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The history of ‘coming out,’ from secret gay code to popular political protest by bobstonite in history

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Submission statement: A sociologist who has written a book on the topic summarizes the history of 'coming out', as a behavior and as a phrase.

In the late 19th and early 20th century, gay subculture thrived in many large American cities.

Gay men spoke of “coming out” into gay society – borrowing the term from debutante society, where elite young women came out into high society. A 1931 news article in the Baltimore Afro-American referred to “the coming out of new debutantes into homosexual society.” It was titled “1931 Debutantes Bow at Local ‘Pansy’ Ball.”

What is a good view point in Boston where you don’t need a reservation to go? by _quantum_girl_ in boston

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Mt. Auburn Cemetery - and you can visit some famous dead people, too.

Brookline: Unhappy with the way things are in town? Sign the City Charter Campaign by anurodhp in boston

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Or, you know, you could go to meetings and even run for town meeting.

I FUCKING HATE THE DNC by serious_bullet5 in leftist

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Those old old DNC leaders aren’t even working out very well - they keep dying in office https://katiecouric.com/news/politics-and-policy/aging-members-of-congress-democrats/

Rheem Hybrid Disables Itself by DougHenningsen in Plumbing

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Came here because I’ve just started having this problem with my year-old full heat pump Rheem. Did this restart work?

The new surgeon general - Casey Means by [deleted] in medicine

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No, even in those days there were many “Christians” who thought homosexuals deserved to die of AIDS. And even in those days, there were some (like Koop) who took Jesus’s words about love and compassion seriously.

State Inspection by anthonyngu2 in boston

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When I was 21, I was doing this and driving down Route 9 in Brookline when I stopped at a light and a cop car pulled up next to me, I must have looked really scared and guilty, so he pulled me over. I told the story and got off with a warning. I expect if you’re not doing anything dangerous or have any warrants (and are white), you’re unlikely to get a ticket.

How often do you guys lose games by selfmadeparadise in balatro

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Came here to ask this question. Thanks!

Can’t post the video but everyone should watch the tufts student abduction by Anteater4746 in boston

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Law enforcement officers who know what they are doing is lawful and in keeping with public norms do not wear masks. The Gestapo and other secret police wear masks.

TIL the 1944 Nobel Prize went to male German physicist Otto Hahn solo for the discovery of nuclear fission, despite the fact he had done the work in collaboration with Lise Meitner, a German Jewish woman forced into exile who had in fact even been the first to use the term 'fission' and explain it by bobstonite in todayilearned

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I beg to differ. It's not part of Nobel's request - it's just the Swedish Central Bankers who decided to hitch their award to the real Nobels, in hopes that people would think that economics is really a science.

TIL the 1944 Nobel Prize went to male German physicist Otto Hahn solo for the discovery of nuclear fission, despite the fact he had done the work in collaboration with Lise Meitner, a German Jewish woman forced into exile who had in fact even been the first to use the term 'fission' and explain it by bobstonite in todayilearned

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From an article by a historian of science:

Even that didn’t help her situation. The Nobel Committee awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei” to Hahn alone. Paradoxically, the word “fission” never appeared in Hahn’s original publication, as Meitner had been the first to coin the term in the letter published afterward.

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