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Do you have a societal example of WHERE status/non-functional diversity has been a good thing. You went to a gay bar and it was okay is not what I am asking for and you are aware of that Imported hollywood actors, and exported American films.
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http://www.blackinventor.com/pages/daniel-williams.html.
Daniel Hale Williams was born on January 18, 1856 in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. He Daniel was apprenticed to a shoemaker in Baltimore but ran away to join his mother who had moved to Rockford, Illinois. He later moved to Edgerton, Wisconsin where he joined his sister and opened his own barber shop. After moving to nearby Janesville, Daniel became fascinated with a local physician and decided to follow his path. He began working as an apprentice to the physician (Dr. Henry Palmer) for two years and in 1880 entered what is now known as Northwestern University Medical School. After graduation from Northwestern in 1883, he opened his own medical office in Chicago, Illinois.
Because of primitive social and medical circumstances existing in that era, much of Williams early medical practice called for him to treat patients in their homes, including conducting occasional surgeries on kitchen tables. In doing so, Williams utilized many of the emerging antiseptic, sterilization procedures of the day and thereby gained a reputation for professionalism. He was soon appointed as a surgeon on the staff of the South Side Dispensary and then a clinical instructor in anatomy at Northwestern. In 1889 he was appointed to the Illinois State Board of Health and one year later set for to create an interracial hospital.
On January 23, 1891 Daniel Hale Williams established the Provident Hospital and Training School Association, a three story building which held 12 beds and served members of the community as a whole.
The school also served to train Black nurses and utilized doctors of all races. Within its first year, 189 patients were treated at Provident Hospital and of those 141 saw a complete recovery, 23 had recovered significantly, three had seen change in their condition and 22 had died. For a brand new hospital, at that time, to see an 87% success rate was phenomenal considering the financial and health conditions of the patient, and primitive conditions of most hospitals. Much can be attributed to Williams insistence on the highest standards concerning procedures and sanitary conditions.
Two and a half years later, on July 9, 1893, a young Black man named James Cornish was injured in a bar fight, stabbed in the chest with a knife. By the time he was transported to Provident Hospital he was seeking closer and closer to death, having lost a great deal of blood and having gone into shock. Williams was faced with the choice of opening the man's chest and possibly operating internally when that was almost unheard of in that day in age. Internal operations were unheard of because any entrance into the chest or abdomen of a patient would almost surely bring with it resulting infection and therefore death. Williams made the decision to operate and opened the man's chest. He saw the damage to the man's pericardium (sac surrounding the heart) and sutured it, then applied antiseptic procedures before closing his chest. Fifty one days later, James Cornish walked out of Provident Hospital completely recovered and would go on to live for another fifty years. Unfortunately, Williams was so busy with other matters, he did not bother to document the event and others made claims to have first achieved the feat of performing open heart surgery. Fortunately, local newspapers of the day did spread the news and Williams received the acclaim he deserved. It should be noted however that while he is known as the first person to perform an open heart surgery, it is actually more noteworthy that he was the first surgeon to open the chest cavity successfully without the patient dying of infection. His procedures would therefore be used as standards for future internal surgeries.
In February 1894, Daniel Hale Williams was appointed as Chief Surgeon at the Freedmen's Hospital in Washington, D.C. and reorganized the hospital, creating seven medical and surgical departments, setting up pathological and bacteriological units, establishing a biracial staff of highly qualified doctors and nurses and established an internship program. Recognition of his efforts and their success came when doctors from all over the country traveled to Washington to view the hospital and to sit in on surgery performed there. Almost immediately there was an astounding increase in efficiency as well as a decrease in patient deaths.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanderbilt_family.:The Vanderbilt family is a significant international family with Dutch origins. Highly prominent during the 19th century due to family patriarch Cornelius Vanderbilt's railroad and shipping empires, the family is known for 'building America's railroads'. Cornelius Vanderbilt's descendants went on to build great Fifth Avenue mansions, Newport, Rhode Island "summer cottages," the famous Biltmore House and various other exclusive homes. Vanderbilt family members were leaders of the high society scene and the Gilded Age until the early 20th century, when the ten great Fifth Avenue mansions were torn down and other Vanderbilt homes were sold or turned into museums.
Branches of the family are found on the United States East Coast as well as in the United Kingdom. Contemporary descendants include fashion designer Gloria Vanderbilt, her son journalist Anderson Cooper, and musician John P. Hammond.
Gay successful people, who mix nicely within America: Barney Frank, Ellen Degeneres, Anderson Couper, etc... http://www.queerattitude.com/society/famous.php.
•Portia de Rossi (Ally McBeal; Nelle)
•Cynthia Nixon (Sex & The City; Miranda)
•Alex Parks (Fame Academy)
•Jill Jackson (Speedway)
•Rupert Everett (Shrek, My Best Friend's Wedding)
•Martina Navratilova (Tennis player)
•Jake Shears (Scissor Sisters)
•Marc Almond (Soft Cell)
•Peaches (musician)
•Tegan and Sara Quin (Tegan & Sara, band)
•Robert Stadlober (Summer Storm, De: Sommersturm)
•Robert Newton (athlete)
•Mark Feehily (Westlife)
•John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig & The Angry Inch, Shortbus)
•Anne Heche (actor)
•Darren Hayes (Savage Garden)
•Rhona Cameron (comedian)
•Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan (TV interior design couple)
•Edwin Morgan (Scottish national poet)
•Evan Davis (journalist, Dragons' Den (UK) presenter)
•Scott Mills (BBC Radio 1 DJ)
•Russell T Davies (writer; Queer As Folk, Dr Who)
•Derren Brown (magician, illusionist)
•Lance Bass (N Sync)
•Ricky Martin (musician)
•Duncan James [bisexual] (Blue)
•Sean Hayes (Will & Grace; Jack)
•Luke Macfarlane (Brothers & Sisters; Scotty)
•Adam Lambert (singer)
•Russell Tovey (actor; Being Human, History Boys)
•and specifically some more non-caucasians...
•Kele Okereke (Bloc Party) (one of the few British black, gay-and-out celebs)
•George Hosato Takei (StarTrek; Sulu) (Asian)
•Wanda Sykes (American writer, actress, comedian) (black)
•Darryl Stephens (Noah's Arc; Noah Nicholson) (black)
Lest we forget, phillosophers, Artists, Politicians who were great/mixed well, worldwide.
Increased racial harmony, with noted hair on fire behavior by people who hate that (fun to watch).  M
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