Letters to the Moon....

The Nazi rallies held in Charlottesville, North Carolina in 2017 horrified the nation. White men marched on the city, carrying tiki torches, chanting Nazi slogans, spreading their hateful rhetoric of white supremacy. Nothing like that had ever happened in my lifetime. Never in the history of the United States had the Nazis had such a rally, on such a national platform. Or so I thought. I saw a movie recently which reveals this to be entirely untrue.  I normally post movie reviews on my movie blog, "Flick Picks" https://ehflickpicks.blogspot.com/ Yet this movie demands to be known. “A Night at the Garden” is archival footage from an event at Madison Square Garden in New York City, held on February 20, 1939. An early scene of the film shows the marquee of the Garden, which reads “Pro American Rally.”  It was, in actuality,  a Nazi rally. There were over 20,000 people in attendance that night. They were there to support the “German America...

Fifty years ago the history of the nation changed forever. Change came in the most unlikely of places-a bar. Namely, the Stonewall Inn. I had never heard of the Stonewall Inn until President Barack Obama referred to it in his second inauguration speech: “We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths — that all of us are created equal — is the star that guides us still, just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall, just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, who left footprints along this great Mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone, to hear a King proclaim that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth." https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2013/01/22/169984209/stonewall-explaining-obamas-historic-gay-rights-reference Upon hearing the President’s words, I began to research what the Stonewall was. Near Christopher and Gay Streets in N...

Hello everyone, happy Pride month! "Happy Pride Month" by Esperanza Habla June is a month of celebration of Pride in the LGBTQ communities. As a queer woman, I do celebrate Pride. As a queer woman who is also straight, I am a passionate ally to others in the LGBTQ communities.  One of the things I love most about being a writer is that I have a chance to share information, to speak about and inform others on topics I feel are important. As such, I think it a good time to discuss an important topic to many in the LGBTQ communities: pronouns. Hello, how are you today? My name is Esperanza; my pronouns are:  She/Her/Hers In the above example, I have just shared my pronouns. I do not have an opportunity to share my pronouns regularly. Yet, it is important that I do so, especially during the month of Pride. (A quick definition:  Cisgender -someone whose gender identity matches the gender they were assigned at birth-the opposite of transgender-99% of t...