This
soup and salad combination meal is dedicated to Craig Rodwell: the
parent of the modern LGBT rights movement. Allow me to enlighten you
with a short article after the recipe. This hearty soup can be
stretched along with you budget. Just add more liquid and heat. The
Creamy Fruit salad is not too sweet but a wonderful balance to the
stew-type soup.
This
is a school cafeteria favorite: hamburger soup, a pantry basic, and
teamed with a creamy fruit salad.
Soup
Ingredients:
1
lb lean (at least 80%) ground beef
1
bag (12 oz) frozen mixed vegetables
1
can (10 1/2 oz) beef broth
1
28-oz can diced tomatoes, undrained
1
pkg onion soup mix
1
tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
½
tsp salt + pepper to taste
2
tbs of Italian seasoning
½
box large elbow Macaroni
Directions:
Chop
the onion and peel and dice the potato.
In
a dutch oven on stove top, heat 2 tbs of oil and brown the ground
beef along with the chopped onion.
Cook
about 8
minutes. Drain it well.
Add
the diced potato and tomatoes, and
thawed mixed vegetables.
Sprinkle
the soup mix on top with the salt,
pepper, and seasonings.
Pour
in the V8 and beef broth, stir in the
Worcestershire sauce.
Heat
till bubbling, then reduce to a slight
simmer and cover for 30
minutes.
Pour
in the uncooked macaroni, replace the
lid and continue to cook for a
second 30
minutes.
Taste
and adjust any seasonings you prefer.
Serve
this with a side of a cool creamy fruit
salad and maybe a hot from
the oven bread.
CREAMY ORANGE FRUIT SALAD
Ingredients:
2
(3.5 oz) pkgs. instant vanilla pudding mix
1
cup milk
½
cup frozen orange juice concentrate, thawed
1
cup vanilla Greek yogurt
1
(20 oz) can pineapple tidbits, drained
1
(11 oz) can peach chunks, drained
1
quart fresh strawberries, hulled, sliced, and sugared.
2
bananas, sliced
Directions:
Rinse
and hull the strawberries.
Cut
into chunks and sprinkle 1 or 2 Tbs of sugar over them. Cover and
place in refrigerator for at least 4 hours or best overnight.
This
draws out the natural juices and sweetness of the berry! It is a
trick my great-grandmother taught me. Believe me she never did
anything in cooking that she didn't feel she HAD to!
In
a large bowl, combine the pudding mix with the milk and orange juice
concentrate.
Mix
with an electric mixer for 1-2 minutes.
Stir
in the yogurt and then add the pineapple, peaches and strawberries.
If
serving immediately, add the bananas, but if you will be serving the
salad later, store in the refrigerator and add the bananas just
before serving.
You
could possibly substitute seedless grapes for strawberries or even
blue berries. Or try melon bites in place of bananas.
What
a great new combination for your table.
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We
tend to link great movements with people:
Martin
Luther – reformation
Gandi
– civil disobedience
Charles
Darwin - evolution
Dr.
Martin Luther King – African-American Civil rights
This
is not in any way to diminish the thousands who also worked towards
these goals.
Who
do we look to in our LGBT rights movement? My I suggest Craig
Rodwell and the parent of the modern LGBT rights movement. Allow me
to enlighten you.
Craig
Rodwell
Craig
was born toward the end of 1940 in Chicago. As soon as he was old
enough he was boarded out to daycare where he had to do kitchen and
laundry work to pay for his keep. By the time he was six, his mother
feared the authorities might take custody from her, so she arraigned
for him to go to a school for "problem" boys. Conditions
were like something you could read by Charles Dickens. Rodwell was
described as both a “rebellious child” and a “sissy”. During
his seven year stay there he discovered not only his sexual identity,
but also that everybody else did not feel the same way!
He
kept this in mind as he went off to high school. By 18 years old, he
managed to get out and make his way to New York City. It is hard for
us to imagine what it was like for a very young homosexual in 1958.
Craig
discovered the Mattachine Society.
Craig
quickly became a controversial figure in that group. Being young and
idealistic, he had not experienced the years of oppression others in
the group had seen.
Rodwell
did not care if J. Edgar Hoover did have a “file” on him. The
fresh energy supplied by the likes of Rodwell spurred them to make
bolder demonstrations. The success of the Civil Rights Movement, was
itself empowering to the whole network of small clubs that Mattachine
had sponsored and nurtured across the country. The framework of
organization had been built over time and the political climate was
changing. The kindling was drying as it were, and was waiting for the
right spark.
In
1962,
Rodwell had an affair with Harvey
Milk,
who went on later to become one of the first openly gay politicians
elected to high office. It was Rodwell's first serious relationship.
Rodwell's relationship with Milk ended in part due to Milk's
conflicted reaction to Rodwell's early activism and his introduction
to Milk of strange new ideas that tied homosexuality to politics,
ideas that both repelled and attracted the thirty-two-year-old Milk.
April
25, 1965 An
estimated 150
people participated in a sit-in when the manager of Philidelphia's
Dewey's restaurant refused service to several people he thought
looked gay. This is considered one of the first LGBT civil rights
demonstrations. On hand was Craig
Rodwell,
helping and learning.
By that July He had started “the
Annual Reminder picketing of Independence Hall”.
He
was also organizing “Homophile Youth Movement in Neighborhoods
rallies”.
Dick
Leitsch had
moved to New York City in 1959.
He
eventually agreed to run for president of the Mattachine Society as a
way to spend more time with Craig
Rodwell. The
two would began a great love
affair.
At
the time the New York State liquor Authority had a rule making it
illegal to serve a known homosexual or native American Indian an
alcoholic beverage.
On
April
21, 1966,
Mattachine members staged a "sip-in" at a bar named the
Julius. Dick Leitsch, president, Craig Rodwell the society's vice
president, and fellow activist John Timmons planned to identifying
themselves as homosexuals before ordering a drink.
The
Mattachines
then challenged the liquor rule in court and the courts ruled that
gays had a
right to
peacefully assemble, which undercut the previous Authority's
contention that the mere presence of gay person automatically was
grounds for charges of operating a "disorderly" premise.
The
National Park Service Register of Historic Places for Julius' Bar
states: "Scholars of gay history consider the sip-in at Julius’
as a key event leading to the growth of legitimate gay bars and the
development of the bar as the central social space for urban gay men
and lesbians."
Craig
Rodwell tried
to get the society to start a book store where people could meet and
organize. Finally when his efforts failed, he started one himself. By
1967 the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop opened. It was the first
“homophile” book store in the country.
When
Rodwell opened his store, Harvey Milk dropped by frequently, and
after moving to San Francisco Milk expressed his intention of opening
a similar store "as a way of getting involved in community
work." Milk eventually opened a camera store that also
functioned as a community center, much like Rodwell's bookshop had as
a community gathering place.
Then
in 1969,
the right people with the right skills were in the right place and
knew what to do when that spark happened.
The
explosion of anger on the night of June 27th-28th in retaliation to
the Stonewall Inn being raided could have been a flash in the pan.
However that night, sitting on the steps watching this explosion
happen was: Craig
and a few of his friends. He
recognized immediately the momentum and importance of the protests.
Rodwell phoned the press and ran home to grab his camera and bull
horn. This brought the only coverage that was allowed, even that was
quickly clamped down on. He cheered the rioters on and gave them
direction that kept the warfare going for six days.
Rodwell
recalled: "A number of incidents were happening simultaneously.
There was no one thing that happened or one person, there was just...
a flash of group, of mass anger."
"There was a very
volatile active political feeling, especially among young people ...
when the night of the Stonewall Riots came along, just everything
came together at that one moment. People often ask what was special
about that night ... There was no one thing special about it. It was
just everything coming together, one of those moments in history that
if you were there, you knew, this is it, this is what we've been
waiting for."
Rodwell
was quick to follow-up the very next morning with fliers calling for
a specific list of demands, including ridding the bars of the mafia
influence and ending the raids and harassment by the police!
His
skills went to work day and night at the book store and by November
his group proposed:
"That
the Annual Reminder, in order to be more relevant, reach a greater
number of people, and encompass the ideas and ideals of the larger
struggle in which we are engaged-that of our fundamental human
rights-be moved both in time and location.
We
propose that a demonstration be held annually on the last Saturday in
June in New York City to commemorate the 1969 spontaneous
demonstrations on Christopher Street and this demonstration be called
CHRISTOPHER
STREET LIBERATION DAY.
No dress or age regulations shall be made for this demonstration.
We
also propose that we contact Homophile organizations throughout the
country and suggest that they hold parallel demonstrations on that
day. We propose a nationwide show of support.”
The
first Pride March was held on Sunday, June
28th 1970.
Officially titled the Christopher Street Liberation Day after the
street on which Stonewall and other gay bars were located, hundreds
of people marched for liberation. This time not only were gays
picketing, but heterosexual women and their children were there
marching alongside their allies. There were public displays of
‘homosexual affection’, hand holding, and a general feeling of
relentless activism. In other words people were tired of being
oppressed and it was possible because of a man named Craig
Rodwell who
realized that his “Annual Reminder” march could segue into
something bigger and better: What we know today as Pride!
By
1973 Rodwell had met and became lovers with a young Dr. of Astronomy
named Frank Kameny. Dr. Kameny had fought his homosexual discharge
from the government all the way to the Supreme Court. Dr.
Kameny along with Barbara Gittings were pivotal in getting the
American Psychiatric Association to no longer classify homosexuality
as a disease.
Rodwell
died on June 18, 1993 of stomach
cancer
As
this years Pride season winds down Lets take a moment to reflect on
just how much this one man had a part of our rights movement. Not
quite 50 years since a time when you could be beaten to death for
looking the wrong way in the restroom. When a frustrated police
officer could hunt you down like an animal.
These
conditions did not just disappear, they were not changed overnight.
It took the hard and disciplined work by heroes like Craig Rodwell
and hundreds like him for us to reach the path we are on now. So lets
remember them and their protests as we march this month.
