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The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed psychologists, a police officer, and one “known homosexual”. The “known homosexual” is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.

So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there’s nothing wrong with him mentally and he’s never been arrested. When asked whether he’d take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether his family knows he’s gay, he says that they didn’t up until tonight, but he guesses they’re going to find out, and he’ll probably be fired from his job as well. So of course the host is like …why are you doing this interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says “I think that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself.”

1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.

Despite the pseudonym, Dale’s boss did indeed recognize him from the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten a new job at a higher salary.

Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further. It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that, but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson’s disclosure had a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the U.S.

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obviously, avery 1000000% deserves better than the treatment that they get from people in town, and they give julius a lot of grace that he does not really deserve, and julius is absolutely still afraid of the fact that he can have a Feeling about someone, but the way avery talks about him makes me think they'd still try to be friends with julius even if they did actually feel accepted by the community. they seem really proud that they've been able to get past a lot of his defenses and feel like it's rewarding. their experiences with him are also way different than everyone else's (including the players!) and those experiences are why they're so willing to go to bat for him and believe that he's not this fundamentally evil person everyone else is trying really hard to convince them that he is.

Like, yeah, Julius is off-putting (and clearly supposed to be! but uh, so's y'know, Tabitha lol), but him and Avery are truly friends and do mean something to each other. Julius is the only one who's truly noticed and paid real attention to Avery.

They're fully capable of bantering back-and-forth with one another. Their interactions certainly don't read like Avery's just settling for Julius's friendship out of inability befriend someone else.

They also do have similarities to each other and ways they can relate beyond just being lonely. Yes, they're both lonely outsiders to the town, but they're also both estranged from their families (minus Winnie for Avery of course). Julius from the Calloways (as far as we know, his only living family) and Avery from their parents to the point where they "don't have any other place to go back to."

They both make repeated bids for connection in a town that ignores them. Avery with their community garden - which they repeatedly state is supposed to not be *theirs* alone but *public*, yet they're the only one who works on it. Who's the only other person who's contributed to it? Yeah, Julius. And Julius himself sure spends a lot of time at the diner for someone who supposedly wants to be left alone.

Also, I feel like it's often ignored that Avery enjoys weirdness and strange things. They like the ditchlings, they're excited to have been possessed by a ghost, they want the pumpkin baby to live, etc etc... And Julius, quite frankly, is weird. Avery's repeatedly shown to be almost amused by Julius's strangeness - the bear traps and other booby traps, that he's grumpy and barely speaks. Avery isn't some kind of poor victim who somehow missed Julius's red flags. They've noticed all of Julius's red flags and seem to like him maybe even because of those red flags.

A fire broke out. The costume shop was damaged as a result of the strike. The largest and oldest costume collection in Ukraine was destroyed.

The studio contained about one hundred thousand costumes and three million items of various clothing. Other buildings and structures of the film studio were also damaged.

-Scott is Scottish, and in fact Oakhurst is in Scotland. This is pretty easy given that he's the oldest person there. He's also pissed that Scotland is part of the UK now.

-Owen is also from Oakhurst, but his parents were English and because he was so isolated growing up he only developed their accent.

-Cleo's former coven is in England, somewhere near a midsized town but outside of the town proper. I think probably somewhere between Reading and Bristol is where I'm imagining them to be located.

-Martyn is from Bristol, England. He grew up in a pretty poor family, and ended up in Oakhurst by complete mistake while traveling.

-Apo is from upstate New York, and Cherri is from Canada. Cherri moved to Apo's town a couple of years ago and that's when they met.

-Legundo is from Pennsylvania, somewhere near Pittsburgh, and he went to medical school in the city.

Related to both of the above, the "war" that the two of them have both served in are different wars. Legundo fought in the American Revolution (would have been in his 30s at the time), Apo was sent as part of the military to expand westward after the Louisiana Purchase. Her mission to Oakhurst technically considered a diplomatic mission, as part of the ongoing naval wars between the UK and US. Of course, surveying a town literally no one lives in was mostly an excuse to get rid of her and a hope that she might just be imprisoned or killed by the British on the way there.

-Sunnyside Cliffs, where both Shelby and Pearl are from, is in North Carolina. It is surrounded with a large pine forest. Pearl's family on her father's side originally made their wealth selling timber and tar to the British navy through the 1700s, up until the revolution, after which they pivoted to selling the same timber to furniture factories. Pearl's mother is British, likely having met her father through her family's original trade, and her father is from North Carolina, hence her accent not sounding like either (it should historically not exist at this time because Australia wouldn't develop a distinct accent until the 1820s). Shelby's family are poor laborers, and in fact her father worked for the lumber company as it provides most of the jobs in town. Her mother works in a furniture factory.

-Sausage was born in Cuba but moved to Florida in his mid 20s as he found it easier to find a publisher there (both would be part of the Spanish Empire at the time) Now he has his home base in Florida that he writes from but travels the world so he's rarely home unless he's actively working on a book.

- Abolish's parents were Scottish but immigrated to the US before he was born. Blackwyn, and subsequently Lord Thornvale's home, is in New York.

-Pyro grew up just outside of London, and of course went to school there. The reason he has that accent is because he was trying to hide his identity when he got to Oakhurst and decided to copy the accent of the first person he met, who happened to be Pearl.

-Drift is from Canada, but immigrated to Scotland as a teenager. The city she was working in as a detective was Edinburgh.

so i'm of the opinion that her first album was very much early-paramore style emo music but she would aggressively correct everybody who referred to it as such and be like "it's rock actually". and lola embers would be like "i think we would have a lot easier a time marketing this as emo-" and she would be like "well then do it the hard way because it's rock"