George Choy Chicken Pasta

This recipe is derived from Veal picata! However this has neither veal nor capers! It is a creamy chicken pasta, easy to make and interestingly different. Here we honor a LGBT hero who worked hard for gay Asians and Pacific Islanders. Read a short story about George Choy after the recipe.

In the place of seldom used capers, here we rely on the flavors of lemon, thyme, and dried cranberries! Try this beautiful meal on your table.

Ingredients:

1 Tbs olive oil

About 1 and a half Lbs boneless skinless chicken, cut into bite-size pieces

¼ tsp each: Salt & pepper

2 tsp. finely chopped garlic

3 cups chicken broth (no salt added)

2 tsp. grated lemon peel and 2 Tbs lemon juice (from 1 large lemon)

8 oz uncooked pasta, here I used tri colored bowties

¼ cup craisans &

1 tsp fresh thyme leaves, crushed

½ cup non fat half & half

Chopped parsley, if desired

Directions: 

 

Do your cutting: cut up chicken into 1-2 inch pieces. Mince the garlic. Then with your fingers, rub the leaves off of the thyme with a stroke from tip to base.

In 4-quart Dutch oven, heat olive oil over medium-high heat. Season chicken with salt and pepper; cook 5 to 7 minutes, stirring frequently, until chicken is no longer pink. 

 

Add garlic; cook 30 to 60 seconds, stirring constantly, until fragrant. 

 

Add chicken broth, lemon juice, and pasta; heat to boiling. 

 

Place the thyme leaves in your palm and crush with thumb, then add.

Reduce heat to medium; simmer 10 to 12 minutes, stirring occasionally, until most of liquid is absorbed and pasta is al dente.

Cooking the pasta in the pot with cause the sauce to thicken.

Stir in the half & half; cook just until heated through. 

 

Stir in grated lemon peel; serve warm.

Garnish with parsley.

Can can add lemon zest and stir in grated Parmesan cheese at the end.

What a beautiful meal to present. Add a green vegetable if you wish.

For our music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1b8AhIsSYQ

So proud of My Master Indy!

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George Choy

George Choy was a passionate advocate of civil and human rights for LGBTQ communities of San Francisco and around the world. He believed that we are “part of the family, too.” Choy became “a constant supportive presence who delivered with action, an activist impatient with injustice, but who nevertheless possessed the rare gift of forgiving.”

Being born on February 6, 1960, Choy described himself as an “Acqueerian”. He realized and accepted his homosexuality during the summer after he graduated from San Francisco’s Mission High School. Instead of feeling guilty, “instead of lying to myself and others,” he told himself to “be happy and love who[m] you want.”

His insight and perception were transformative. “I was free,” he wrote later. “I no longer hid from my straight schoolmates about my sexuality.” He told his two closest friends, hoping they would “support me.” Both did. He was best man at their weddings, and they remained lifelong confidants.

Choy grew up in Chinatown, across the street from the International Hotel. He saw the need for activism early on. His home was in what was once the heart of San Francisco’s Philippine community. The Filipino seniors who lived there were forcibly evicted for an “urban renewal” project during the 1970s. Their protests to save their homes and preserve their community left an indelible impression on him. This area was about ten blocks of low-cost housing, stores, restaurants, markets, and other businesses that supported a neighborhood of some 10,000 people.

Believing that we belong to a larger world than described by our ethnic, religious, or social identifications, Choy wanted to make connections across these artificial barriers to show our common humanity. Choy was especially committed to achieving full civil and human rights for LGBTQ Asians, he became an early and active member of San Francisco’s Gay Asian Pacific Alliance (GAPA).

Choy also supported queer youth—an often neglected, a minority within a minority. In the Spring of 1990, he was asked to lead GAPA’s effort to pass Project 10, a measure to provide much-needed counseling services for San Francisco’s LGBTQ public school students. He knew that there were still “those who experienced gay-related violence,” including some “attacked by family members because of their sexuality.”

The proposal faced opposition. It was claimed that it was either unnecessary or inappropriate, or not fundable. Choy, however, stressed its importance for all students, especially for Gay Asians. “We have to be there,” he said, “to make sure they know that there are Gay Asians.” “They” included not only members of the school board and the mostly white gay activists who supported the proposal, but it also included Asian Christian fundamentalists, who had come out in full force against the measure, arguing the service was not needed because there were “no gay Asians.”

During the critical meeting on the proposal, Choy made an impassioned plea for it to pass. He argued that Gay Asians were “not to be taken for granted,” but to be “loved, saved, and protected.” In May 1990, the Board of Education decided unanimously to implement Project 10 the following September. “This program,” said Kevin Gogin, the first counselor hired, “will send a message that all people are important, no matter who they are.”

Choy’s campaign supporting civil rights for gay Asians went far beyond San Francisco. In 1991, GAPA supported a lawsuit against a public youth activity center in Tokyo, which denied the use of its facilities to OCCUR, a local LGBTQ organization. When members of OCCUR visited San Francisco to gain support for their anti-discrimination case against the Japanise government, Choy became their point person. He organized press conferences, held meetings, and got local political figures involved.

Then he traveled to Japan to speak about human rights for gays to large audiences in Tokyo and Osaka, one of San Francisco’s sister cities. Choy was a passionate advocate of civil and human rights for members of the LGBTQ communities of San Francisco and around the world. Driven by the belief that we are “part of the family, too,” he became “a constant supportive presence who delivered with action, an activist impatient with injustice, but who nevertheless possessed the rare gift of forgiving.”

At the same time, Choy became the Community HIV Project Liaison for GAPA. He was the outreach coordinator for the GAPA Community Health Project, which provided direct support services to gay Asians and Pacific Islanders. His efforts included prevention, education, early intervention, HIV case management, emotional and practical support, and direct care. He also was an active and ardent member of ACT UP. More than anything else, he showed what a single individual can do for the benefit of us all.

Choy passed from complications of HIV in1993.

Choy often spoke of what he had learned since that summer after high school. “Deep inside each of us,” he told his audiences, “burns a special flame…which other people misunderstand…But we, as gay and lesbian people, understand…that we have a special capacity to love one another. We understand that this love is real and valid. We understand that this special flame will light the way for us…Continue to fan the flame, strong, proud, and just.”

Choy was among the inaugural twenty honored with a bronze plaque in San Francisco's rainbow Honor Walk.

We are proud of you George!

Edie Windsor Baked Chicken Thighs

These are crispy and juicy make for the perfect weeknight meal! This chicken recipe is much healthier than traditional fried chicken – you’ll love it. We honor LGBT Hero Edith "Edie" Windsor with this, be sure to read about her.

Oven “fried” chicken CAN be crispy! Try this for some “down home” goodness. This can be modified easily for the best crispy wings you'll ever make.

Ingredients:

4 chicken thighs, bone-in and skin-on

2 Tbs olive oil

2 tsp garlic powder

2 tsp onion powder

1 ½ tsp paprika

1 tsp dried oregano

1 tsp dried thyme

1 tsp salt

½ tsp black pepper

1tsp salt + 1 Tbs baking powder


Directions:

Stir 1 tsp salt and1 tsp baking powder together in a large bowl. Add the chicken wings and toss well to coat. Cover and chill the wings for 2 hours, but not much longer.

Remove thighs and rinse, then pat the chicken dry with paper towels. Let sit to come to room temperature.

Preheat your oven to 425F. A higher temperature makes the skin extra crispy.

Line a rimed baking sheet with foil and spray a cooking rack well for the chicken.

In a small bowl mix all of the herbs and spices together. When oven comes to temperature, line a rimed baking sheet with foil and spray a rack to sit the chicken on. A rack on top of a baking sheet allows the air to circulate around the chicken making it crispier.

Add oil to a wide mouthed bowl and dip each piece in on both sides to coat the piece. Place on the rack leave even space between each piece.

Sprinkle the spice mix on top of the chicken. 

 

Bake the chicken thighs for 35-40 minutes or until the internal temp. reaches 160 degrees. You can also turn on the top broiler for 2-3 minutes to make the top extra crispy. Let the chicken rest for 5 minutes before serving.

Here I roasted some fresh green beans on a lower rack for 20 minutes.

While the chicken rested, I fixed some mashed potatoes.

What a much healthier way to get crisp chicken.

For our music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vu2tyk8cvc&list=PLAIV0dLl8IN-gZzwSnKh4R9pNspXrQ1d8&index=61

So honored to serve this to my Master Indy.

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To nourish, support and maintain.

To gratify, spoil, comfort and please,

to nurture, assist, and sustain

…..I cook!

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Edith "Edie" Windsor 

Edie was an American LGBT rights activist and a technology manager at IBM. She was the lead plaintiff in the 2013 Supreme Court of the United States case United States v. Windsor, which overturned Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act and was considered a landmark legal victory for the same-sex marriage movement in the United States. The Obama Administration and federal agencies extended rights, privileges, and benefits to married same-sex couples because of the decision. 

Windsor was born in Philadelphia, to James and Celia Schlain, a Russian Jewish immigrant family of modest means. She was the youngest of three children. Throughout school, she dated boys her age, but said later she recalls having crushes on girls. 

Windsor received her bachelor's degree in 1950, and a master's degree in mathematics, in 1957. She then joined IBM. 

Career

Windsor began her career at IBM as a mainframe programmer. In 1968, she became a Senior Systems Programmer. Windsor worked at IBM for 16 years and was well-known around IBM for her "top-notch debugging skills." She received the first IBM PC delivered in New York City. However, the company rejected her insurance form naming her partner Thea Spyer as a beneficiary. 

 

In 1975, Windsor left IBM and became the founding president of PC classics, a consulting firm specializing in software development projects. During this time consulting, Windsor helped many LGBTQ groups become "tech literate." She helped many LGBTQ organizations computerize their mail systems.

Personal life

Saul Windsor was Edie's older brother's best friend. They went to college together and during their third year, Saul proposed marriage and Edie accepted. Their relationship ended at one time during the engagement when Windsor fell in love with a female classmate. However, after Windsor decided she did not want to live as a lesbian, they reconciled and got married after graduation, in May 1951. They divorced less than one year afterward, and she confided in him that she longed to be with women. Shortly after her divorce, Windsor left Philadelphia for New York City.

Windsor met Thea Spyer, an Amsterdam-born psychologist, in 1963. When they initially met, each was already in a relationship. They occasionally saw each other at events over the next two years, but it was not until a trip to the East End of Long Island in 1965 that they began dating.

To help keep the relationship a secret from her co-workers, Windsor invented a relationship with Spyer's fictional brother Willy— who was a childhood doll belonging to Windsor. In 1967, Spyer asked Windsor to marry, although it was not yet legal anywhere in the United States. Fearing that a traditional engagement ring might expose Windsor's sexual orientation to her coworkers, Spyer instead proposed with a circular diamond pin.

Six months after getting engaged, Windsor and Spyer moved into an apartment in Greenwich Village. In 1968, they purchased a small house on Long Island together, where they went on vacation for the following forty summers. The couple often took trips both in the United States and internationally.

In June 1969, Windsor and Spyer returned from a vacation in Italy to discover the Stonewall Riots had begun the night before. In the following years, the couple publicly participated in LGBT marches and events. They also lent their Cadillac convertible to LGBT rights organizations.

She volunteered for the Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, the East End Gay Organization, and helped found Old Queers Acting Up. She served on the board of Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE) from 1986 to 1988 and again from 2005 to 2007.

In 1977, Spyer was diagnosed with progressive multiple sclerosis. The disease caused a gradual, but ever-increasing paralysis. Windsor used her early retirement to become a full-time caregiver for Spyer.

Windsor and Spyer entered a domestic partnership in New York City in 1993. Registering on the first available day, they were issued certificate number eighty.

Spyer suffered a heart attack in 2002 and was diagnosed with aortic stenosis. In 2007, her doctors told her she had less than a year to live. New York had not yet legalized same-sex marriage, so the couple opted to marry in Toronto, Canada, on May 22, 2007, with Canada's first openly gay judge, Justice Harvey Brownstone, presiding. 

An announcement of their wedding was published in the New York Times. Every night before Spyer got into bed, Windsor put an oxygen mask on her, the last step in a two-hour process that enabled her to sleep. “But I was never her nurse—I’m her lover!” Windsor said. “I was just doing things to make her comfortable. And that was with loving her and digging her.” 

She was by Spyer’s side when she died, at home in bed, in 2009. After Spyer's death, Windsor was hospitalized with stress cardiomyopathy. 

Windsor became the executor and sole beneficiary of Spyer's estate, via a revocable trust. Windsor was required to pay $363,053 in federal estate taxes on her inheritance of her wife's estate. Had federal law recognized the validity of their marriage, Windsor would have qualified for an unlimited spousal deduction and paid no federal estate taxes.

Windsor sought to claim the federal estate tax exemption for surviving spouses. She was barred from doing so by Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The Internal Revenue Service found that the exemption did not apply to same-sex marriages, denied Windsor's claim, and compelled her to pay.

In 2010 Windsor filed a lawsuit against the federal government in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, seeking a refund because DOMA singled out legally married same-sex couples for "differential treatment compared to other similarly situated couples without justification." In 2012, Judge Barbara S. Jones ruled that Section 3 of DOMA was unconstitutional under the due process guarantees of the Fifth Amendment and ordered the federal government to issue the tax refund, including interest. The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed in a 2–1 decision later in 2012. 

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case on March 2013, and in June of that year issued a 5–4 decision affirming that Section 3 of DOMA was unconstitutional "as a deprivation of the liberty of the person protected by the Fifth Amendment."

It would be just two more years before the Supreme Court declared same-sex marriage legal nationwide. 

In September 2016, Windsor married Judith Kasen at New York City Hall. At the time of the wedding, Windsor was age 87 and Kasen was age 51.

Just slightly less than a year later, Windsor's wife Judith Kasen-Windsor confirmed that Windsor had died in Manhattan, but did not specify a cause. She was 88.

Next month, Windsor's memoir A Wild and Precious Life will be published by St. Martin's Press. 

“If you have to outlive a great love,” Windsor said, “I can’t think of a better way to do it than being everybody’s hero.” 

Cole Porter Cheeseburger Mini Meat Loaves

These mini-meatloaves prove that good things come in small packages; when that package includes both meatloaf and cheese, you can be sure that even the picky eaters will go back for seconds. We dedicate to an LGBT Hero who is said to have been our greatest song writer on the 20^th century, Cole Porter. Read about him after the recipe.

Try these wonderful little portions for your next big meal, or just keep and freeze the extra's for a single serving meal.

Ingredients

1 cup breadcrumbs

¼ cup whole milk

2 lbs ground beef

1 Tbs Worcestershire sauce

1 Tbs smoky paprika

1 onion grated

1 egg

Directions:

Place the hamburger in a large bowl, add the breadcrumbs, Worchestershire sauce, paprika, and one egg. Pour in the ½ cup milk.

Grate the onion into the mix. Then cafefully mix this all together until well blended.

Let sit on the counter while you pre heat the oven to 425°F.

This sitting time allows the mostiure to get into the crumbs.

This also allowed me to cut up the broccolli and drizle oil over. Line two rimed baking sheets with foil. Fill one with the brocccoli florretes, set aside.

When oven is ready, spray a ¾ cup measure then pack with the meat mixture. Use a table knife to run along the edge and plop this on the other baking sheet. This made 8 mini loafs, so space them evenly on the pan. 

 

Place the meat loafs on the top rack in the hot oven for 10 minutes.

Then slide in the broccoli on the lower rack. Re-set the timer for

20 minutes.

This should give you time to clean up and prepare the other vegetable, in this case Mac & Cheese.

Cut up eight slices of cheese into fourths.

In a small bowl mix ½ cup of tomato ketchup with 2 Tbs of mustard and 3 Tbs brown sugar. Stir until well blended.

When the timer goes off, slide out the meat loaves and spoon 2 Tbs of ketchup mix on each, return to oven for 2 more minutes.

Take out the broccolli and place in serving dish. Carefully top each meat loaf with to squares of cheese. Return to oven for 3 minutes or until cheese is well melted.

Remove from oven and allow to rest while fixing the Mac & Cheese.

What a complete comfort meal!

For our music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_qufb1uWs0

Serving Size: 1 Mini Meat Loaf

Calories140 * Calories from Fat 80 * Total Fat 8g * Saturated Fat 3 1/2g

Cholesterol 50mg * Sodium 270mg

 

So honored to serve this to my Master Indy

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To nourish, support and maintain.

To gratify, spoil, comfort and please,

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Cole Porter 

Cole Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) has been considered one of the greatest songwriters of the 20th century. Many of his songs became standards noted for their witty, urbane lyrics, and many of his scores found success on Broadway and in film. 

Born to wealth and privilege in Peru Indiana, Porter defied his family's wishes and took up music as a profession. Although classically trained, he was drawn to musical theatre. After a slow start, he began to achieve success in the 1920s, and by the 1930s he was one of the major songwriters of the Broadway musical stage. 

Unlike many composers, Porter wrote the lyrics as well as the music for his songs. A serious horseback riding accident in 1937, Porter was left disabled and in constant pain, but he continued successfully to shape American Musical history. This urban gay man had been the toast of society around the world.

Cole was the only surviving child of a wealthy family. His father, Samuel Porter, was a druggist by trade. His mother, Kate, was the indulged daughter of James Omar "J. O." Cole, "the richest man in Indiana", a coal and timber speculator who dominated the family. J. O. Cole built the couple a house on his Peru-area property, known as Westleigh Farms. 

His strong-willed mother doted on him. Cole learned the violin at age six, the piano at eight, and wrote his first operetta (with help from his mother) at ten. His father was a shy and unassertive man. While not playing a major role in raising Porter, the father was an amateur poet. No doubt that may have influenced his son's gifts for rhyme and meter. Porter's father was also a talented singer and pianist, but the father-son relationship was not very close.

J. O. Cole wanted his grandson to become a lawyer and sent him to Worcester Academy in Massachusetts in 1905. Porter brought an upright piano with him to school. He quickly found that music, and his ability to entertain, made it easy to make friends. Entering Yale University in 1909, Porter majored in English, minored in music, and also studied French. 

In his senior year, he was elected president of the Yale Glee Club and was its principal soloist. Porter wrote 300 songs while at Yale some of which are still being sung. 

During college, Porter became acquainted with New York City's gay nightlife, taking the train there for dinner, theater, and nights on the town, before returning to New Haven, Connecticut, early in the morning. 

After graduating from Yale, Porter enrolled in Harvard Law School in 1913. He soon felt that law bored him. At the suggestion of the dean of the law school, Cole switched to Harvard's music department, where he studied harmony and counterpoint. His mother did not object to this move, but it was kept a secret from J. O. Cole. 

In 1915, Porter's first song on Broadway, "Esmeralda", appeared in the revue Hands Up. The quick success was immediately followed by failure. 

When the United States entered World War I in 1917, he served in the French Foreign Legion in North Africa and was transferred to the French Officers School at Fontainebleau, teaching gunnery to American soldiers. He had a specially constructed portable piano made for him so that he could carry it on his back and entertain the troops in their bivouacs.

Porter maintained a luxury apartment in Paris, where he entertained lavishly. His parties were extravagant and scandalous, with "much gay and bisexual activity, Italian nobility, cross-dressing, international musicians and a large surplus of recreational drugs". In 1918, he met Linda Thomas, a rich, Louisville, Kentucky-born divorcée eight years his senior. She was beautiful and well-connected socially; the couple shared mutual interests and she became Porter's confidante and companion. The couple married the following year. She was well aware of Porter's homosexuality, but it was mutually advantageous for them to marry. 

It brought a respectable heterosexual facade in an era when being gay was not acknowledged. They were genuinely devoted to each other and remained married until her death in 1954. 

Meanwhile, Porter's first big hit was the song "Old-Fashioned Garden" from the revue Hitchy-Koo in 1919. 

In 1923, Porter came into an inheritance from his grandfather, and the Porters began living in rented palaces in Venice.It is said that they once hired the entire Ballets Russes to entertain guests, and for a party at Ca' Rezzonico, (which he rented for today's equivalent of $59,000 a month), he hired 50 gondoliers to act as footmen and had a troupe of tightrope walkers perform in a blaze of lights. Amid this extravagant lifestyle, Porter continued to write songs with his wife's encouragement.

In 1923, he collaborated with Gerald Murphy on a short ballet, Within the Quota, depicting the adventures of an immigrant to America who becomes a film star. The work, written for the Ballets suédois, lasts about 16 minutes. Porter's work was one of the earliest symphonic jazz-based compositions, predating George Gershwin's Rhapsody in

Blue by four months.

 At the age of 36, Porter was back on Broadway in 1928 with the musical Paris, his first really big hit. It included his song "Let's Do It" that became a musical standard. Porter was finally accepted into the upper echelon of Broadway songwriters. This was followed by "What Is This Thing Called Love?" which became immensely popular. Porter's Fifty Million Frenchmen (1929) included "You Do Something to Me", another famous entry into the Great American Songbook.

The New Yorkers (1930) acquired instant notoriety for including a song about a streetwalker, "Love for Sale". The lyric was considered too explicit for radio at the time, though it was recorded and aired as an instrumental and rapidly became a standard. Porter often referred to it as his favorite of his songs.

Next came Fred Astaire's last stage show, Gay Divorce (1932). It featured a hit that became Porter's best-known song, "Night and Day". 

1934, producer Vinton Freedley planned a story about a shipwreck and a desert island. For the songs, he decided on Porter. A drastic last-minute rewrite was necessitated by news of a major shipping accident. Nevertheless, the show, “Anything Goes”, was an immediate hit. Porter wrote what many consider his greatest score of this period. The New Yorker magazine said, "Mr. Porter is in a class by himself". Its songs include "I Get a Kick Out of You", "All Through the Night", "You're the Top" (one of his best-known songs), and "Blow, Gabriel, Blow", as well as the title number, “Anything Goes”.

Now at the height of his success, Porter was able to enjoy the opening night of his musicals; he would make a grand entrance and sit in front. Russel Crouse commented, "Cole's opening-night behavior is as indecent as that of a bridegroom who has a good time at his own wedding." 

Jubilee (1935), written with Moss Hart while on a cruise around the world, was not a major hit, running for only 169 performances, but it featured two songs that have since become standards, "Begin the Beguine" and "Just One of Those Things".  Red, Hot and Blue (1936), featuring Ethel Merman, Jimmy Durante, and Bob Hope, ran for only 183 performances and introduced "It's De-Lovely".

Porter also wrote for Hollywood in the mid-1930s. His scores included "You'd Be So Easy to Love" and "I've Got You Under My Skin", and "In the Still of the Night". 

Porter also composed the cowboy song "Don't Fence Me In" for an unproduced movie, in 1934, but it did not become a hit until Roy Rogers sang it in the 1944 film Hollywood Canteen. Bing Crosby, The Andrews Sisters, and other artists also popularized it in the 1940s. 

The Porters moved to Hollywood in December 1935, but Porter's wife did not like the environment. Porter's homosexual peccadillos, formerly very discreet, became less so and she retreated to their Paris house. When his film assignment on Rosalie was finished in 1937, Porter hastened to Paris to make peace with Linda, but she remained cool. Porter returned to New York in October 1937 without her. They were soon reunited by an accident Porter suffered. 

In 1937, Porter was riding at Piping Rock Club in Locust Valley, New York, when his horse rolled on him and crushed his legs, leaving him substantially crippled and in constant pain for the rest of his life. 

Though doctors said that his right leg would have to be amputated, and possibly the left one as well, he refused. Linda rushed from Paris to be with him and supported him in his refusal of amputation. He remained in the hospital for seven months before being allowed to go home to his apartment at the Waldorf Towers. He resumed work as soon as he could, finding it took his mind off his perpetual pain.

You Never Know (1938), ran for only 78 performances. The score included the hit song "At Long Last Love". This was followed by Leave It to Me! (1938); the show introduced Mary Martin, singing "My Heart Belongs to Daddy", and "From Now On".

The forties brought some less than stellar shows and the critics did not pull their punches. After two flops, many thought that Porter's best period was over.

In constant pain, Porter made a comeback in 1948 with Kiss Me, Kate. It was by far his most successful show. The production won the Tony Award for best musical (the first Tony awarded in that category), and Porter won for best composer and lyricist. The score includes "Another Op'nin', Another Show", "Wunderbar", "So In Love", "Too Darn Hot", "Always True to You (in My Fashion)", and "Brush Up Your Shakespeare".

His next show, Can-Can (1952), featuring "C'est Magnifique" and "It's All Right with Me", was another big hit.

Porter's wife, Linda, died in 1954. Despite his years of extramarital homosexual relationships, she had been a source of friendship and support, and her death was a blow for Porter. He tended to escape into alcohol and painkillers.

In 1956 his friend Kathern Hepburn asked him to write a special song for her musical version of Philidelphia Story to be called High Society. Porter responded with his last all-time hit: “True Love”.

By 1958, Porter's injuries caused a series of problems. After 34 operations, his right leg had to be amputated and replaced with an artificial limb. His friend Noël Coward visited him in the hospital and wrote in his diary, "The lines of ceaseless pain have been wiped from his face... I am convinced that his whole life will cheer up and that his work will profit accordingly." 

Porter never wrote another song after the amputation and spent the remaining six years of his life in relative seclusion. He told friends, "I am only half a man now." He continued to live in the Waldorf Towers in New York, and he stayed in California during the summers. 

Porter died of kidney failure on October 15, 1964, in Santa Monica, California, at the age of 73, having written more than 800 songs.