Communist or not, Paul Robeson's politics examined by biographer Martin DubermanOn March 19, 1983, CBC-TV broadcast an obituary of Fred Rose, the only Communist to have served in the Canadian Parliament (1943-1947). Convicted of espionage and expelled from Parliament, Rose spent four and one-hal...
The Stonewall Inn was a gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village. At a little after one a.m. on the morning of June 28, 1969, the police carried out a routine raid on the bar. But it turned out not to be routine at all. Instead of cowering -- the usual reaction to a police raid -- the patrons insi...
Duberman is a renowned historian, and a very fluent writer to boot. I wanted to see how he used this historic event, and the real people involved in it -- including the two central characters, Lucy and Albert Parsons, as a novel. He used lots of archival material, newspaper accounts and even bi...
He wanted gays to empower themselves through confrontational action to build a proud, assertive movement. Craig was also fed up with the gay bar scene in New York, with the Mafia controlling the only public space most gays could claim, with the contempt shown the gay clientele, with the speakeasy...