LGBTQ+ WRITERS & THEIR WORKS
"Tomorrow Will Be Different" is by Sarah McBride, the first openly trans state senator from this state, known for being first
Delaware
Someone treated as inferior feels like a second-class one of these, which can be born or naturalized
citizen
The first Industrial Revolution was largely powered by this odorless gas with which Robert Fulton gained fame
steam
As a poor boy, 6-year-old Harland Sanders had to feed his younger siblings before he fed us all with this chain
KFC
It's what the first "C" in FCIC stands for; it was insurance for farmers
Crop
"The House of Hidden Meanings" is a 2024 memoir from this TV host & pop culture icon, both far from & totally a drag
RuPaul
The New York Times has called George H.W. Bush an exemplar of this "leadership class", an acronym
WASP
This 4-letter cloth-weaving machine dates to the 4000s B.C.; the power one helped along the Industrial Revolution
a loom
This TV legend once wore potato sacks to school in Mississippi; in 2007 she opened a $40 million school for girls in Africa
Oprah Winfrey
This 1935 act that provides unemployment insurance was born out of the New Deal
the Social Security Act
This writer's "test" on gender disparity in Hollywood movies began as "The Rule" in a 1985 comic strip
Alison Bechdel
In a less-fancy 2-word synonym for "proletariat", this word precedes "class"
working
Unclean water in England caused outbreaks of this bacterial disease, so water fountains sprang up after an 1852 act
cholera
He worked in a laundry to help pay the bills, at least until "Carrie" took off in 1974
Stephen King
3 letters in the New Deal's "alphabet soup", it oversaw the federal art, theatre & writers' projects
the WPA
Oscar Wilde wrote 2 plays of "importance" but sadly, also a "Ballad" about this place of confinement
Reading Gaol
Candidate John Kerry said this group was getting financially squeezed & proposed a "contract with" it
the middle class
Cotton lasted about 15 hours as a light bulb filament before 2nd I.R. man Edison used this, getting 1,200 hours & bumming out pandas
bamboo
Hugo Chavez grew up poor in Sabaneta in this country but rose to power & fame
Venezuela
Many of the original groups of programs were devised during this "numerical" period of FDR's first term
the Hundred Days
This playwright has used his uniquely gravelly voice to speak about gay rights & wrote the book for "La Cage aux Folles"
Fierstein
On passenger ships, the class named for this dwelling place falls between first & tourist
the cabin class
In the 1780s the men of the Clyde Iron Works could say it's so hot it feels like standing near this 2-word shaft to produce liquid metal
a blast furnace
At age 12 in 1848, he was a cotton factory bobbin boy; at 38, he got heavy into steel; at 65, his profits hit $40 million
Andrew Carnegie
In 1935 the Supreme Court declared this administration, the NRA, unconstitutional
National Recovery Administration