Beck's Beans and S'rooms

This recipe is dedicated to Kristen Beck! Read about her story after the recipe.

This is a great way to fix fresh green beans. Elevate them above the simple side dish. Adding mushrooms with a bit of garlic and almonds really packs in the flavors. You could use this as a vegetarian main dish or a side for a fancy dinner!

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• ¼ tsp salt
• ½ cup red onion chopped
• 2 ounces mushroom, sliced (about 1 ½ cups)
• ½ cup low salt beef broth
• 1 Tbs yellow mustard
• 10-ounce green beans, trimmed (about 3 cups)
• 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
• 1/8 tsp pepper
• ¼ cup almonds

Directions

Rinse and slice the mushrooms. 

 
Then rinse the fresh green beans.
Chop the red onion and freeze any left-overs.

Snap the ends off the beans.

Heat a large non-stick skillet over medium-high heat. Add the almonds and stir. Keep an eye on this so they don't burn. They will be toasted when you can smell the aroma coming up. Remove them to a dish and set aside.

At that point add oil and ¼ cup chopped red onion. Stir and add the mushrooms.
Saute for about 6 minutes.

Place the green beans into the skillet and stir to combine.
Add the Tbs of mustard and the ½ cup of broth, cover quickly.
Let the steam from the broth cook the beans. Cook 6 minutes or until beans are crisp-tender. Stir in butter and serve.

What a wondeful aroma will grace your table with these simple beans.
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Kristin Beck

Beck is a retired United States Navy SEAL who gained attention in 2013 when she came out as a trans woman. She published her memoir, Warrior Princess: A U.S. Navy SEAL's Journey to Coming out Transgender, detailing her experiences.

Beck served in the U.S. Navy for twenty years and is the first openly transgender former U.S. Navy SEAL.

Designated as an elite antiterrorism special forces unit, the legendary SEAL Team Six — the one that killed Osama Bin Laden — until recently benefited from the storied first-in-line, first-at-the-front, and first-to-jump tactical contributions of a team member formerly known as Senior Chief Petty Officer Chris T. Beck. 
 
Today, Kristin Beck, the former SEAL paratrooper, expert marksman, and multiple-battleground veteran, has earned enough medals for courageous acts in military service to her country to crowd the buttons of her dress-blues U.S. Navy uniform.

Recognized as the first former U.S. Navy SEAL to come out as transgender, Beck is modest about her accomplishments, which include (among several other military honors) a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart during her service in the Middle East.
"Beck was often the 'breacher,' the first one through the door on hundreds of raids in Iraq and Afghanistan, and became a team leader, a senior chief," said reporter Dan Noyes in 2014. Beck paid the price, receiving a Purple Heart for ... many injuries in combat and a Bronze Star with the 'V' for valor."

Beck was christened Christopher T. Beck in June 1966 and grew up on a farm. As early as the age of five, she was drawn to feminine clothes and toys but was encouraged to adopt masculine roles by her parents. Before transitioning, she married twice and has two sons from her first marriage. She recounts in her memoir how her gender dysphoria contributed to her inability to emotionally mature while being in a male body, adding conflict to her sexual identity, although she never really felt gay. Additionally, her duties as a U.S. Navy SEAL kept her on missions away from home, which distanced her from family members. Before enlisting in the United States Navy, Beck attended Virginia Military Institute from 1984 through 1987.

Beck served for 20 years in the U.S. Navy SEALs before her transition, taking part in 13 deployments, including seven combat deployments. Beck completed Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training with class 179 in 1991 and subsequently served with SEAL Team 1. She was a member of the United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group (also known as DEVGRU), a special counter-terrorism unit popularly called SEAL Team Six, and received multiple military awards and decorations, including a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart. She told Anderson Cooper she wanted to be a SEAL because they were the "toughest of the tough".

Beck retired from the Navy in 2011 with a final rating as Senior Chief Special Warfare Operator when she began transitioning by dressing as a woman. In 2013, she began hormone therapy, preparing herself for sex reassignment surgery. During an interview with Anderson Cooper in early June 2013, she stated that she never came out during her military career and that "No one ever met the real me". After coming out publicly in 2013 by posting a photo of herself as a woman on LinkedIn, she received a number of messages of support from her former military colleagues. 

 

Warrior Princess

Beck co-wrote Warrior Princess with Anne Speckhard, a psychologist at the Georgetown University School of Medicine. Speckhard was doing a study on the resilience of the U.S. Navy SEALs, that is, the coping mechanisms employed by SEALs to deal with their intense job demands. Speckhard first met Beck at a counter-terrorism conference. After Beck agreed to discuss coping mechanisms, a follow-up meeting took place in a gay bar, with Beck now dressed in female attire, to Speckhard's surprise. A five-hour meeting led to Speckhard agreeing to help Beck write her life story.

In the book, Speckhard notes that Beck had a desire to die honorably "so that [she] wouldn't have to wrestle anymore with the emotional pain that stemmed from the lack of congruency between [her] gender identity and body". In her introduction to the book, Beck writes:

I do not believe a soul has a gender, but my new path is making my soul complete and happy...I hope my journey sheds some light on the human experience and most importantly helps heal the "socio-religious dogma" of purely binary gender.

OutServe Magazine praised the book, calling it "one of the smartest and most important books of the year". The "don't ask, don't tell" policy was repealed in 2011, the ban on openly transgender people serving in the U.S. armed forces still remained. Days before the release of Warrior Princess, Metro Weekly's Poliglot column reported that the Pentagon had celebrated LGBT Pride Month in a memo while avoiding mention of transgender military personnel; the Pentagon memo read in part: "We recognize gay, lesbian and bisexual service members and LGBT civilians for their dedicated service to our country." While restrictions on sexual orientation were lifted in 2010-2011, restrictions on gender identity remained in place due to Department of Defense regulations until 2016, when the Obama administration ended the ban on transgender Americans serving in the military. Now the Trump administration is ordering a re-instatement of that ban.

In January, the ban on military service got the go-ahead from the Supreme Court. The US policy under question bars from military service, with some exceptions, people who have gender dysphoria — a disconnect between a person's gender identity and their sex assigned at birth — or are seeking to transition or have transitioned, people whose medical diagnosis would require a transition during service, and people who can't demonstrate "stability" in their assigned sex for at least the three years before applying to serve. The Pentagon has claimed that gender dysphoria impairs functionality. 

 

While the Pentagon insists the above criteria did not equate to a ban on transgender military service, it's unclear whether most transgender people could meet those requirements.

"Due to lower courts issuing nationwide injunctions, our military had been forced to maintain a prior policy that poses a risk to military effectiveness and lethality for over a year," the Department of Justice has maintained. 

 

Former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis wrote last February that the inclusion of such people in the military would decrease the "readiness, lethality, and effectiveness of our military." 

 

Beck, called the Trump administration's position on transgender military service "bulls---."

The Pentagon had been "intentionally confusing" on the issue of trans service and that it failed to even define the concepts of lethality and effectiveness.
"I was a Navy SEAL for 20 years — I was pretty lethal," she said.

While Beck's unique point of view found no home in the Trump administration or with the Pentagon officially, the top leaders of the US Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps all said in April that they found no issues with transgender people serving.

Lady Valor

Lady Valor: The Kristin Beck Story, a documentary, aired on CNN on September 4, 2014.

The Retired Navy SEAL is ready to fire up her acting career ... and she's calling on Hollywood producers to start considering more LGBT actors for LGBT roles. 

Kristen, says she just signed in January, with acting agency Nine9 ... and she's ready to get to work. 

Kristin says she knows tons of transgender actors ... and she thinks Hollywood should do a better job of at least giving them a chance to land LGBT roles.

Gay and lesbian representation increased in major Hollywood films in 2018 (18.2 percent) — but there were still zero trans characters.

We applaud your service and look forward to seeing more from you: Kristen Beck!

Magnus Cheddar & Almond Broccoli Salad

Our salad tonight is to honor the pioneering scientist Magnus Hirschfeld. Known as the Einstein of sex and early supporter of LGBT rights. Read a small article about him after the recipe.

Ths brocolli salad uses a simple dressing of low fat mayonnaise, mustard, and sugar. This salad is perfect for picnics, TV watching or a side for a fancy dinner.

Ingredients

• 1 (12-oz.) pkg. fresh steam-in-bag broccoli florets
• 3 tablespoons shredded sharp cheddar cheese
• 2 Tbs lower-fat mayonnaise
• 1 tsp yellow mustard
• ½ tsp sugar
• ½ cup minced red onion
• 1 teaspoon red wine vinegar
• ¼ tsp salt + ¼ tsp pepper
• 1 tablespoon sliced almonds
  

Directions:

Place broccoli package in microwave; microwave at HIGH for only 2 minutes.

Chop the red onion. 

 

Combine mayonnaise, mustard and sugar in a bowl. Stir in the vinegar. Add salt & pepper to taste.

Now in a serving bowl place the broccoli, red onion, and almonds. Stir in the dressing.

Sprinkle cheeze over the top.

Cover and let blend in refrigerator for atleast an hour before serving.

What a great salad to serve my Master Indy.

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Magnus Hirschfeld

Magnus Hirschfeld (1868 – 1935) was a German physician and sexologist educated primarily in Germany. His pioneering work mustn't be forgotten. An outspoken advocate for sexual minorities, Hirschfeld is believed to have coined the term ‘transvestitism'. He established the world's first gender identity clinic.

Hirschfeld began researching sexuality after moving to Berlin in 1896, where he lived as an openly gay man and campaigned for gay rights. He was once described by Hitler as "the most dangerous Jew in Germany", and the entire library of his Institute for Sexual Science was burned by the Nazis.

Hirschfeld believed that sexual orientation was innate and not a deliberate choice, and he hoped that a scientific understanding of sexuality would promote tolerance of sexual minorities. His sexology research was one of the first to be guided by empiricism and activism. He maintained that the sexual ideology of Judeo-Christian civilization was a serious obstacle to the understanding of sexuality and to the reform of laws and practices that regulated it. 

 

Initially, Hirschfeld supported the concept that homosexuals constituted the "third sex," but he soon rejected that. He is best known for his subsequent theory of sexual intermediaries, which held that there were many types of naturally occurring sexual variations. They were found across the population, such as hermaphroditism, homosexuality, and transvestism. He is also credited with coining the term transvestite. Hirschfeld accomplished an enormous amount of work during his lifetime with regards to his research, writing, and advocacy efforts. In 1897 Hirschfeld established the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee, the world's first gay rights organization. Its main goal was to fight for the abolishment of Paragraph 175 of the German Imperial Penal Code, which punished sexual contact between men. In 1899 he started the Yearbook of Intermediate Sexual Types, the first journal in the world to deal with sexual variants; it was regularly published until 1923. He also published an important study on cross-dressing, The Transvestites (1910). Hirschfeld was one of the founders of the Medical Society for Sexual Science and Eugenics, established in 1913. His study, Homosexuality in Men and Women, was based on the expansive statistical surveys on homosexuality that he had conducted. In addition to publishing works on sexology and sexual reforms, Hirschfeld also wrote about racism, politics, and the history of morals.

In 1919 Hirschfeld opened the first sexology institute in the world, the Institute for Sexual Science, in Berlin; the institute and the considerable holdings of its library and archives were destroyed by Nazi demonstrators in 1933.

While away in the U.S. lecturing, Nazi stormtroopers attacked and ransacked the Institute, destroying its priceless research archives. The vast library was burned in the great bonfire of "enemy books." The newsreel footage of these burning books features in almost every documentary about the Nazis and in all the main history books.

But it is rarely acknowledged that it was Hirschfeld's sexological institute and the headquarters of his German gay rights movement that were the main targets and victims of the stormtroopers' wrath.

The Nazis also seized the Institute's huge list of clients' names and addresses. These were used by the Gestapo to compile their notorious "pink lists," which identified homosexuals and led to their arrest and deportation to the concentration camps.

Being a Jew, a gay man and a sexual liberation activist made Hirschfeld the target of right-wing supporters, and he suffered serious injuries from an attack in 1920. Later, with the Nazis' growing power, he was regularly assaulted, his lectures were disrupted, and, upon completion of his international speaking tour in 1932, he was unable to return to Germany. He instead went to Switzerland and then in 1934 to France.

Hirschfeld was born into a conservative Jewish family in what was then Prussia in 1868. During his childhood, he developed a curiosity and fascination with sex. Against the conventional wisdom of his era and the moralism of his elders, even as a young boy, he viewed sexuality as something entirely natural and wholesome.

Soon after setting himself up as a doctor in Berlin in 1893, he was waylaid outside his apartment at night by a soldier, deeply disturbed by his homosexuality. Hirschfeld resisted the soldier's pleading for a consultation there and then, telling him to come to his office the next day. Overnight, however, the soldier committed suicide.

Hirschfeld's terrible guilt and remorse motivated him to begin studying homosexuality and he noticed that many of his gay patients were committing suicide. In the German language, the word for suicide is Selbstmord ("self-murder"), making the subject of suicide a taboo in 19th century Germany.

As his pro-gay reputation spread, more and more men who were unhappy with their homosexuality came to him as patients. Hirschfeld's prescription? Lots of gay parties and plenty of boyfriends! 

 

One of Hirschfeld's biggest problems was hostility from other gays and lesbians. They mostly accepted their second-class legal status. Many did not like him rocking the boat. He was seen as a troublemaker. They refused to cooperate with his sex surveys and law reform campaigns.

Hirschfeld traveled the world lecturing and learning. His life was filled with so many interesting and pioneering episodes that it is impossible to encompass in one short article.

Just last year in Berlin was a huge celebration in honor of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Magnus Hirschfeld. Let us take time to remember this great man and the important work he accomplished. 

 

Aleister's Oven-Baked Cheeseburger Slider

These small cheeseburgers are perfect for game watching or full evening meals. Patterned after the old “Maid-Rite" burgers of the '50s, these not so sloppy sandwiches are held together by cheese. We honor a famous Bisexual personality, Aleister Crowley, with these. Learn more about this character in a short article after the recipe.

Using those wonderful Hawaiian rolls, these loose hamburger tidbits are baked and ready for guests or just TV watching.

Ingredients:

• 1 lb ground beef
• ½ cup onion grated
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• ½ teaspoon salt + 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
• ½ cup ketchup
• 3 Tbs stone ground mustard, divided
• 12 square dinner rolls
• 1 cup bread and butter pickles, drained
• 8 slices cheese
• 1 Tbs butter
• 1 Tbs brown sugar
• 1 Tbs Worcestershire sauce

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a 9- x 13-inch baking dish with foil and spray.

Grate the onion

In a large skillet over medium-high heat, cook ground beef and onion 5 to 7 minutes, or until browned; drain excess liquid.

Add garlic powder, salt, pepper, ketchup, and 2 tablespoons mustard; mix well and heat 2 minutes.

Separate the rolls and cut the tops off. Place bottom halves in baking dish. 

 

Cut each slice of American cheese into fourths. Place one square on each bottom roll. 

 

Scoop the meat mixture on with a teaspoon and top with another square of cheese. Place top half of buns over cheese.

In a small saucepan over low heat, combine butter, brown sugar, Worcestershire sauce, and remaining 1 tablespoon mustard. Heat and stir until sauce is smooth, stirring occasionally.

Brush tops of rolls with this then cover the dish with foil.

Bake 15 to 20 minutes, or until heated through and cheese is melted.

This can be baked alongside some oven type french fries! Serve with a side of pickles, mustard, or whatever you like.

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Aleister Crowley 

 He was born Edward Alexander Crowley in 1875 to a wealthy family in Warwickshire, England. Crowley rejected his parent's fundamentalist faith to pursue an interest in Western esotericism. He studied at the University of Cambridge. While there he changed his name to Aleister. He was a lyric and dramatic poet, with several dozen books to his credit, including a collaboration with Auguste Rodin.

He was to make a name for himself as a poet, novelist, journalist, mountaineer, explorer, chess player, graphic designer, drug experimenter, prankster, bisexual, yogi, magician, prophet, early freedom fighter, human rights activist, philosopher, and artist.

Crowley is probably best known today as the author of the twentieth century’s most influential textbooks on occultism, and as the first Englishman to found a religion—Thelema—which is today a recognized faith around the world.

Aleister Crowley drew crowds of followers and hoards of critics. He was branded as evil and egotistical, a raging genius, and a messiah of anti-Christianity.

Crowley had his first significant mystical experience while on holiday in Stockholm in December 1896. Several biographers believed that this was the result of Crowley's first same-sex sexual experience, which enabled him to recognize his bisexuality. At Cambridge, Crowley maintained a vigorous sex life with women—largely with female prostitutes, but eventually, he took part in same-sex activities, despite their illegality.

In October 1897, Crowley met Herbert Charles Pollitt, president of the Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club, and the two entered into a relationship. They broke apart because Pollitt did not share Crowley's increasing interest in Western esotericism, a break-up that Crowley would regret for many years.

In 1898 Crowley privately published 100 copies of his poem Aceldama: A Place to Bury Strangers In, but it was not a particular success. That same year he published a string of other poems, including White Stains, a Decadent collection of erotic poetry that was printed abroad lest its publication be prohibited by the British authorities.

Some biographers allege that here he was recruited into a British intelligence agency, further suggesting that he remained a spy throughout his life.

In July 1898, he left Cambridge, not having taken any degree. He was trained in ceremonial magic. Moving to Boleskine House by Loch Ness in Scotland. He then went mountaineering in Mexico, before studying Hindu and Buddhist practices in India. He married Rose Edith Kelly and in 1904 they honeymooned in Cairo, Egypt.

At first, the marriage was one “of convenience,” as Rose had been set to enter an arranged marriage. However, before long, the two fell in love for real. Crowley even set aside his profane, dark writings, and penned his wife several love poems.

Despite their initial arrangement, Rose and Aleister Crowley could not be a more perfect pair. Rose accompanied Crowley on his journeys and went along with his schemes, and indeed it was through her that Crowley found the inspiration to begin his own religion.
While Rose was apparently meditating, she informed him in a state of deliriousness that the god Horus was waiting for him. Later, through his own meditation, he heard the voice of Aiwass, Horus’ personal messenger. Using the words of the messenger and Horus himself, Crowley transcribed The Book of the Law, the book that would become the basis of his new religion, Thelema.

Announcing the start of the Æon of Horus, The Book declared that its followers should "Do what thou wilt" and seek to align themselves with their True Will through the practice of magick. 

 

While Crowley was consumed by the words of Horus and his desire to feed the masses occult information, his wife was descending into her own darkness. What had started as a libation every now and then, had turned into full-blown alcoholism.
Though typhoid was deemed the culprit, Crowley blamed the death of their first daughter, Lilith, on Rose’s inability to remain sober. Aleister and Rose had another daughter, Lola, who was entrusted solely to Rose’s care upon the two’s divorce. Eventually, Rose was institutionalized in 1911.

After an unsuccessful visit to India and China, Crowley returned to Britain, where he attracted attention as a prolific author of poetry, novels, and occult literature. In 1907, he and George Cecil Jones co-founded an esoteric order, the A∴A∴, through which they taught Thelema. In 1912 he was initiated into another esoteric order, the German-based Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.), rising to become the leader of its British branch, which he reformulated in accordance with his Thelemite beliefs.

Through the O.T.O., Thelemite groups were established in Britain, Australia, and North America. Crowley spent the First World War in the United States, where he took up painting and campaigned for the German war effort against Britain, later revealing that he had infiltrated the pro-German movement to assist the British intelligence services.

Crowley set about re-writing O.T.O. rituals; his incorporation of Thelemite elements proved controversial in the group. Fascinated by the O.T.O's emphasis on sex magic, Crowley devised a magical ceremony based on anal sex and incorporated it into the syllabus for those O.T.O. members who had been initiated into the eleventh degree.

It has been suggested that Crowley had traveled to Moscow on the orders of British intelligence to spy on revolutionary elements in the city. In January 1914 Crowley settled into an apartment in Paris.

In 1920 he established the Abbey of Thelema, a religious commune in Sicily where he lived with various followers. His libertine lifestyle led to denunciations in the British press, and he was banished from Italy for acts of extreme depravity by Mussolini himself! 

 

He continued to publish occult manuscripts and engage in sex with prostitutes and black magic in the years during World War I, and produced his own set of tarot cards, handpainted by a fellow OTO initiate. He remarried, to a Nicaraguan woman named Maria Teresa Sanchez, so that she could immigrate to England. He gained an assistant, whom he paid in magical teachings rather than actual money, who transcribed his teachings for him and helped him publish his books.
On Dec. 1, 1947, Aleister Crowley died, his body giving out to his chronic bronchitis. The funeral held four days later, dubbed the “Black Mass,” was only attended by a dozen people, despite Crowley’s teachings reaching hundreds of thousands over the years.

Crowley’s image can be found on the cover of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album, and his motto “do what thou wilt” is inscribed on Led Zeppelin’s Led Zeppelin III vinyl. David Bowie referenced the man in the lyrics to “Quicksand,” and Ozzy Osbourne paid tribute with a song titled “Mr. Crowley.”

A teacher and a leader? defiantly. A hero depends. A strong character in the history of bisexuals by any understanding.