Today’s archive spelunking led me down a rabbit hole trying to learn more about the “Gay Revolution Networker” mentioned in this poster from 1971 (full size). The “Gay is Angry” poster is from the Library of Congress’s Yanker Poster Collection, but the LOC provides no further information on the GRN.
Some research by Langdon Manor Books into a flyer in their catalog suggests that the Gay Revolution Networker was a New York City-based gay collective, which held meetings at locations including the Washington Square Church and the Come!Unity Press, a gay anarchist collective and print shop in New York City that I want to learn more about.
This flyer — itself a fascinating piece, described by Langdon as “a gorgeous enigma” — advertises a meeting for the GRN, but also includes on the opposite side an essay by a person named Velvet, which denounces the Gay Activist’s Alliance as sexist and complacent, and notes “the part about sexism goes for GRN too”.
I get the sense that Judge Kaplan didn’t appreciate Ryan Salame’s recent take-backsies of his petition to have his conviction vacated or the investigation of his partner dismissed. “Notwithstanding defendant’s purported withdrawal without prejudice of his petition”, Kaplan intends to hear arguments on it.
Ryan Salame has withdrawn his petition from a week ago, in which he claimed the government had reneged on a promise not to continue their campaign finance investigation into his partner, Michelle Bond.
Bond was indicted on August 22 on campaign finance charges in connection to her unsuccessful 2022 campaign for a House seat in New York. Salame says he's withdrawing his petition now that the indictment has come down "to allow the facts to be developed by Ms. Bond, and a ruling to be made, in her case".
Drawing shows an airship "Cures d'air" supporting the "Pension Bellevue" for individuals requiring medical care and floating above a mountainous region. One of the artist's conceptions for his book on life in the upcoming twentieth century.
Published in: Le vingtième siècle / Albert Robida. Paris : G. Decaux, 1883, facing p. 353. Via the Library of Congress.
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