1927 was a banner year for queer representation in cinema and theater – and also the year that the progressive momentum was met with increased institutional repression, arguably commensurate with the success of LGBTQ+ rights in the era. In particular, 1927 saw the production and theatrical debut – and repression – of a play called The Drag, written by playwright and film star Mae West, a proponent of gay rights and women’s liberation.
Articles / Book reports
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Poisoning the Public Heart: the treason of the Confederacy and January 6
“The Great Treason Plot in the North During the War” By Col. I. Winslow Ayer and January 6: There’s no time like our time for a visit to the post-Civil War accounting of and accountability for the actions of traitors and their movements.
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The Detroit Lions, the beginning of the NFL, American Fascists, and the New York Public Library
Recently, at the New York Public Library, looking for obscure literary needles in huge periodical haystacks – their immense Crowell-Collier collection, innumerable boxes stacked with rejection letters and internal reference docs and cc’s – I came across this 1934 letter from Lions Vice-President and General-Manager Cy Huston, to writer Kyle Crichton, featuring the brilliant early Lions logo.
Interviews / Prison
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Cooking Them To Death: Heat In Texas Prisons: an interview with L. Amir-Sharif
“It’s a death trap. Most of those prisons are nothing but an oven.”
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Drinking the Kool Aid Flavor Aid
And since the victims of Jonestown who ‘drank the Kool Aid’ were largely held at gunpoint and other coercisions, it is false and even insulting to claim that they voluntarily drank the poison and fed it to their children.
But ‘drink the Kool Aid’ does mean something.
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Protected: Outrageous Government Waste of Texas Taxpayer’s Money (To Harass and Intimidate Yet Another TDCJ Inmate)
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Early American History / Interviews
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America’s Saint Paul: Bartolome de Las Casas
Why Does Most Of The Work Of The Most Important European Primary Source From 1492 Remain Untranslated Into English?