by Jeff Stookey | Jun 14, 2018 | Uncategorized
image from “LGBTQ Institute in Germany Was Burned Down by Nazis,” by Lucy Diavolo, Sep 20, 2017 – teenvogue.com During this Pride Month, I am working with others toward a possible grant for the Gay & Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest...
by Jeff Stookey | May 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
Image from “54 Rare Historical Photos Of Drag Queens Before It Was Safe To Be Out!” by Todd Briscoe In the opening paragraph of Marjorie Garber’s Vested Interests, Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety (1992), she references a New York Times report that in the...
by Jeff Stookey | Apr 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
Temperance Worker with Portland Police, c. 1920 Photo from The Oregon History Project The long struggle for passage of alcohol prohibition was bound up with the long struggle for women’s suffrage. Opponents of prohibition knew that once women got the right to vote,...
by Jeff Stookey | Mar 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
Emma Goldman’s mugshot In the 1870s, a social purity movement led to the passage of the Comstock laws, which forbade the distribution of obscene materials through the US mail. Birth control information and devices were considered obscene materials. Women of...
by Jeff Stookey | Feb 19, 2018 | Uncategorized
Latest News: On Feb. 19, 2018, Alan Rose wrote: “The Book Chat interview has been uploaded to my website. KLTV has begun airing it.” Alan’s interview with me was recorded in January of this year. It covers my novel Acquaintance, the KKK, and the...
by Jeff Stookey | Feb 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
We must examine in historical context the attitude expressed by Donald Trump that America needs more immigrants from Norway. A December 22, 2016 article on the Right Wing Watch website notes: “In an interview with [Steve] Bannon in October 2015, [then Senator Jeff]...
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