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Steve Young's post-game reaction to Bill Belichick's Super Bowl LIII defensive scheme: "This was his Mona Lisa, his Sistine Chapel..."
It's a tough comparison, Da Vinci was a polymath and almost certainly of higher overall intellect; he had a far greater interest in the natural world. However, I've always found Il Divino's art in particular more jaw dropping and captivating. There's a sort of irony that they're responsible for a lot of the most iconic Abrahamic-Christian themed artwork of all-time (The Last Supper, Pieta, David, Creation of Adam, Last Judgment).
This is fucking impossible, and sends chills down my spine.
There's tons. A lot of activists, scholars and historians have aggressively sought to reclaim our history which I kind of get on its own merit, but especially when people feel or claim that we're a degradation of society and culture simply by way of existence. That stings, it's unfair and more importantly just demonstrably false. Digging through the archives and crates isn't always pleasant though.
https://news.yahoo.com/amphtml/clos...ched-off-purge-gays-government-100003760.html
Written by Peter Shinkle, a former reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, it tells the life story of the author’s great-uncle, a central character in the creation of Executive Order 10450.
A blue-blood liberal Republican from a prominent Boston family, a Harvard graduate and member of the elite Porcellian Club, a wealthy banker and U.S. Army general during World War II, Robert “Bobby” Cutler Jr. became a close adviser to President Eisenhower during his 1952 presidential campaign. He was then tapped by Ike to serve as White House special assistant for national security affairs, the forerunner to the position of national security adviser.
Cutler, who prided himself on never talking to the press, was a pivotal figure, helping to direct U.S. foreign policy during an era of tense global confrontation with the Soviet Union. And it was Cutler who oversaw the drafting of Executive Order 10450 — a role all the more remarkable because, as Shinkle reveals, Cutler was a gay man who secretly pursued a passionate, years-long relationship with a young naval intelligence officer on the National Security Council staff.
“Bobby served the nation’s strategic defense and national security interests brilliantly, while living in private agony as a closeted homosexual, deprived of the affections for which he longed,” writes Shinkle.
As advance word of Shinkle’s book has spread, it has already begun making waves among historians and activists who have been trying for years to resurrect the erased history of the U.S. government’s demonization of homosexuals, and to understand how it came about.
“It’s an incredible piece of research,” said Charles Francis, president of the Washington Mattachine Society, who has filed multiple freedom of information requests to uncover documents relating to the government’s past persecution of LGBT people.
“The Eisenhower executive order caused unspeakable damage to loyal LGBT Americans,” he said. “Tens of thousands were investigated and had their lives ruined. This is the texture of history. That you have a homosexual — known to himself as a homosexual — writing this order, it blew my mind.”
