Here
is a great tasting one skillet meal that will become a "go to" recipe
for any time you have to come up with feeding a group. Also great for
pot lucks. Yes we sweeten the corn. If you are ever lucky enough to
walk through a field of mature corn, take the effort to cut off an
ear, peel back the husk and take a bite. It will be as sweet as any
candy you have ever had!
This
dish is dedicated to those who fought the “Gayola Scandal” in
1960. Find out more with a short article following the recipe.
Ingredients
1
lbs sausage (medium)
½
red onion, chopped
4
tablespoons butter
One
15-ounce can whole kernel corn, drained
1
can diced tomatoes, drained
3
tablespoons honey
½
cup heavy cream
Salt
- ½
tsp black pepper
First
do your cutting: chop the red onion and freeze what you don't use.
Open the cans of corn and tomatoes and drain well.
In
a large skillet over medium-high heat, cook up the loose sausage with
½ cup of red onion. Cook and stir until brown all the way through
and broken but try not to work it too much you want hunks of sausages
and the more you work the meat, the smaller each piece gets. (Cook
about 15 minutes)
Remove
from skillet with slotted spoon. Leave about 2 tbs grease in skillet
and add 2 Tbs butter. Add in the corn stirring so that
all the corn is coated.
Cook
stirring frequently for 1 minute. Add honey and cook for 2
minutes more. Increase heat to high and add heavy cream. Continue to
stir so corn won't stick to pan.
Add
drained diced tomatoes and season with salt and pepper. Cook corn
until most all of the cream has absorbed about 5 minutes more. Return
the sausage & onions to pan and cook for 3 minutes more to make
sure all is heated through.
Remove
and serve hot.
This
goes well with a bake & serve bread from the oven.
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Gayola
In
some ways World War Two spurred on the efforts of LGBT Rights in
America. At that time most of the country was rural. It was the first
time that many men had been around that many other men! The great
discovery that YES there were others that preferred the “company of
men”. To parody the song from WWI, How you gonna keep them down on
the farm after they've seen penis!
For
women too this was a new discovery of being in production jobs,
taking on roles they had never been allowed to before and finding
others that enjoyed a woman's touch.
Many
gay men and lesbians discovered their identities and each other
during the war, and they stayed on in the port cities to join the
first gay networks and communities. In the 40's, On the West coast in
particular, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Oakland, San Diego, and San
Francisco had both lesbian and gay bars, gay areas, and gay beaches.
In
1942 and 1943, for example, a series of vice raids led
to the closure of at least six or seven gay bars in San Francisco.
Ironically, this resulted in the emergence of a strong
underground network, a more public nightlife, and the beginnings of a
political sensibility of resistance.
In
the years after the war, the growing visibility of gay and lesbian
people met some resistance. Claiming that San Francisco’s Black Cat
Cafe was a “disorderly house,” the California Board of
Equalization in 1949 tried to close it. However a successful appeal
to the California Supreme Court, overturned this.
In
reaction the California legislature in 1955 passed a law
prohibiting the licensing of gay bars because they were “resorts
for sexual perverts.”
During
the 1950s, the medical, psychiatric, and legal systems considered
homosexuals to be sick, perverted, and criminal. Many lived closeted
lives in unhappy marriages, in lonely alcoholic hazes, risking their
careers and reputations merely by entering a bar known to attract
homosexuals
In
the McCarthy era, known homosexuals were routinely hunted down and
fired from jobs, kicked out of their families, and denied basic civil
rights. Entrapment by police was so prevalent that, in 1952 in
Los Angeles, the Committee to Outlaw Entrapment was established and
successfully fought to have a case dropped.
It
was in this kind of climate that the first homophile groups in the
nation
(Mattachine,
One, Daughters of Bilitis) were founded in California in the 1950s.
During
the 1959 mayoral campaign, opponent Russell Wolden accused San
Francisco Mayor George Christopher and his police chief,
Thomas Cahill, of letting the city become the homosexual
capital of the nation. Soon after his re-election, Christopher
announced a campaign against gay bars in San Francisco as a way of
cleansing the city’s allegedly scarred and vice-filled reputation.
Then,
in December, the California Supreme Court ruled that a gay bar
could not lose its license just because homosexuals
congregate there; illegal sexual activity on the premises needed
to be proved. One result of this ruling was that five bar owners
from lower Market and the Embarcadero, including the Castaways and
Jack's Waterfront Hangout, approached Mayor Christopher and Police
Chief Cahill to report the protection money graft.
This
became known as the Gayola Scandal
Indeed,
officers had been practicing this kind of extortion for decades,
but
Cahill and Mayor George Christopher had
campaigned on “clean Government”. So while they were not inclined
to sympathize with homosexuals, they agreed to work with the bar
owners to entrap the accused officers. But also took this opportunity
to send plain-clothesmen into gay bars to entrap patrons.
Felony
convictions of male homosexuals in San Francisco
rose from 0 in June 1960 to 76 by mid-June
1961,
Misdemeanor charges were estimated at 40 to 60 a week. In October
1961. Every
establishment that had made charges against the police during the
gayola scandal lost its license”
The
resistance in the community was amazing, with people opening one
after another gay bar in the same spot as fast as the police could
close them.
A grand
jury indicted five police officers and the state liquor agent.
The ensuing month-long trial was full of lurid descriptions, as the
defense portrayed gay men as a moral threat and a danger to the
city's youth.
All
but one of the accused were eventually acquitted. Even so, it was
the fight that brought together many LGBT's and caused a cohesiveness
to the community.
Though
police raids on gay bars continued, the gayola scandal was a
small step forward in our fight for equality.
By
the decades end, Stonewall officially marked the beginning of LGBT
rights effort. This could not have been possible without the earlier
fights that preceded that night.
Read more about this history in the book by Christopher
Lowen Agee: The Streets of San Francisco
