The Pridelets Files for October 12
On this day in 1971, should gays be able to hang out in bars or (god forbid) work in them? While current law prohibits it, the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs suggests this curious piece of legislation be repealed.
BIRTHGAYS (and the occasional straights)
* 1875 - Occult leader Edward Alexander Crowley
* 1972 - The London Metropolitan Community Church (the first outside the US)
Q.UOTE
"If AIDS is God's punishment for sex, why is a little piece of rubber so effective in avoiding it?" -- Rev. Jim Huber
THE BEDSIDE TABLE
"Gay L. A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, And Lipstick Lesbians" by Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons
Award-winning historian Lillian Faderman teams with journalist Stuart Timmons to write the first history of gay life in America's ultimate frontier town: Los Angeles
The exhortation to "Go West!" has always had a strong hold on the American imagination. But for the gays, lesbians, and transgendered people who have moved to L.A. over the past two centuries, the City of Angels has offered a special home--which, in turn, gave rise to one of the most influential gay cultures in the world.
Drawing upon untouched archives of documents and photographs and over 200 new interviews, Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons chart L.A.'s unique gay history, from the first missionary encounters with Native American cross-gendered "two spirits" to cross-dressing frontier women in search of their fortunes; from the bohemian freedom of early Hollywood to the explosion of gay life during World War II to the underground radicalism sparked by the 1950s blacklist; from the 1960s gay liberation movement to the creation of gay marketing in the 1990s. Faderman and Timmons show how geography, economic opportunity, and a constant influx of new people created a city that was more compatible to gay life than any other in America. Combining broad historical scope with deftly wrought stories of real people, from the Hollywood sound stage to the barrio, Gay L.A. is American social history at its best.
This work is copyright© 2006 Thomas Allen Heald, all rights reserved. Contact the author at tom@idontgetit.org and the latest column are always available at www.Pridelets.com.
BIRTHGAYS (and the occasional straights)
* 1875 - Occult leader Edward Alexander Crowley
* 1972 - The London Metropolitan Community Church (the first outside the US)
Q.UOTE
"If AIDS is God's punishment for sex, why is a little piece of rubber so effective in avoiding it?" -- Rev. Jim Huber
THE BEDSIDE TABLE
"Gay L. A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, And Lipstick Lesbians" by Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons
Award-winning historian Lillian Faderman teams with journalist Stuart Timmons to write the first history of gay life in America's ultimate frontier town: Los Angeles
The exhortation to "Go West!" has always had a strong hold on the American imagination. But for the gays, lesbians, and transgendered people who have moved to L.A. over the past two centuries, the City of Angels has offered a special home--which, in turn, gave rise to one of the most influential gay cultures in the world.
Drawing upon untouched archives of documents and photographs and over 200 new interviews, Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons chart L.A.'s unique gay history, from the first missionary encounters with Native American cross-gendered "two spirits" to cross-dressing frontier women in search of their fortunes; from the bohemian freedom of early Hollywood to the explosion of gay life during World War II to the underground radicalism sparked by the 1950s blacklist; from the 1960s gay liberation movement to the creation of gay marketing in the 1990s. Faderman and Timmons show how geography, economic opportunity, and a constant influx of new people created a city that was more compatible to gay life than any other in America. Combining broad historical scope with deftly wrought stories of real people, from the Hollywood sound stage to the barrio, Gay L.A. is American social history at its best.
This work is copyright© 2006 Thomas Allen Heald, all rights reserved. Contact the author at tom@idontgetit.org and the latest column are always available at www.Pridelets.com.
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