{"id":18784,"date":"2013-12-23T21:17:46","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T21:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/goldstein-was-a-radical-liberal-with-a-social\/"},"modified":"2013-12-23T21:17:46","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T21:17:46","slug":"goldstein-was-a-radical-liberal-with-a-social","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/goldstein-was-a-radical-liberal-with-a-social\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Goldstein was a radical liberal with a social conscience. <em>Screw<\/em> was not just pornography for its own sake\u2014and not just a mouthpiece for his own rants (though it was that). It was a clarion of free speech. Goldstein launched the \u201cHomosexual Citizen\u201d column\u2014a first in the underground\u2014and funded the first \u201coverground\u201d <em>Gay<\/em> magazine. He was Lenny Bruce, Hugh Hefner, Paul Krasner, and Henry Miller rolled into a Jewish lump of insecurity and arrogance. In his primitive way, he was responsible for changing the mores of the mores-changers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Legendary design critic <strong>Steve Heller<\/strong>, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2012\/05\/08\/100-ideas-that-changed-graphic-design\/\"><em>100 Ideas that Changed Graphic Design<\/em><\/a>, remembers his unlikely mentor,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/m.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2013\/12\/my-mentor-the-pornographer\/282575\/\">pornographer Al Goldstein<\/a>. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/explore.noodle.org\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">explore-blog<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goldstein was a radical liberal with a social conscience. Screw was not just pornography for its own sake\u2014and not just a mouthpiece for his own rants (though it was that). It was a clarion of free speech. Goldstein launched the \u201cHomosexual Citizen\u201d column\u2014a first in the underground\u2014and funded the first \u201coverground\u201d Gay magazine. He was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4SY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}