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

Grab Atlas VPN for just $1.39/mo before the deal expires: https://atlasv.pn/KazRowe 🤠 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! Find me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KazRowe I'm on TikTok @ kazrowe Find me on IG: https://www.instagram.com/kaz.rowe Buy my comics: https://gumroad.com/kazrowe Send me a ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/A347K4X Read my webcomic: https://www.cunningfire.com/ Catch it on Tapas: https://tapas.io/series/cunning-fire Line Webtoons: https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/cunning-fire/list?title_no=59016 Edited using DaVinci Resolve Studio 17 and the Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve Speed Editor: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/ https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/keyboard ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jean Malin's music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3l7vj-zZkY&ab_channel=cpaulphl and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNkdI8-88eE&ab_channel=cpaulphl Photos from JD Doyle's Queer Music Heritage http://jddoylearchives.org/ Sources: Heart's desire : the best of Edward Hoagland : essays from twenty years Gay New york: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940 by George Chauncey The Longest Street by Louis Sobol Hiding in plain sight: The early-twentieth-century beginnings of queer media By Michael Waters https://www.cjr.org/special_report/queer-media-bachelor-magazine.php 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/entry/gossip-king-stephen-g-clow_b_9169414 Very Recent History: The Scandal Sheet Proto-Blog Empire of Stephen G. Clow by Jane Hu https://www.theawl.com/2010/07/very-recent-history-the-scandal-sheet-proto-blog-empire-of-stephen-g-clow/ 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 Video: AP Archives Television Archives, That’s Incredible