Ingredients:
12
oz. cooked chicken cut in small dices
2
cups cantaloupe in small dices
1
celery stalk finely diced
1
8oz. Tub cream cheese spread – pineapple flavored
½
cup chopped pecans optional
5
drops red food coloring
1
tube of croissant dough
Red
seedless grapes
Diced cheddar
Preheat
oven as per directions on croissants. On a baking sheet lined with
parchment paper, lay out the individual triangles of dough: DO NOT
roll up. Bake as directed watching to make sure they don't burn.
When
done take out to cool on a wire rack.
Dice
the cooked chicken – slave used left-overs.
Dice
the celery
Cut
up the cantaloupe. Try to make the pieces of chicken about the same
size as the melon.
Stir
the 5 drops of food coloring into the cream cheese, and whip with a
fork to soften. Then with a large wooden spoon, mix the chicken,
cantaloupe, celery, and cream cheese together.
To
Serve.
Place
2 tbs of the pink colored chicken salad onto the triangles. Finish
the plate with a few red grapes and some diced cheddar cheese. A
perfect summer luncheon!
These
festive “Pink Triangles are to honor another of our LGBT heroes:
Barbara
Gittings
Born
in 1932, Barbara Gittings was just another child who grew up during
the second world war.
In
1950 During her freshman year in college: she consulted a Chicago
psychiatrist who diagnosed her “Un-natural feelings as
“homosexual”--and offered to "cure" her.
However
instead, she sought out more information. She searched the college
libraries, even the medical and law branches. She quickly discovered
that resources were few, and often to be found "under such
headings as 'abnormal,' 'perverted,' or 'deviate.'" The articles
were horrifyingly filled with gross descriptions. Images intended to
scare anyone into seeking redemption from this disgusting disease.
Gittings
observed that what information there was dealt almost exclusively
with gay men. Some of the “facts” reported were ludicrous!. That
all homosexual men could not whistle, they loved the color green, and
other such things as we would consider “Old Wives Tales”. Mostly
the subjects were not treated as human at all but rather as things.
She
was also struck by the fact that there were no references to love.
That
same year, 1950 the first “homophile” society was formed
by Henry Hay. It became the Mattachine Society.
Few
others started cropping up when newsletters, little more than fliers
were mailed to “friends” around the country. They had to use the
“cell” techniques developed by the Communist party to keep
themselves safe. It was said that they were paranoid that the FBI
would be spying on them. Well under the Freedom of Information Act
we finally learned they were correct. J. Edgar Hoover kept extensive
files of any such society. Given what is now common knowledge about
him, it should not surprise anyone.
Gittings
traveled out to California in 1956 because she had heard about a
group named “One”, while there she discovered the Daughters of
Bilitis, which had just formed the year before.
Within
a couple of years, the DOB's founders, Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin,
asked Gittings to form a chapter in New York City!
At
one of her meetings she invited a gay activist, Dr. Frank Kameny.
Together they were to change the course of history. He made a huge
impression upon Gittings with his point that it is useless to try to
find cures and causes for homosexuality since there is no valid
evidence that it is an illness.
Gettings
latter recalled: "My thinking didn't change until Frank Kameny
came along and he said plainly and firmly and unequivocally that
homosexuality is no kind of sickness or disease or disorder or
malfunction, it is fully on par with heterosexuality ... Suddenly
I found that I was looking at things that had happened in the past in
a very different light and I was taking a position that was
increasingly diverging from DOB’s positions."
The
attitudes and tactics of both the Mattachine Society and The
Daughters of Bilitis started to quickly change. No longer content
with being “assimilationist” and “apologetic”, demonstrations
were held. The women had to wear dresses and the men wore business
suits and ties.
Both
Gittings and Kameny believed in using the proven tactics from the
civil rights movement, even Gandhi’s “Civil disobedience”.
Together
they succeed in eliminating “Homosexuality” from the American
Psychiatric Association's list of mental disorders!
Barbara
Gittings never forgot how empty her research at the libraries had
been. She took that on next and for decades was the main driving
force to develop lists and resources. Thanks to her efforts,
libraries across the county would have reliable information for the
questioning youth of tomorrow.
Following
a brave battle with breast cancer, Gittings died on February 18,
2007. She was survived by her significant other, never having the
legal ability to marry.
Slave
remembers well going to the Main library in Downtown Indianapolis and
searching for anything on “Homosexuality”. This was in 1962.
There I found mention of both a society of the Daughters of Bilitis
and The Mattachine Society. However both were so far away and I knew
they could not help a 12 year old who was going to undergo Electro
shock aversion therapy. However, just knowing they existed out there
gave me something to hold onto and helped me survive that summer of
hell.
I
cannot thank Barbara Gittings or the work she did, nor can I stress
how very important it was and continues to be into the 21st century!
Serving
my Master Indy
socialslave
To
satisfy and restore.
To
nourish, support and maintain.
To
gratify, spoil, comfort and please,
to
nurture, assist, and sustain
…..I
cook!
Please
buy slave's cookbook:
The
Little Black Book of Indiscreet Recipes by Dan White
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F315Y4I/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_vAT4sb0934RTM
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