Awoke
to find snow! It is still winter so how about a nice warm soup? The
name for this is a play on words. After the recipe find a quick
hidden history of the “T Room” or as they call it in the UK,
cottaging!
We
keep this soup simple. A basic mix with tender juicy beef, onions,
carrots, white beans, and spinach. Healthy and hardy. Plus easy on
the diets!
Ingredients:
2
½ lbs roast
2
yellow onions
5oz.
fresh baby spinach
3
carrots
1
can great northern beans
32
oz. beef broth, no salt added
Directions:
Pre-heat
the oven to 225 degrees and spray a Dutch oven.
Do
your cutting: rough chop the onions and trim the roast of big chunks
of fat and cut into bite sized cubes.
Place
the onions in the bottom of the pot and spread the beef on top.
Sprinkle with salt & pepper, cover and let slow roast for 2 and a
half to 3 hours. This lets the collagen break down in the meat.
Remove
from oven. You will have plenty of cook beef, so take out about a
third to save for other recipes. Bag and refrigerate or even freeze
if you wish.
While
that is roasting, cut the carrots and pull the stem off the spinach.
On
stove top, add the carrots, beans, and the beef broth. Cover and let
come up to a simmer.
Add
the spinach by handfuls, stirring between each to wilt the greens
into the soup.
Cover
and let slow simmer for an hour to blend the flavors.
Taste
and adjust any seasonings.
Serve
with a crusty bread.
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The
building of the very first “Public Lavatories”( or privies, bog
houses, etc) brought an unexpected phenomenon, gay sex!
Back
in Victorian times, “cottage” (small, cozy home) came to refer to
a public toilet.
By
the 1960s this use had become an exclusively gay slang term in the
UK. Gay men in the United States, refer to these lavatories as
“t-rooms”.(T = toilet)
“Cottaging”
refers to to anonymous sex between men in a public lavatory (a
"cottage", "tea-room"), or cruising for sexual
partners with the intention of having sex elsewhere.
One
of the earliest public privies in London was the Lincoln's Inn
bog house built in the late 17th century. It quickly became a
popular molly (gay) cruising area, perhaps because of the law
students who frequented it. The front-page editorial of The London
Journal in 1726 exposed "the nocturnal Assemblies of great
Numbers of the like vile Persons at Lincolns-Inn Bog-houses, where
they make their Bargains, and then withdraw into some dark Corners to
indorse, as they call it, but in plain English to commit Sodomy".
In
1728 one John Bennet was found guilty of attempted sodomy "in
the Bog-House at Lincoln's-Inn".
Urinals have acquired special cultural significance among gay men. Jean Genet, who lived as a prostitute cruising the toilets in the beggars' quarter near the harbor in Barcelona in the 1930's, remembers an incident when an outdoor urinal was condemned, a group of about thirty queens called the Carolinas dressed in mantillas and silk dresses; marched to the spot and placed a bouquet of red roses beside it."
T
Rooms
were and are located in places heavily used by many people insuring
the anonymous
nature
of such acts. Often glory
holes
are drilled in the walls between cubicles.
Foot
signals — tapping a foot, sliding a foot slightly under the divider
between stalls, attracting the attention of the occupant of the next
stall — are used to signify that one wishes to connect with the
person in the next cubicle.
To
combat theses atrocities from happening authorities have
reduced the height of or even removed doors from the cubicles of
popular cottages, or extended the walls between the cubicles to the
floor to prevent foot signaling.
Starting
in the 60's, pin hole cameras were sometimes installed to trap the
monsters for prosecution.
In
the summer of 1962,
the Mansfield, Ohio Police Department set up a sex sting by filming
men having sex in a public restroom under the main square of the
city. A cameraman hid in a closet and filmed the clandestine
activities through a two-way mirror. The police filmed over a
three-week period, and the resulting movie was used to obtain the
convictions of over 38 local men on charges of sodomy.
All
of the 38 men were convicted of sodomy. They were publicly
humiliated and found themselves ensnared by the state’s Ascherman
Act, which ordered all felons deemed a danger to society to be
institutionalized for a potentially indefinite
period;
all were required to serve the minimum sentence, even those judged by
medical professionals to be “cured” prior to that time. The
treatment involved a number of now-discredited methods, including
electroshock
and various other aversion therapy techniques, and drugs with known
severe side effects.
After
their release few recovered from the trauma and many were ostracized
from families and friends. Some committed suicide.
Before
the gay liberation movement, many, if not most, gay and bisexual men
at the time were closeted and there were no public gay social groups
for those under legal drinking age. As such, “T Rooms” were among
the few places where men too young to get into gay bars could meet
others whom they knew to be gay.
Sexual
acts in public rest rooms are outlawed by most jurisdictions. It is
likely that the element of risk involved in “cruising the T-rooms”
makes it an attractive activity to some.
Historically
in the United Kingdom, public gay sex often resulted in a charge and
conviction of gross indecency, an offense only pertaining to oral
sexual acts committed by males.
Anal
penetration was a separate and much more serious crime that came
under the definition of buggery. Buggery was a capital offense
between 1533 and 1861 under UK law, although it rarely resulted in a
death sentence.
Importuning
was an offer of sexual gratification between men, often for
money. The Sexual Offenses Act 1967 permitted sex between consenting
men over 21 years of age when conducted in private, but the
act specifically excluded public lavatories from being
"private".
The
Sexual Offenses Act 2003 replaced this aspect with the offense of
"Sexual activity in a public lavatory" which includes solo
masturbation.
In
many of the cases where people are brought to court for “cruising
the T-Rooms”, the issue of entrapment
arises. Since the offenses are public but often carried out behind
closed doors, the police used undercover officers who would frequent
toilets posing as homosexuals in an effort to entice other men to
approach them for sex. These men would then be arrested for indecent
assault.
Such
practices were severely curtailed after a few court cases decided the
police officer had consented to the contact if he had desired and
required the defendant to touch him with sexual intent in order to
have evidence of a crime.
While
on a cross-country trip in 1957,
Dr. Frank Kameny was arrested in San Francisco in a typical
entrapment. A
stranger approached and groped him at the urinal in the men's room of
the bus terminal. Then plain clothes police arrested
the victim. He was
assured that if he served three years' probation, his criminal record
would be expunged. That is IF: he did
not fight the
charges (also a typical legal lie of the day).
Upon
learning
of
his San Francisco arrest, Kameny was brought in for questioning by
the Civil Service Commission. He refused to answer anything about his
sexual orientation. Kameny was fired soon afterward. In January
1958,
he was barred from future employment by the federal government. To
show how powerful that was, he was never again able to hold a paying
job and he lived to 2011!
However
Kameny's reaction and fighting spirit changed the course of history!
He
took his case to the Supreme Court. While they eventuly turned down
his petition. It was a poivital point in our legal history. It
the first time a civil rights case based on sexual orientation was
presented before a U.S. court. His
appeal is an uncompromising assertion of his rights and normality. It
set his direction and work for the next 50 years!
Dr.
Kameny not only led a frontal attack on previously unquestioned
persecution of homosexual's by divisions of the federal government
but revolutionized
the homosexual movement itself.
It would no longer be seeking assimilation and apologies for
homosexuality. It would instead become a demand of being recognized
as normal and an uncompromising campaign for full citizenship rights.
Out
of his unjust arrest and dismissal, Dr. Frank Kameny became one of
the most important leaders of the LGBT Civil-rights Movement.
In
the 1940s and 1950s, police surveillance was only the linchpin of a
broader social system that punished people who were discovered to be
gay. While the arrests themselves left some men in tears and others
furious, almost every man taken into custody feared the possible
extralegal consequences more than the legal process itself.
Above
all, these men feared that their families or their employers would
learn they were gay if word of their arrest reached them, as
sometimes happened when the police or court officials contacted them
or a newspaper published the man’s name. The courts might punish a
man with a fine or 30 days in jail. It was nothing compared with the
threat of losing a job, a career, or a family’s love and support.
While
this is past history, lets look at the news from just 4 years ago.
A
Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled that the Long Beach Police
Department discriminated against gay men by ensnaring them in a
homophobic sex sting operation. Before that, it was the New York
Police Department that was in hot water for similar
discriminatory policing. And before that, it was police in Baton
Rouge, Louisiana.
Now,
it’s the San Jose Police Department.
John
Ferguson was hanging out at Columbus Park in San Jose in 2014
when a man approached him outside a restroom and asked, “How
often do you come here?”
Some
witty talk ensued before Ferguson followed the man into the empty
bathroom. A few minutes later, they were joined by a third man, who
unbuttoned his pants.
That’s
when a fourth man stormed in, introducing himself as Officer
Adam Jenkins of the SJPD. The man Ferguson had been flirting with
then whipped out his badge and announced himself as Officer
Samuel Marquardt.
And
just like that, both Ferguson and the other man became eligible
for the sex offender registry.
Ferguson
was slapped with a citation, which prohibits hanging around public
restrooms with the intention of “engaging in a lewd or lascivious
act.” It’s classified as a sex crime, which usually means a
$1,000 fine and/or community service, giving up one’s Fourth
Amendment rights, and registering as a sex offender.
But
here’s where the story takes a bit of twist.
Ferguson
was one of 19 other gay men the SJPD slapped with the same
citation over a 17-month period. 18 of those 19 citations were
made by the same same officer, Samuel Marquardt.
According
to state transparency records, Marquardt makes $251,186.46 a year in
salary, overtime and benefits.
Ferguson
spent nearly two years fighting the charges against him. Earlier this
summer, a judge finally acquitted him, along with 12 others,
then slammed SJPD for its blatantly homophobic practices:
By
conducting themselves in a way that mimics ‘cruising’ behavior
of the suspects targeted, the undercover officers demonstrated the
intent to target this group to the exclusion of other perpetrators
of lewd conduct. … Unpopular groups have too often been made to
bear the brunt of discriminatory prosecution or selective
enforcement. The unconstitutional selective enforcement of the law
as seen in the cases before this court undermine the credibility of
our legal system and risks eroding public confidence in our ability
to achieve just results.
From
what we can tell, SJPD has not released a statement about the
matter; however, Officer Marquardt does remain employed with the
department, collecting his quarter of a million dollars
each year.
As
for sex in the T-rooms: What are the odds that young men with their
penises in their hands will think about sex?
