Rodney Wilson's Potosi Braised Roast

The weather is starting to change and a nice hearty one pot meal is very welcome this time of year. Nothing fancy here, just basic goodness.

To honor the man who created LGBT History month, we prepare this simple dish for him and his little hometown. Enjoy!

Ingredients

• 3 lbs chuck roast
• Kosher salt and black pepper
• 2 tablespoons shortening
• 2 large onions, chopped
• 1 cup carrots, chopped
• 1 cup sliced mushrooms
• 5 cloves garlic, minced
  1 can 10 oz cream of onion soup
• ¾ soup can of beef stock (no salt added)

• green vegetable for a side dish
  

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Do your cutting first: Chop the onions, the garlic and carrots. Rinse the mushrooms. Have everything ready to go before heating the skillet. 
 

Season chuck roast liberally with kosher salt and freshly ground pepper. Heat shortening in large skillet and brown thoroughly on all sides. 
 

Remove meat and place in a sprayed foil lined baking pan. 

  
Add the onions, celery, carrots, and garlic to remaining hot grease in skillet. Saute until tender for 10 minutes.

 

Spoon in the vegetables around the meat. 

 
Mix the condensed soup with ¾ can of beef stock and stir well.
Pour over the meat then seal the pan with foil.

Cover with foil and let braise for 1½ to 2 hours or until fork slides into meat easily.
Remove meat from hot pan and cover loosely with foil. Let sit for 5 minutes.
Using a slotted spoon, spoon out the vegetables and set aside.


Serve the meat on a platter with vegetables on the side. A nice green vegetable will complete the feast.

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Rodney Wilson

October is LGBT History Month. It would not exist without Rodney Wilson, a 29-year-old Missouri history high school teacher who came out to his class in 1994.

Wilson is yet another example of an ordinary guy who became an extraordinary LGBT Hero.

Growing up in the tiny rural town of Potosi, Missouri, Rodney knew he was different, he was gay. But it was a deep secret that had to be closely guarded.

As a student at Southeast Missouri State University, he started to come out. He wrote the university's Gay and Lesbian Student Association in April 1989. Wilson noted coming out was a process. Voicing his sexuality once didn’t magically make things any easier, especially in the 1990s.

Wilson had a scholarship for his master’s degree in history at Southeast and work as a teacher’s assistant. His plans changed when he was offered a position at Mehlville High School in Saint Louis County. He taught social studies, American history and world history there for the next seven years.

In was during a March 1994 class on the Holocaust that Wilson came out to his students. 

 

“Back then, openly gay teachers in K-12 public schools were rare, and in Missouri and other more conservative states, they were unheard of,” Wilson said. 
 

1994, Wilson proposed Gay and Lesbian History Month, later to be titled LGBT History Month, for the first annual celebration that October.

He put his career on the line, but he stayed at Mehlville, was granted tenure and taught there two additional years following.

Wilson's brave idea for LGBT History Month took off. He sent letters to any LGBT organization he could find an address for. National organizations started to send endorsements. Within the first year, the governors of Oregon, Connecticut and Massachusetts issued proclamations for October to adopt the celebration. Cities in Missouri like St. Louis and Kansas City did the same the next year. 
 
This month marks the twenty-third year of these efforts. Programs on LGBT history appear all around the country. A history that was repressed, names and events that were expunged and memories hidden are now being brought to light. 

Now we can see who we are and where we came from. Countless youth who might be questioning their identities are being deterred from suicide. They now know they are not alone.

All because of a simple idea, from a high school teacher. An ordinary man from a tiny town in out-state Missouri had the courage to be true to himself and his students. Rodney Wilson became an extraordinary LGBT Hero.