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Hi everyone, not an art update but a friend update. My friend Alfred Coleman, who you may know better as PaperboxHouse, (who you may know better as the “Eggman Announcement” guy) is in serious trouble. 

In the past month I’ve taken him to the ER three times. He’s been suffering from serious stomach pain and anxiety, and he hasn’t been able to keep down a full meal in almost a month. He’s suffering from malnutrition, and he hasn’t been able to take care of himself. Yesterday morning I picked him up from endoscopy surgery, and the hospital discharged him when he was obviously still unwell. He was too weak to walk, and couldn’t even get back in his apartment. I took him to a different hospital to hopefully receive better treatment.

While in the emergency room, I was able to set up a ko-fi page for him to help pay for any medical expenses. This new hospital has already been treating him much better so far, and he finally is being monitored overnight instead of being dismissed like he has been in the past. My only worry is that he would be unable to afford his new treatment, and that’s where you guys come in. 

Through some miracle, we’ve already been able to raise over $47,000. That is insane. But it only proves how much he is well-loved, and what he means to the artist’s community. Alfred is one of my dearest, oldest friends, and if you could help with this cause, whether it’s through donation, or just sharing this post, it would mean the world to me. I’ve been keeping updates on the situation on the ko-fi page, with more minute to minute updates on my twitter. Thank you all for your support. 

Oak, Monstera and Thistle Dragons

“Come on guys, we’re rolling! Hold it together!”

Is there something you planned to do before you got trapped in the endless tumblr scroll?

Are you yelling at yourself to get up and do the thing, but you can’t, because you’re trapped in the endless tumblr scroll?

Consider this your save point.

In 1956 Hooker presented the results of her research at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in Chicago. Homosexuality as a “clinical entity” simply does not exist, she told her fellow psychologists, because the homosexual population is as varied as the heterosexual population. A particular form of sexual desire and expression has little effect on personality and emotional development. “We knew it all the time, but we needed empirical proof,” a few psychologists in her audience said. “It absolutely can’t be true. You must have had to search and search and search to find those guys,” most of them told her.

To the midcentury mental health professionals whose livelihoods depended on the notion that homosexuals were sick, Hooker’s research made not one whit of difference. They continued with their prejudices intact, as did vice squads and McCarthyites—to whom all homosexuals were monsters and moral weaklings. But to those homosexuals who were beginning to challenge the prejudices, Hooker’s findings were potent ammunition. Her work demonstrated clearly that none of the standard tests that showed who’s mentally sick and who’s mentally healthy could show who’s homosexual and who’s heterosexual. Here was concrete evidence that the mental health professions were wrong about homosexuality as an illness. It would be another two decades before the American Psychiatric Association would finally remove “homosexuality” from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders [thanks to the tireless advocacy of Barbara Gittings and Frank Kameny]—but Dr. Judd Marmor, an American Psychiatric Association president who participated in the APA discussions, recalled that Hooker’s research was “the reference point to which we had to keep coming back.”

Listen to her 1989 Making Gay History interview here (podcast)

Evelyn’s chapter from lesbian historian Lillian Faderman’s “Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle” (epub) under the cut