Broadway Brevities: The Offensive Tabloid that "Exposed" Gay People

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In the 1910s, Stephen G. Clow launched a little tabloid called Broadway Brevities that went on to publish some of the most shockingly homophobic content of the era in an attempt to "expose" NYC's gay community. From blackmail to prison, come learn with me about Brevities' complicated history and legacy!

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Heart's desire : the best of Edward Hoagland : essays from twenty years

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The Longest Street by Louis Sobol

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Traffic in Scandal: The Story of Broadway Brevities by Will Straw

Gossip Men: J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the Politics of Insinuation By Christopher M. Elias

Squawkies and Talkies by Will Straw

Remembering The Creator Of Modern Gossip Journalism by Will Straw https://www.huffpost.com/archive/ca/e...

Very Recent History: The Scandal Sheet Proto-Blog Empire of Stephen G. Clow by Jane Hu https://www.theawl.com/2010/07/very-r...

Hidden in Plain Sight: Queer Songwriters and The Pansy Craze By Jake Bellissimo

Pansies to Parents: Gay Male Images in American Print Advertising by Blaine J. Branchik

Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940 by Chad Heap

Powder, Pomp, Power: Toward A Typology and Genealogy of Effeminacies by Peter Hennen

The Belchings of Brevities by Roy Griffith, Fountainhead News, September 23, 1928
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