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Promotional stills and movie poster art for "Ramrod", dir: Andre de Toth, starring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake, 1947
A "ramrod" is a ranch foreman who is hoodwinked by a femme fatale in the Old West. This film is notable for combining the genres of noir femme fatale and Western. Lake plays a woman desperate to avoid marriage to a man she hates (Preston Foster), manipulating McCrea's character into protecting her. She leaves her ranch (being run by Foster) and tells ranch hand McCrea she'll make him a foreman, and then goes so far as to convince his best friend to stampede her own cattle to frame Foster.
The sheriff tries to step in and gets killed. Foster ambushes McCrea, who kills one of his men and gets wounded, then chased down and shot in the back.
The two men then duke it out and McCrea comes out on top, killing Foster's character. Lake thinks he'll dump his girlfriend for her and she's wrong, because he doesn't and tells her to never talk to him again.
The lesson here is don't be a simp.
Kirk Wilson, cover art for "Ramrod" by Luke Short, 1943
"SHE WAS BOSS BUT HIS GUNS GAVE THE ORDERS"
“Wings Hauser : From Ramrod, Vice Squad To Eve N’ God ; This Female is Not Yet Rated ; Ironies & Ecstasies of Escalating Risk in Film, Art, Life “ ©️ Cali Lili Hauser UPDATE 2025
“Wings Hauser : From Ramrod, Vice Squad To Eve N’ God ; This Female is Not Yet Rated ; Ironies & Ecstasies of Escalating Risk in Film, Art, Life “ ©️ Cali Lili Hauser UPDATE 2025
On this day in queer history: 10 November 1980
In New York City’s Greenwich Village, a former police officer opened fire with a submachine gun inside two gay bars — the Ramrod and Sneakers — killing two men and wounding six others. The shooter, Ronald Crumpley, attacked without warning, shouting anti-gay slurs as he targeted patrons in one of the city’s most visible queer neighborhoods. Witnesses described chaos and terror as bullets tore through the packed bars late that night.
The killings shocked the city but also exposed how deeply violence against queer people was dismissed at the time. Many mainstream outlets minimized or ignored the story altogether. Crumpley later told police, “The gays ruined my life,” and was found not guilty by reason of insanity.
The victims — including Vernon Kroening and Jorgen Hansen — are remembered as part of the long, painful history of LGBTQ people whose lives were taken simply for existing.
In the aftermath, local activists and community leaders demanded that police and the media take anti-gay violence seriously. Their efforts helped fuel a growing awareness that queer spaces were not just places of celebration, but sanctuaries built in defiance of hate.
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