Iowa Pride
Civil rights
Gay rights
Transgender rights
The June 2009 issue of Iowa City's arts and culture magazine, Little Village, celebrated Pride month by covering LGBTQ+ lives affected by the then-recent Iowa Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage. Among these features was a Iowa Civil Rights timeline written by Andrew Sherburne with an introduction by Melody Dworak. The timeline highlights years Iowans gained legal protections against various kinds of discrimination. <br /><br />The entire <a title="Little Village June 2009" href="https://ir.uiowa.edu/littlevillage/81/" target="_blank">June 2009 issue</a> can be downloaded from the University of Iowa Libraries institutional repository. <br /><br /><a href="https://littlevillagemag.com" target="_blank">Little Village</a> has been in print since 2001 and its current publisher is Matthew Steele. Reproduction inquiries can be emailed to <a href="mailto:publisher@littlevillagemag.com" target="_blank">Publisher@LittleVillageMag.com</a>.
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Iowa City, Iowa
IA. Confidential: A Crime of Passion 2007
True Crime
Deerfoot, William
Part One: Love Potion. The year is 1895, and love comes to the carnival. Sideshow barker William Deerfoot married his snake charmer sweet-heart Frances Jackett. For eighteen years, they hitched their wagons together
Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Dr. William Deerfoot Kills his wife in front lawn shootout! He says she shot first, but he escapes unharmed! Deerfoot to stand trial for murder!
Part 3 of 3--Hear ye, hear ye! All rise! Court is back in session, the honorable Judge R.P. Howell presiding in The People versus Doctor William Deerfoot: Carnival barker, patent medicine brewer, wife-killer. Less than one month after he shot his wife four times, Judge Howell instructed the jury to decide Dr. Deerfoot's fate--
Witte, Adam
Little Village Magazine
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Sherburne, Andrew
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Iowa City, Iowa
IA. Confidential: Rev. Hummer 2008
Hummer, Michael
True Crime
First Presbyterian Church or Iowa City
Brothers and sisters! It is time once again to visit that dark pit of crimes historical and transgressions allegorical; to trespass back in time to uncover the original (and the not so original) sins of Iowa's forefather's and mothers. Can I get an amen? Our sermon comes from the gospel of Iowa City's first (and most scandalous) Presbyterian minister: Michael Hummer.
Part two of three: In Late summer, 1848, only weeks after his mystic mumbo-jumbo got him fired from hist post as Iowa City's first Presbyterian Minister, Michael Hummer returned with a ladder, a horse, a wagon, and his friend, Dr. J.W. Margrave. Together they planned to steel the bell from the Presbyterian Church. Hummer figured it belonged to him--after all, he'd raised the bell fund...
Part three of three. OK, a quick recap: After being fired fro his post as Iowa City's First Presbyterian Minister, Michael Hummer moved to Keokuk to start a spiritualistic temple. Then, to spite his former congregation (who still owed him $650 in back pay), Hummer returned to Iowa City in the late summer 1848 to steal the bell from his old church to install in his new one. A crowd halted the theft and hid the bell in the waters of the Iowa River--but when they returned, the bell had disappeared!
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Smith, Candice
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Iowa City, Iowa