Re: I do, I do, I _do_ believe in fairies...

Lars Eighner wrote:
In our last episode,
<mlsiemon-13AC67.22241004092007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, the lovely and
talented Michael Siemon broadcast on soc.motss:

Oh, I _so_ very much hope that Sen. Craig reneges on his
resignation and runs again next year. Pretty please?

[note: there is even a scenario -- though I doubt it could
happen -- in which I could support him in such a run...]

There definitely seems to be something up in Idaho. I am old enough
to remember the somehow both sketchy and sensationalized at the same time
contemporary press accounts of the Boise witch hunt, and its like the echo of
footsteps in the marbled hallways of memory.



How well I remember when this book was published:

"The boys of Boise; furor, vice, and folly in an American city" (1966) by John Gerassi.

From the Amazon page:

'Book Description

'"Written in 1965 about a same-sex sexual scandal that occurred in 1955 in Boise, Idaho, John Gerassi's classic study depicts both middle America's traditional response to homosexuality and an era in the country's history before the modern gay rights movement really got underway. Because much of what Gerassi wrote about persists in today's struggles over gay and lesbian issues, his book still has much to tell us about how contemporary society reacts to, and misunderstands, homosexuality."--from the new Foreword by Peter Boag On the morning of November 2, 1955, the people of Boise, Idaho, were stunned by a screaming headline in the Idaho Daily Statesman, THREE BOISE MEN ADMIT SEX CHARGES. Time magazine picked up the story, reporting that a "homosexual underworld" had long operated in Idaho's staid capital city. The Statesman led the hysteria that resulted in dozens of arrests--including some highly placed members of the community--and sentences ranging from probation to life imprisonment. Peter Boag's Foreword places the book in historical perspective, summarizing the popular psychological theories and legal conceptions that helped to shape Gerassi's research. He discusses advances in Idaho's public approach to homosexuality and ways in which the provincialism chronicled by Gerassi persists to this day.

'About the Author

'John Gerassi is professor of political science at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City College of New York. He is the author of 14 books including Jean-Paul Sartre: Hated Conscience of His Century. Peter Boag is professor of history at Idaho State University.'


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Frank in Seattle
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Frank Richard Aloysius Jude Maloney
"Millennium hand and shrimp."
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