Danny Garvin Bitchin' Broccoli Soup

This meal is named in honor of a LGBT Hero, Danny Garvin. Read more about him in a short article after the recipe. 

 

This healthy soup gets most of its creaminess from potato not cream. A few cans from the pantry and some frozen vegetables come together in a wonderful bowl of comfort. 

 Ingredients

2 tablespoons butter

½ cup non fat half-n-half

1 onion, chopped

1 can diced potato

Nutmeg, to taste

4 cups chicken stock, warmed

Salt + Pepper

1 bag chopped broccoli florets and stems (3 cups) thawed

Directions:

Cut up the onion.

In a large pot, melt butter and cook onion until tender over medium high heat. Add potato and toss to coat with butter.

Add hot stock and bring to a simmer. Let cook for about 40 minutes.

Stir in ¾ths of the broccoli and return to a simmer for 20 minutes.

Make sure blender is completely submerged. 

When potato and broccoli are tender, carefully puree with an immersion blender or food processor. Return to heat along with last of the broccoli and the half & half. 

 

Let simmer for 5 – 10 minutes, Season to taste and serve warm. 

Note if you wish a mild cheesy flavor, mix in ½ cup of cream cheese when you are blending.

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Danny Garvin 

 

One of the few remaining verified Stonewall riot participants, Danny Garvin sadly passed away at the age of 65 in December four years ago. 

Danny and Tommy Lanigan-Schmidt have been noted as “the two most knowledgeable sources” on the historic riots by fellow LGBT historian David Carter.

Danny was there the night the bar opened (on his birthday in 1967) and became a regular customer of the Stonewall Inn,” David Carter said. “He met his first love there by dancing with him, dated the main doorman (Blonde Frankie), and was roommates with one of the men who worked in the coat check. Danny’s knowledge of the club has contributed a lot to a better understanding of the Stonewall Inn.

Fortunately, Danny also happened to walk up the street soon after the June 1969 raid began, and his detailed memories of that night significantly add to our knowledge about the Uprising,” Carter added.

“Danny’s life story is all the more remarkable and historically relevant because his experiences mirrored those of his generation,” Carter said. 

 

Danny was in the Navy and 17 years old when he realized his homosexuality. At that time, that was a dishonorable discharge. You could never find a job afterwards. He saw his world and everything he worked for crumbling away. Danny attempted suicide by cutting his wrists.

Even during the mid to late Sixties, there were no role models for being a gay man. At least no positive ones. Garvin knew he wasn't one of those super effeminate men. He wasn't a child molester or an old man who hung out in the balcony of the porn theaters.

Some of the most homophobic news reports: like CBS “Homosexuals” in 1967, “Perversion for Profit”, or “The Homosexual” WTVJ Miami 1966 were designed to paint a repulsive picture of these monsters.

“Danny was in a gay hippie commune before Stonewall and he was roommates with gay activist Morty Manford after Stonewall. Morty Manford’s introduction of Danny Garvin and another gay friend to Manford’s parents precipitated Manford’s coming out to his parents. Morty’s mother Jeanne Manford later founded what became Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, now PFLAG. He hung out with Andy Warhol’s crowd, and he founded the recovery contingent of LGBT marchers in the LGBT Pride March each June.”

Gay men like Danny Garvin are our true heroes of the riots. They have received little or no recognition while others have been given the glory. 

 Without gay men like Danny Garvin we would not be where we are today.

You can see Danny tell in his own words what happened that night 50 years ago on June 28, 1969 at the Stonewall Inn.

A great resource is “Stonewall Uprising” PBS

https://www.amazon.com/American-Experience-Stonewall-Uprising/dp/B004AR4W4O/ref=sr_1_1?crid=177BP2E1V4PDB&keywords=stonewall+uprising+dvd&qid=1553359135&s=gateway&sprefix=stonewall+uprising%2Cdigital-text%2C150&sr=8-1https://www.amazon.com/American-Experience-Stonewall-Uprising/dp/B004AR4W4O/ref=sr_1_1?crid=177BP2E1V4PDB&keywords=stonewall+uprising+dvd&qid=1553359135&s=gateway&sprefix=stonewall+uprising%2Cdigital-text%2C150&sr=8-1

At the time, Danny was a homeless youth. Many of the warriors who ignited our movement that night were homeless LGBT youths, who then, as now, made the West Village their home.

Danny once said, “Maybe I would sell myself for 8 dollars to have a bed to sleep to in and a place to shower. Just some place to be hidden from the world until the next day when it would all start all over again. I know I would have robbed less food from stores just to get something to eat”.

Fifty years ago, like today, to be open about being LGBT put youths at terrible risk of homelessness. Then, as now, LGBT kids were suffering on the streets. Then, as now, many had to turn, like Danny, to hustling in order to survive.

As we approach the 50^th anniversary of that event we must reflect in awe and wonder of the street kids who put their bodies on the line that night. Consider Danny, or his good friend and co-rioter Martin Boyce, or Miss New Orleans, the homeless trans girl who uprooted a parking meter and used it as a battering ram to destroy the door of the Stonewall Inn, behind which the police had retreated in fear. Remember both Marsha Jonson and Sylvia Rivera.

The homeless LGBT youths of the Village had lost almost everything; many had been driven from their homes and left destitute in the streets. Because they were far and away the most visible LGBT people to be found at that time, they were targets for abuse; beating up on them was a city sport.

That night LGBT's became a “people”, a “tribe”, a cohesiveness that was slow to develop but DID!

Danny said “ When we got kicked out of a bar before, we never came together. That night we did!”

The Stonewall uprising was the birth of our LGBT movement. That night the street kids and hustlers and drag queens helped create the space for the rest of us to be out, to be proud. We owe them our lives.

According to a statement from David Carter, author of Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution:

"In addition to sharing his life story so generously with me, Danny became a friend. He was always a selfless person. Like most authentic Stonewall witnesses, he did not seek the limelight or recognition. Of all the persons I met working on the book, he was the sweetest. I will always miss him and consider myself blessed and honored to have been his friend."