title: Portuguese Tennis Federation

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The Portuguese Tennis Federation (Portuguese: Federação Portuguesa de Ténis, FPT) is the national governing body for tennis in Portugal. It is a member of the regional association Tennis Europe and the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is responsible for the Portugal Davis Cup team and the Portugal Fed Cup team. FPT regulates tennis, padel tennis, wheelchair tennis and beach tennis professional and amateur activities in Portugal, including National Championships.

Organization
The FPT has 13 geographical associations, with more than 300 clubs, and 3 professional associations representing coaches, players and officials.

Tennis Officials Association
Portugal Tennis Players Association
Portuguese Association for Tennis Coaches
Azores Tennis Association
Alentejo Tennis Association
Algarve Tennis Association
Aveiro Tennis Association
Castelo Branco Tennis Association
Coimbra Tennis Association
Leiria Tennis Association
Lisbon Tennis Association
Madeira Tennis Association
Porto Tennis Association
Setúbal Tennis Association
Vila Real Tennis Association
Viseu Tennis Association

History
Without an organization to support a participation at the Davis Cup, a group of players met at Automóvel Club de Portugal headquarters in 1924 to solve the situation. In result, the Lawn Tennis Portuguese Federation was founded on 16 March 1925, with Guilherme Pinto Basto serving as its first President. The first Portuguese Davis Cup team would play later that year. However, it would not be until 1963 under President Herédia that Portugal would have a regular representation at the competition.

Tournaments
Estoril Open (2015–)
Lisbon Open (1983)
Oporto Open (1995–1996)
Porto Open (2001–2002)
Portugal Open (1990–2014)
2000 Tennis Masters Cup

National Championships
The Portuguese Tennis National Championships were first held in 1925 and have been organized ever since by FPT. Under the official name "Campeonato Nacional Absoluto/Taça Guilherme Pinto Basto", the 2014 and 2015 editions were held at CIF – Clube Internacional de Foot-Ball, in Lisbon.

The following list presents Portuguese champions for Singles, Doubles and Mixed tennis competitions.

Presidents
This a comprehensive list of all Presidents of the FPT.

Notes

References

Portugal
Tennis in Portugal
Tennis
Sports organizations established in 1925
1925 establishments in Portugal


title: His Greatest Hits

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His Greatest Hits may refer to various compilation albums and Greatest Hits collections.

Albums with this title include:
His Greatest Hits (Elvis Presley album) 1983
His Greatest Hits, Engelbert Humperdinck 1974, remastered 1988
His Greatest Hits, Ray Charles 1992

Albums with similar titles include:
The Man in Black – His Greatest Hits, Johnny Cash album
Presents His Hits in Concert, one of the first of countless CD releases of the 1981 UK live album Glen Campbell Live
His 12 Greatest Hits, a compilation album by Neil Diamond issued in 1974 on the MCA record label
His Definitive Greatest Hits, a compilation album by American blues musician B. B. King
A Collection of His Greatest Hits, a compilation album by American recording artist Babyface released in 2000

Sings His Greatest Hits
Neil Sedaka Sings His Greatest Hits, 1963
Little Richard Sings His Greatest Hits, 1966
Billy "Crash" Craddock Sings His Greatest Hits, a greatest hits collection by the country singer, 1978
Dion (singer) Sings His Greatest Hits, 1962
George Jones Sings His Greatest Hits (Starday 1962)
Tony Williams (singer) Sings His Greatest Hits, 1962
Ernest Ashworth Sings His Greatest Hits, 1976
Grandpa Jones Sings His Greatest Hits, 1954
Colin Blunstone Sings His Greatest Hits, 1991
Frank Sinatra Sings His Greatest Hits (Columbia/Legacy, 1997)
Sings His Best Hits for Capitol Records, Ronnie Milsap

See also albums with the name of artist in title:
Glen Campbell Live! His Greatest Hits 1994
Ritchie Valens...His Greatest Hits Volume 2
Diana: Paul Anka Sings His Greatest Hits

See also
Greatest Hits (disambiguation)
Her Greatest Hits (disambiguation)
Their Greatest Hits (disambiguation)


title: Pat McCoy (baseball)

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Patrick James McCoy (born August 3, 1988) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Detroit Tigers.

Early life
McCoy attended Sahuaro High School in Tucson, Arizona, where he posted a 7–3 record, with a 2.71 ERA, striking out 89 in 62 innings in his junior year. During his senior year, he posted a 2–0 record, with a 0.64 ERA, striking out 24 in 11 innings.

McCoy was a member of team Arizona at the 2006 Junior Sunbelt, where they finished the tournament in 6th place, with a 5–5 record. McCoy was a member of team Arizona at the 2007 Senior Sunbelt, where they finished the tournament in 3rd place, with a 7–3 record.

Professional career

Washington Nationals
McCoy was drafted by the Washington Nationals in the 10th round of the 2007 Major League Baseball Draft. McCoy played in the Nationals minor league system until 2013. McCoy reached the Triple-A level for the first time in 2013, appearing in seven games for the Syracuse Chiefs. McCoy spent most of the year with Double-A Harrisburg where he posted a 2–1 record, with a 4.32 ERA, and striking out 36 in 41.2 innings. From the end of June 30 to July 19, he had a streak of seven-consecutive scoreless relief appearance for the Senators. During McCoy's seven years with the Nationals' organization he accumulated 16 wins, 311 strikeouts, and a 4.67 ERA in 224 games.

Detroit Tigers
McCoy signed a minor league contract with the Detroit Tigers in December 2013. On June 21, 2014, the Detroit Tigers purchased McCoy's contract from Triple-A Toledo. McCoy made his major league debut the next day in a game against the Cleveland Indians. Before being called up, McCoy posted a 3–0 record, with a 2.94 ERA and a .246 batting average against between Double-A Erie and Triple-A Toledo. The Tigers called up McCoy again on August 23, 2014, before a doubleheader with the Minnesota Twins.

Baltimore Orioles
On October 31, 2014, McCoy was claimed off waivers by the Baltimore Orioles. He was outrighted to AAA Norfolk Tides on December 8, 2014.

Toronto Blue Jays
McCoy signed a minor league contract with the Toronto Blue Jays on December 18, 2015, that included an invitation to spring training.

Colorado Rockies
On June 19, 2016, McCoy was traded to the Colorado Rockies and assigned to the Triple-A Albuquerque Isotopes.

Cleveland Indians
On February 17, 2017, McCoy signed a minor league deal with the Cleveland Indians. He was released on April 4, 2017.

Southern Maryland Blue Crabs
On May 12, 2017, McCoy signed with the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. He was released on July 20, 2017.

Generales de Durango
On March 7, 2018, McCoy signed with the Generales de Durango of the Mexican League. He was released on May 4, 2018.

York Revolution
On May 18, 2018, McCoy signed with the York Revolution of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. He was released on July 13, 2018.

Sugar Land Skeeters
On July 16, 2018, McCoy signed with the Sugar Land Skeeters of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. McCoy announced his retirement on August 2, 2018.

References

External links

1988 births
Living people
American expatriate baseball players in Mexico
Baseball players from Tucson, Arizona
Bowie Baysox players
Buffalo Bisons (minor league) players
Detroit Tigers players
Erie SeaWolves players
Generales de Durango players
Gigantes del Cibao players
American expatriate baseball players in the Dominican Republic
Gulf Coast Nationals players
Hagerstown Suns players
Harrisburg Senators players
Indios de Mayagüez players
Leones de Ponce players
Major League Baseball pitchers
Mexican League baseball pitchers
Navegantes del Magallanes players
American expatriate baseball players in Venezuela
Norfolk Tides players
Potomac Nationals players
Sugar Land Skeeters players
Syracuse Chiefs players
Toledo Mud Hens players
Vermont Lake Monsters players
Venados de Mazatlán players
York Revolution players
Sahuaro High School alumni


title: Foundation for Art Resources

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Foundation for Art Resources (FAR) is a Los Angeles-based, non-profit arts organization that facilitates the production and presentation of contemporary art projects outside of the gallery structure. It was founded in 1977 by gallerists Morgan Thomas, Connie Lewallen, and Claire Copley, who transferred leadership to the artist and mediator Dorit Cypis in 1979. Since then, FAR has been overseen collaboratively by over 20 different groups of Board Members and 100 artist-Directors. Currently the longest-running extant arts collective in Los Angeles with no exhibition space, FAR partners with different private, public and educational institutions throughout Los Angeles to produce exhibitions, lectures, and performances with a focus on the relational structures between art, producers, and audience.

History
Foundation for Art Resources, 1977-2017

Claire Copley, Morgan Thomas and Connie Lewallen directed amongst the most innovative galleries in the Los Angeles area during the mid-seventies. Claire Copley Gallery on La Cienega Boulevard presented a range of American and international artists including Allen Ruppersberg, Michael Asher, Bas Jan Ader, William Leavitt, and Allan McCollum. ThomasLewallen Gallery in Santa Monica showed many of the artists associated with
Cal Arts including Douglas Huebler, John Baldessari, Jack Goldstein, and Jonathan Borofsky.

Since the galleries were commercially unsuccessful, Thomas, Lewallen, and Copley developed the nonprofit organization Foundation for Art Resources, FAR, 1977, enabling them to work more flexibly with the artists they believed in. Without a permanent location to support FAR would be able to respond to the needs of each particular project, be it film, book, lecture, performance, or exhibition. Their first projects included the production of John Baldessari's film, Six Colorful Inside Jobs, the book and performance Open America by James Lee Byars, taking place in Los Angeles and New York simultaneously. In 1979, the three founders moved on to other pursuits and the direction of FAR was transferred to the artist Dorit Cypis who invited Christina Ritchie to join as partner.

In 1979 Cypis and Ritchie maintained the exhibition space that was handed to them giving it up a year later to innovate an exploration of partnership with venues across the city, to question what an artist practice has to do with civic space and the public. Between 1979-1982, they initiated collaborative partnerships amongst numerous private, public and educational institutions throughout Los Angeles, producing and presenting contemporary art as site-specific installation, publication, video, film, performance, dialogue, radio, and the lecture series Art Talk Art addressing theoretical and critical issues of contemporary art and culture. Art events and dialogues were produced in numerous public contexts including the International Design Center, Downtown Los Angeles Public Library, an abandoned residential site, neighborhood movie theaters, a shopping center, etc. Participating artists included Mike Kelly, David Askevold, Louise Lawler, Candace Lewis, Matt Mullican, Glen Branca, Michael Smith, Barbara Bloom, the Kuchar Brothers, Jenny Holzer, Edit DeAk, as well as writers/historians Howard Singerman, Christopher Knight, Ann Rorimer, Ingrid Sischy, and Benjamin Buchloh. This was but a beginning of what continued to be generated by new FAR artist members over the next four decades. Many stories yet to be told.

In 1980 Cypis and Ritchie initiated two major changes in FAR's internal governance: 1. traditional power dynamic of a Board of Directors over the working staff was changed by stipulating that members of the Board are the working members of FAR; 2. FAR would be handed over to a new working Board of young artists and cultural workers every three years. The goal was to structure the identity of FAR as unfixed, to challenge artist members to work collectively, and to always distribute power. Between 1976-2016 FAR has been in the hands of more than 20 different groups and over 100 cultural workers as working Board members. FAR is the longest existing art collective without an exhibition space in Los Angeles. There is growing cultural interest in collective structures for production and artists are increasingly working collectively and socially to meet public contexts. FAR members have been exploring this vision for 40 years.

"FAR was managed by its initial founders for two years before Morgan Thomas handed its leadership over to Dorit Cypis in 1979, along with an exhibition space in Downtown LA. Cypis invited Christina Ritchie to run the organization with her, and together they developed the by-laws that would see FAR run by the artist volunteers who would participate as working members. They gave up the exhibition space in 1980, deciding to focus on itinerant projects that would explore relationships between the art works and the organization and venue partners throughout Los Angeles that hosted them."

References

Non-profit organizations based in Los Angeles
Artist cooperatives in the United States
Art galleries established in 1977
Art museums and galleries in Los Angeles


title: State President's Medal for Shooting

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The State President's Medal for Shooting was instituted by the State President of the Republic of Bophuthatswana in 1990, for award to champion shots.

The Bophuthatswana Defence Force
The Bophuthatswana Defence Force (BDF) was established upon that country's independence on 6 December 1977. The Republic of Bophuthatswana ceased to exist on 27 April 1994 and the Bophuthatswana Defence Force was amalgamated with six other military forces into the South African National Defence Force (SANDF).

Institution
The State President's Medal for Shooting was instituted by the State President of Bophuthatswana in 1990.

Award criteria
The medal could be awarded to champion shots.

Order of wear

Since the State President's Medal for Shooting was authorised for wear by one of the statutory forces which came to be part of the South African National Defence Force on 27 April 1994, it was accorded a position in the official South African order of precedence on that date.

Bophuthatswana Defence Force until 26 April 1994

Official BDF order of precedence:
 Preceded by the Medal for Long Service and Good Conduct, Bronze.
Bophuthatswana official national order of precedence:
 Preceded by the Medal for Faithful Service in the Prisons Service, Bronze.

South African National Defence Force from 27 April 1994
With effect from 6 April 1952, when a new South African set of decorations and medals was instituted to replace the British awards which were used to date, the older awards continued to be worn in the same order of precedence but, with the exception of the Victoria Cross, took precedence after all South African orders, decorations and medals awarded to South Africans on or after that date.

Official SANDF order of precedence:
 Preceded by the President's Medal for Shooting of the Republic of Ciskei.
 Succeeded by the Dekoratie voor Trouwe Dienst (DTD) of the Union of South Africa.
Official national order of precedence:
 Preceded by the President's Medal for Shooting of the Republic of Ciskei.
 Succeeded by the George Cross (GC) of the United Kingdom.

The position of the State President's Medal for Shooting in the order of precedence remained unchanged, as it was on 27 April 1994, when decorations and medals were belatedly instituted in April 1996 for the two former non-statutory forces, the Azanian People's Liberation Army and Umkhonto we Sizwe, and again when a new series of military orders, decorations and medals was instituted in South Africa on 27 April 2003.

Discontinuation
Conferment of the State President's Medal for Shooting was discontinued when the Republic of Bophuthatswana ceased to exist on 27 April 1994.

References

Military decorations and medals of Bophuthatswana
Awards established in 1990
1990 establishments in Africa
Military awards and decorations for marksmanship
Awards disestablished in 1994
1994 disestablishments in Africa


title: Alexandru A. Philippide

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Alexandru A. Philippide (; April 1, 1900 – February 8, 1979) was a Romanian poet.

The son of linguist Alexandru Philippide, he was born in Iași. He studied law, literature, philosophy and political economy at the University of Iași, of Berlin and of Paris. Making his poetry debut in 1919, he published rarely, with volumes appearing in 1922, 1930 and 1939. Thus, his decision to enter an artistic strike after the onset of the Communist regime passed unnoticed. During this period, he translated or improved texts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Heinrich Heine, Thomas Mann, Voltaire, William Shakespeare, Alexander Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, Rabindranath Tagore and many others. He was not an open dissident, accepting corresponding membership in the Romanian Academy in 1955 and titular membership in 1963. Once the socialist realist phase had passed, he began writing poetry again. He was buried in Bellu cemetery in Bucharest.

A street in Bucharest bears his name. Initially called Pia Brătianu, it was renamed after Olga Bancic under communism and given Philippide's name following the Romanian Revolution.

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1900 births
1979 deaths
Writers from Iași
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University alumni
Romanian male poets
Romanian translators
Burials at Bellu Cemetery
20th-century translators
20th-century Romanian poets
Herder Prize recipients
20th-century Romanian male writers


title: Maymead Farm

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Maymead Farm, also known as Maymead Stock Farm, is a historic farm in Johnson County, Tennessee, located two miles west of Mountain City.

Maymead Farm is one of Johnson County's oldest farms. The land was settled in the 18th century by the Wagner family, who received a land grant from King George II in 1747. Its name is derived from "May's Meadow", and was the name of a rail stop established on the farm when Norfolk and Western laid a railroad line through the area c. 1900.

At one time, livestock production was the main agricultural activity on the farm, but farming activity was later diversified to include crops such as corn and hay. As of 1989, Maymead produced corn, tobacco, and beef, and was one of the largest working farms in Tennessee.

During the Great Depression the farm diversified into quarrying, initially because of a contract from the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service to supply crushed lime for use on farms in southwestern Virginia, upper East Tennessee, and northwestern North Carolina. The owners continued quarrying limestone after the government contract ended, and later expanded from the production of agricultural lime to add production of rock aggregates for used on building roads and highways. The Maymead corporation now operates several quarries in Tennessee and North Carolina and includes asphalt production operations.

As of 2012, descendants of the original owners were still the primary owners of the farm. Maymead is recognized as a bicentennial farm and is said to be one of only a few U.S. farms that have been owned by the same family since colonial times.

The farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012 as "an important example of the agricultural history of the region". The National Register listing includes about  of land, 26 buildings, and a family cemetery that was established c. 1820.  The two houses on the property (the Barton Roby Brown House, built in 1905, and Maywood, built in 1930) are examples of Colonial Revival architecture.

References

External links
 Maymead, Inc.

Farmhouses in the United States
Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee
Mountain City, Tennessee
National Register of Historic Places in Johnson County, Tennessee
Century farms
Tourist attractions in Johnson County, Tennessee


title: Monte Lee

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Monte Wesley Lee (born February 9, 1977) is an American baseball coach, who is the current associate head baseball coach and recruiting coordinator for the South Carolina Gamecocks. He played college baseball for the Charleston Cougars from 1996 to 1999. He then served as the head coach of the College of Charleston Cougars (2009–2015) and the Clemson Tigers (2016–2022).

Under Lee, the Cougars reached four NCAA tournaments, including one NCAA Super Regional.

Playing career
Lee played four seasons of baseball (1996–1999) at College of Charleston.  An outfielder, Lee was a career .333 hitter and had 22 home runs.  He became the program's fifth major-league draftee when he was selected by the St. Louis Cardinals following his senior year and played two seasons of minor league baseball, advancing as high as Single-A.

Coaching career
Lee began his coaching career with a two-year stint (2001–2002) as an assistant at Spartanburg Methodist, a junior college located in his hometown of Spartanburg, South Carolina.  During Lee's tenure, the program reached an NJCAA Division I World Series and set a single-season win record.  Lee then spent six seasons (2003–2008) as an assistant at South Carolina.  The Gamecocks qualified for the NCAA tournament in each of Lee's six seasons and also appeared in two College World Series.

College of Charleston
Lee was hired as the head coach at College of Charleston prior to the start of the 2009 season.  In Lee's second season, the Cougars broke the 40-win mark and appeared in their first NCAA tournament in his tenure.  At the Myrtle Beach Regional, the Cougars advanced to the regional final with wins over third-seeded NC State and first-seeded Coastal Carolina, but were eliminated with consecutive defeats by Coastal in the championship round.  In 2012, the team shared the Southern Conference regular season title and advanced to another NCAA tournament, where it went 1–2.  In 2014, Charleston won the conference tournament in their first season in the Colonial Athletic Association. The Cougars then won the Gainesville Regional with a 3–0 record, defeating host Florida and Long Beach State twice. In the Lubbock Super Regional, the Cougars were defeated by Texas Tech in consecutive 1–0 games. In 2015 season, the Cougars won the CAA regular season crown with a 21–3 record, before falling to the UNCW Seahawks in the CAA Championship game. Charleston was selected as a #2 seed in Florida State's Tallahassee Regional, where they went 2–2, finishing second behind the host Seminoles.

In Lee's seven seasons at Charleston, 21 players were selected in the Major League Baseball Draft.  Pitcher Heath Hembree was taken in the 5th round by the San Francisco Giants in 2010 and reached the major leagues in 2013.  A total of six Cougars were taken in that draft, the highest total of Lee's tenure. In his final season at Charleston, the Arizona Diamondbacks selected pitcher Taylor Clarke in the third round, making him the program's highest ever selection.

Clemson
On June 18, 2015, Clemson hired Lee to be their 28th head coach in program history; Lee became only the third head coach at Clemson since 1958 (taking over a program that ranked 8th all-time in Division I wins at the time of his hire).

Monte Lee guided the 2016 Tigers to an ACC baseball tournament title in his first season, defeating the defending ACC Champion Florida State Seminoles in a marathon game by a score of 18–13 at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park in Durham, NC. The win produced the program's first conference title in ten years and Lee's first Clemson team captured the program's 10th conference tournament title and 15th overall ACC championship - both league records. Lee also became the third consecutive Clemson head coach to win the ACC in his first season, joining Bill Wilhelm (1958) and Jack Leggett (1994). The Tigers' 44 victories in 2016 are the second-most victories by a first-year head coach in Clemson history. A strong finish to the season propelled the Tigers to their 41st appearance and the #7 overall national seed to the NCAA tournament.

In 2022, Lee earned his 500th career victory.  The Tigers defeated College of Charleston on March 29 to give Lee the victory. At the end of the season Lee was fired as head coach after failing to make the NCAA tournament.  It was the second consecutive season that Clemson did not qualify for the tournament.

Return to South Carolina
On August 18, 2022, Lee returned to South Carolina as the team's associate head coach and recruiting coordinator.

Head coaching record
The following is a table of Lee's yearly records as a collegiate head baseball coach.

References

1977 births
Living people
Clemson Tigers baseball coaches
Charleston Cougars baseball coaches
Charleston Cougars baseball players
South Carolina Gamecocks baseball coaches
People from Spartanburg, South Carolina
Baseball coaches from South Carolina
People from Lugoff, South Carolina


title: LGBT writers in the Dutch-language area

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LGBT writers in the Dutch-language area are writers from de Lage Landen, that is Flanders and the Netherlands,
who were homosexual
wrote for a homosexual audience
wrote about homosexuality
According to Gerrit Komrij qualifying for at least two of the above makes someone a gay author.

The first of these authors owed much to the late 19th century decadent literature, with names like Georges Eekhoud in Belgium and Jacob Israël de Haan in the Netherlands. After the second world war Gerard Reve, and later Gerrit Komrij and Tom Lanoye became the leading names.

Most of these LGBT writers are Dutch-language writers contributing to Dutch-language literature, some of them acquiring a place in the Canon of Dutch Literature (nl).

Before late 19th century

Before the last decades of the 19th century words like uranism, homosexual, sapphism, lesbian and transvestite didn't exist. Being called a true Sappho of Lesbos was a high compliment for female poets, without sexual connotations. Words like sodomy, pederast and hermaphrodite existed and had their Dutch-language counterpart, but only very partially covered what would become LGBT (Dutch equivalent: holebi) in a more modern understanding. Generally the older terms, most of all sodomy, had a negative connotation. Writing about these topics was usually either pornographic or in terms of condemnable (religious) sin. From the 19th century these subjects were also more often treated in medical science, which led to the more modern terminology.

Authors writing in a positive manner about bonds between people of the same sex spoke about friendship (in Dutch: vriendschap). Such friendships could be qualified as romantic friendships. Whether there was a component of sexuality was unclear and if so, not outspoken. Friendship was certainly not always a euphemism for something more, nor even for Platonic love.

A friendship was recorded between the writers Betje Wolff and Aagje Deken: they also wrote about the topic of true friendship. Johannes Kneppelhout, choosing Klikspaan (= snitch) as pen name for some of his writings, was a 19th-century example of writing about friendship in this sense, for example in his 1875 Een beroemde knaap (A Famous Boy).

Also Guido Gezelle does not really qualify as an LGBT writer in Komrij's definition: as a Catholic priest he certainly did not write explicitly for a gay audience, nor was any of his writing strictly speaking about homosexuality. Nonetheless Dien avond en die rooze (That Evening and that Rose) is generally understood to have been a love-poem for Eugène van Oye, one of his students he had befriended.

Fin de siècle

Late-19th-century Dutch writers who tried to get LGBT literature across the border of pornography include Louis Couperus. Georges Eekhoud published Escal-Vigor in 1899. In the early 20th century Jacob Israël de Haan started publishing his LGBT-themed works.

Tachtigers

For Couperus' generation of Dutch-language authors, known as the Tachtigers, writing openly about homosexuals in novels was impossible, while writing about antiquity left more leeway. In 1891 Couperus published his novel Noodlot with an 'effeminate' protagonist, while his more explicit novel De berg van licht (1904–05) employed the technique of placing the action in ancient Rome. It was generally known that Couperus was homosexual.

Arnold Aletrino was an LGBT Tachtiger writing both fiction and non-fiction.

Other Tachtigers with same-sex tendencies, like Willem Kloos, writing passionate poems about men, and Lodewijk van Deyssel, describing a special friendship with one of his fellow students in his 1889 De kleine republiek, repressed their feelings. Albert Verwey's cycle of 44 sonnets, Van de liefde die vriendschap heet (On Love that is Named Friendship), written in response to Kloos' passion for him, was perceived as coded homoeroticism, although mostly about spiritual love in intent.

Georges Eekhoud
Georges Eekhoud was a Flemish author writing in French. In 1899 his LGBT themed novel Escal-Vigor was published. It led to a trial in 1900, which Eekhoud won.

Hélène van Zuylen
After marriage Hélène van Zuylen, by birth a French Rothschild, came to live in a castle near Utrecht. Together with her English lover Renée Vivien she published poems and novels in French, among others in 1904 L'Être double, a novel on androgyny (under the pseudonym Paule Riversdale).

Jacob Israël de Haan

Jacob Israël de Haan describes living in the Netherlands as a nightmare that continues after waking up, and looked for Eekhoud as an ally to escape from this narrowminded society when dedicating his "rape of Jesus" short story to him. The two authors kept in contact by letter.

For his style, De Haan was indebted to Couperus. De Haan's style oscillates between the l'art pour l'art style of the Tachtigers and a more engaged, less embellished style. His Tachtigers friends had given him however little support when getting in trouble after the publication of his first explicit gay novel Pijpelijntjes in 1904. In the first edition of the book de Haan's friend Arnold Aletrino had been portrayed too recognisable.

Light reading
Under a cloak of moralizing against fornication some authors went in great detail describing libidinous topics. Also for homosexuality this genre was practiced, for instance Feenstra Kuiper's 1905 illustrated pornographic novel Jeugdige zondaars te Constantinopel (Youthful Sinners in Constantinople), reading as a gay tour guide to the city.

Easy-reading novels, usually with a melodramatic plot, were provided by M. J. J. Exler (Levensleed, 1911), Marie Metz-Koning, and Maurits Wagenvoort (Het koffiehuis met de roode buisjes, 1916).

A play about Oscar Wilde was written by Adolphe Engers in 1917.

Non-fiction
In 1883 N. B. Donkersloot, editor of a medical journal, was the first to publish a testimony originally written in Dutch of a man preferring same-sex. Around this time most Dutch-language medical literature on the subject was however borrowed from foreign examples, mostly from Germany and France.

From 1897 to 1908 Arnold Aletrino published his non-fiction works about uranism, in which he described chaste friendship as a superior form of uranism. Lucien von Römer, who had written love poetry for a man when he was young, published in Hirschfeld's journal in the early 20th century. He was also the first to conduct an inquiry on sexual behavior, and defended the sexual act for homosexuals. His major work was Het uranisch gezin (The Uranian Family, 1905).

In 1911 a new article in Dutch law (248bis) discriminated against homosexuality. Jacob Schorer, a lawyer, started publishing against this law. Aletrino and Römer supported, but no longer published on the subject. Also before the first World War Hubertus J. Schouten had published on similar topics, under various pen-names.

Interbellum

Lesbian Maria Nys, later Mrs. Aldous Huxley, left Belgium before moving into literary circles like the Bloomsbury Group. Her contributions to literature are limited; the best known is her tampering with the text of Lady Chatterley's Lover, which led its author, D. H. Lawrence, to be discontented with the first print of that work.

During his Berlin period (1918—21) Belgian avant-garde poet Paul van Ostaijen wrote homoerotic letters, and would have experimented with gay sex.

In 1919 poet Pieter Cornelis Boutens was hiding behind a fictional name when he published his homoerotic Strophen uit de nalatenschap van Andries de Hoghe. In 1930 he was refused a knighthood for rumours of his homosexuality. Other poets in the Netherlands included Willem de Mérode, pen name for W. E. Keuning (Ganymedes, illustrated by Johan Dijkstra, 1924) and Willem Arondeus (his homoerotic poems Afzijdige Strofen were however only published many years after his death).

New melodramatic novels, similar in plot to those that were published before the end of the war, were published by J. H. François, writing under the pen name Charlie van Heezen (Anders, 1918 and Het masker, 1922), Johan de Meester (Walmende lampen, 1920), Bernard Brondgeest (Doolhof, 1921), Wilma (God's gevangene, 1923), and Adolphe Engers together with Ernst Winar (Peccavi...??? Roman uit het Haagsche leven, 1920). A gay play Wat niet mag... was written by J. M. IJssel de Schepper-Beckers in 1922.

Avant-garde artist Til Brugman, fluent in several languages, publishes poems from 1923. She also writes literary grotesques, amongst others on sexual minorities, which she belonged to, living together with LGBT lovers like Hannah Höch. Carry van Bruggen, sister of Jacob Israël de Haan, published her partly autobiographical novel Eva in 1927. David, the homosexual brother of Eva in the novel, is to a certain extent modelled after the author's brother Jacob Israël. Van Bruggen portrays the main character of her novel as bisexual.

Edith Werkendam lived in the Netherlands and Belgium. Several of her novels are about LGBT topics, among which De goddelijke zonde about bisexuality, published in 1928. Josine Reuling's 1937 novel Terug naar het eiland can be read as a commentary on Radclyffe Hall's 1928 The Well of Loneliness.
Jef Last published two gay novels: Zuiderzee (1934) and Het huis zonder vensters (1935). In 1936 Last and André Gide travelled across the Soviet Union. Both published about this trip, with some attention to LGBT topics, Gide in 1936 and Last in 1966 (Mijn vriend André Gide). Together with Harry Wilde Last published a novel (Kruisgang der jeugd, 1939) about Marinus van der Lubbe, against a trend that equalled homosexuality with nazism. After the war there were Last's De jeugd van Judas (1962) and the pornographic De zeven caramboles (posthumous, 1973).

Decadent poets were attacked by Seerp Anema in his 1926 Moderne Kunst en Ontaarding. Jacob Anton Schorer continued to publicize in defense of homosexuality in the period between the wars. A. J. Luikinga published under the pen name Commutator, among others his 1927 defense Homosexualiteit. In 1929 Ernest Michel published an anti-gay writing Anti-homo: Een geschrift tegen de weekdieren onzer samenleving. Koos Vorrink warned against homosexuality in his 1933 Om de vrije mens der nieuwe gemeenschap: Opvoeding tot het demokratiese socialisme. 1934 publications by J. H. van der Hoop (Homosexualiteit) and Benno J. Stokvis (Homosexualiteit en strafrecht) were equally heteronormative. Stokvis' 1939 De homosexueelen: 35 biographieën gave insight in daily life of LGBT people. Medical publications concentrated on possible cures for homosexuality, like castration (e.g. G. Sanders Het castratievraagstuk, 1935). L. Bender's 1937 Verderfelijke propaganda summarized the Catholic rejection of homosexuality.

A few months before the second world war came to the Netherlands Jaap van Leeuwen (pen name: Arent van Santhorst), Nico Engelschman (pen name: Bob Angelo) and Hann Diekmann became the authors and editors of a new periodical Levensrecht defending LGBT rights.

After the second world war

In 1966 Gerard Reve's Nader tot U was published, containing a description of the author having sex with God in the guise of a young donkey — the press was alarmed. It took to the early 1980s, with a series of short stories by De Haan republished, that the press started to realize that Reve had been less ground-breaking on LGBT themes in the Dutch-language area than assumed.

Reve remained the most influential of Dutch-language LGBT writers after the second world war. In the 21st century LGBT writers became less concerned with their LGBT status, being a good author is their primary concern.

Dutch-language literary events, like poetry nights ("De Nacht van de Poëzie" organized since 1966), and prizes (like AKO Literatuurprijs, Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature Prize) often have an international dimension, bringing together writers from the Low Countries.

Non-fiction writings showed a major change towards acceptation of homosexuality in the early 1960s. For instance, the first edition of Tolsma's Homosexualiteit en homoërotiek (1948) warned against homosexuality, and rejected it. The second edition of that book (1963) had replaced that language by words of tolerance.

Gerard Reve and the post-war generation

Gerard Reve's novel De Avonden was published in 1947 and gave a new start for LGBT writing in Dutch, both in the Netherlands and in Flanders (where Reve spent the last years of his life). The significance of Reve and his first novel were tremendous. Within a year after publication De Avonden had received 50 book reports in the press, and by the end of the 1960s it was considered a timeless classic of Dutch literature. The book has often been compared with Salinger's Catcher in the Rye. In the early 21st century Dick Matena made a graphic novel version of De Avonden. For several generations Dutch-language LGBT writers would pay their tribute to Reve.

Further novels by Reve with a homosexual theme include Melancholia (1951), In God we Trust (two chapters published in 1957), Op weg naar het einde (1963), Nader tot U (1966), and Prison Song in Prose (1967).

Hans Warren published his first poems in 1946. Second wave of creativity from the late 1960s. From 1978 he started a relation with the much younger Mario Molegraaf, with whom he co-authored. The 23 volumes of Warrens diary were published from 1981 to 2009.

Jac. van Hattum wrote poetry and short stories (e.g. Mannen en katten, 1947; Un an deplus, un an de moins, 1955; De liefste gast, 1961; De wolfsklauw, 1962; De ketchupcancer, 1965), receiving recognition by Reve. Hans Lodeizen received most recognition after his early death in 1950. His poetry was cryptic on homosexuality. Poet Jan Hanlo fell in love with a Moroccan boy: his reminiscence of this love was published in 1971 as Go to the mosk: Brieven uit Marokko.

Homosexual writers and poets of this first post war generation include Jaap Harten, Bernard Sijtsma, Adriaan Venema, Jos , Astère-Michel Dhondt and Frits Bernard (a.k.a. Victor Servatius). Annie M. G. Schmidt included gay characters in her texts for the performing arts.

Among the Dutch female writers addressing homosexuality in the post-war generation was Anna Blaman: the erotic passages of her 1948 novel Eenzaam avontuur (Lonely Adventure) stirred contemporary authors to a fake process so-called regarding her literary style. There was also Dola de Jong, whose book The Tree and the Vine was first published in 1951 (after she had moved to America fleeing the Nazis); it is about a lesbian couple during World War II and is likely her best-known work apart from her mystery novels. It was republished in 1996 by The Feminist Press.

In Belgium there was another author from Flanders writing in French: with her 1951 novel Le Rempart des Béguines Françoise Mallet-Joris creates a succès de scandale over its lesbian content. In 1963 Carla Walschap was the first Dutch-language Flemish author with a novel on a lesbian theme (De eskimo en de roos).

Andreas Burnier (pseudonym for Catharina Irma Dessaur): first novel Een tevreden lach (1965) describes how she discovered being a lesbian. She is known to be the first who took lesbianism for granted in the Netherlands, just as Reve had for male homosexuality.

Next generation of Dutch-language LGBT writers

 Gerrit Komrij: poet, novelist, playwright, critic, polemist and translator. Verwoest Arcadië (Destroyed Arcadia, 1980) is an autobiographical novel about discovering boys and books when he was young. Komrij also wrote LGBT-themed essays like Averechts (1980).
 Tom Lanoye: poet, novelist, playwright, scenarist, columnist, essayist. Thesis about Hans Warren's poetry. First novel Kartonnen dozen (Cardboard Boxes, 1991) is about his discovery of homosexual feelings as a young boy. Most famous LGBT writer of his generation in Belgium.
Eric de Kuyper: homosexuality as central theme in his work, which encompasses various forms of writing and film-making. His first film (Casta Diva, 1983) combines images of attractive men with opera arias.
 Maarten 't Hart's novels Stenen voor een ransuil (1971) and Ik had een wapenbroeder (1973) showed a homosexual sensibility, based in the author's transgender feelings.
 Kees Verheul: Kontakt met de vijand (1975) and Een jongen met vier benen (1982).
 Anton Brand publishes gay-themed short stories, travel reports and essays from 1978.
 A. Moonen writes in a minimalist style about his sexual preferences in Openbaar leven (1979) and De anale variant (1983).
 Willem Bijsterbosch, poet publishing from 1981, describes same-sex relationships in his novels.
 Dirkje Kuik (born as William): transgender theme, for instance in Huishoudboekje met rozijnen (1984)
 Rudi van Dantzig Voor een verloren soldaat (1986), film version For a Lost Soldier (1992)
 About SM: Jim Holmes (poetry) en Jaap van Manen (short story)
 Anja Meulenbelt links feminism and the discovery of a lesbian identity in her 1976 novel De schaamte voorbij.
 Elly de Waard: feminist and poet (published from 1981), "uncrowned queen of the lesbians"
 Astrid Roemer, novelist and playwright born in Suriname, treats topics like discrimination and identity, including LGBT identity.
 Gerda Meijerink's 1985 novel De vrouw uit het Holoceen describes the erotic attraction between two women.
 Sjuul Deckwitz: lesbian, ironic neoromantic cult poems
 Frans Kellendonk: Kellendonk's last novel Mystiek lichaam (Mystic Body, 1986) has creation as only meaningful principle as its central theme. Kellendonk regarded homosexuality as a sterile lifestyle.
 Doeschka Meijsing: despite being a lesbian, Meijsing takes a less favourable view on homosexuality. Her last novel Over de liefde (About Love, 2008), about her break up with Xandra Schutte, won the AKO Literatuurprijs.

Writers for LGBT stage productions included Komrij, Gerardjan Rijnders, Cleo van Agt, Han van Delden (pseudonym: Hans van Weel), Cas Enklaar and Joop Admiraal.

Periodicals - comic strips

In the Netherlands Levensrecht continued after its war-time suspension with Van Leeuwen, Engelschman and now Jo van Dijk. The periodical was later renamed to Vriendschap (Friendship) published by COC Nederland. Gerard Reve contributed to another COC periodical Dialoog from 1965 to 1967, provoking a lawsuit over his description of intercourse with God in the guise of a donkey (which he eventually won).

In Flanders groups bringing together Flemish LGBT people existed from the early 1960s, the first of which was COC Vlaanderen, closely connected to COC Nederland. Some of these groups had their local bulletins, but they remained exclusively dependent on COC Nederland for the broader publications until 1972.

LGBT periodicals published in the Netherlands targeting an international Dutch-language readership include Expreszo (published from 1988) and Madam (for gay women, publication stopped 1999). From 2013 the Flemish ZiZo-magazine and Gay&Night from the Netherlands collaborated for the publication of Gay&Night-ZiZo targeting a younger audience than ZiZo-magazine.

Tom Bouden, author of comics on LGBT themes, published in most of the LGBT periodicals in Flanders and the Netherlands. His first collection of strips (Flikkerzicht) was published in 1993. Bouden turned Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest into a contemporary all-male graphic novel in 2001. The gay kiss in that comic didn't go unnoticed.
The Dutch comic artists Floor de Goede, Ype Driessen and Abe Borst are mostly known for their autobiographical webcomics.

Writing for youngsters on LGBT topics

One of the first to write on LGBT topics for youngsters was Agalev founder Luc Versteylen in his 1981 De Paradijs Ervaring.

LGBT writers usually writing for children and/or teenagers (but not always on LGBT topics) include:
 Koos Meinderts: Man lief en heer loos (1998).
 Bart Moeyaert: Het is de liefde die we niet begrijpen (1999), a novel for the youth, takes homosexuality as a fact for its protagonist, not giving much attention to a process of acceptation.
 Ted van Lieshout, writes for children primarily. In his 1996 short novel Gebr. he writes about his coming out and his younger brother who also was homosexual. In his 2012 book Mijn Meneer he relates about an affair he had with an older man when he was young. His 1999 Een kleine liefde had a similar topic (relationship with a man from the perspective of a boy).
 Actor Mark Tijsmans

Also Dirk Bracke writes for young people, one book with an LGBT theme: Zij en haar (2005)

Genootschap voor Tegennatuurlijke Letteren

In 1983 Johan Polak became ward to the Dutch Genootschap voor Tegennatuurlijke Letteren. Members included in this group:
Nop Maas: Reve's biographer (3 volumes from 2009)
Theo van der Meer: historian, doctorate on Sodoms zaad in Nederland. Het ontstaan van homoseksualiteit in de vroegmoderne tijd (Seed of Sodom in the Netherlands: Beginning of Homosexuality in the Early Modern Age), 1995
Cees van der Pluijm: poetry from the 1980s, correspondence with Robert Long
Paul Snijders: publicist on LGBT related themes, among others on Louis Couperus (from the 1980s)

Book-writing celebrities

Fashion designer Max Heymans wrote his autobiography Knal in 1966. In 1984 actor Albert Mol wrote his autobiography "Zo" zijn, which also covered gay life in the Netherlands before the second World War. Singer-songwriter and entertainer Robert Long published his autobiographical novel Wat wil je nou in 1988. Manfred Langer, founder of the gay disco iT in Amsterdam published Alle geheimen van de iT in 1993. Politician Pim Fortuyn was open about his homosexuality. He published books on political topics from 1994.

In Belgium several LGBT people who became known by radio and/or television appearances wrote books: Tom De Cock (horror novel published in 2001), Koen Crucke (books about losing weight which he wrote from his own experience), Felice Damiano (a book about discovering homosexuality in a boarding school published in 2006), Mark Tijsmans (actor writing books for the youth), Jo de Poorter (radio and television host and communication advisor writing books on becoming successful and on lifestyle), Jani Kazaltzis (fashion related books), Frank Dingenen (bundle of short columns, known as cursiefjes in Dutch, published in 2013), Bart Stouten (host on Klara writing poetry and novels).

Opera director Gerard Mortier, all in all not so very open about his own homosexuality, wrote books about opera and about culture politics.

Boudewijn Büch complied to at least one of Komrij's criteria: he wrote about LGBT subjects like androgyny.

Youngest generation of novelists and poets

 Maxim Februari (born Marjolein Drenth): first novel De zonen van het uitzicht (1989) has intersexuality as theme. Woman to man transition in 2012-13.
 Renate Stoute (born René), poet and novelist: first novel with transgender theme in 1991. In her 1999 autobiography (Uit een oude jas vol stenen: De geboorte van een vrouw) Stoute describes identifying as a lesbian woman, leading to gender reassignment surgery in 1996.
 Willem Melchior wrote novels with themes as voluptuous death wish and sado-masochism, from 1992 (De roeping van het vlees). He was compared with Couperus
 Han Nefkens writes about HIV and Aids in his 1995 Bloedverwanten.
 Ton Kors De tijd van Anton de Lange (1995) cruising in Amsterdam, fetishes and death by Aids.
 Pim Wiersinga, Gracchanten (1995), set in antiquity.
 Jacob Vredenbregt, among others Intermezzo in de Leeuwenstad (1996) has an LGBT side-theme.
 Bram van Stolk, S-1 (1996) — autobiographic about his time in the German army in 1961.
 Leo Wisselink, De hondenjaren (1996) about homosexuality in a provincial town.
 Anne Golen, Eenzame strijd (1997), problematizing homosexuality from a Christian background.
 Dens Vroege De dictatuur van de begeerte (1998), gay nightlife in Amsterdam.
 Gerard van Emmerik's first novel Misha's koorts (Misha's Fever, 1998) is about a boy meeting an older gay man.
 Erwin Mortier, novelist, poet, columnist and essayist wrote his second novel (My Fellow Skin, 2000) on a gay theme: sudden death interrupting the awakening of gay feelings of a school boy. Mortier came out in his 2003 bundle of essays A Plea for Sinning. His 2007 book Evenings on the Estate: Travelling with Gerard Reve was a tribute to the older author he knew personally.
 Marjolein Houweling: 2001 novel about a violent lesbian relationship after a divorce: Niemandsland.
 Saskia De Coster published novels from 2002. As a columnist she takes stance on LGBT topics.
 Arthur Japin's second novel De droom van de leeuw (The Dream of the Lion, 2002) is autobiographic about his relation with Federico Fellini.
 Gerbrand Bakker published highly acclaimed novels from 2002. Open about his homosexuality on his weblog
 Minke Douwesz wrote a lesbian-themed novel in 2003: Strikt.
 Jos Versteegen, poet also known for his contributions to Homo-encyclopedie van Nederland (Gay Encyclopedia of the Netherlands, 2005), co-authored with Thijs Bartels.
 Mario Molegraaf had his first poems published in 2011. He translated poetry of the Greek gay poet Constantine P. Cavafy in Dutch. He had started these translations together with Hans Warren.

Other LGBT novelists of this generation include Flemish Luc Boudens and Paul Mennes, and Koos Prinsloo from South-Africa. Oscar van den Boogaard moved from the Netherlands to Belgium. In the Netherlands, Jaap Harten, Bas Heijne, Gert-Jan van Exel, Th. van Os and Joost van Weel. Obe Postma is a poet writing in Frisian.

Non-profit organisations like Behoud de Begeerte continue the tradition of bringing together authors from the Low Countries in literary events. Participants include Tom Lanoye, Gerrit Komrij, Dimitri Verhulst, Saskia de Coster, Erwin Mortier and Bart Stouten.

Another initiative making little distinction which side of the border between Flanders and the Netherlands writers originated from were the Gay 2000 through Gay 2004 glossy yearbooks (Snoecks style) published from 1999 to 2004.

Others

 Ida Gerhardt, poet and translator of ancient texts, was secretive about her private life, including her lesbian relationship with co-translator Marie van der Zeyde. Gerhardt wrote poems about Sappho (the first of these published in 1945), and translated her poetry. Apart from her own poetry Gerhardt (and Van der Zeyde) are best known for their translation of Biblic Psalms, used as much in Flanders as in the Netherlands, by Catholic and Protestant denominations.
 Gert Hekma is a researcher at the University of Amsterdam who published widely about LGBT-issues and their history in The Netherlands.
 Henri Nouwen, Catholic priest, LGBT status only fully revealed after his death in 2004.
 Xaviera Hollander, best known for her book The Happy Hooker, turned gay in the late 20th century, but eventually married a man in 2007.
 Karin Spaink: activist, also about LGBT rights in her writings.
 Veronique Renard: intersexual (Klinefelter), wrote about her experience of man to woman transition.

References

Bibliography

Dutch-language sources

 "Het taboe doorbroken?: Holebiseksualiteit in de adolescentenroman" in Tsjip/Letteren (jg. 14). ThiemeMeulenhoff (2004). pp. 30–35
 Thijs Bartels and Jos Versteegen (editors). Homo-encyclopedie van Nederland. Uitgever Anthos (August 2005).
 Ronny De Schepper. “L’homme écrit pour être aimé, la femme pour être libre” (Marina Bianchi) (9 December 2012)
 J. ten Duis. Van ‘tegennatuurlijk’ tot ‘pottentrots’: de receptie van lesbische literatuur in de twintigste eeuw. University of Groningen (2013)
 Ed van Eeden. "De miskende decadent: De Haans Nerveuze Vertellingen maken Gerard Reve minder uniek" newspaper article (21 July 1984)
 Jan Fekkes. De God van je tante. Amsterdam, Arbeiderspers (1968)
 Saskia Geurds and Thomas de Heide Waarom zijn er meer homobladen voor mannen dan voor vrouwen?. Fontys Hogeschool Journalistiek, Tilburg (27 mei 2013)
 Jacob Israël de Haan. Nerveuze Vertellingen with an introduction by Rob Delvigne and Leo Ross. Bert Bakker (1983)
 Hans Hafkamp, Jos Versteegen, Lex Spaans and René Abbühl (eds.) Gay 2000: cultureel jaarboek voor mannen. Vassallucci (1999). From the same series:
Gay 2001 (2000)
Gay 2002 (2001)
Gay 2003 (2002)
Gay 2004 (2004)
 Gert Hekma. "Nederland: Couperus en De Haan" in Grensgeschillen in de seks: bijdragen tot een culturele geschiedenis van de seksualiteit (1990) pp. 66–68
 Gert Hekma. Homoseksualiteit in Nederland van 1730 tot de moderne tijd. Narcis.nl (1 January 2004)
 Bart Hellinck. een halve eeuw (in) beweging: een kroniek van de vlaamse holebibeweging. federatie werkgroepen homoseksualiteit (FWH), Ghent. (December 2002)
 Jeroen Kummer. "Wanneer schrijf jij eens wat over jezelf?: De correspondentie van Ida Gerhardt met Catharina Ypes" (2004)
 Lien Lamon. Gerard Reves De avonden van roman naar beeldroman: Narratieve aspecten van Dick Matena's adaptatie Ghent University (2011)
 Madelon Meester. "Voorvechters gezocht" in De Volkskrant (1 August 2012)
 Maaike Meijer. "Elly de Waard (1940): Die intiemste spier, het hart" in Schrijvende vrouwen: Een kleine litteratuurgeschiedenis der Lage Landen 1880-2010. Editors: Jacqueline Bel and Thomas Vaessens. Amsterdam University Press (2010) pp. 203–210
 Sander Pleij. "Kunstbroeders" in De Groene Amsterdammer (17 July 1996)
 Cees van der Pluijm. "Namiddaglicht in een uitgestorven pastorie" in De Gelderlander (19 March 2010), p. 17
 Erik Schoonhoven. "Het belang van onvolmaaktheid: Een vraaggesprek met Willem Melchior" at  (2003)
 Jacob Schorer. Tweeërlei maat: Kritische beschouwingen naar aanleiding van het nieuw voorgestelde artikel 248bis wetboek van strafrecht in het den 16 sept. 1910 gewijzigde wetsontwerp ter bestrijding tot bestrijding van zedeloosheid. The Hague 1911.
 Paul Snijders. "De Legenden van de Roze Lust:Het Haagse Zedenschandaal van 1920" at  (2003)
 Adriaan Venema. Homosexualiteit in de Nederlandse literatuur Amsterdam/Brussel, Paris-Manteau (1972).
 Jos Versteegen. "Nederlandse gay literatuur in de tweede helft van de jaren '90: Een overzicht" in Gay 2000 (1999)
 Hans Warren (editor). Herenliefde (1995) — a selection of homoerotic stories by Louis Couperus, Tom Lannoye, Maarten 't Hart, Gerrit Komrij, Eric de Kuyper, A. F. Th. van der Heijden and Bas Heijne.
 Werkgroep Liever Leven (Luc Versteylen et al.) De Paradijs Ervaring. Stil Leven Borgerhout (1981)

English-language sources
 Maaike Meijer (editor and introduction). The Defiant Muse: Dutch and Flemish Feminist Poems from the Middle Ages to the Present: A Bilingual Anthology. The Feminist Press at the City University of New York (1998)
 Catharine Smith. Apple Censors--Then Approves--Gay Kiss In Oscar Wilde Comic in Huffington Post, 25 November 2011.
 Saskia Wieringa. Female Desires: Same-Sex Relations and Transgender Practices Across Cultures. Columbia University Press (1999)

Further reading
 Dutch and Flemish Literature and Gerard Reve at


title: Ultraviolet (Sadistik album)

text:
Ultraviolet is a solo studio album by American rapper Sadistik, released via Fake Four Inc. on July 1, 2014. It peaked at number 37 on the Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart.

Production
The late Eyedea is featured on "Chemical Burns". The album also features guest appearances from Nacho Picasso, Sticky Fingaz, and Tech N9ne. Production is handled by Sxmplelife, Eric G, Maulskull, and Kid Called Computer. The title of the album derives from a book about color spectrums.

Music videos were created for "Cult Leader", "1984", and "Orange".

Track listing

Charts

References

External links

2014 albums
Sadistik albums
Fake Four Inc. albums


title: The Global Scavenger Hunt

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The Global Scavenger Hunt is an annual international travel adventure competition in which two-person teams travel around the world in competition with other teams vying to win the title of "The World’s Greatest Travelers".

History
The first event, scheduled for 2001, was postponed due to 9/11. The inaugural event took place in the spring of 2002. A spring 2003 event was cancelled due to the SARS epidemic and the onset of the Iraq War. The event has been held annually since 2008. The Global Scavenger Hunt originally called GreatEscape, was created in 1999 and launched in 2000. Inspired by his 1989 participation in an around-the-world race called the HumanRace, Chalmers, and his travel companion, Andy J. Valvur, won the one-off event collecting the $20,000 first place prize money in 17 days. Chalmers later wrote a book chronicling their exploits entitled A Blind Date with the World in 2000 and was later dubbed the "world's greatest traveler" in National Geographic Traveler magazine.

The Event
The Global Scavenger Hunt is a series of rallies around the world. Competitors participating attempt to complete a series of culturally-oriented scavenges from a scavenger hunt book created for each leg of the rally-like event. Scavenges are assigned points based on completion degree of difficulty.

During each event, competitors travel to, and within, at least ten countries, but never know in advance which countries they are going to be visiting. The event is designed to test the participants collective 'travel IQ' requiring them to overcome language and communications barriers, cultural nuances, logistics, jet lag, team dynamics and 23-days of traveling across 24 time zones through ten countries.

Teams are, at times, prohibited from using any technology to assist them and are limited to using only local modes of public transportation as they attempt to complete the scavenges in the goal of fostering the "trusting of strangers in strange lands."

The scavenges, based on a risk-reward points system, include food scavenges, participatory 'site-doing' (not site-seeing) scavenges, good karma-building scavenges, urban, rural, art and nature-oriented photo safaris, playing Bartender Roulette, polling locals on issues of the day, performing blind taste tests, figuring out how to crash major cultural happenings.

Each leg is tallied and the eventual winners of the event are crowned The World's Greatest Travelers and given that title for that year. The event is considered to be the annual "world travel championship" and called the "Super Bowl of travel adventure competitions". Winning teams earn the right to defend the title of The World's Greatest Travelers in the next event with all entry fees waived. The event is open to all international travel adventure competitors, and has no set course as it is changed each year. As of 2023, the annual around the world travel adventure event has visited 94 countries across 6 continents.

Events to date
 2002 (April 12 – May 4) – Los Angeles to Japan to Hong Kong to Thailand to UAE to Egypt to Turkey to Italy to Switzerland to Germany to New York City, USA
 2003 – Scheduled for April 2003 and was cancelled due to the global SARS epidemic and outbreak of the Iraq War.
 2004 (April 16 – May 8) – Los Angeles to China to Viet Nam to Cambodia to Thailand to India to UAE to Morocco to Gibraltar to Spain to Portugal to New York City, USA
 2005 (April 15 – May 7) – Los Angeles to China to India to UAE to Egypt to Turkey to Czech Republic to Austria to Poland to Hungary to New York City, USA
 2008 (April 11 – May 3) – San Francisco to China to Malaysia to Singapore to Nepal to Bahrain to Egypt to Greece to Macedonia to Bulgaria to Romania to The Netherlands to Toronto, Canada
 2009 (April 17 – May 9) – Seattle to Taiwan to Cambodia to Thailand to India to Turkey to Tunisia to Germany to Denmark to Sweden to Iceland to Boston, USA
 2010 (April 9 – May 1) – San Francisco to Hong Kong to Viet Nam to Laos to Myanmar to Thailand to Sri Lanka to Jordan to Austria to Slovakia to Germany to Luxembourg to France to New York City, USA
 2011 (April 15 – May 7) – Los Angeles to Korea to Philippines to Indonesia to Singapore to India to Turkey to Spain to Gibraltar to Morocco to Portugal to New York City, USA
 2012 (April 13 – May 5) – San Francisco to Taiwan to Myanmar to Thailand to Sri Lanka to Oman to Cyprus to Italy to San Marino to Slovenia to Austria to Czech Republic to Washington D.C., USA
 2013 (April 12 – May 4) – Los Angeles to China to Vietnam to Cambodia to Malaysia to Nepal to Qatar to Germany to Denmark to Sweden to Norway to Toronto, Canada
 2014 (April 12 – May 4) – Vancouver to Japan to South Korea to India to UAE to Turkey to Hungary to Austria to Slovakia to Czech Republic to Poland to Chicago, USA
 2015 (April 10 – May 2) – Los Angeles to Fiji to Australia to Indonesia to Malaysia to UAE to Italy to Switzerland to France to Andorra to Spain to Colombia to Miami, USA
 2016 (April 15 – May 7) – Mexico City to Japan to India to Oman to Kenya to Poland to Lithuania to Estonia to Russia to Finland to Washington D.C., USA
 2017 (April 14 – May 6) – San Francisco to China to Vietnam to Thailand to Sri Lanka to Egypt to Brussels to England to Wales to Ireland to Iceland to New York City, USA
 2018 (April 13 – May 5) – San Francisco to Taiwan to India to Ethiopia to Zimbabwe/Zambia/Botswana/Namibia to South Africa to Argentina/Uruguay to Peru to USA
 2019 (April 12 – May 4) – Vancouver, Canada to Vietnam to Myanmar to Thailand to UAE to Jordan to Greece to Morocco to Spain to Gibraltar to Portugal to New York City, USA
 2023 (April 14 - May 6) – San Francisco to Seoul to Samarkand to Tbilisi to Jerusalem to Sofia to Zagreb to Istanbul to Montreal, Canada

Teams

Foundation
The world travel championship adventure competition also serves as a charitable fundraising event for humanitarian organizations through the Great Escape Foundation. The funding is used to build schools (mostly co-ed elementary) with organizations like Free The Children in developing nations such as: Kenya, Niger, Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone, India, Haiti, Ethiopia and Ecuador, and to finance micro-loans in conjunction with KIVA that have assisted over 3,700 families in 79 countries. The Foundation has also funded a medical clinic and midwife educational center in Niger in conjunction with the Nomad Foundation.

See also
 The Amazing Race
 Eco-Challenge
 Raid Gauloises
 Geocaching
 Teva Lea Race
 City Chase
 Great Urban Race

References

Citation overkill
Adventure travel
Adventure racing
Recurring events established in 2002


title: Gunter-Summers House

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Gunter-Summers House, also known as the Henry Jacob Summers House, is a historic home located at West Columbia, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was built in 1895, and is an I-house with Queen Anne style decorative elements with an Eastlake theme, notably the geometric banded frieze and geometric stained glass doors with running trim. It is a two-story, frame dwelling and has weatherboard siding and a brick pier foundation. The front façade features a two-tiered, full-width front porch.  Also on the property are a barn (c. 1900) and a smokehouse (c. 1910) with a braced overhanging front gable.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Queen Anne architecture in South Carolina
Houses completed in 1895
Houses in Lexington County, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Lexington County, South Carolina


title: War Front (horse)

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War Front (foaled February 11, 2002) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse. In 2006 he won the Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap and finished second in the Forego Handicap and Vosburgh Stakes. Since retiring from racing he has become one of the most expensive sires in the world. His offspring include Declaration of War, The Factor, Roly Poly, U S Navy Flag, Omaha Beach, Siege of Orleans and War of Will.

Background
War Front is a bay horse bred by Joseph Allen and was foaled on February 11, 2002 at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Kentucky. He was sired by Danzig, who won three minor races, but was then retired to stud undefeated as a result of knee problems. He went on to become a successful stallion and was champion sire of North America in 1991, 1992 and 1993. Amongst his other progeny are Chief's Crown, Dance Smartly, Danehill, Dayjur, Green Desert, Hard Spun and Lure. War Front's dam is Starry Dreamer, a daughter of Rubiano who won six races and was placed in a number of graded races. War Front was trained by H. Allen Jerkens.  At maturity he reached  high.

Racing career

2004: Two-year-old season
War Front made his racecourse debut on December 18, 2004 in a six-furlong maiden race at Aqueduct. He never challenged the leaders and finished in seventh place behind winner Diamond Wildcat. This was War Front's only race as a two-year-old.

2005: Three-year-old season
War Front's second race came on January 16, 2005 in a one-mile maiden at Aqueduct. After stumbling at the start he recovered to be up with the leaders. He raced three horses wide around the bend, before fading slightly in the final furlong, finishing in third place behind winner Tashdeed. War Front did not race again until August 31, when he was one of six horses to run in a six-furlong maiden at Saratoga. Jockey José Santos sent War Front into a clear lead and he drew away in the closing stages to win by over ten lengths from runner-up Master Command. War Front followed this up by winning an allowance race at Belmont Park on September 18. After being bumped by another horse at the start, he contested the lead for most of the race, before pulling clear in the home straight to win by six lengths from Stars Above. On October 10, War Front stepped up in class for the Princelet Stakes, which is run of one mile and half a furlong at Belmont Park. After racing near the front on the inside, he drew clear when José Santos got him to quicken, and won the race by eight lengths from Skagway. War Front's final race of 2005 was the Discovery Handicap, where he finished in sixth place behind winner Magna Graduate.

2006: Four-year-old season
On January 7, 2006, War Front finished second in the Mr. Prospector Handicap at Gulfstream Park, a neck behind winner Gaff. The following month, War Front started as favorite for the Deputy Minister Handicap. After racing near the front in the early stages, War Front drew clear inside the final furlong, but was caught near the line by winner Universal Form, finishing a length behind him in second place. War Front then had a break from racing, returning on July 16 for the Tom Fool Handicap, where he again finished as the runner-up, beaten a neck by Silver Train. On his next start, the Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap on August 12, War Front started as the favorite and was ridden by regular jockey José Santos. He was up near the front as the six-runner field as the field went into the turn, before accelerating to take the lead while racing four horses wide. In the finishing straight he pulled steadily away to win by two and a half lengths from Judiths Wild Rush, who was a further one and a half lengths clear of third-placed Mass Media. Three weeks later, War Front raced at Grade I level for the first time when he contested the Forego Handicap. He bumped with Silver Wagon at the start and then raced up with the pace. He challenged in the finishing stretch, but could not get past winner Pomeroy and faded in the final stages to finish in second place, two and a quarter lengths behind Pomeroy, and a neck ahead of third-placed Friendly Island. Later in the year, War Front finished second in the Vosburgh Stakes. In his final race he finished seventh behind winner Thor's Echo in the Breeders' Cup Sprint.

Stud career

War Front was retired to stud at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Kentucky. Expectations were initially moderate, and his stud fee dipped to a low of $10,000 in 2011. That same year though, his first crop turned age three and several of them became stakes winners, both in America on dirt and then in Europe on turf. "He started out with more of a reputation as a dirt sire", said Walker Hancock, president of Claiborne. "It wasn't until he had two winners at Royal Ascot (Declaration of War and War Command) on the same day that he got dubbed a turf sire."

Thanks in part to the support of Coolmore Stud, he started attracting better quality mares and his stud fee steadily increased. His stud fee for 2018 and 2019 was $250,000 (increased from $200,000 for 2016 and $150,000 for 2015 and 2014). This was tied for the highest fees in North America for 2019 and is among the highest in the world.

Notable progeny
His most notable progeny so far are:

c = colt, f = filly, g = gelding

Notes:

Pedigree

Note: b. = Bay, br. = Brown, ch. = Chestnut, gr. = Gray

References

2002 racehorse births
Racehorses bred in Kentucky
Racehorses trained in the United States
Thoroughbred family 4-r
American Grade 1 Stakes winners


title: The Monkey King 2

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The Monkey King 2 () is a 2016 Hong Kong-Chinese action fantasy film based on the classic 16th-century novel Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en. The film was shot in 3D and is a sequel to the 2014 box office hit The Monkey King with Cheang Pou-soi returning as director and Sammo Hung as action director, who replaces Donnie Yen's role from the previous installment. The film stars Aaron Kwok, who portrayed the main antagonist in the previous installment, as the film's titular protagonist, who also replaces Yen from the previous installment. It was released in the United States on 5 February, in Hong Kong on 6 February and in China on 8 February 2016. A sequel, The Monkey King 3, was released in China in 2018.

Plot

500 years after Sun Wukong's (Aaron Kwok) imprisonment under the Five Fingers Mountain, a young Buddhist monk Tang Sanzang (Feng Shaofeng) sets out for a journey to the Thunder Monastery in India to collect Buddha's scriptures. When he is attacked by a tiger, he is forced to free Wukong and the Monkey King learns that he has to protect the monk throughout the journey, because the Bodhisattva Guanyin ensured he would be bound by an enchanted circlet that can cause him pain whenever Tang Sanzang chants a certain sutra. Soon the duo meet Zhu Bajie (Xiaoshenyang), a lustful pig demon, and Sha Wujing (Him Law), a djinn-like monk. He fights a dragon, defeats it and transforms it into a horse as his mount.

The company travel to the Yun Hai Xi Kingdom, a land terrorized by the White Bone Demon (Gong Li) who has been eating people in order to extend her unnatural life and avoid the Wheel of Reincarnation. As the demoness learns about Sanzang, she decides to eat him in order to stop her reincarnation cycle and achieve everlasting demonhood. She takes the appearance of an old woman and lures the group into a cottage in the woods. To prevent Wukong from using his truth-seeking eyes to see through her disguise immediately, she throws tainted dust into his eyes that clouds his sight. Then while her disguised minions keep Wukong, Bajie and Wujing occupied, the demoness tells Sanzang a story about how she was forced to marry as a young girl, and when her village suffered famine, the people blamed her for it, even calling her an evil demon, and attempted to kill her as a sacrifice to the gods. As Tang comforts the old lady, she attempts to kill him, but is stopped by Wukong. The demoness escapes before Wukong can deal the killing blow and leaves the dead body of the old lady behind. Sanzang and the others don't believe Wukong that all the women he murdered were demons, and blame him for killing the innocent. Sanzang punishes Wukong by chanting the sutra and causing the circlet to tighten painfully on his head. Afterwards, Sanzang climbs to the top of a mountain where Wukong is sulking. Sanzang tells Wukong he thinks they are both very alike, for they both only trust what their own eyes sees. But together, they are better able to discern the truth. This is why they were all chosen to be on this journey together.

The group arrives to the kingdom's capital and the King (Fei Xiang) throws a feast for them, begging Sanzang to exorcise the bloodthirsty demoness from their land. Suddenly Lady White appears and demands the monk, but he offers her his help in enlightenment instead. She tells Wukong that they are both very alike, and tries to persuade Wukong to let her devour the monk, but he deceives her instead and a fight ensues. During the chaos, the King's guards kidnap Sanzang. It is revealed that it's actually been the King kidnapping and killing the children in a desperate attempt to cure himself of a cursed disease by drinking their blood. He tries to kill Sanzang, but Wukong arrives and saves the monk and the surviving children as well. All of the group are celebrated as heroes, but as a little girl approaches Sanzang, Wukong beats her and her mother to death as well, because his truth-seeking eyes perceive both were possessed by the White Bone Demon. In a fit of anger and disbelief, Tang banishes Wukong away. As soon as Wukong leaves, Sanzang gets kidnapped by the demoness.

In the demoness' lair, the White Bone Demon gives Sanzang a day to convince her to give up her evil ways and embrace nonviolence and enlightenment as the true path to immortality. She reveals to him the story she had told him earlier was true, recounting her previous life as a mortal. Right before Sanzang's time is up, he is saved by Wukong at the last minute. Wukong, Bajie and Wujing fight the White Bone Demon and her army and finally defeat her, with Wukong mortally wounding her. The Buddha comes down from the Heavens to collect the defeated demoness' soul and banish it to oblivion but Sanzang pleads Buddha to grant her mercy and give Sanzang one last chance to save her soul from destruction. Buddha tells him that he would have to lead her on the path herself, meaning he would have to sacrifice his own life. The monk begs the demoness to show remorse and accept the Wheel of Reincarnation, but the White Bone Demon would rather die as a broken tainted soul in Sanzang's body instead of returning to the Wheel of Reincarnation. Saddened, Tang begs Wukong to kill him, too. The Monkey King refuses at first, but Sanzang explains how he used to think he just had to recite Buddha's teachings to convince people to become good. Now he understands he must also lead by example and do good in order to convince people. Sanzang had to do this for his own journey towards enlightenment. Wukong finally understands the monk's desire to help the demoness change her fate, and tearfully agrees, promising Sanzang to wait for his return. Wukong brings his staff down and Sanzang's body is changed into a statue. In return Sanzang says if he gets a chance to do so in his next life, he would be glad to be Wukong's master again. Because of Sanzang's sacrifice, he succeeds in leading the demoness to her next reincarnation, freeing her of her pain and hatred.

Some time later, Wukong and his friends still wait for the return of the monk, but continue their journey to the Thunder Monastery. Wukong rides on Sanzang's horse with Sanzang's statue strapped to his back. From Heaven, Guanyin drops a bead of water from her magic vase that falls to earth and hits right at Sanzang's hand. The surface cracks, revealing a human finger underneath.

Cast

 Aaron Kwok as Sun Wukong, the Monkey King
 Feng Shaofeng as Tang Sanzang, the Buddhist monk
 Xiaoshenyang as Zhu Bajie, the pig demon
 Him Law as Sha Wujing, the water-spirit
 Gong Li as Baigujing, the White Bone Demon
 Fei Xiang as the king of Yun Hai Xi Kingdom (literally Western Kingdom of Sea of Clouds)
 Kelly Chen as Guan Yin, the Mercy Goddess (special appearance)
 Lu Weu, Xi'er Qi and Miya Muqi as the evil spirits snake, bat and porcupine.

Production

Development
After The Monkey King was released in January 2014, Filmko Entertainment announced a sequel in February. Chow Yun-fat was expected to reprise his role as the Jade Emperor in the sequel, but the character did not appear in the film.

Casting
Aaron Kwok, who portrayed the Bull Demon King in The Monkey King, portrayed Sun Wukong in the sequel, replacing Donnie Yen from the previous installment. To prepare for his role, Kwok took several months of martial arts training before the shoot. During filming, Kwok had to undergo six hours of makeup and an additional three hours to clean it up daily. Gong Li join to the cast in November, portraying the role of Baigujing, the White Skull Demoness. Additional cast members included Feng Shaofeng as Tang Sanzang, a role that was previously reported to be portrayed by Louis Koo, Xiaoshenyang as Zhu Bajie, and Him Law, who portrayed Muzha in the previous installment, as Sha Wujing.

Filming
Principal photography began in December 2014 in Wuxi Studio. The 3D supervisor Sean Kelly from The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit joined the production crew. Special makeup effects were supervised by Shaun Smith. Visual effects were supervised by Oscar-nominated VFX Supervisor Jacques Stroweis. Filmko Entertainment co-produced the film with an additional production companies. In February 2015, main cast members Kwok, Gong, Feng, Xiaoshenyang and Law took blessings at a Buddhist temple in Wuxi as the film was heading into the final stages of filming.

Release
On 24 December, the film held a press conference in Wuxi where it was attended by the film's producer Kiefer Liu, director Cheang Pou-soi, action director Sammo Hung, and main cast members Aaron Kwok, Gong Li, Feng Shaofeng, Xiaoshenyang, and Him Law. The Monkey King 2 was released on 8 February 2016, the first day of the Chinese New Year holiday period, which is also the first day of the Year of the Monkey.

Box office
The Monkey King 2 opened simultaneously with The Mermaid and From Vegas to Macau III in China and recorded an opening day of US$25 million.

Critical reception

Elizabeth Kerr of The Hollywood Reporter called the film "a fun spin on a well-worn legend". Maggie Lee of Variety called the film "less of a dud than the director's inane original". James Marsh of Screen Daily  describes the script and the video effects as an improvement on the previous film. Edward Lee of the South China Morning Post described it as a "vastly improved" sequel.

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 100% based on five reviews, with an average rating of 6.96/10.

Accolades

Sequel

A sequel, The Monkey King 3, was released in China on 16 February 2018. Zhao Liying was cast in the role of the Ruler of Women's Country. The original cast members of The Monkey King 2, Aaron Kwok, Feng Shaofeng, Xiaoshenyang, and Him Law, reprised their roles in the film.

References

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2016 films
2010s Mandarin-language films
2010s children's fantasy films
Chinese children's films
2016 3D films
2016 action films
2016 fantasy films
Chinese 3D films
Chinese fantasy comedy films
Demons in film
Films scored by Christopher Young
Films based on Journey to the West
Chinese mythology in popular culture
Films directed by Cheang Pou-soi
Hong Kong 3D films
Hong Kong action films
Hong Kong fantasy comedy films
Hong Kong martial arts films
Martial arts fantasy films
Chinese sequel films
2016 martial arts films
2010s Hong Kong films


title: Todd Moore

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Todd Labanes Moore (born December 30, 1983) is a retired American professional mixed martial artist. A professional competitor from 2005 until 2014, Moore fought in the WEC, Strikeforce, Titan FC, Legacy FC, and DREAM.

Background
Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Moore competed in wrestling for the inaugural team at Klein Forest High School and was talented. Without including Freestyle or Greco-Roman seasons, Moore compiled an overall record of 147–52. After graduating, Moore began training in mixed martial arts at the age of 18, learning Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and would earn his black belt eight and a half years later under Vinicius Magalhaes.

Mixed martial arts career

Early career
Moore compiled an undefeated amateur record of 7-0 before turning professional in 2005. Moore continued to dominate in the regional circuit, holding an undefeated record of 10-0 before being signed by the WEC.

WEC
Moore made his promotional debut at WEC 31 on December 12, 2007, against John Alessio. Moore was defeated via unanimous decision and was handed his first professional loss.

Moore made his next appearance at WEC 35 on August 3, 2008, in a Lightweight bout against Shane Roller. Moore was defeated via guillotine choke submission in the first round and was subsequently released from the promotion.

DREAM
After leaving the WEC, Moore signed with DREAM in Japan. Moore faced Japanese submission specialist Shinya Aoki at DREAM 6 on September 23, 2008, and was defeated via neck crank submission in the first round.

Strikeforce
Moore soon bounced back, however, winning three of his next four fights before being signed to a four-fight deal by Strikeforce.

Moore made his promotional debut at Strikeforce: Overeem vs. Werdum on June 18, 2011, against Mike Bronzoulis. Moore won via unanimous decision.

Moore made his next appearance against Jason High on September 23, 2011, at Strikeforce Challengers: Larkin vs. Rossborough. Moore was defeated via unanimous decision.

Independent promotions
Moore has since compiled a record of 2–1, with his most recent fight being a TKO loss to Bellator veteran Ricardo Tirloni on August 15, 2014.

Mixed martial arts record

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| E. J. Brooks
| Decision (unanimous)
| Titan FC 30: Brilz vs. Magalhaes
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| align=center| 5:00
| Cedar Park, Texas United States
|Catchweight (165 lb) bout.
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| Loss
| align=center| 16–6
| Ricardo Tirloni
| TKO (knees)
| Arena Tour 3: Moore vs. Tirloni
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| N/A
| Buenos Aires, Argentina
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| Win
| align=center| 16–5
| Edwynn Jones
| Submission (rear-naked choke)
| FF: Fury Fighting 1
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 2:53
| Humble, Texas, United States
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| Win
| align=center| 15–5
| Charles Ontiveros
| TKO (punches and elbows)
| LFC 18: Legacy Fighting Championship 18
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| align=center| 2
| align=center| 2:01
| Houston, Texas, United States
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| Loss
| align=center| 14–5
| Jason High
| Decision (unanimous)
| Strikeforce Challengers: Larkin vs. Rossborough
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| align=center| 3
| align=center| 5:00
| Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
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| Win
| align=center| 14–4
| Mike Bronzoulis
| Decision (unanimous)
| Strikeforce: Overeem vs. Werdum
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| align=center| 3
| align=center| 5:00
| Dallas, Texas, United States
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| Win
| align=center| 13–4
| Lee King
| TKO (punches)
| WG: Worldwide Gladiator
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| align=center| 0:36
| Pasadena, Texas, United States
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| Loss
| align=center| 12–4
| Brian Melancon
| TKO (punches)
| LP: Legacy Promotions
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| align=center| 1:00
| Houston, Texas, United States
|Return to Welterweight.
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| Win
| align=center| 12–3
| Derrick Krantz
| TKO (punches)
| Ascend Combat: It's On
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| align=center| 3
| align=center| 2:59
| Shreveport, Louisiana, United States
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| Win
| align=center| 11–3
| Rocky Johnson
| Decision (unanimous)
| KOK 6: Fists of Fury
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| align=center| 5:00
| Austin, Texas, United States
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| Loss
| align=center| 10–3
| Shinya Aoki
| Submission (neck crank)
| Dream 6: Middleweight Grand Prix 2008 Final Round
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 1:10
| Saitama, Japan
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| Loss
| align=center| 10–2
| Shane Roller
| Submission (guillotine choke)
| WEC 35
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 3:00
| Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
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| Loss
| align=center| 10–1
| John Alessio
| Decision (unanimous)
| WEC 31
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| align=center| 3
| align=center| 5:00
| Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
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| align=center| 10–0
| Jay Coleman
| TKO (punches)
| ROC 14: Tournament of Champions Finals
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| align=center| 0:52
| Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States
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| Win
| align=center| 9–0
| Colin O'Rourke
| TKO (elbows)
| ROC 13: Tournament of Champions Semifinals
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| Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States
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| align=center| 8–0
| Jamie Toney
| Decision (unanimous)
| ROC 12: Tournament of Champions Quarterfinals
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| Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States
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| align=center| 7–0
| Thomas Schulte
| TKO (punches)
| UTS 6: Ultimate Showdown 6
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| Texas, United States
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| align=center| 6–0
| Joe Christopher
| Decision (unanimous)
| UTS 5: Ultimate Texas Showdown 5
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| align=center| 5:00
| Texas, United States
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| align=center| 5–0
| TJ Waldburger
| Decision (unanimous)
| REF: Renegades Extreme Fighting
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| align=center| 3
| align=center| 5:00
| Houston, Texas, United States
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| align=center| 4–0
| Jeremiah O'Neal
| Decision
| UTS 4: Ultimate Texas Showdown 4
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| align=center| 3
| align=center| 5:00
| Texas, United States
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| align=center| 3–0
| Jody Draper
| TKO (punches)
| REF: Renegades Extreme Fighting
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 2:04
| Houston, Texas, United States
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| align=center| 2–0
| Frank Kirmse
| TKO (punches)
| REF: Renegades Extreme Fighting
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| align=center| 3
| align=center| 1:51
| Houston, Texas, United States
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| align=center| 1–0
| Lucas Gwaltney
| TKO (doctor stoppage)
| Shooto: Battle at the Ballpark 2
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| align=center| 1
| align=center| 1:51
| St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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Living people
1983 births
American male mixed martial artists
Welterweight mixed martial artists
Mixed martial artists utilizing wrestling
Mixed martial artists utilizing Brazilian jiu-jitsu
Mixed martial artists from Texas
American practitioners of Brazilian jiu-jitsu
People awarded a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu
Sportspeople from Spring, Texas


title: Shep Gordon

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Shep E. Gordon (born October 18, 1945) is an American talent manager, Hollywood film agent, and producer. Gordon is featured in a 2013 documentary, Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon, which was directed by Mike Myers.

Life and education
Gordon was born in 1945 to a Jewish family in Jackson Heights, Queens.

He obtained his B.A. in 1968 from the State University of New York at Buffalo in sociology. While attending, he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity. He attended The New School for Social Research for post-graduation work. He then moved to Los Angeles, California, taking on a job as a probation officer.

Music career
After being introduced to the band Alice Cooper by drummer Neal Smith's sister Cindy Smith, he and his partner Joe Greenberg began to manage the group in 1968.
Gordon went on to represent Anne Murray, Blondie, Teddy Pendergrass, Luther Vandross, Ben Vereen, Burton Cummings, The Calloways, Difford and Tilbrook, Frankie Valli, Gary Wright, George Clinton, Gipsy Kings, Groucho Marx, Jean-Luc Ponty, Johnny Clegg, Kenny Loggins, King Sunny Ade, Lisa Fischer, Majek Fashek, Maurice White, Michelle Shocked, Mtume, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Pink Floyd, Pointer Sisters, Raquel Welch, Rick James, Sarah Miles, Stephanie Mills and Yvonne Elliman.  He continues to manage Alice Cooper to this day without a contract.

Gordon was a partner with Sammy Hagar (of Van Halen) on Cabo Wabo Tequila. He also partnered with Willie Nelson to create Old Whiskey River Bourbon.

Culinary career
In 1993 Gordon created Alive Culinary Resources, the first talent agency to represent chefs. In the words of Emeril Lagasse, “He single-handedly created celebrity chefs." His client list has included Celestino Drago, Charlie Trotter, Daniel Boulud, Dean Fearing, Emeril Lagasse, Jimmy Schmidt, Jonathan Waxman, Larry Forgione, Lydia Shire, Mark Miller, Mark Tarbell, Nobu Matsuhisa, Peter Merriman, Piero Selvaggio, Pino Luongo, Rovert Del Grande, Roger Vergé, Roy Yamaguchi, Sam Choy, Wolfgang Puck, and Alan Wong.

Restaurant partnerships
He has partnered in legendary restaurants including Tribeca Grill, Carlos'n Charlie's, Spice Market, and Maui Tacos (sold to Blimpie).

Gordon and Roy Yamaguchi were the Outback Steakhouse franchisees for Hawaii, and are now partnered in Humble Market Kitchen at the Wailea Beach Resort.

Speaking engagements
Gordon has spoken at various events; SXSW, Summit at Sea, and 92Y. He delivered the 2015 baccalaureate address at the Culinary Institute of America.

Film career
Gordon's first film as a producer, The Duellists, won the Cannes Film Festival in 1977. He went on to create one of the first independent film production companies in the U.S., Alive Films, who made Roadie (1980) starring Meat Loaf. In 1983, Alive formed a partnership with Island Records to create Island Alive who made and distributed films including Koyaanisqatsi, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Stop Making Sense and Choose Me. The partnership was dissolved in 1985. Whales of August was produced after the split.

Gordon also was Executive Producer on Wes Craven's Shocker and The People Under The Stairs, as well as John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness and Village of the Damned.

Mike Myers directed Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon, a documentary on Shep's life, distributed theatrically by The Weinstein Company in 2013.  It featured Michael Douglas, Sylvester Stallone, Alice Cooper, Steven Tyler, Willie Nelson and Sammy Hagar.

Gordon's memoir is titled, They Call Me Supermensch: A Backstage Pass to the Amazing Worlds of Film, Food, and Rock 'n' Roll. It was released on September 20, 2016, published through Anthony Bourdain's HarperCollins imprint, and debuted on the New York Times Best Seller List.

Awards
University at Buffalo Distinguished Alumni Award
Hawaii Restaurant Association Hall Of Fame Inductee
Maui Film Festival Maverick Award
Fest Forward Lifetime Achievement Award
National Conference of Personal Managers Hall of Fame Inductee
Tibet Fund Friend of Tibet Award
Hawaii European Cinema Maverick Award
Hawaii Food And Wine Festival Honoree
The Culinary Institute of America Leadership Award

Philanthropy
Gordon serves on the board of the Tibet Fund with the Dalai Lama, and has had the honor of cooking for him on numerous occasions. He produced a visit of the Dalai Lama to State University of New York at Buffalo in 2006 and Maui in 2007. Gordon produces an annual benefit dinner in Maui, and has provided over 1,000,000 meals for those in need since 2008.

Gordon serves on the boards of The Maui Arts and Cultural Center, Reel FX, and the Tibet Fund. In 2017, he became a trustee of The Culinary Institute of America.

References

External links
 NPR's Fresh Air for June 9 2014

1945 births
Film producers from New York (state)
Living people
People from Jackson Heights, Queens
University at Buffalo alumni
Talent managers
Philanthropists from New York (state)


title: Their Greatest Hits

text:
Their Greatest Hits may refer to:

 Their Greatest Hits (Hot Chocolate album), 1993
 Their Greatest Hits: The Record, 2001 album by the Bee Gees
 Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975), 1976 album by Eagles


title: Charlton Rauch House

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Charlton Rauch House is a historic home located at Lexington, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was built in 1886, and is a -story, frame vernacular  Queen Anne style house with an irregular plan and a gable roof. It is sheathed in weatherboard and has a one-story rear wing. the front façade features a one-story, hip roofed porch with a second-story, shed-roofed porch; a two-story polygonal bay; and a hip-roofed, three-story, projecting polygonal bay. Its owner Charlton Rauch operated a livery stable and was a cotton buyer and dealer in general merchandise.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Queen Anne architecture in South Carolina
Houses completed in 1886
Houses in Lexington County, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Lexington County, South Carolina


title: Stefanos Chandakas

text:
Stefanos Chandakas (; born 27 March 1972) is a Greek sailor, who represented his country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He was born in Athens. Chandakas took the 18th place in Soling class with crew member Panagiotis Alevras and helmsman Stavros Alevras.

References

1972 births
Living people
Sailors (sport) from Athens
Greek male sailors (sport)
Olympic sailors for Greece
Sailors at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Soling


title: My Hawaiian Discovery

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is a 2014 Japanese romantic comedy film directed by Koji Maeda and starring Nana Eikura, Rin Takanashi, Koji Seto, and Ryo Kase. It was released on 14 June 2014.

Cast
Nana Eikura
Rin Takanashi
Koji Seto
Ryo Kase
Sosuke Ikematsu
Shingo Tsurumi
Jun Yoshinaga

Reception
The film has grossed ¥19.9 million in Japan.

On Film Business Asia, Derek Elley gave the film a rating of 6 out of 10, calling it a "rambling but likeable rom-com".

References

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2014 romantic comedy films
2014 films
Japanese romantic comedy films
2010s Japanese films


title: Casey Moss

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Casey Allen Moss  is an American actor and singer. He is known for playing the role of JJ Deveraux on the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives.

His portrayal of JJ Deveraux earned him a nomination for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series in 2018.

Career
Moss began his acting career on May 3, 2013, by joining the NBC soap opera, Days of Our Lives. Prior to that, in 2012, he had modeled for James Tudor underwear. He is also in a band called "Eyes of One." They released their first EP, "Reconnection," in May 2014. In June 2015, Moss was announced as Jonathan Lipnicki's replacement as Tyler Dean on the teen television series, Youthful Daze. In December 2016, he was cast in the film 'The Last Champion' as Scott Baker. The movie was directed by Glenn Withrow.

Personal life
Moss was born in Hanford, California, on November 16, 1993.  At the age of 16, he moved to Los Angeles with his father to pursue a career in music. In his spare time, he plays as much music as possible.

He has been dating his former Days of Our Lives co-star True O'Brien since 2015. In 2022, the couple announced their engagement.

Filmography

Nominations

References

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21st-century American male actors

Living people
People from Hanford, California
American male soap opera actors
Male actors from California