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		<title>Meet Me at Trafton&#8217;s</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Published in Boston Spirit Magazine, May/June 2013 Here’s one:  Judy Garland, Anthony Perkins and Liberace walk into a bar… The bar was Charles Trafton’s place on St. Botolph Street, one of the most colorful and storied after-hours places in Boston. Through the years, it attracted sailors and stars, including Judy Garland, Liberace, Anthony Perkins, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markthomaskrone.wordpress.com&#038;blog=23439444&#038;post=1393&#038;subd=markthomaskrone&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rudy Kikel: Boston Poet Who Influenced How A Generation Saw Itself</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 18:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published in Boston Spirit Magazine January/February 2013 Before gay rights, there was gay writing.  Author Christopher Bram wrote recently that “the gay revolution began as a literary revolution.” In Boston, no gay male writer has had more influence or staying power than poet, Rudy Kikel. Publishers Weekly called his work “in the tradition of Oscar Wilde, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markthomaskrone.wordpress.com&#038;blog=23439444&#038;post=1385&#038;subd=markthomaskrone&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Election Eve Poem</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ELECTION DAY You rabblement.  Who answered the call of a thousand filthy posterson darkened lampposts In Peking and ManchesterIn Berlin and Minsk. Railroad Jobs!!! You rabblement. Who followed your uncles and cousinsOn icy grey seas to Tammany’s CityOnly to end up sewing buttons on dresses  from dark to dark. Your enemies: fire and locked doors. You [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markthomaskrone.wordpress.com&#038;blog=23439444&#038;post=1383&#038;subd=markthomaskrone&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>John Mitzel Isn&#8217;t Going Anywhere</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2012 20:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mark Krone (Article originally published in September/October issue of Boston Spirit Magazine) Owner of One of the Last Gay Book Stores in America Presides Over Small Intellectual Kingdom on South Street For gay bookstores, these are the last days of disco.  Legendary outlets such as Lambda Rising in Washington DC, A Different Light in San [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markthomaskrone.wordpress.com&#038;blog=23439444&#038;post=1371&#038;subd=markthomaskrone&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>As Appropriations Dry Up, Arts  Infrastructure Is Dismantled</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 03:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published in Chronicle of Higher Education November 14, 2011 Municipalities across the country have slashed arts education in schools. Many have wiped it out completely. Small community arts organizations have valiantly attempted to replace what schools used to provide. In some towns, a children&#8217;s community theater program replaced drama classes, while a community music center [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markthomaskrone.wordpress.com&#038;blog=23439444&#038;post=1347&#038;subd=markthomaskrone&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Bibles&#8221; and Homosexuality</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 20:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, a couple of important points. As the late Reverend Peter Gomes pointed out in The Good Book, (Morrow, 1996)  what we call the Bible is actually many books: the testaments of Matthew, Mark, Peter, Luke, Paul, and John; the many letters Paul wrote to fledgling congregations called the Epistles, and Acts, a re-telling of some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markthomaskrone.wordpress.com&#038;blog=23439444&#038;post=1276&#038;subd=markthomaskrone&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Revolutionary War: Why We Fought (Zinn vs. Wood)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 15:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New Yorker  briefly reviews Gordon S. Wood&#8217;s new book The Idea of America in its  current issue (July 25, 2011).  Wood, respected and decidedly mainstream, argues that &#8220;the Americans revolted (against England) not out of actual suffering but out of reasoned principle.&#8221; The late, respected, and non-mainstream historian, Howard Zinn, saw it differently in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markthomaskrone.wordpress.com&#038;blog=23439444&#038;post=1224&#038;subd=markthomaskrone&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Army of Ex-Lovers by Amy Hoffman</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We are destroyed,&#8221; said Amy Hoffman, former managing editor and director of the Gay Community News, to a Boston Globe reporter on July 7, 1982. A six alarm fire* had broken out at 5:30 am on Bromfield Street in downtown Boston, charring several offices, including the Gay Community News (GCN), one of the earliest national gay [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markthomaskrone.wordpress.com&#038;blog=23439444&#038;post=1110&#038;subd=markthomaskrone&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Busy Monsters &#8212; Hot Even Before It&#8217;s Published</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I write, it&#8217;s 95 degrees at 6:53 PM.  I mention this because I read the passage below while waiting for the bus this afternoon in the dizzying heat.  I laughed out loud.  When you laugh out loud in such heat, something needs to be said about the book that made you do it. It&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markthomaskrone.wordpress.com&#038;blog=23439444&#038;post=1089&#038;subd=markthomaskrone&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Business Plot To Overthrow Franklin Roosevelt</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 22:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When President Franklin Roosevelt spoke of the forces of wealth alligned against him, it was not just campaign rhetoric.  In 1933, a plot was hatched by powerful Wall Street insiders to ease Roosevelt from power in favor of a fascist-friendly administration.  A Congressional Committee, headed by Congressman John McCormack (who later became Speaker of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markthomaskrone.wordpress.com&#038;blog=23439444&#038;post=1075&#038;subd=markthomaskrone&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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