Archive for November 2022
No Regrets for Regret: The Filly Who Won the Derby
When she was born, Harry Payne Whitney was disappointed. A filly, not a colt. Her parentage was prestigious. Sired by Broomstick out of the mare, Jersey Lightning, but Whitney didn’t hold high hopes for her, so he named her Regret. Then came the Saratoga Special in 1914, and she defeated her number one rival, Pebbles…
Read MoreOn Being a Lesbian in the Early 20th Century; Branded as Deviants, They Were Sometimes Jailed!
The lives of gay men and the indignities they suffered in the late 19th and early 20th centuries has been widely documented — Oscar Wilde made sure of that! All the while, lesbians unobtrusively managed to find love and companionship in spite of the fact that their existence was rarely acknowledged. In Greenwich Village, tea…
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