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“It often seemed as though, like Marlon Brando, he saw more, sensed more and had more contradictory, grand, ridiculous thoughts than the rest of us. You get a taste of that in his acceptance speech after winning a Best Actor Oscar for playing the title character in ‘Capote.’ He doesn’t just thank ‘my friends,’ but ‘my friends, my friends, my friends,’ and director Bennett Miller and screenwriter Dan Futterman, whom ‘I love, I love, I love.’ A rose is a rose is a rose. Yes we say yes we say yes.” – Matt Zoller Seitz

Happy birthday, Philip Seymour Hoffman! Jul. 23, 1967 – Feb. 2, 2014

#philip seymour hoffman #psh #pta

kissed1996

There have been four movies about the Leopold and Loeb case and I don't think we should stop until there are at least 18 more

#leopold and loeb

maureen-corpse

So, many many years prior to 1974, Congress actually had passed a law explicitly banning banks from extending credit to women without a husband/father/brother/etc. or allowing women to hold bank accounts in their own name. Now, you might think this is absurd, because there have been countless widows and spinsters with no male relations throughout history, and these people might be forced to live hard-cash-only lives upon the deaths of their husbands or fathers even while inheriting businesses or large estates. Which sounds needlessly difficult, right?

But! Congress actually allowed a workaround--this law included a provision that actually allowed a single woman to "Credit-Marry" a bank, so that the bank (or its general manager, or other suitable representative appointed by the bank) could act as her male guardian in financial matters. And this is, in fact, the origin of the term "credit union," because the original Credit-Union Associations were created by groups of women (Congress had not passed a law prohibiting women from creating their own businesses and organizations, etc., in part because the freemasons in the government wanted their female associates to be able to form women's auxiliaries and so on) so that single women could freely enter into Credit-Unions (or Credit-Marriages) with a local financial institution in order to have a safe place to keep money or get a line of credit.

This was also, incidentally, a not uncommon way for sapphists to hold a kind of semi-public wedding for themselves; one woman who was already a member of the Credit-Union Association would stand in as the Credit-Groom representative of the Association during the Credit-Wedding to her lover (mostly just getting paperwork done, but many very early Credit-Union Associations did celebrate each new member with a party because it was an occasion worth celebrating!).

Nowadays credit unions just often have better rates than banks, but they're really such an important part of women's history and queer history.

Also, a necessary note for everyone about the above history lesson:

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Leopold commenting on the script for the 1957 Compulsion Broadway play:

“If the producer INSISTS on using this material, he should, in all fairness, be explicit and SPELL OUT that the much talked of sex consisted altogether of perhaps a dozen instances of coitus inter femora – this and nothing else. If he uses this disgusting stuff at all, why not be fair and tell the whole story? As it stands the implications are far worse. Why get squeamish in mid-stream?”

“Be explicit. Substitute for 'what I wanted of him' – 'he would let me put my organ between his legs until I had an orgasm.'”

sentimentalsupermen

Both youths are very good friends, as evidenced by a remark Babe made when Dickie left to get his coat from his tiny cell.

“There,” said Nathan, “is one of the finest boys in the country today, despite the fact he is a murderer. There was never, I don’t believe, a better hearted or squarer fellow. Do you think we could get along all these weeks if I thought otherwise?”

-Leopold complimenting Loeb to reporters

iblamealex

sry wtf what the actual fuck??

#i guess the one in love always wins #only something a scorpio in love would say #he crazy asf #leopold and loeb #the thrill of first love #limerence

sentimentalsupermen

-Quote by William Healy, The State of Illinois vs. Leopold and Loeb

#Happy pride #Leopold and Loeb

aspergilloma

Loeb's notes and doodles from when Leopold's confession was read to him

iblamealex

his hand writing was surprisingly neat for a "straight" guy

#leopold and loeb #jk he gay asf #yes im stereotyping but his handwriting is gay #argue with the wall

sentimentalsupermen

Reporter: “Hello King, where’s your slave?”

Loeb: “Good morning. But what’s this ‘King’ stuff?” He puts on an innocent smile and pretends to be ignorant.

Reporter: “According to the reports of Dr. Bowman and Dr. Hulbert, you are the ‘King and master criminal’ and Babe is only your ‘slave.”

Loeb: “Well, I don’t know anything about it.” He smiled, “I haven’t seen the morning papers yet.”

Leopold came from the barber shop and joined the group: “We were just reading that ‘King’ and ‘slave’ stuff in the morning papers. Where did they get that-out of a joke book?”

Loeb: “Oh you dumbbell! I just finished telling him we hadn’t read it.”

Leopold: “How did you expect me to know that?”

Loeb: “What a dumbbell.” He held his hands up in mock despair

-Chicago Daily Journal, July 28, 1924

sentimentalsupermen

Did ya'll know there's a no-budget Leopold-Loeb movie coming out on streaming next month?

It's terrible and I plan to never shut up about it.

forbescaroline

dynamics i've been wanting to gif: corey & mason - teen wolf I mean, look at you. You can make yourself invisible. You're fast. You're strong. People like me need people like you to save our asses. I need you.