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I am curious about the bithday list at the end of the newsletter. It doesn't state that the "following people" are definitely GLBTQ people, but the assumption is certainly there. For example, the birthday of NADIA BOULANGER was listed, but I have never seen any evidence that she was bi or a lesbian. Why do people assume she was? Simply because she never married?

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The birthday list is based on the entries in the encyclopedia. The entry on Boulanger says, "It is not certain that Boulanger was a lesbian, but it is likely that she was. She was protective of her privacy and a practicing Catholic, so she may have had conflicting emotions about sexuality in general. Although she allegedly avoided Gertrude Stein's salon because of its "flagrant homosexuality," she did frequent the more discreet salon of Princess de Polignac (Winnaretta Singer), whose lesbianism was also well known."

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Thank you, Site Admin. Mlle. Boulanger was a wonderfully wise woman whom I had the pleasure of studying with for a full year. We spoke of many things and many people, but, as you say, she was guarded about the topic of sex. Once, she asked me how my marriage was going, and I told her "not well." She said, "Well, just remember, your wife is a person, too; not your slave." When we divorced the following year, Mlle. wrote a very sweet note of condolence, and when I remarried and my son was born, she sent him a birthday card every year until she was too feeble to write. I still miss her and the twinkle in her eyes.