Stuff About Starfish

What Are Starfish?

Starfish are animals in the water who are shaped like a star. They belong to the Asteroidea family and are also known as "Sea Stars". They typically have 5 arms but in some cases they may have 6. The aboral or upper surface may be smooth, granular or spiny, and is covered with overlapping plates. A lot of starfish species are brightly colored with reds and oranges, although some may be blue grey and even brown.

Cool Starfish Facts

Starfish can survive up to 35 years in the wild.

Common feature for all starfish is that their body is symmetrical.

The Starfish is a carnivore ( eats meat) they eat clams, they also have two stomachs and one of those stomachs can be pushed in and outside of the body while the starfish is eating (kind of gross but cool).

Starfish mouth is located on the underside of its body.

Starfish move by using these things called tube-feet they stretch very slowly till they get somewhere.

They can be basically any size from huge to very tiny.

The starfish are prey to sea otters, rays, sharks and even seagulls.

Starfish have characteristics of both genders but can actually change gender's when they get older.

Believe it or not the name "Starfish" comes from them being shaped like a star.

They aren't even related to fish in the slightest they just couldn't name it star that would get too confusing.

If they ever loose a limb they can easily grow it back so they have a new one and that is pretty cool.

Some species of Starfish can have up to 40 arms. (talk about multi-tasking)

There are thousands of species in the Starfish family.

Even though these are living creatures they actually do not have any sort of blood.

Despite no blood they do have eyes I mean they do need to see to know where their food is.




Why I wrote About Starfish

Me and my mother went to a restaurant and they had a live Starfish in the tank along with some other really cool fish. We tried to see it move but we failed.

People Who Helped the LGBT Community

First off let me just say that this day is an amazing one and I bet we can all guess why. The Supreme court legalize same-sex marriage and that is awesome. Woo Hoo! This needs to be some sort of national holiday for the LGBT community and all of the other people whom support it. But anyways lets get back to the topics of this blog. I will talk about three people who helped the LGBT community so here we go!


Harry Hay

Harry Hay was born April 7, 1912 in Sussex England. Although he was born in England his nationality is American. Harry Hay conceived the idea of a homosexual activist group in August 1948. After signing a petition Progressive party (i don't know what that is but ok). He spoke with other gay men at a party about forming a gay support organization which is a pretty neat idea. He wanted to call the organization "Bachelors For Wallace". He got good responses and wrote organizing principles that night he called it "The Call". Although the men he asked he spoke to the following morning and they were not impressed. Over the next two years, Hay refined his idea, finally conceiving of an "international...fraternal order" to serve as "a service and welfare organization devoted to the protection and improvement of Society's Androgynous Minority", the latter being a term that he later rejected. He planned to call this organization "Bachelors Anonymous". Hay met Rudi Gernreich in July 1950, with the pair soon entering a relationship. Rudi became a financial supporter for the organization but he didn't include his name and he went by "R". On November 11, 1950 the first meeting was held. Later the name of the organization was changed to the "Mattachine Society". Harry Hay died October 24, 2002 in San Francisco he was 90 years old.


Christine Jorgensen

Christine Jorgensen was born May 30, 1926 originally named George William Jorgensen Jr. Her parents were George William Jorgensen Sr and Florence Davis Hansen. Christine was a transsexual man who wanted to become a woman. When she returned from working with the military she heard about SRS (Sexual Reassignment Surgery). She began to take female hormones She wanted to go to Sweden cause at the time that was the only place they could do SRS. On September 24, 1951, surgeons at Gentofte Hospital in Copenhagen performed an orchiectomy on her. 13 months later on In November 1952 doctors at Copenhagen University Hospital performed a penectomy on her. She then returned to the United States and eventually obtained a vaginoplasty when the procedure became available there. She entered the public eye after her transformation and encouraged other transsexual people to go through with the surgery. She died May 3, 1989 at the age of 62.


Harvey Milk

Harvey milk was born May 22, 1930 in New York. He was an American politician who was the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California.He was not open about his sexuality and he didn't participate in civic matters until he was around the age of 40. He served almost 11 months in office and he was also responsible for passing stringent gay rights ordinance for the city. On November 27, 1978 him and the mayor were assassinated by a man named Dan White he was another cities supervisor. He was aged 48 at the time.

LGBT Pride Month

What Is LGBT Pride Month?

This is a month dedicated to being against discrimination toward the Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Transsexual people, it is also used to celebrate sexual diversity.

Stonewall Riots

On an early Saturday morning June, 28 1968 some members of the LGBT community rioted this followed a police raid in the Stonewall Inn. The Stonewall Inn was a gay bar in New York City. This riot and other riots were a watershed moment in modern LGBT rights movements. This also helped organize LGBT marches on a bigger public scale.

Interesting Things to Know:

* Nov 2, 1969-  Craig Rodwell, Fred Sargeant, Ellen Broidy, and Linda Rhodes proposed the first pride march in New York City

* Eastern Regional Conference of Homophile Organizations (ERCHO)

The ERCHO meeting in Philadelphia voted for the march members of the Gay Liberation Front attended the meeting and were seated as guests. They had meetings that were to organize the march and they started in January at Rodwell's apartment. It was hard getting some of the organizations to send representatives such as Gay Activists Alliance.  

Brenda Howard is known as "The Mother of Pride" because of her work which was coordinating the march. She also came up with the idea for a week-long series of events around Pride Day which became the genesis of the annual LGBT Pride celebrations that are now held around the world every June. She also help make the word "Pride" be popularized with the festivals.

Pride Month

The month of June was chosen to remember the Stonewall Riots. These occurred at the end of June 1969. Many pride events are held during this month to recognize the impact the LGBT community has had on the world. On several occasions, the President of the United States has officially declared a Pride Month. First, President Bill Clinton declared June "Gay & Lesbian Pride Month" on June 2, 2000. Then, in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 President Barack Obama declared June Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month.

Cool Facts

- Spain  names equal same-sex unions “matrimonio”

-In August 2011, Sao Paulo city alderman Carlos Apolinário of the right-wing Democrats Party sponsored a bill to organize and sponsor "Heterosexual Pride Day" on the third Sunday of December. This bill was passed by the city council. 

-Google marked any LGBT related search results with a rainbow colored pattern underneath them. This happened in June of 2012.