• • Why Don’t You Come Up Sometime and Queer Me? • •
• • Reclaiming Mae West as Author and Sexual Philosopher • •
• • an Ulrich or an Urning • •
• • Chase Dimock wrote: Ulrich is a reference to Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, an early German campaigner for homosexual rights. He referred to the homosexual male as an “Urning”, a reference to Plato’s Symposium and the vaunted male love of the Greeks, and in 1867 became the first homosexual to openly campaign for the repeal of sodomy laws. In an 1870 essay “Araxes: a Call to Free the Nature of the Urning from Penal Law” Ulrichs takes the congenital origin of homosexuality as proof the Urning possesses natural laws as humans and by placing them in accordance with natural law as the foundation of civil society, the Urning is entitled to full protection as citizens as well:
• • Karl Heinrich Ulrichs • •
• • Chase Dimock quoting Karl Heinrich Ulrichs: “The Urning, too, is a person. He, too, therefore, has inalienable rights. His sexual orientation is a right established by nature. Legislators have no right to veto nature; no right to persecute nature in the course of its work; no right to torture living creatures who are subject to those drives nature gave them. The Urning is also a citizen. He, too, has civil rights; and according to these rights, the state has certain duties to fulfill as well.”
• • Havelock Ellis, Richard Von Krafft Ebbing, or Freud • • …
• • His article will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: As It Ought to Be
• • Chase Dimock, who teaches Literature and Composition at College of the Canyons, is Managing Editor of As It Ought to Be.
• • On Wednesday, 19 September 1951 • •
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Variety used their hammer on Mae West more often than a judge uses a gavel.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: “I admit that my writing is only for the theatre, that my ideas and my text were from the first for the stage.”
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article on diaries mentioned Mae West.
• • Jason Wordie wrote: The truth of American actress Mae West’s famous wisecrack that everyone should keep a diary, “because one day, honey, it’ll keep you …” ensures some diarists write with a mercenary posterity in clear view; British politician Alan Clark and heritage conservationist James Lees-Milne are classic examples. …
• • Source: Article in Post Magazine; published on Friday, 7 September 2018
• • The evolution of 2 Mae West plays that keep her memory alive • •
• • A discussion with Mae West playwright LindaAnn LoSchiavo — —
• • http://lideamagazine.com/renaissance-woman-new-york-city-interview-lindaann-loschiavo/
• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its 14th anniversary • •
• • Thank you for reading,
sending questions, and posting comments during these past fourteen years. Not
long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently
when we completed 4,000 blog posts. Wow!
• • By the Numbers • •• • The Mae West Blog was started fourteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4046th blog post. Unlike many blogs, which draw upon reprinted content from a newspaper or a magazine and/ or summaries, links, or photos, the mainstay of this blog is its fresh material focused on the life and career of Mae West, herself an American original.
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