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How the Bay Area’s Gay Bars Became a Battleground for LGBTQ+ Rights in the 1950s

A 1956 police raid of a Pacifica bar, resulting in the arrest of many LGBTQ+ people, became a playbook for state repression ...
Variety

‘Marty Supreme’: How Production Designer Jack Fisk Worked With Josh Safdie to Recreate 1950s New York: ‘He Was Always Ahead of Me’

“Josh has got so much energy and is such a lover of New York, and I was always trying to find things that I could tell him that were a little different. But he was ahead of me,” says Fisk. Working ...
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Inside Ireland's most brutal asylum

Inside the hospital, patients faced isolation and experimental treatments like cardiazol convulsive therapy and electroshock, with many never leaving its walls. By the 1950s, Ireland had one of the ...
New York Post

Clinical director who released deranged Macy’s stabber has own history of mental illness, relied on advice from temp psychiatrist

The penny-pinching Manhattan Psychiatric Center administrator who greenlit the release of the deranged Macy’s stabber has a long history of mental illness herself – and made her decision on the ...