As
we approach the 50th
anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, we'll be looking back on some
of the events leading up to that event. We dedicate this dish to a
nearly forgotten victim in our fight for equality, Howard Efland. Be
sure to read the quick article following the recipe.
Ingredients
8
oz uncooked large elbow macaroni (about 2 cups)
1
lbs stew meat
2
cups thinly sliced yellow onions
½
cup sliced mushrooms
1
medium green bell pepper, cut in thin strips
1
tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1
package (8 oz) 1/3-less-fat cream cheese (Neufchâtel), cubed
½
cup beef flavored broth, no salt added
¼
lbs provolone cheese slices
Carefully
slice up 2 med onions with a slicer. Toss 1Tbs oil & onions with stew meat into the dish and season with salt & pepper.
Cut
up the green pepper into thin short strips and mix in. Stir in 2 Tbs
oil until all is blended in.
Slow
roast this in the 225
degree oven for two hours!
Cook
the macaroni.
Cut
up the softened cream cheese into dice shapes. When pasta is “al
dente” drain and stir in the cream cheese to melt. Add the Worcestershire sauce and beef broth, stir well.
With
15 minutes to go on the meat, toss in the mushrooms and stir through.
Carefully
take the meat dish out of oven. Turn the oven to broil.
Stir
the macaroni into the meat mixture until well mixed. Then top with a
layer of provolone slices.
Slide
back in under the broiler until cheese is melted and showing touches
of brown.
Serve
with a crusty bread!
Calories 390 Calories from
Fat 160 Total Fat 18g Saturated Fat 9g Trans Fat ½g
Cholesterol 80mg Sodium 730mg
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=============================================== Howard
Efland
The Dover Hotel was a five-story brick building in downtown Los Angeles. The hotel operated as a bathhouse. Gay men checked in, removed their clothing, and laid on their beds with the doors ajar waiting for others to walk by in the hopes of meeting someone.
Writer Dan Savage describes a bathhouse as a whore house run by volunteers.
The Dover hotel not surprisingly, was the scene of a number of raids by the LAPD’s Vice Squad and was known to them as an easy bust for “faggots”.
On March 9th, 1969, just 4 months shy of the Stonewall riots in NYC, Howard Efland, a male nurse who checked into the hotel under the pseudonym of J. McCann.
Then all hell broke lose!
LA vice officers Lemuel Chauncey and Richard Halligan claimed that Efland groped them so they arrested him, dragged him naked, bleeding and screaming down a flight of stairs by his feet and into the street.
In front of several witnesses the two police officers who were well over 6’2 inches started beating the slightly built, unarmed and and non-resisting gay man to death while he screamed “Help me! My God, someone help me!” The two police officers kicked him repeatedly, did knee drops onto his stomach, and savagely beat him.
While several witnesses claimed that Howard Efland died at the scene. Chauncy and Halligan stated that Elfland was alive as they “threw” the body into the back of the police wagon.
The Admissions Officer who was on duty at County General Hospital testified at the Coroner’s inquest that when they received Efland, they tied him down to the bed and he was in bad shape. The Nurse testified that she went into the other room with the cop because the guy had bitten his finger. Forty minutes later while she’s still working on the cop another nurse came and said ‘hey, the guy in the other room died.’
The LAPD later claimed that Efland had momentarily escaped from a police van as it was speeding down the freeway after his arrest — and that his putative fall from the van had caused the fatal injuries.
The District Attorney refused to bring charges, and the City of Los Angeles rejected calls to discipline the officers.
The L.A.P.D. first informed Efland’s parents that their son had died of a heart attack. Later the L.A. County Coroner ruled Elfland’s death an “excusable homicide” and the story was withheld from the mainstream media. However the gay newspaper, the Advocate, picked up the story and responded strongly by calling the L.A.P.D. “psychotics”
Activist Morris Kight recalled, "We were horrified and we did the first real organized protest about that in that we asked that a coroner's jury of civilians was put together and they had two days of testimony of police brutality (us mostly), with the police saying he was a dirty faggot and so on.
The homicide was called justified.
We didn't think it was justifiable." The Rev. Troy Perry, founder of the Metropolitan Community Church.
The Rev. Perry, would lead 120 marchers in a rally to the the site of Dover to commemorate Efland’s fatal beating and murder.
The five-story brick building that housed the Dover Hotel no longer exists. In its place today stands a parking structure with a street-level retail space that is currently vacant.
The incident has been memorialized by the Back2Stonewall website.
No one was ever held accountable for the murder of Howard Efland.
After publishing his story in 2014 the nephew of Howard Eflland contacted Back2Stonewall.com Being very young when it happened he was never told the true nature of his Uncle’s death.
On March 2, 2016, Back2Stonewall’s Will Kohler talked with LAPD’s Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Liaison in the Community Relations Department who promised to look into the Efland case after 46 years.
There has never been an official response. Let us remember Howard Efland who was beaten to death for being gay.
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