Resources
INDEX of Resources
Author Interviews:
Historical, Archival, and Community Resources:
Media Resources:
Historical Research:
Bookshelf Titles: in Home Page header image
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Author Interviews:
“Ringing the Bell” interview with Jeff Stookey, September 1, 2024; about 44 minutes: In each episode, I interview artists living at the intersection of art, social justice, and the human spirit. My guest today is Jeff Stookey. Jeff is a writer and the author a trilogy titled “Medicine for the Blues”. We covered alot of ground in this interview. We talked about the writing process, self-publishing, meditation, and how it all comes together as an artist.
Face The Elephant on Instagram: “Live with lgbtqplus author Jeff Stookey,” video interview, about 1 hour: https://youtu.be/UkjPIvq_iJE
Video interview with Alan Rose on KLTV’s “Book Chat” (29 minutes):
https://youtu.be/xqF2NPZ8_JE?feature=shared
Monday, June 24, 2019, I was at the Kennedy School History Pub with a panel of Portland’s LGBTQ movers and shakers to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. You can access a video of the program that was streamed live by the Oregonian HERE:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=603051500189924
Written interview on Johnnie Mazzocco’s “Writing Through the Body” website: http://writingthroughthebody.com/author-interview-jeff-stookey/
Audio interview with Vikki J. Cartrer on “Authors of the Pacific Northwest” website (38 minutes): https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3sn6p-a7e1e3
Written interview about Book1, Acquaintance, with Mark Schultz on his “Word Refining” website: https://www.wordrefiner.com/book-reviews/acquaintance-medicine-for-the-blues-book-1-by-jeff-stookey
Written interview about Book 2 & 3, Chicago Blues and Dangerous Medicine, with Mark Schultz on his “Word Refining” website: https://www.wordrefiner.com/book-reviews/chicago-blues-medicine-for-the-blues-book-2-dangerous-medicine-medicine-for-the-blues-book-3-by-jeff-stookey
Check out this 15 minute video featuring historical fiction writer Myrlin Hermes and me discussing a recent bestseller with Caroline Miller on her show “Just Read It.”
https://www.booksbycarolinemiller.com/portfolio/just-read-it-reviews-the-tuscan-child-by-rhys-bowen/
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Historical, Archival, and Community Resources:
Gay & Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest (GLAPN) http://www.glapn.org/ “Since 1994, we have been working to discover and publicize the history of sexual minorities in the Pacific Northwest. We collect, preserve, document, and share as much as we are able….Our physical collections are part of the library at Oregon Historical Society.” See next entry below.
Oregon Historical Society and the Davies Family Research Library http://ohs.org/research-and-library/ “We invite you to explore the world’s largest collection of Oregon-related materials, including photographs, manuscripts, books, maps, oral histories, motion pictures, videotapes, newspapers, ephemera, and much more. All our resources are available to everyone.”
Q Center http://www.pdxqcenter.org “Mission: The center provides a safe space to support and celebrate LGBTQ diversity, equity, visibility and community building.”
University of Washington; Libraries, GLBT: Special Collections & Archival Resources: PNW GLBT Home https://guides.lib.uw.edu/research/GLBTQ/home “This guide highlights archival and printed materials, archived websites, and photographs available in Special Collections that relate to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer community in the Pacific Northwest.”
OutHistory http://outhistory.org/ “OutHistory.org was founded in October 2008 by Jonathan Ned Katz, author of the groundbreaking Gay American History (1976) and other books on the history of sexuality.”
ONE Archives http://one.usc.edu/ “ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries is the largest repository of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) materials in the world.”
The JD Doyle Archives http://jddoylearchives.org/ “Mission Statement:
The mission of the JD Doyle Archives is to gather, digitize, and share LGBT music and Houston/Texas LGBT History. This is done on three large websites. The work began in 2000, with the radio show Queer Music Heritage, which ran until 2015. Its site archives all the shows, along with playlists, artist images and much more. In recent years, additional sites have been launched. The website Houston LGBT History houses Houston and also statewide history, including the broad areas of Publications, Politics, Pride and many other cultural areas. And the Texas Obituary Project is a searchable database of those we have lost, with an emphasis on those lost to AIDS. Both are ever expanding, with a common goal of making our history accessible.”
https://www.queermusicheritage.com/oct2007.html
https://www.queermusicheritage.com/nov2014.html
It Gets Better http://www.itgetsbetter.org/ “The It Gets Better Project’s mission is to communicate to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth around the world that it gets better, and to create and inspire the changes needed to make it better for them.”
This Way Out http://thiswayout.org/ “This Way Out: The International LGBT Radio Magazine” is going stronger than ever in its 27th year. “This Way Out” is the award-winning internationally distributed weekly LGBT radio program, currently airing on over 200 local community radio stations around the world—and available by podcast.
Famous LGBTQ Authors from History https://www.truepeoplesearch.com/find/content-famous-lgbtq-authors-from-history A listing of some prominent LGBTQ authors with links to information about their lives. This website was suggested to me by a Gay Straight Alliance club that was researching projects about queer culture & history for kids doing presentations about topics of their choice. Thanks for the tip.
Making Gay History podcast: https://makinggayhistory.com/ Bringing the voices of queer history to life through intimate conversations with LGBTQ champions, heroes, and witnesses to history.
CDC: LGBTQ+ Youth Resources https://www.cdc.gov/lgbthealth/youth-resources.htm On this page, find resources from the CDC, other government agencies, and community organizations for LGBTQ+ Youth, their friends, educators, parents, and family members to support positive environments.
LGBTQ Substance Abuse Resources
https://www.alternativetomeds.com/blog/lgbtq-substance-abuse-statistics-and-resources/
Why Substance Abuse is Worse in the LGBTQ Community
https://www.healthline.com/health/why-is-substance-abuse-worse-in-lgbtq-community
A History of Pride Month, Written by: Peter Morrell
https://wizardpins.com/blogs/education/a-history-of-pride-month
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Media Resources:
Rachel Maddow reports on the political power of the KKK in the 1920s. (19 min. 34 sec.) – “Donald Trump Remarks Aid White Supremacists’ Political Ambitions”
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Rachel Maddow lays out the history of eugenics in the USA dating back to the 1920s. (16 min. 32 sec.) – “US Anti-Immigrant Policy Has Roots In Racist Eugenics”
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The Wolverine Orchestra with Bix Beiderbecke – “Jazz Me Blues” (1924)
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King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band – “Dipper Mouth Blues” (1923) featuring a young Louis Armstrong.
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“Livery Stable Blues” recorded by the Original Dixieland Jass Band on February 26, 1917 is widely acknowledged as the first jazz recording commercially released.
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from Wikipedia:
On February 14, 1920, Smith recorded “That Thing Called Love” and “You Can’t Keep a Good Man Down” for Okeh Records, in New York City, after African-American songwriter and bandleader Perry Bradford persuaded Fred Hagar. This was the first recording by a black blues singer; the musicians, however, were all white. Hagar had received threats from Northern and Southern pressure groups saying they would boycott the company if he recorded a black singer. Despite these threats the record was a commercial success and opened the door for more black musicians to record.
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HISTORICAL RESEARCH:
Bibliography – a selection, in order of importance to the author
[** denotes reference in blog entries under the “Blog” tab]
GAY HISTORY
Jonathan Ned Katz: Gay American History, lesbian and gay men in the U.S.A., a documentary history, revised edition, 1976/1992
Gay/Lesbian Almanac, a new documentary in which is contained…, 1983
The Invention of Heterosexuality, 1995/2007
Peter Boag, Same-Sex Affairs, constructing and controlling homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest, 2003
George Painter, The Vice Clique: Portland’s great sex scandal, 2013
George Chauncey, Gay New York, gender, urban culture, and the making of the gay male world, 1890-1940; 1995
Lillian Faderman: Surpassing the Love of Men, romantic friendship and love between women from the Renaissance to the present, 1981
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers; a history of lesbian life in 20th C America, 1991
John Loughery, The Other Side of Silence, men’s lives and gay identities: a twentieth-century history, 1998
Ina Russell, editor, Jeb and Dash, a diary of gay life, 1918-1945, 1993
John Lauritsen and David Thorstad, The Early Homosexual Rights Movement (1864-1935), Times Change Press, New York, 1974
KU KLUX KLAN
Kathleen M. Blee, Women of the Klan, racism & gender in the 1920s, 1991, University of California Press.
“The Ku Klux Klan in Oregon,” by Eckard V. Toy, in Experiences in a Promised Land: Essays in Pacific Northwest History. G. Thomas Edwards and Carlos A. Schwantes, eds. Seattle: 1986, University of Washington Press.
“Deliver Us From Evil, the Ku Klux Klan in Oregon’s legal history,” Michael J. Nove, Oregon State Bar Bulletin, Nov. 1996, Vo. 57, No. 2, pp 37-40.
Inside the Klavern, the secret History of a Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s, edited by David A. Horowitz, 1999, Southern Illinois University Press.
A Brief History of Fear and Intolerance in Tillamook County [Oregon], by Helen Patti Hill, 2016, Inkwater Press.
The Second Coming of the KKK, the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American political tradition, by Linda Gordon, 2017, Liveright Publishing Corp, a division of W. W. Norton & Company.
“The Paradox of Oregon’s Progressive Politics, the political career of Walter Marcus Pierce,” by Robert R. McCoy, Oregon Historical Quarterly, Fall 2009, Vol. 110, No. 3.
“ ‘Wheedling, Wangling, and Whalloping’ for Progress, the public service career of Cornelia Marvin Pierce, 1905-1943,” by Cheryl Gunselman, in the same publication: Oregon Historical Quarterly, Fall 2009, Vol. 110, No. 3.
“The Ku Klux Klan in Oregon, 1921-22, A Source Summary and Analysis of Newspaper Coverage” Analysis of The Morning Oregonian’s Coverage blog post by zaron5551 – Apr 6, 2014 The goal of this analysis is to answer one major question: which historical theory of why Oregonians joined the Klan is supported by The Morning Oregonian’s coverage of the 1922 election and which are refuted. accessed 01-01-2018: https://medium.com/@zaron5551/the-ku-klux-klan-in-oregon-1921-22-774fd03ed1d0
The chilling threads of our racist past, Racism, religious bias and anti-immigrant sentiments once made Oregon a major center for the Ku Klux Klan, by Knute Berger, Crosscut’s staff columnist, April 23, 2018.
Crosscut is the Pacific Northwest’s independent, reader-supported, nonprofit news site, a service of Cascade Public Media. https://crosscut.com/2018/04/chilling-threads-our-racist-past
EUGENICS
“ ‘The Greatest Curse of the Race’: Eugenic Sterilization in Oregon, 1909-1983,” by Mark A. Largent, Oregon Historical Quarterly, Summer 2002, Vol. 103, No. 2., pp 188-209.
“Apology for Oregon Forced Sterilizations,” Los Angeles Times, Dec. 03, 2002, From Associated Press. Accessed 01-07-2018: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-dec-03-na-sterile3-story.html
“ ‘We Cannot Make a Silk Purse Out of a Sow’s Ear,’ Eugenics in the Hoosier Heartland,” by Alexandra Minna Stern, Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. 103, Issue 1, March 2007. Minna Stern, Alexandra. (2007). Accessed 04-14-2019: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264868739_We_Cannot_Make_a_Silk_Purse_Out_of_a_Sow’s_Ear_Eugenics_in_the_Hoosier_Heartland
Family Limitation, by Margaret H. Sanger, Revised Sixth Edition, 1917. accessed 01-01-2018: https://archive.lib.msu.edu/DMC/AmRad/familylimitations.pdf
“ ‘Wheedling, Wangling, and Whalloping’ for Progress, the public service career of Cornelia Marvin Pierce, 1905-1943,” by Cheryl Gunselman, in the same publication: Oregon Historical Quarterly, Fall 2009, Vol. 110, No. 3.
“7 Beloved Famous People Who Were Wildly Pro-Eugenics” Blog post by Matthew Archbold – Nov. 14, 2014 National Catholic Register. Accessed 01-01-2018: http://www.ncregister.com/blog/matthew-archbold/7-beloved-famous-people-who-were-wildly-pro-eugenics
JAZZ
**Ralph Berton, Remembering Bix: a memoir of the jazz age, 1974, Harper & Row. A terrific personal biographical view of Bix Beiderbecke from the point of view of a precocious 13-year-old Ralph Burton who idolized Bix but was a careful observer. Well worth reading through to the finish for some surprises at the end.
**Hoagy Carmichael, Stardust Road, 1946, Indiana University Press.
**Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues,1946/1990, Citadel Press, Carol Publishing Group.
**Eddie Condon, We Called It Music, a generation of jazz, with Thomas Sugrue, new introduction by Garry Giddins, 1947/1992, DaCapo Press.
**Richard M. Sudhalter and Philip R. Evans wrote the definitive biography of Bix Beiderbecke, Bix: Man and Legend, 1974, Arlington House.
Rick Kennedy, Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy, Gannett Studios and the Birth of Recorded Jazz, 1994, Indiana University Press.
GENDER & SEXUALITY VARIATION
**Evolution’s Rainbow, Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People, by Joan Roughgarden, a trans woman, U CA Press, 2004.
**Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex, by Alice Domurat Dreger, Harvard U Press, 1998.
NOVELS
Charles Henri Ford and Parker Tyler, The Young and Evil, 1933/1988/1996
Blair Niles, Strange Brother, 1931/1991
Forman Brown writing as Richard Meeker, Better Angel; 1933/2000, with an Epilogue by Forman Brown, 1995 at age 94
Wallace Thurman, Infants of Spring, 1932/1999
William Maxwell, The Folded Leaf, 1945/1991
Henry Blake Fuller, Bertram Cope’s Year, 1919
Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio, 1919
Sinclair Lewis, Main Street, 1920
Check out the “Best Books…” lists I’ve posted on Shepherd.com to see reviews of books that influenced the writing of Medicine for the Blues trilogy.
https://shepherd.com/best-books/that-reveal-lgbt-life-in-the-early-20th-century
https://shepherd.com/best-books/1920s-chicago-jazz-musicians
https://shepherd.com/best-books/the-1920s-ku-klux-klan-in-oregon-and-the-usa
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Bookshelf Titles on header photo
Some of Jeff’s favorite books:
Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia
Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
Hermione by Steven J. Bernstein
The Wraith by Steven J. Bernstein
The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
The Wild Boys by William S. Burroughs
Queer by William S. Burroughs
The Annotated Alice [by Lewis Carroll], by Martin Gardner
The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
The Portable Conrad, The Viking Portable Library, by Joseph Conrad
Honey in the Horn by H. L. Davis
Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea; the Alexandria Quartet, by Lawrence Durrell
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Maurice by E. M. Forster
Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
The Thief’s Journal by Jean Genet
Howl by Allen Ginsberg
The Odyssey of Homer
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Dubliners by James Joyce
Moby Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare’s Love Life by Anthony Burgess
The Works of Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s Poems
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The Portable Mark Twain, The Viking Portable Library
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
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