Stop procrastinating on your work and get at it!
Of the dozen or so surviving articles, squibs, and letters to the editor, the most remarkable appeared in the Whip and Satirist’s February 12, 1842, issue, and disclosed the existence of a cabal of gay men in New York's otherwise wholesome nightscape of brothels and riots. Moreover it identified the spider who minced so delicately along the wide-flung strands of the sodomitical web. There is not one so degraded as this Captain Collins, the King of the Sodomites. He was a foreigner, an Englishman, in the long tradition of blaming homosexuality on the influence of aliens. Among the syndicate of perverts, the writer announced, we find no Americans as yet—they are all Englishmen or French (the English called homosexuality the French vice and the French the English vice; for the Whip it was the French and English vice).
There is not one so degraded as this Captain Collins, the King of the Sodomites.
we find no Americans as yet—they are all Englishmen or French
For an outsider, you gain local knowledge slowly, have to sort of come at it indirectly, like a Poirotian detective, accumulating the facts and history of the people who have lived and live in your town.
Run! It's the bacon!
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