewall and Stonewall Immigration group, the Junior Minister of State of the Home Office, Mike O!&Brien announced new concessions for unmarried partners in immigration regulations thus recognising same-sex partners as eligible for British residency based on four-year relationship akin to marriage. In 1999 this term was reduced to two-year relationship. In 2000 the unmarried partners concession became an Immigration Rule. Many problems still remain for bi-national same-sex couples since before non-British partner can obtain residency, the couple has to prove that they have been cohabiting for two years and that this relationship is akin marriage. This causes problems to many couples who find it difficult to cohabit legally in this country. Particularly it is difficult for those couples where one of the partners is from non-EU country and who has very limited options to stay in the UK on a student or work visa. Other immigration regulations define the phrases !%member of family!& and !%family visitor!& as including unmarried same-sex partners. If a person is refused a visa for the purpose of visiting a family member, they have a right to appeal. .h Housing In October 1999, in the case of Fitzpatrick v Sterling Housing Association Ltd, the Law Lords ruled that same-sex partnerships could be construed as family relationships in housing succession case. The facts of this case are as follows. Martin and John were long standing partners in a monogamous gay relationship. They lived in a flat in London for some 20 years. John was the tenant of the flat that was let under a Rent Act protected tenancy from a private landlord. John had lived in the flat for a number of years prior to meeting Martin and they had become close friends and partners some time before they started to live together in 1976. Unfortunately in January 1986 John had a tragic accident that left him paralysed and needed 24 hour a day care. Martin provided such a support for the next 9 years. Sadly John died in 1994 and almost immediately Martin was told to leave by the landlords. The law provides that only a !%spouse!& or a !%member of the original tenant!&s family!& has a right to succession in a case when a tenant dies. Martin argued that he was a member of John!&s family. The Judge in a County Court although accepting that !'a cohabiting relationship between members of the same sex of a permanent and stable kind would properly be regarded nowadays !K as just as lasting and socially valuable a relationship as that between husband and wife!(, was not prepared to regard Martin as John!& spouse of a member of John!&s family. The House of Lords recognised changes in attitudes between now and 1920 (when succession for what are now called regulated tenancies was first introduced). It decided that Martin had been a member of John!&s family: !'this is the proper interpretation of the Act !K that as a matter of law a same-sex partner of a deceased tenant can establish the necessary familial link.!( The House of Lords also called upon the parliament to !'change the law to give protection to the homosexual partner of a deceased tenant.!( However, it did not accept that Martin had been living with John as !'husband and wife!(. A Bill dealing with rights of public tenants is likely to go before Parliament in the next year.
Legal Aid
Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme Employers benefits
Employers such as British Airways, W.H. Smith, Midland Bank and South West
Trains, CitiBank, Glaxo Smith Cline, IBM, Marks & Spencer, HSBC, Euro
tunnel, Credit Swiss, Body Shop, King Fisher Plc recognise the commitment of
their employees in same sex partnerships by extending to them benefits
normally afforded to married partners. End of silverfoxesclub-digest V1 #297
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