Re: Religious Reich Rage
Jenny
jennyg@compuserve.com
Fri Jul 30 13:01:11 1999
: Do you know where I can find the original in completeness???*p*That's the whole thing -- it used to be shorter than it is today. <g>  There's a good summary of the earliest version of the Pledge at the address below.  It doesn't cover the later changes (such as the addition of the "under God" phrase).  Any encyclopedia should have the full story, though.  Even my little _American Desktop Encyclopedia_ (one volume...) had a pretty good explanation of the changes.*p*: Which brings up a question I have. I was watching Citizen *br*: Cohn with James Woods and in it, I assume they are referring *br*: gays & lesbians, they mention faeries & pixies. My question *br*: is this: when/how did pagan/occult terms become associated *br*: with the denizens of the gay sub-culture here in the US?*p*Around the turn of the century (according to Stuart Berg Flexner's _Listening to America_, a fun book on the history of American terminology).*p*"Fairy" first appears as a derogatory term for a gay man in 1908.  From at least 1880, "fairy" was a slang term for a pretty girl, and it came to refer to effeminate men, too.  Flexner doesn't mention "pixie", but I assume it's a variant of "fairy".*br*
Re: Religious Reich Rage
Taliesin_2
195
Thu Jul 29 23:20:15 1999
http://www.vineyard.net/vineyard/history/pledge.htm
http://www.vineyard.net/vineyard/history/pledge.htm