gay bars are and have been important sites for community organizers and activists. It was at NYC’s Stonewall Inn, now a queer landmark, where drag queens, fed up with police persecution, rioted and catalyzed the 20th-century gay rights movement. ...
The Mechanics opposed private ownership of land, hereditary transmission of wealth, chartered monopolies, and favored taxation of the church, free public education, abolition of debt prison, the universal right to vote and a mechanic’s lien law. Back in England, there was continued discourse among...