We all love a good animated GIF. Even after 28 years, they continue to intrigue and entertain us. Most recently, these "digital flipbooks" have been making a big splash on social media. Tumblr, a social platform built GIFs – recently launched Tumblr TV and GIF search. Just last month, Twitter also announced that it would start auto-playing GIFs in feeds. And All the more proof that we should all consider incorporating GIFs into our email campaigns.
Here's an awesome example of an animated GIF used in its full glory. American Apparel captures readers attention by using a simple GIF within the context of their messaging.
You might remember our post from a few months ago when we talked about keeping an eye on the weight of your emails. GIFs can increase the size of your email quite significantly, so be sure to be mindful that they don't push your total email size over the 104KB threshold. At this threshold, some clients like Gmail start rolling up "excess content" into a preview link. Not only do you run the risk of having your email clipped off by some, larger GIFs can also take longer to load , a bad user experience or they will just be flagged as SPAM.
Last thing to bear in mind, is to not overuse GIFs. As with most other email content, regularly switch things up so that you continue to surprise and delight the reader. Overuse of a GIF can lead to loss of value and boredom. So make sure the next time you think about bringing out the GIF-big-guns, spend a good amount of time brainstorming and designing original content.
There are a bunch of tools on the web that make it quick and easy to create animated GIFs. You can either start with video and tease out a series of still frames or simply a set of photos. Using tools like Imgur, you can string these into GIFs, or design them using more sophisticated software like Photoshop. Here's a cool guide to get you started.
If you're like me and get scared just looking at Photoshop, there are other alternatives that are user friendly for the non-designer. Gifmaker allows you to upload a number static images and stitch them together into a GIF, as well as control the loop speed and adjust dimensions. Last but not least, if you don't have time to create one or are simply looking for some inspiration, there's nowhere else better to surf than giphy.com.
Have you created, sent or come across a cool email GIF recently? Share a link with us by commenting below!


1. A group of Beit Yaakov women sew lace curtains in Rymanow, Poland. Pictured at the right is the donor's mother, Sara Ginsburg Keller.
2. Pupils of the Jüdische Volksschule pose in front of the school on Lutzowstrasse in Köln.


JOURNEYS GROUP ONLINE PURCHASE AGREEMENT This Purchase Agreement is entered into on November 10, 2012, between Genesco Inc. ("Seller"), which wishes to sell certain damaged or discontinued inventory ("Merchandise") on the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, and the undersigned "Buyer," which wishes to purchase Merchandise on such terms and conditions. The Seller and the Buyer agree as follows: 1. From time to time in its discretion, Seller may make available for purchase by Buyer items of Merchandise at prices per unit to be set forth on Exhibit A to this Agreement, as they may be agreed by the parties with respect to each purchase transaction. Items of Merchandise purchased by Buyer pursuant to such availability will be sold and purchased at the price specified in the bid accepted through journeysgroup.genesco.com, on the terms and conditions specified herein. For the avoidance of doubt, this Agreement may not be modified unilaterally by a purchase order or other document issued by Buyer, even if Seller delivers merchandise after receipt of such a purchase order without disclaiming its terms and conditions. 2. Merchandise will be sold and purchased FOB Seller's distribution facility in Lebanon, Tennessee. Buyer will be solely responsible for all costs of transportation and insurance from such facility to Buyer's destination and will bear the risk of loss or damage to Merchandise from the point at which the Merchandise is delivered to the custody of Buyer's carrier. 3. Merchandise is sold AS IS, and subject to up to 3% quantity variance per order, which is reflected in the agreed purchase price. The Buyer must notify the Seller in writing of any quantity discrepancy above 3% of the units of Merchandise ordered within 7 days after delivery of the Merchandise to Buyer's carrier pursuant to Section 2 of this Agreement, and shall have no recourse for discrepancies below 3% or for discrepancies not noticed pursuant to this Section 3 within the 7 days specified herein. The Seller warrants that buyer will receive good and marketable title to Merchandise purchased hereunder, but Seller hereby disclaims all other warranties, express or implied, including without limitation the warranties of merchantability, noninfringement, or fitness for a particular purpose. 4. The purchase price for Merchandise will be due and payable by electronic funds transfer (ACH or wire) to Seller's account not more than 48 hours after Buyer is sent email notice of acceptance of its bid. The funds transfer instructions will be made as follows: Bank Name: Bank of America, N.A. Bank City/State: Concord, CA Account Name: Genesco Inc. Misc. Account Number: 37566-56488 ABA Number: 111000012 (for ACH payments) ABA Number: 026009593 (for domestic wires) Swift Code: BOFAUS3N (for international wires) Bank Contact: Arvinder Kaur, 888-715-1000, Ext. 57647 5. The Buyer hereby covenants and agrees that it will not resell the Merchandise for delivery in the United States, Canada, or Puerto Rico and that it will not resell the Merchandise to any person or entity that it has reason to believe will resell it or permit it to be resold for ultimate delivery in the United States, Canada or Puerto Rico. 6. The Buyer will hold all information concerning its purchase and sale of Merchandise from Seller, including but not limited to the fact that a purchase has occurred and the price and other terms of the purchase, in strict confidence and will not disclose any such information to any third party except to the extent it is required by law to do so. 7. Either party may terminate this Agreement for any reason or for no reason at all at any time by giving written notice of termination to the other. Termination of this Agreement will not relieve either party of its obligations of delivery and payment for any Merchandise previously purchased hereunder. 8. This Agreement will be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of Tennessee, without regard to conflict of law rules. Any action brought in connection with this Agreement shall be brought in state or federal court sitting in Davidson County, Tennessee, and the parties hereby consent to the jurisdiction of and venue in such courts.
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Dal 1982 al 2002 ha giocato per il Caracas Fútbol Club, vincendo quattro campionati nazionali e tre coppe del Venezuela. È uno dei giocatori con più presenze per il club della capitale, avendovi giocato per 20 anni.

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Ha giocato per il  dal 1983 al 2002, partecipando a quattro edizioni della Copa América e totalizzando 21 presenze.

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Competizioni nazionali

Caracas: 1991-1992, 1993-1994, 1996-1997, 2000-2001

Caracas: 1988, 1994, 1995, 2001

Campionato venezuelano di seconda divisione: 1
Caracas: 1984

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BTL scale values and the corresponding 95% confidence intervals for the emotional category Happy. Credit: Ronald Mo et al.
(TechXplore)—A small team of researchers with Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has found that compressing recorded music into the MP3 format results in the loss of emotional tones, leaving the result with less depth. In their paper published in the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, the researchers describe their study of the impact of compressing recordings of musical instruments and which instruments suffer the most degradation.
Most people who listen to music saved as an MP3 file know that the sound quality is lower than that of a CD or a vinyl album. But what is lost and by how much has not really been investigated. In this new effort, the researchers sought to learn which types of musical sounds lose the most emotional quality when a file is converted to MP3 and by how much.
The researchers enlisted the assistance of 20 grad students, each a native English speaker and each with normal hearing. All of the volunteers were asked to listen to recordings of several instruments: saxophone, violin, trumpet, oboe, bassoon, clarinet, flute and horn. Each was asked to rate the sounds they were hearing based on a list of emotional traits: romantic, calm, happy, shy, mysterious, angry, comic, sad and heroic. The researchers then analyzed the answers given by the volunteers to see if there might be any patterns. They found that most of the sounds that fell into the positive category were the most negatively impacted—romantic, calm, comic, heroic and happy were noticeably less present after files had been compressed into the MP3 format. They noted also that some instruments were more impacted than others—trumpets, for example, were found to have lost the most emotional timbre while other horns were impacted the least.
The researchers suggest that those people who are the most serious about tonal quality should limit their exposure to songs compressed into the MP3 format. They also suggest that the current trend in popular music toward growl-like tones or angry lyrics might have arisen due to their ability to translate well into the compressed file format.
Musical instrument sounds have distinct timbral and emotional characteristics, and when audio processes are applied to them their timbral and emotional characteristics are changed. This paper investigates the effects of MP3 compression on the emotional characteristics of eight sustained instrument sounds using a listening test. We compared the compressed sounds pairwise over ten emotional categories at several bit rates. The results showed that MP3 compression strengthened neutral and negative emotional characteristics such as Mysterious, Shy, Scary, and Sad; and weakened positive emotional characteristics such as Happy, Heroic, Romantic, Comic, and Calm. Interestingly, Angry was relatively unaffected by MP3 com- pression. Probably, the background "growl" artifacts added by MP3 compression decreased positive emotional characteristics and increased negative characteristics such as Mysterious and Scary. For instruments, MP3 compression affected some instruments more and others less. The trumpet was the most effected and the horn by far the least.
Nobody listens to music at 56kbps though, so it's irrelevant.
I mean, it's already established that if you want a good mp3, you should be at 256kbps (above that there's no audible change).
Small sample size study and vague descriptions - traditional audiophile nonsense.
"The researchers then analyzed the answers given by the volunteers to see if there might be any patterns."
That's bad science. You first hypothesize where a pattern might occur and why, and then go observe if you can find it. If you just look for "any pattern" in a more or less random sample of data it is very likely you'll find one. If the students ranked the sounds randomly, you could still find this "pattern".
The classic case is the swedish study that linked power lines to cancer. Instead of looking for cancer directly, they looked over a list of over 800 different diseases, and because of their small sample size one of those - leukemia - happened to be present in the sample by chance.


RYLA is a Rotary International program that has been offered in Missouri now for the past twenty years. Three district clubs have formally partnered to fund and administer this premier service leadership academy.
Local high school students who are selected to participate in the program receive the opportunity to work side-by-side with professional educators and counselors, motivational speakers, and outstanding Rotarians during an annual three-and-a-half day conference focused on developing leadership skills.
Youth programs that highlight the importance of Fellowship.
Instruction on service leadership based on the core Rotarian principles.
Participants leave the experience with an enhanced sense of purpose, new friends, and renewed confidence. They return to their high school and community with a keen awareness of the importance of service leadership, the knowledge of what an impact it can have, and concrete personal goals for their future life of service.
The Missouri RYLA Academy will be June 23-June 26th, 2013 at William Woods University in Fulton, Missouri. The students are nominated and encouraged to apply through recommendations of Rotarians and the local high school administrators/faculty. The application deadline for this year is Dec 21st, 2012 with follow-up interviews slated for a month later.
***Incoming/outgoing sophomores receive preference, but outstanding candidates outside of that age bracket will always be given proper consideration.


When On the Willows invited contributors to write about a favorite holiday tradition, I signed up immediately.
Then I stared at the wall for several weeks.
Our family is still a little new to this holiday tradition thing.
Neither my husband nor I brought a stockpile of holiday traditions to our marriage. I'm an only child who grew up many hours away from my extended family; my parents produced festive holidays, but it seems to me that at least one sibling is necessary to create a family culture in which holiday traditions are remembered and carried on. And my husband is the son of first-generation Chinese immigrants; they combined Western Christmas traditions with Chinese cooking, which would be wonderful if either of us could cook like my mother-in-law.
It was only four years ago, when our third child was born and we moved to Vermont, that we declared ourselves officially "Home For The Holidays." Henceforth, we would celebrate Christmas in our home rather than alternating between grandparents; extended family was welcome to come to us.
Four years isn't a long time to develop traditions, especially with three young children and a fourth baby in the mix; we're mostly just trying to stay afloat through the holidays.
We have traditions, of course, but it's mostly the standard stuff: special foods, family meals, decking the house, picking out and putting up the tree. Over the last five years, we've started observing Advent more seriously, lighting candles and reading an Advent reflection each night before Christmas. We've even extended our festivities twelve days beyond Christmas to Epiphany, which we celebrate with the traditional Kings' Cake.
It's all lovely, but none of our traditions seemed to have anything new to offer.
Then, as I was staring at the wall, I realized that I was looking at the one innovative tradition I do have: our card chain.
In the almost two decades (gulp!) since our undergraduate days, my husband and I have, between the two of us, attended four graduate schools, held eight jobs, lived in four states, and inhabited eleven homes. That seems crazy, but in this day and age it's probably not all that unusual. What it means, however, is that we no longer live near the vast majority of people who have been important to us at various points in our lives. In most cases, the only communication we have with these people is through the internet, which is nice but intangible.
At Christmastime, our mailbox fills with envelopes from Connecticut, New York, Virginia, California, Kansas, Ohio, Indiana, Colorado, North Carolina, Florida, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts. And in each envelope: a little card with a note, perhaps a picture, from those people whom we now love from afar.
There was a time when I felt ambivalent about Christmas cards. They seemed like less environmentally-friendly versions of Facebook: tools for bragging about your life by presenting only the perfect picture, the happy highlights. And collecting them seemed bragg-y, too: Look how many friends I have!
A few years back, I concluded that I could look at Christmas cards as bragging tools, or as relationship tools. When I chose the latter, it changed everything; as the cards arrived, I'd tape them where we could see them from our dining room table, so that we — the children and adults in our family — could see the faces and remember the people we rarely saw in person. Sometimes, we'd choose a card and pray for the family or friends who'd sent it. Or we'd tell stories about the time so-and-so did such-and-such.
Pictures — actual pictures that you can hold in your hands — are valuable these days. I hardly ever bother to print out the digital pictures of my own children, let alone other friends and family.
The thing that felt wrong was tossing all those cards in the recycling bin every January. It was as if I'd betrayed all those beloved faces staring up at me from underneath the discarded paper towel rolls and cracker boxes.
So here (finally!) is our tradition: We don't throw the Christmas cards away. I still tape them up as they arrive in December, but when the last card has come and the holidays have gone, I keep them. I take them down. I cut out the picture from each card and remove any holiday messages — after all, these have to remain relevant all year. Then, I punch a hole in the top of each picture and string them all on a long piece of yarn. Now, I've made a "card chain," which drapes perfectly around our dining room doorway, where we see it at every meal.
The chain stays up all year, until the new crop of cards begins to fill our mailbox. It serves as a decoration, as a reminder, as a prayer guide. It's a relationship tool: a holiday tradition that truly lasts all year.
Christmas morning began presenting itself in "theme" when I was about twelve years old. My parents were never ones to be lacking in the "creativity" department. The morning would be broken into three parts.
1) Sub 6 o'clock- 7am: The morning theme "reveal" and stockings.
2) 7- 7:09 (or as long as we could possibly wait to open gifts under the tree): Breakfast, sometimes in accordance with the theme.
3) 8 o'clock: Tree presents, opened one at a time so that each person would experience the joy of "giving" as well as "receiving", watching family members open gifts that us kids had hardly kept secret out of pure excitement.
Not sure how they decided on this Christmas theme tradition, but it became the grand question over the year . . . what would next year's theme be?
"Mission Impossible" . . . All of the kids were given cassette players (yes, it was the '90s) with recorded scavenger hunt clues leading us around the house where we had to yell out random things, dance, or "tell your mom how much you love her" before getting the next clue. We all ended up in the kitchen where our new DVD player and movies were hiding in the oven.
"Survivor" . . . We had to participate in games and competitions to receive the ultimate gift. Twister at 6am? Yes, really.
"Price Is Right" . . . My sister was way too good at this year, as she guessed the price at most of the gift items! There were consolation "gifts" for my brother and I, thankfully.
"Vintage Christmas" . . . We strung popcorn and cranberries to hang on the tree, Dad dressed up as Charles Dickens, we made "figgy pudding" (which we all concluded was gross), opened vintage wine with dinner, and were given second-hand family gifts.
"Montana" . . . We all wore Montana tourist t-shirts and played "Jeopardy" for cash, answering trivia questions ranging from our Montana family tree to Montana family vacations past.
"The Kids Are in Charge" . . . My personal favorite — when the kids informed the parents WELL IN ADVANCE that it was "our turn". We dressed up in our parents' clothing, made breakfast, ran them through a string of games they had "put us through" in years past, and THEN took THEM on a scavenger hunt to all the local places where we had taken Christmas card photos and attempted to re-enact them.
Every December when I was a little girl my mother and I began THE QUEST. The quest for the perfect Nativity set. The nativity scene had a couple of stipulations: our Mary had to look young, our Christ child couldn't be blonde, and there had to be three wise men. I'm not sure how these stipulations came into play, but in my childhood home, the Bethlehem scene was a bigger deal than Santa Claus. Everything had to be perfectly exactly right. A lot of time and care went into creating the scene. This allowed us to focus on the real meaning of Christmas: the Arrival of the Messiah that is Jesus, the Christ child.
You see, In Colombia, the country my mother is from, Colombians re-create the village of Bethlehem throughout the month of December. Until 1991 Colombia was an officially Catholic country and Christmas in Colombia was clearly a religious holiday. Santa Claus, although heard of, was not as wildly celebrated there back then as it is there now. Even to this day contests are held on who has the best manger scene. People decorate it according to their knowledge of Bethlehem, or they adapt the scene to their location. One can find Bethlehem scenes in very tropical or mountain set ups, as well as on pastures or lakes, the more creative the better!
And even though I was raised as a Protestant in the United States, my mother kept this tradition of creating a Bethlehem scene alive. For the first two weeks of December we would scour all of the stores in Philadelphia in search of creatures to add to our scene. Then, about nine days before Christmas, my mother would place the Nativity scene in a central location in our home. The nativity scene included Mary, Joseph, shepherds, angels, villagers, cows, donkeys, sheep, and on December 24th we add the Christ child. The scene stayed put until January 6th, which is Three Kings Day, on this day we would add the wise men and they would remain on the mantle until February. Seems simple enough right?
Now I have been living in my own place for four years now, but I've kept the tradition alive by creating a Bethlehem scene. Each year I make the town a little different and I host a Bethlehem Party or Fiesta del Pesebre to set up my Bethlehem scene. A Bethlehem Party is a bit like a tree-trimming party, however instead of bringing ornaments or buying a tree to decorate, guests are asked to bring a token or figurine that they can place in the Bethlehem scene that represents themselves on their faith journey.
Snacks to eat while creating the Pesebre (this year we will have empanadas, arepas, bunuelos, hot chocolate).
Village materials (moss, twigs, or colored construction paper, origami paper, play dough or anything that can be used to create a village scene).
A tambourine, bell, or drum to play some live Christmas carols.
Something to add to the nativity (Mary, Joseph, a shepherd, wise men, superhero, animal, stars, angels, dolls that could be villagers (like Spiderman, Cinderella). The call for creativity is loud here as size or shape does not matter so long as the item doesn't promote war (Christmas is a time of celebrating the Prince of Peace) and doesn't contradict the message of Messiah.
Create the terrain first, then place the manger scene at the highest point, or in the center. This reminds us that we should have Christ in the center of our lives, and lift His name high so all can see.
Add the villagers. Don't worry if they aren't dressed in accurate period attire, or appear to be out of place in Bethlehem. Remember that many will seem out of place in heaven, but He has granted salvation for all who believe in His name.
Add the shepherds, animals, and angels. Space them out in the beginning of the month and as December 24th draws closer, bring them closer to the Christ child. Remember Christ draws all to Himself, from the poorest to the wealthiest, from the most profane to the holiest.
Add Mary and Joseph, and as the days pass, move them closer to the manger. Remember that God has created us for a purpose, each each play a part in the story.
Finally, on December 24th, add Jesus, the Christ child. Tell the little ones how every good gift comes from above, and how Christmas is a time to celebrate the greatest gift of all: Jesus.
A Christmas Movie: We get a different one every year so that we can add to our Christmas movie collection. Last year, we did A Muppets Christmas Carol.
New Pajamas: All the kids get a new set of pajamas, and it's fun to keep them in the Christmas theme so that when they wake up the next morning and open presents, it makes for really cute pictures. I usually order these online on Cyber Monday so I get a good deal.
Yummy Snacks: We don't do a lot of sugar or junk food at our house, but for Christmas we make an exception! In our box, we always include kettle corn, candy canes, and another festive treat of some sort to snack on while we cuddle up and watch our movie.
Hot Chocolate: This tradition is like the holy sacraments at our house. Hot chocolate with little marshmallows is a must!
The Night Before Christmas Book: We read the same one every year. I pack it away with our Christmas stuff and then wrap it up in the Christmas box. After we've watched our movie and filled our bellies with treats, we set out cookies and milk for Santa and throw blankets and pillows down in front of the tree to read "the book".
Finding new traditions as we leave the families we grew up with and begin building our own is something that has comforted me being away from family during some holidays. Even better are the traditions you had growing up that you can pass down to your own children. This has been a great one for our family and I hope it may work for some others as well!
Christmastime, for my family, has always been filled with delightful traditions. My parents were very intentional about it. Almost the entire month of December my sisters and I had something to look forward to that added to the wonder of it all.
Of course traditions changed over time depending on circumstances, but the one that never changed was that we'd all decorate our tree together. Every single year. Something about this one thing was so joyful that we sacrificed it for absolutely nothing.
Dad would start with draping the lights while Mom collected some freshly made Christmas cookies on one of her pretty Christmas plates. My middle sister, Leah, would get the music going, and I made hot chocolate (once I was old enough and had discovered my undying love for all things chocolate). We'd all open up the tins Mom stored the decorations in, turn up Amy Grant's Home for Christmas album in surround sound, and hang ornaments to "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree", dancing and singing at the top of our lungs. (We have many a home video to prove it.) Sister drama was always put on hold that night. Nothing could keep us from having fun with Leah donning a giant Rudolph red nose and my youngest sister, Lana, re-enacting an ice skating routine to "Breath of Heaven".
As my sisters and I became adults, moved out, got married, etc., many of our years-long traditions were no longer possible, but we were still unwilling to give up the tree decorating. The only problem was, we had more than one tree to decorate! Brainstorming in the ornament aisles at Hobby Lobby, Leah and I founded a new favorite tradition: the progressive tree decorating night.
There are three houses between us (locally), so we kick off the evening at one house where we have some sort of appetizer and decorate the tree. Then we all migrate to the next house, where we have dinner (usually soup–something that can be prepared ahead and is quick to eat and not super expensive) and decorate the tree. Lastly, we end at the final home for cookies and hot chocolate, and–you guessed it!–decorate the tree. All with Amy Grant playing in the background, mind you.
For a couple of years we even threw in an extra step where we each brought a new ornament to hang on each tree. The family hosting would open their new ornaments and those would be the first to go on the tree. Not always conducive to budgets and time, but so fun (particularly for those of us who claim the love language of gifts) if you can do it.
Now, does this get complicated when you start throwing toddlers and infants with their bedtimes and endless needs into the mix? Yes. So it doesn't always work exactly like this, which is totally fine. But if you can make it work despite all that, it's a total blast. I highly recommend it!
Give it a try and let me know what you think! Is there anything you'd do differently?


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Chasing Jose, By Pat Jordan
PAT JORDAN
Filed to:Searching For Canseco
Pat Jordan is the author of 13 books, including "A False Spring," hailed by Time as "one of the best and truest books about baseball, and about coming to maturity in America." A prolific freelance journalist for 40 years, Jordan was recently dubbed "a national treasure" by Booklist in a starred review of a collection of his finest work, "The Best Sports Writing of Pat Jordan," (Persea Books), which includes definitive profiles of O.J. Simpson, Roger Clemens and Sylvester Stallone, along with Jordan's most controversial stories, on Steve and Cyndi Garvey and Hall of Fame pitcher, Steve Carlton. "The Best Sports Writing of Pat Jordan" will be released on April 14. He writes today for Deadspin about his repeated attempts to interview Jose Canseco for the last three months.
A False Spring
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I have been pursuing Jose, like the Holy Grail, for three months now, trying to nail him down for a magazine profile he'd agreed to do in January, partly because, as his lawyer/agent had told me, "Jose's on the balls on his ass," and partly because Jose was trying to interest a publisher in his second steroids-tell-all book, which existed only as a two page proposal of typos that had yet to interest any publisher. This second book would be titled "Vindicated," and it would "encompass approximately 300 pages and will require six months to complete."
My pursuit of Jose began in January when I called him in California. His girlfriend, Heidi, answered the phone. I told her that I was writing a magazine story about Jose writing a book. "And a movie," she said. "Jose is writing a book and a movie about himself." I said, "You mean a screenplay?" She paused a beat, then said, "No, a movie." I said, "Of course."
I tried to picture Jose writing his book and his movie. Hunched over, his broad shoulders casting a shadow across his desk like a raptor's wings, his brow furrowed in concentration, his massively muscled body tensed in anticipation of that torrent of words about to flow out of him like urine for one of the many steroid tests he'd been forced to take during his baseball career. I wondered, just how does Jose write? Like Shakespeare, with a quill pen on parchment? Like Dickens, wearing a green eye shade while seated at a clerk's desk? Like Hemingway, standing at a lectern in Finca Vigia, with a stubby pencil and unlined paper? Like Thomas Wolfe, in his Victorian house in Ashville, pounding away on a tall, black, manual Underwood? Or maybe the words flow out of Jose in such a torrent, 10,000 an hour, that he can relieve himself adequately of his thoughts only by tap-tap-tapping on a lightning fast computer, like Stephen King?
Anyway, as Heidi said, Jose is writing a book, and a movie, about his life, which he will star in, as himself. Jose is also going to star in a Kung Fu martial arts movie. That's what Rob told me. "Jose is fielding offers," said Rob. Rob is Jose's lawyer and agent. He's a Cherokee Indian from North Carolina. In the four years that Rob has been Jose's agent, Jose has racked up about a half-a-million dollars in legal fees. Rob hasn't been paid anything yet, although he said that Jose did give him his five World Series rings, worth about $50,000, as a down payment.
Heidi, Rob told me, is Jose's girlfriend/publicist. She's a "cute, little, junior college graduate, who lives with Jose," said Rob. "She likes to let Jose think she's working hard for him when really all she is doing is fucking things up for him." Rob said Heidi lives with Jose without paying anything, which may be literally true, but not figuratively. The price women pay for living with Jose is actually quite high. All those boring days and nights during which Jose rarely speaks, except to say, "Where's the Iguana?" because of Jose's fervent belief that when "women talk only bad things can happen." All those needles and vials of performance enhancing drugs around the house which his woman of the moment must learn to differentiate, winstrol from deca-durabolin from HGH, and then draw the proper amount of fluid into each syringe and inject that needle and its fluid into Jose's buttocks. All those variations of his moods from steroid-fueled anger to steroid-withdrawal depression. All those startling changes in his genitalia, his penis swelling with steroid use at the same time his testicles are shrinking from steroid use. All those strange women's messages on Jose's cell phone. All those trips to the gynecologist to cure the STDs Jose brought back with him from one of his road trips. And, finally, most depressing of all, all those perfunctory sex acts with Jose, doggy style in front of a mirror so Jose can watch himself perform, his chest muscles and biceps twitching as he works. Which is why Jose's first two wives, Miss Miami, and Miss Fitness America, divorced him.
After a little prodding, Rob did admit to me that as of the moment no actual offers for that Kung Fu movie have come Jose's way, which, considering his fielding prowess (he once camped under a fly ball which hit him in the head and bounced into the bleachers for a home run), might be a good thing. Still, Jose spends his days at his house in Sherman Oaks, California, off the Ventura Freeway near the San Fernando Valley, home of the porn industry, waiting for producers to call to inform him that the time is ripe, America is now hungry for a Kung Fu movie starring a steroid-inflated, Cuban, ex-baseball player in his forties. In anticipation of that call, Jose showed off his martial arts moves to the man who choreographed "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." The man watched Jose's 250-pound body spin and kick and leap into the air for a few minutes and then he told Jose that his moves "were stiff, not very fluid, and you don't kick very well." Jose told Rob, "That guy doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about."
Jose always knows best. He's the master of everything he undertakes and he can point as proof to his baseball success, 462 home runs in 17 years, based on a simple philosophy, "see ball, hit ball." Jose has carried over this philosophy into everything in his life. "See girl, fuck girl." "See Ferrari, buy Ferrari." "See money, take money." Admittedly, Jose's philosophy of life has brought him some success with girls and fancy cars, but it has not, of late, brought him much success with money. Rob said, "Right now, Jose has zero money." In fact, Rob has a lien on one of Jose's two houses, and "Whenever Jose pisses me off, I threaten to foreclose."
Rob has yet to foreclose because he has the stoic patience of his ancestors who made that terrible trek from North Carolina to Oklahoma, which was called "The Trail of Tears." But that doesn't mean that Jose hasn't "pissed off" Rob a lot over the last four years that he has been Jose's lawyer. When Rob was defending Jose and his twin brother Ozzie a few years ago in a civil suit brought against the two brothers by a man they had beat up in a Miami bar, he told Jose to keep a low profile and not buy anything because Rob planned on pointing out to the court that Jose was broke. A week before the trail began, Jose leased a $300,000 Rolls Royce and bought a $2.6 million house, in addition to the $1.7 million house he already owned in Encino. "I had to admit in court that all those things Jose owned," said Rob. The jury returned a verdict that required Jose to pay the man he and Ozzie beat up 90 percent of $1.5 million. Ozzie, who is also broke, had to pay the other ten percent. "Jose still hasn't paid a cent," said Rob.
After the trial, Jose put his $2.6 million house in South Florida up for sale. He had several offers on it, but decided to take the offer of over $2 million in Mexican telephone stock, which he was prohibited from selling for two years, at which time, the buyer guaranteed him, the stock would be worth $5 million. Two years later, Jose sold the stock for $15,000.
Over the last few years, Rob has negotiated prospective deals for Jose worth almost $2 million. Rob got Taco Bell to ante up $25,000, plus residuals, for Jose to star in a TV commercial in which Jose would hold up a huge burrito and say, "This thing's gotta be on something." Jose demanded $50,000 instead and Taco Bell walked. Rob also got Jose an offer of $100,000 from GoldenPalace.com, which would require Jose simply to wear that company's t-shirt and cap whenever he was on TV. Jose demanded $200,000 and Golden Palace walked. Then, Rob got Jose an offer of $75,000 from a reality TV show that wanted to film Jose in a wheelchair for thirty days. Jose demanded more, and the TV show vanished. Finally, Rob got Jose an offer of $500,000 for a movie based on his life, but Jose demanded $1.5 million and the offer vanished.
"I told him, 'You're not Bill Clinton, Jose!'" said Rob. Jose, it seems, learned about money from the many strippers he has dated. Most strippers don't put their faith much in the promise of future riches. Their only reality is the cash in their hands. "I explained to Jose," said Rob, "that if he did all these things he'd get other things out of them. But Jose doesn't see it that way. He wants it all right now. I just can't get him to do what's best for him." One of the things Rob thought would be best for Jose was to let me write a profile of him for a national magazine which would help him sell his book, and the movie about his life, neither of which had been sold yet. (Even the ever-optimistic Rob didn't hold out much hope for the Kung Fu movie.) When I agreed to write the profile, and found a magazine that would publish it, Rob told me to call Heidi to work out the details of my trip to Sherman Oaks. "I cleared it with Jose," said Rob. So I called Heidi.
"What interview?" Heidi said. I told her. She said, "Jose's too busy now, he's writing a book, and a movie, about his life." I called Rob. He called Heidi. Then he called me to tell me that he'd "straightened Heidi out." So I called Heidi. She said, "Will it be a cover story?" No. "Then Jose's not interested. He's too busy writing a book, and a movie, about his life." I called Rob. I told him Heidi was not quite "straightened out." He called her. Then I called her. She said, "Will you pay Jose?" No. She said, "Then Jose's not interested. He's too busy writing his..." I said, "I know," and hung up.
During the marathon of my negotiations with Heidi, the Mitchell Report was published. Jose's name figured in the report based on the allegations he had made about steroid use he'd instigated with some of his teammates in his first book, "Juiced." In fact, Jose tried to crash the press conference when Mitchell announced the findings of his report. He was intercepted by security and escorted from the hearings because he didn't have press credentials. But now that Jose was experiencing the last five minutes of his fame before he retired to the anonymity of his future job as an official greeter at a San Fernando Valley Gentleman's Club, a book publisher surfaced like the Loch Ness Monster, and offered to publish Jose's as-yet-written second book, "Vindicated," if it included new revelations about baseball's steroid users. There were coy hints from Jose that he would mention such names as Roger Clemens and Alex Rodriguez. The publisher agreed to shell out $250,000 for such a tome if it could be written in ten days so it could be published in April, on baseball's opening day. Rob called and asked me if I wanted to write that 70,000 word tome in ten days. I said, "You said it would take six months in the proposal." Rob said, "Ten days." I said, "Rob, I can't write 2,000 words in ten days. I'm not a fucking typist!" Besides, I added, I was still committed to the magazine profile. Rob said, "Call Heidi." I called Heidi. (By now my wife had begun to be suspicious about my whispered telephone conversations with this mysterious Heidi. "Who is this broad?" she said. I shrugged.) Heidi answered the phone. She said, "Jose can't do the interview now because his book publisher doesn't want him to reveal anything that will be in his book." Click. Buzz.
Apparently, there wasn't as much new dirt in Jose's second book as he had promised. Not a day after the press reported that he had signed a contract to write a second book, Jose's ghost writer, a former Sports Illustrated writer, informed the press that he was withdrawing from the project because, after he had reviewed Jose's material, he'd decided that Jose couldn't produce the goods on A Rod's supposed drug use. Jose's publisher then dropped his book and Rob scurried around to do damage control. He claimed that Jose had cancelled the deal with his publisher because he had got a better offer from another publisher that no one in Jose's camp would identify. Then, a third ghost writer (if you can count me as the first) was impressed into Jose's service on the strength of his impeccable writing credentials—a stint at the National Inquirer, and the authorship of O.J. Simpson's sterling effort, "If I Did It," in which Simpson described how he would have killed his wife, Nicole, and Ron Goldman, if he had actually killed them, which he hadn't. "Vindication" was begun, and just as quickly finished, 70,000 words in ten days (I am in awe!), and will be published April 1 by that phantom book publisher, which, it would later be revealed, was to be Simon and Schuster.
Jose was paid $100,000 for "Juiced," which sold about 200,000 copies. He has received about $850,000 in royalties so far, but he claims he is owed $1.4 million. The book was a best-seller despite the fact that many people questioned the veracity of Jose's claim about rampant steroid use in baseball for a number of reasons, not the least of which was Jose's unsavory reputation as a wife-beater (Miss Fitness America), a baseball slacker (his teammates accused him of not hustling), a gun-toting, sports car-speeding, steroid-crazed solipsist who cared nothing about anyone else on earth, except himself. He had a reputation for not showing up at benefits for children, and card shows as he'd promised. In fact, Rob said that one of the reasons why he had so much difficulty selling Jose's second book was because "he never showed up for interviews" for his first book. "I had to go get him out of bed for interviews." Jose even managed to turn his penchant for refusing to get out of bed into a money-making scheme when he was sentenced to house arrest after a steroid-use conviction. He simply offered his fans a chance to spend the day with him, hanging out at his house in South Florida, for $2,500, while Jose slept.
It is no wonder then, that Jose's steroid revelations were met with a jaundiced eye, despite the fact that those revelations were essentially proven true. Still, the L.A. Times was not impressed, calling "Juiced," "The worst book in three centuries," which may, or may not, have been an exaggeration, but which prompted me to buy a copy of "Juiced" and, with much trepidation, dip my toes into its fetid waters.
In "Juiced," Jose dismisses his baseball achievements and the $45 million he made, and writes, instead, about those subjects that warmed his heart: fast cars and loose women. He lists all the fancy cars he owned and raced dangerously on public roads, and all the many women he bedded (baseball players are constitutionally unable to be faithful to wives and girlfriends, he claimed), which, curiously, did not seem to give him much pleasure. These women he referred to, decorously, as "road beef" and "slump-busters," if they were outrageously homely, and "imports," if they were classy enough like Miss Fitness America, to import to the city where he was employed. Jose even talked about his relationship with Madonna, with whom he once had a flirtation that did not go much beyond the teenaged make-out stage because he found her so unattractive. (Jose is ever the gentleman.)
Jose's most explosive revelation in the book concerned his teammate with the Oakland A's, Mark McGwire. They were called "the Bash Brothers" because of all the home runs they hit for the A's in the eighties. Jose claimed that he convinced Mark to take steroids after his rookie year, and that often in the clubhouse he and McGwire would retire to a stall in the bathroom where they would each drop their drawers, bend over, while the other injected him with steroids. In fact, Jose and Mark seemed to spend more time in clubhouse bathrooms, bent over, exposing their buttocks, than Congressman Larry Craig did in the Minneapolis Airport restroom.
After I finished "Juiced," and thoroughly washed my hands, I learned from Rob that Jose's second wife, Miss Fitness America, had written her own book about her life with Jose, after they were divorced. It was called, "Juicy," and, curiously, it was published by the same publisher that had published "Juiced," Regan Books. "Jose negotiated the deal for his ex-wife's book with Judith Regan," said Rob, "so he could pay for the child support he owed her for their daughter." After Jose got his ex-wife her book contract, he told her, "Go ahead, knock yourself out." And she did.
Although "Juicy" is every bit as depressing as "Juiced," it does have one literary quality "Juiced" never aspired to. "Juicy" is a very funny book, although I'm not so sure that Miss Fitness America, a breast-implanted young woman named Jessica, as in Rabbit, intended it to be.
In "Juicy," Jessica describes herself as a failed Hooter's waitress whose claim to fame, before she became Jose's "road beef," was that she almost gave Lars Ulrich of the band Metallica a blow job, to which news her sister replied, "so cool!" Jessica wrote that she always wanted to be a dancer (she did not specify, with pole or without) but knew that dream was beyond her because she was too lazy. So she re-channeled her ambition toward being a veterinarian, but abandoned that dream before she even embarked on it because she had Attention Deficit Disorder. (Unlike Jose, at least Jessica was self-aware.) Then she met Jose. It was a "meet cute" at Hooters, and a match made in the heavens of such matches.
At first, Jessica loved being Jose's "road beef" and then his "import," because he spent a lot of time buying her clothes she couldn't afford on her Hooters salary. Then they set up housekeeping at Jose's Coral Gables mansion with its rock waterfall pool and its cougars and giant Iguanas roaming the grounds and, sadly, Jessica discovering that living her life with Jose was "a total fucking bore." Her daily calendar of their activities reads something like this: sleep, wake, fuck, eat, lay by the pool, find Iguana, eat, fuck, shop, watch TV, fuck, sleep (for Jose, anyway), and masturbate, all, of course, without Jose ever speaking. This last activity on Jessica's daily to-do list, she was forced to resort to because Jose's sexual performance left a lot to be desired, at least, by Jessica. The way it worked was, Jose had sex with Jessica in front of a mirror until he had an orgasm, then spilled off her and went to sleep. While her big Lug snoozed, Jessica slipped out of bed and repaired to the bathroom where she made love to herself. Jessica claimed she didn't have an orgasm with Jose during their first two years of sex. She wrote, "If he noticed, he didn't care." So, she began faking orgasms, "but I can't honestly say he noticed that either."
When I finished reading "Juicy," I had only one thought: How do such people, so perfectly right for each other, meet? Craig's List? Divine Intervention? A database reeking of fire and brimstone? It astounded me that Jessica and Jose ever even got divorced. Probably, they did, because, as Jessica wrote, when Jose was no longer rich and famous after he left baseball she found him less interesting, damning herself in the process by admitting that at one time she had actually found such a man interesting.
Today, Jose is not only less interesting, but also broke. Which is why his second tome, "Vindicated," is so important to him. It is his last chance in life to forestall, for a few more years anyway, that looming downward spiral of his life when he will be forced to confront his future as an official greeter at that San Fernando Valley Strip Club. Rob, ever Jose's Sancho Panza, and ever-conflicted, said, "I want to put Jose on a path to enjoy the fruits of his athletic labors. He's genuinely a nice guy. I desperately want to help him. Still, he is my most frustrating client." Most frustrating, and, most frustrated, for now, after years of steroid abuse, Jose has been confronted with one more unpleasant fact of his life (all those bills that eventually come due). Jose's own testosterone level is now so low that, in order to maintain erections, he must now take testosterone, irony of all ironies, legally, under a doctor's supervision. I wonder if he'll write about that in "Vindicated."
Rob said that like all men Jose has changed over the years, learning, I presumed, that an unexamined life is not worth living. Rob said, "Yeah, Jose has evolved. But it hasn't been a positive evolution. He's still as opportunistic and self-absorbed as ever. Only now, he's even more desperate." So desperate, in fact, that before Jose sold his second book to Simon and Schuster, he, or one of his emissaries, tried to extort money from Detroit Tigers outfielder, Magglio Ordonez, by promising not to mention in "Vindicated" that Ordonez was a steroid abuser, if Ordonez invested $5 million in one of Jose's movies (Jose didn't specify which movie, his autobiography or his Kung Fu extravaganza.)
"Jose is one step from homeless," Rob told me in early March. It seems that Simon and Schuster is holding up Jose's book advance until he performs his required book tour, S&S having learned a lesson from the publisher of Jose's previous book, which set up interviews and book signings that Jose blew off.
In mid-March, Rob called to tell me that my interview with Jose was back on.
I said, "Why?" The interview couldn't be published now until early June, two months after "Vindicated" would be published. Rob said, yes, but that June story would give the book a secondary bounce after the initial flurry of publicity died down. Rob was worried that after the names of the steroid abusers were culled from "Vindicated," the book would die a quick death in maybe two weeks. That's where I came in.
"Call Jose," Rob said. "He's expecting your call." So, I called Jose. Mercifully, he answered the phone, and not the inscrutable Heidi. In a surprisingly mute voice, Jose agreed to an interview at his house in Sherman Oaks on the following Saturday. Before I left for California I insisted Rob give me Jose's address in case Jose failed to meet me at my hotel, as he'd agreed to. Rob also gave me his original two-page proposal for "Vindicated." In it, I was shocked to learn, there was no mention of the new names of drug abusers Jose would mention in "Vindicated," except as an afterthought in the last line of the proposal. It seems that the Mitchell Report and its attendant publicity had jogged Jose's memory of the many PED abusers he'd left out of "Juiced."
When I got to my hotel in Sherman Oaks on Saturday afternoon, I called Jose. Heidi answered the phone. "What interview?" she said. "Jose is too busy writing..." I called Rob. He called Jose, then he called me back. "He's busy tonight, but he'll pick you up in front of your hotel at noon Sunday and take you to his house."
I woke at 7 a.m. on Sunday and drove out to Jose's house on my own, just to prepare myself for the eventuality that Jose would not show up at my hotel. And if he didn't, what would I do? Break down his front door? Jesus, Jose was making me as crazed as he was.
Anyway, Jose was renting a nondescript house in a neighborhood of faux, vaguely Mediterranean houses that looked out over a dry water viaduct, littered with detritus, and beyond that the Ventura Freeway. There was a "For Sale" sign on the front lawn, and a black BMW in the driveway. Through the house's many windows I could see nothing on the walls. No prints or photographs or mirrors. It was the kind of rented house that people use as a way station, before they move on to a bigger house, or to living in their car underneath the Ventura Freeway. I went back to the hotel and waited for Jose to pick me up at noon.
At 10 a.m., L.A. time, Rob called to tell me the interview was off. Jose had changed his mind yet again. I was apoplectic. Rob tried to calm me down with these reassuring words, "Pat," he said, "why are you so upset? You and I both know Jose's a piece of shit."
Copyright Pat Jordan, 2008.

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The independent polls show Judge Roy Moore with a strong, and holding, 7-point lead over appointed establishment Republican Senator Luther Strange in Alabama's upcoming Republican primary runoff.
The depth of the panic sparked by the idea of a Roy Moore victory has driven Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his lowlife political operatives to new levels of gutter politics by claiming the Judge Moore opposes the border wall when the opposite is true.
The Senate Leadership Fund (SLF), a super PAC backed by McConnell, is supporting Judge Roy Moore's opponent Luther Strange in the GOP runoff election set to take place next Tuesday.
But Politifact is not the only organization to callout McConnell and his bagmen at the Senate Leadership Fund for using lies and deception to smear Judge Moore.
After the Senate Leadership Fund was caught splicing together videos from two separate events in an out of context manner—in other words deceptively editing videos—to make it appear as though Judge Moore does not support President Donald Trump's planned border wall our friend Becky Gerritson, the president of the Wetumpka Tea Party in Wetumpka, Alabama, called out McConnell and Luther Strange for the ad.
We detest being lied to by politicians. That's part of the reason they have such horrendous approval ratings. The SLF's latest attack ad tries to make Alabama voters believe that Judge Roy Moore is against border security and President Trump's border wall. What a joke!
I am the founder and President of the Wetumpka TEA Party, the largest and most active TEA Party in the state of Alabama. Over 300 people attended our July 31st Senate Candidate Forum. Never once did Judge Roy Moore state directly or even allude to not wanting to secure our borders. In their attack ad they use one line that Moore said at our event, "I don't think it would take a wall." However, it was taken out of context. In his complete answer he states two times that he supports a border wall and he also expounds on other ways to prevent illegal aliens from entering our country unlawfully. It's obvious that neither the SLF nor Sen. Strange care about the truth. Luther is losing in the polls so the DC Swamp has nothing left to do but create lies and fear in order to try to turn voters to their side. Well, guess what Mitch and Luther…we're not buying it!
You'd think after being caught red-handed the Senate Leadership Fund would pull the ads or at least Strange would disavow them, at least perfunctorily, but McConnell is so desperate that's not what's happening.
Instead, reports Breitbart's Matthew Boyle, the group has tripled down with two more false attack ads this week that repeat the same lies as the last ones—and Strange and his campaign continue to refuse to stand up for President Trump and his agenda and the truth.
We urge all our friends and CHQ readers in Alabama to vote for Roy Moore in the September 26 runoff election. If you don't live in Alabama you can still "send them a message" by contributing to Judge Roy Moore's campaign through this link.
Submitted by email_registrat... on Fri, 09/22/2017 - 11:46.
McConnell should have backed POTUS's agenda as the people asked! Not the way he wants! McConnell thinks he knows best, Maybe the swamps best, But the people want something different and McConnell better start listening! He and Paul Ryan have been never Trumper's and should either back him or resign and let someone who can do the peoples bidding do the job he is suppose to do!
Submitted by email_registrat... on Fri, 09/22/2017 - 03:25.
This guy is a religious extremist who doesn't understand the need for the founding fathers' determination that there should - MUST - be separation of church and state. As such, he has no business being a politician.
Submitted by msmagnolia on Thu, 09/21/2017 - 13:55.
It bothers me that Trump endorsed Strange. I don't care how the politics is played. Either Trump is his own man and truly wants to drain the swamp or he doesn't. I'm not even from Alabama, but I have followed Judge Roy Moore the last few years through his difficulties and it's obvious the man is one of his word and honor. I pray for the entire country he wins on September 26th. God bless Alabama, Judge Moore and the U.S.A.


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Per storia del lesbismo si intende la storia dell'identità lesbica e del lesbismo nel corso dei secoli.

Nella storia originale
Nonostante la scarsità di documentazione disponibile, le prime tracce scritte si possono far risalire al Codice di Hammurabi (1792 a.C. circa), che cita la figura della salzikrum, la donna-uomo, che poteva contrarre matrimonio con altre donne.

La storica Judy Grahn ha messo in luce l'omosessualità presente negli inni ad Inanna scritti da Enkheduanna (2300 a.C. circa).

Antica Grecia
Tra il VII e il VI secolo a.C. la poetessa greca Saffo, nativa dell'isola di Lesbo, celebrò il suo amore per le donne; da lei hanno avuto origine i termini lesbico e saffico.

Ancora nel VI secolo a.C. Plutarco ricorda che a Sparta alcune donne trovavano l'amore tra le braccia di altre donne. Più tardi, nel 160 a.C. Luciano di Samosata presenta, senza alcuna simpatia, le "donne mascoline". Le hetairistriai, di cui parla Platone nel Simposio, diventano le tribadi (dal greco trìbein τρίβειν, "sfregare"). Contemporaneamente (150 a.C.), nella cultura ebraica Rabbi Eleazar sancisce l'oscenità dei rapporti tra donne.

Impero romano e cristianesimo primitivo
Nel tardo mondo romano le tribadi diventano "fricatrix" (dal latino fricare, sfregare).

Famosa, nel libro IX delle Metamorfosi di Publio Ovidio Nasone la storia di Ifide, fanciulla allevata come fosse un ragazzo, che si innamora della bella Iante. Quando la madre rimane incinta, il marito dichiara che farà uccidere il bambino se si tratta di una femmina; la donna tenta allora di nascondere il suo sesso dandole un nome che è di genere ambiguo: Ifi. Quando il "figlio" compie tredici anni, il padre sceglie una fanciulla dai capelli d'oro di nome Ianthe come sposa del "ragazzo". L'amore delle due giovinette viene descritto con simpatia:  Tuttavia, come il matrimonio si avvicina sempre di più, Ifi indietreggia, chiamando il suo desiderio "mostruoso e inaudito": la dea Iside ascolta i gemiti disperati della ragazza, ne prova pena e benevolmente la trasforma in un maschio.

Riferimenti all'amore tra donne sono sparsi anche nell'opera del favolista latino Fedro, che ha tentato di spiegare il lesbismo attraverso un mito da lui stesso inventato: Prometeo, tornando a casa ubriaco da una festa, aveva erroneamente attribuito un genere maschile ad alcuni corpi femminili: "cosicché ora godono di un piacere perverso".

È abbastanza chiaro che durante l'antichità, soprattutto nell'impero romano la pederastia e il lesbismo non sono stati tenuti in egual buona luce: Seneca il vecchio parla di un marito che ha ucciso la moglie sorpresa a letto con un'amante-donna, lasciando implicitamente a intendere che il "crimine" commesso dall'adultera era peggiore di quello avvenuto tra un maschio e una femmina.

Un altro esempio della visione del mondo riguardante il ruolo di genere sessuale nei tempi antichi ci viene documentato da Luciano di Samosata nel suo "Dialogo delle cortigiane": qui Megilla rinomina sé stessa Megillo, poi sposa una certa Demonassa di Corinto. Viene sottolineato che Megillo proviene da Lesbo. La sua amica Lena commenta: "Dicono che ci sono donne così a Lesbo, con facce come gli uomini, e che rifiutano categoricamente di sposarsi con gli uomini, ma solo con le donne, come se esse stesse fossero uomini". Megillo infine giunge a sedurre la stessa Lena, la qual però sente che l'esperienza è stata troppo disgustosa per poterla descrivere in dettaglio.

In un altro dialogo, sempre attribuito a Luciano, due uomini discutono su qual sia la forma migliore d'amore, quella verso le donne o quella nei confronti dei ragazzi, il tutto partendo sempre da una prospettiva maschile e non tenendo in alcuna considerazione l'eventuale scelta o preferenza della donna, finendo così col relegare il lesbismo a concetto impensabile.

Il poeta latino Marco Valerio Marziale teorizzava che le lesbiche avessero una clitoride ipertrofica, mentre Decimo Giunio Giovenale, celebre per la sua misoginia, lamenta che la castità antica non esista più, e che le donne vadano oramai "cavalcandosi reciprocamente".

In uno degli apocrifi del Nuovo Testamento, l' si descrive la punizione destinata agli omosessuali, maschi e femmine, nel profondo dell'inferno: "uomini e donne venivano scaraventati giù da un'alta rupe, caduti in fondo dovevano subito dopo risalire in cima, e non vi era mai alcun riposo da questo tormento. Questi uomini erano coloro che avevano contaminato i propri corpi comportandosi come fossero donne; le donne che erano con loro erano quelle che giacevano l'una con l'altra come fossero marito e moglie".

Giamblico (245–325) nei Babyloniaca ridicolizza Philaenis, un'atleta descritta mentre fa la lotta nel fango, beve e mangia come un maiale e sodomizza fanciulli con la sua enorme clitoride; nello stesso testo viene anche descritta una principessa egiziana di nome Berenice che ama e sposa un'altra donna: l'autore afferma che un tale amore è "selvaggio e senza legge".

Antica Cina
In Cina vi è stata tradizionalmente una certa tolleranza nei confronti del lesbismo, uno dei motivi principali viene dato dal fatto che le donne forniscono - all'interno della coppia - lo Ying (sostanza energetica necessaria per il fisico futuro figlio), ne deriva quindi che anche la masturbazione femminile secondo questa linea di pensiero si riduce ad un atto del tutto innocuo per il nascituro.

Alcuni storici come ad esempio John Boswell hanno scoperto certi elementi che denotano l'esistenza di rapporti omosessuali femminili, uno di questi è contenuto nelle parole di Ying Shao (140-206): "Quando due donne si relazionano tra loro come fossero marito e moglie, una tal relazione è chiamata "dui shi".

Dal medioevo al XIX secolo
Tuttavia, è con il diffondersi del Cristianesimo, che si arriva a una vera e propria condanna del "vizio" dell'amore tra donne. Gli unici riferimenti medioevali a pratiche lesbiche si rinvengono in riferimento a condanne, eresia, processi per stregoneria, eccetera. Secondo San Tommaso d'Aquino la copula tra donna e donna è un atto contro natura. Nel Concilio di Rouen del 1214 fu proibito alle suore di dividere lo stesso letto, pratica comune all'epoca per ovviare alle carenze del riscaldamento, ma ritenuta evidentemente "pericolosa". Alla fine del XVI secolo Pierre de Bourdeille, abate di Brântome, nel suo libro Les dames galantes traccia un colorito affresco dell'amore "donna con donna", secondo l'autore reso di moda in Francia dalla regina Caterina de' Medici.

La regina di Francia Maria Antonietta d'Asburgo-Lorena venne accusata di omosessualità in numerosi pamphlets pre-rivoluzionari, da prendersi tuttavia col beneficio del dubbio in quanto da inserirsi all'interno di una più ampio e sistematico discredito operato all'epoca dai detrattori della regina. È pur vero però che Pidansat de Mairobert, autore a lei coevo, nello stesso periodo non disdegnava di scrivere e pubblicare il suo lavoro più noto, L'espion anglais dove si narra, peraltro, anche di una storia surreale di lesbismo settario.

Il Pidansat attinse a quanto ebbe modo di vedere in prima persona nella libertina corte francese, dove, seppure di nascosto, non erano infrequenti amplessi tra cortigiane. All'esterno, però, nulla doveva trapelare, poiché l'omosessualità restava una condotta biasimevole, come lo stesso Pidansat ebbe poi modo di constatare a proprie spese. Lady Eleanor Butler (1739-1829) e Sarah Ponsonby (1754-1831), le cosiddette "Signore di Llangollen" (Ladies of Llangollen), divennero famose per essere fuggite a vivere insieme, travestite da uomini. Intrattennero rapporti con letterati dell'epoca, e ottennero un vitalizio reale.

Nel XIX secolo la nascente psicologia e la sessuologia studiarono diffusamente il lesbismo, che venne considerato una perversione patologica, come la pedofilia o il sadomasochismo.
È nell'Ottocento che si diffonde lo stereotipo delle donne mascoline, le "invertite" che, per nascita, non erano capaci di essere donne a tutti gli effetti. Lo stesso Freud, pur non classificando l'omosessualità maschile e femminile come una vera e propria patologia, l'identifica come un comportamento deviante, causato dall'arresto del corretto processo evolutivo della libido. Parent-Duchatelet, medico parigino, indica come causa del tribadismo l'eccessiva libidine e la dimora forzata in carceri.

Il XX secolo

Tra la fine del XIX secolo e gli inizi del XX secolo, tuttavia, con la nascita della cosiddetta "questione omosessuale", e parallelamente alla nascita del movimento delle suffragette, si assiste all'esplosione della cultura lesbica. È il periodo del Bloomsbury Group di Virginia Woolf, di Natalie Clifford-Barney, Gertrude Stein, Tamara de Lempicka, Vita Sackville-West, Radclyffe Hall, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Frida Kahlo, Renée Vivien, Isadora Duncan, Mercedes de Acosta, Eleonora Duse, Colette, Djuna Barnes, Alla Nazimova, Liane de Pougy, Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Romaine Brooks, Sibilla Aleramo e molte altre ancora: quasi tutte artiste, tutte dichiaratamente lesbiche o bisessuali.

Le attrici Greta Garbo e Marlene Dietrich diventeranno autentiche icone lesbiche. Al 1931 risale il primo film apertamente lesbico, Mädchen in Uniform, tratto da un romanzo di Christa Winsloe e diretto da Leontine Sagan. Nel periodo tra le due guerre mondiali, nei cabaret berlinesi diventa famosa la cantante Claire Waldoff. È nella prima metà del secolo che l'identità lesbica si sviluppa, si consolida e diventa fenomeno. Il fascismo e il nazismo, con l'esaltazione del ruolo moglie-madre come funzione naturale della donna, con le limitazioni al lavoro delle donne causano un generale arretramento delle libertà civili delle donne.

In Italia l'omosessualità non è prevista come reato (a differenza di quasi tutti i Paesi europei, compresa l'Inghilterra) e la situazione non cambia neanche con il codice penale Rocco del 1930 voluto da Mussolini, in cui non vi sono norme contro gli omosessuali. In Germania invece il nazismo arriva alla persecuzione ed all'eliminazione fisica di molte lesbiche, imprigionate in campi di concentramento, sotto il simbolo del triangolo nero.

Dopo i fatti di Stonewall, la rivoluzione sessuale e lo sviluppo del femminismo degli anni sessanta e degli anni settanta l'omosessualità femminile diventa protagonista di molti libri e film, ed il "lesbo-chic" diventa uno stile utilizzato da molte campagne pubblicitarie. Il lesbismo si politicizza e si lega al separatismo femminista. Centrale il ruolo di Rita Mae Brown.

Determinanti i contributi teorici di Simone de Beauvoir, e successivamente di Kate Millett e di Monique Wittig, che provocatoriamente arriva ad affermare che "la lesbica non è una donna".

Personalità e figure di spicco

Anne Lister (1791-1840) è considerata essere stata "la prima lesbica dell'era moderna", ciò è dovuto all'annotazione scrupolosa della propria vita intima nel diario che ha continuato a scrivere per decenni.

Pur non avendo raggiunto una completa visibilità, e dovendo in molti casi lottare per la piena affermazione dei diritti civili, le lesbiche a partire dagli anni 1980 diventano sicuramente un soggetto politico e "di costume" con cui fare i conti. Si incrementa la visibilità in numerosi campi: nella musica (Melissa Etheridge, K.D. Lang, Skin, le Indigo Girls, etc.), nello sport (Martina Navrátilová, Amélie Mauresmo, etc.), nella letteratura (Jeannette Winterson, Sarah Waters, etc.), nello spettacolo (Lily Tomlin, Jodie Foster, etc.).

Letteratura
Il primo romanzo esplicito a tematica lesbica in lingua inglese è stato Il pozzo della solitudine (1928) di Radclyffe Hall, che un tribunale britannico trovò subito osceno perché difendeva "pratiche contro natura tra le donne". Il libro è stato vietato in Gran Bretagna per decenni ed ebbe una sorta di censura analoga a quella capitata a L'amante di Lady Chatterley di David Herbert Lawrence (una storia d trasgressione femminile eterosessuale).

Altre opere di rilievo sono:
 Orlando (1928) di Virginia Woolf
 Autobiografia di Alice B. Toklas (1933) di Gertrude Stein
 La foresta nella notte (1936) di Djuna Barnes
 Carol (1952) di Patricia Highsmith
 Spring Fire (1952) di Marijane Meaker, alias Vin Packer.
 Cioccolata a colazione (1957) di Pamela Moore
  The Beebo Brinker Chronicles (1957-62) di Ann Bannon
 Il gruppo (1962) di Mary McCarthy
 L'assassinio di suor George (1964) di Frank Marcus, da cui è stato tratto il film L'assassinio di Sister George
 Cuori nel deserto (1964) di Jane Rule
 Thérèse e Isabelle  (1966) di Violette Leduc
 Diario di Anaïs Nin (1966)
 Patience & Sarah (1971) di Isabel Miller
 La giungla di fruttirubini (1973) di Rita Mae Brown
 Il colore viola (1982) di Alice Walker, da cui è stato tratto l'omonimo film
 Non ci sono solo le arance (1985) di Jeanette Winterson
 Scritto sul corpo (1992) di Jeanette Winterson
 Carezze di velluto (1998) di Sarah Water
 Ladra (2002) di Sarah Waters
 Sugar Rush (2004) di Julie Burchill, da cui è stata tratta l'omonima serie Tv.

Filmografia
 Veronika Minder, Katzenball, Svizzera 2005. Ottant'anni di storia svizzera vista attraverso le vite delle donne lesbiche.
 Susan Muska, Greta Olafsdottir, La vera storia di Tina Brandon, USA, 1997.
 Gabriella Romano, L'altro ieri, GB, 2002. Cinque testimonianze di donne nate prima della "rivoluzione sessuale".
 Gabriella Romano, Pazza d'azzurro, GB, 1997. Storia della relazione quarantennale di Nietta (Antonietta) Aprà con Linda (Flafi) Mazzuccato durante gli anni del fascismo e successivi.
 Greta Schiller, Paris was a woman, USA, 1996.
 Julia Pietrangeli, Odio i saluti. Un ricordo di Piera Zanotti, Italia, 2001. Ricordo della militante femminista e lesbica Piera Zanotti (1934-1999).

Galleria d'immagini

Prima del XX secolo

Prima del XX secolo: L'ossessione lesbica di Toulouse-Lautrec

Il XX secolo

XXI secolo

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Bibliografia
  M.F., Wie ich es sehe, in Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen, 1901. Anche in traduzione italiana: M.F., Come la vedo io (entrambi in formato. pdf).
  Elisabeth Dauthendey, Die urnische Frage und die Frau, in "Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen", 1906. Anche in traduzione italiana: La questione uranista e la donna (entrambi in formato .pdf).
 Una Tribade, Tribadismo. Saffismo. Clitorismo, Il Pensiero, Firenze 1914 (in formato pdf).

 Jole Baldaro Verde, Valentina Manzini, L'omosessualità femminile come "rito d'iniziazione sessuale", da: "Rivista di scienze sessuologiche", vol. 9, n 1-2, 1996.
 Judith Brown, Atti impuri. Vita di una monaca lesbica nell'Italia del Rinascimento, Il Saggiatore, Milano, 1987.
 Alessandra Cenni Gli occhi eroici, Milano, Mursia, 2011
 Rosanna Fiocchetto, L'amante celeste. La distruzione scientifica della lesbica, Il Dito e La Luna, Milano, 2003.
 Margherita Giacobino, Guerriere ermafrodite cortigiane. Percorsi trasgressivi della soggettività femminile in letteratura, Il dito e la luna, Milano, 2005.
 Margherita Giacobino, Orgoglio e privilegio. Viaggio eroico nella letteratura lesbica, Il dito e la luna, Milano, 2004.
 Nerina Milletti, Analoghe sconcezze. Tribadi, saffiste, invertite ed omosessuali: categorie e sistemi sesso/genere nella rivista di antropologia criminale fondata da Cesare Lombroso (1880-1949), "DWF donnawomanfemme", 4 (24), 1994, pp. 50–122.
 Nerina Milletti, Tribadi & socie: la sessualità femminile non conforme nei termini e nelle definizioni, in "Rivista di scienze sessuologiche" vol. 9, n. 12, gen/ago 1996, pp. 19–35.
 Nerina Milletti e Luisa Passerini (a cura di), Fuori della norma. Storie lesbiche nell'Italia della prima metà del Novecento, Torino, Rosenberg & Sellier, 2007.
 Roberta Padovano, Dove sorge l'arcobaleno. L'omosessualità nella storia e nelle religioni del mondo, Il dito e la luna, Milano 2002.
 Gabriella Romano, I sapori della seduzione. Il ricettario dell'amore tra donne nell'Italia degli anni '50, pp. 140, Ombre Corte, Verona, 2006.

 Romano Canosa, Il velo e il cappuccio. Monacazioni forzate e sessualità nei conventi femminili in Italia tra quattrocento e settecento, Sapere 2000, Roma, 1991.
 Guido Ceronetti, La vera storia di Rosa Vercesi e della sua amica Vittoria, Einaudi, Torino, 2000.

Voci correlate

 Atteggiamenti sociali nei confronti dell'omosessualità
 Bisessualità
 Butch (LGBT)
 Cultura lesbica
 Femminismo
 Lesbismo
 LGBT
 Matrimonio bostoniano
 Movimento lesbico
 Politica lesbica
 Rappresentazione erotica del lesbismo
 Storia del femminismo
 Storia LGBT
 Teoria queer

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni
 Storia lesbica. Una raccolta monografia di saggi, anche biografici, sulla storia lesbica.
 Maria G. Di Rienzo, Saggi di storia, e biografie lesbiche.
 Donatella Massara, Donne e conoscenza storica. Storia del cinema lesbico negli anni venti e trenta.
 Nerina Milletti, Brevissima storia delle lesbiche italiane.
 Nerina Milletti, Calavrisella mia, facimmu 'amuri? La storia delle lesbiche contadine italiane attraverso le tradizioni orali, "Quir: mensile fiorentino di cultura e vita lesbica e gay, e non solo...", 11, 1994, pp. 23–26.
  Isle of Lesbos. Sito di storia lesbico-femminista.
  Saphisme.com. Portale di storia e letteratura lesbica del passato, che dedica particolare attenzione a Saffo e all'immagine di Saffo attraverso i secoli.

Storia del femminismo
Lesbismo


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