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Go Ask Alice
1971 novel by Beatrice Sparks
Dust jacket of Prentice Hall first edition, 1971
Beatrice Sparks
Prentice Hall (1st edition)
Simon & Schuster (later editions)
Print (hardcover and paperback), ebook
LC Class
PZ7 .G534
Go Ask Alice is a 1971 book about a teenage girl who develops a drug addiction at age 15 and runs away from home on a journey of self-destructive escapism. Attributed to "Anonymous", the book is in diary form, and was originally presented as being the edited "real diary" of the unnamed teenage protagonist.[1][2] Questions about the book's authenticity and true authorship began to arise in the late 1970s, and Beatrice Sparks is now generally viewed as the author of the found manuscript-styled fictional document. A therapist, Sparks went on to write numerous other books purporting to be real diaries of troubled teenagers.[2][3][4][5][6] Some sources have also named Linda Glovach as a co-author of the book.[1][7] Nevertheless, its popularity has endured, and as of 2014 it had remained continuously in print since its publication over four decades earlier.[5]
Intended for a young adult audience, Go Ask Alice became a widely popular bestseller.[2][3] It is praised for conveying a powerful message about the dangers of drug abuse.[8] Go Ask Alice has also ranked among the most frequently challenged books for several decades due to its use of profanity and explicit references to sex and rape, as well as drugs.[9]
The book was adapted into the 1973 television film Go Ask Alice, starring Jamie Smith-Jackson and William Shatner.[10] In 1976, a stage play of the same name, written by Frank Shiras and based on the book, was also published.[11]
3 Diarist's name
5.1 Public reception
5.2 Critical response
5.3 Educational use
6 Authorship and veracity controversies
6.1 Beatrice Sparks authorship controversy
6.2 Controversies involving other works by Sparks
6.3 Linda Glovach authorship claims
7 Treatment of book as fiction and non-fiction
8 Censorship
9 Adaptations
10 In popular culture
Title[edit]
The title was taken from a line in the 1967 Grace Slick-penned Jefferson Airplane song "White Rabbit"[6][12] ("go ask Alice/ when she's ten feet tall"); the lyrics in turn reference scenes in Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, in which the title character Alice eats and drinks various substances, including a mushroom, that make her grow larger or smaller. Slick's song is understood as using Carroll's story as a metaphor for a drug experience.[13][14]
Plot summary[edit]
In 1968, a 15-year-old girl begins keeping a diary, in which she records her thoughts and concerns about issues such as crushes, weight loss, sexuality, social acceptance, and relating to her parents. The dates and locations mentioned in the book place its events as occurring between 1968 and 1970 in California, Colorado, Oregon, and New York City. The two towns in which the diarist's family reside during the story are not identified, and are only described as being college towns.
The diarist's father, a college professor, accepts a dean position at a new college, causing the family to relocate. The diarist has difficulty adjusting to her new school, but soon becomes best friends with a girl named Beth. When Beth leaves for summer camp, the diarist returns to her hometown to stay with her grandparents. She meets an old school acquaintance, who invites her to a party. There, glasses of cola—some of which are laced with LSD—are served. The diarist unwittingly ingests LSD and has an intense and pleasurable trip. Over the following days the diarist socializes with the other teens from the party, willingly uses more drugs, and loses her virginity while on acid. She worries that she may be pregnant, and her grandfather has a minor heart attack. Overwhelmed by her worries, the diarist begins to take sleeping pills, first stolen from her grandparents, then later prescribed by her doctor upon returning home. Her friendship with Beth ends, as both girls have moved in new directions.
The diarist befriends a hip girl, Chris, with whom she continues to use drugs. They date college students Richie and Ted, who deal drugs and persuade the two girls to help them by selling drugs at schools. When the girls walk in on Richie and Ted stoned and having sex with each other, they realize their boyfriends were just using them to make money. The girls report Richie and Ted to the police and flee to San Francisco. Chris gets a job in a boutique with a glamorous older woman, Shelia. Shelia invites both girls to lavish parties, where they resume taking drugs. One night Shelia and her new boyfriend introduce the girls to heroin and brutally rape them while they are under the influence of the drug. Traumatized, the diarist and Chris move to Berkeley where they open a jewelry shop. Although the shop is a success, they quickly grow tired of it and miss their families; they return home for a happy Christmas.
Back at home, the diarist encounters social pressure from her drug scene friends, and has problems getting along with her parents. Chris and the diarist try to stay away from drugs, but their resolve lapses and they end up on probation after being caught in a police raid. The diarist gets high one night and runs away. She travels to several cities, hitchhiking partway with a girl named Doris who is a victim of child sexual abuse. The diarist continues to use drugs, supporting her habit through prostitution, and experiences homelessness before a priest reunites her with her family. Now determined to avoid drugs, she faces hostility from her former friends, especially after she calls the parents of one girl who shows up high for a babysitting job. The diarist's former friends harass her at school and threaten her and her family. They eventually drug her against her will; she has a bad trip resulting in physical and mental damage, and is sent to a psychiatric hospital. There she bonds with a younger girl named Babbie, who has also been a drug addict and child prostitute.
Released from the hospital, the diarist returns home, finally free of drugs. She now gets along better with her family, makes new friends, and is romantically involved with Joel, a responsible student from her father's college. She is worried about starting school again, but feels stronger with the support of her new friends and Joel. In an optimistic mood, the diarist decides to stop keeping a diary and instead discuss her problems and thoughts with other people.
The epilogue states that the subject of the book died three weeks after the final entry. The diarist was found dead in her home by her parents when they returned from a movie. She died from a drug overdose, either accidental or premeditated.
Diarist's name[edit]
The anonymous diarist's name is never revealed in the book.[15] In an episode where the diarist describes having sex with a drug dealer, she quotes an onlooker's remark indicating that her name may be Carla.[16][17][18] Although a girl named Alice appears very briefly in the book, she is not the diarist, but a fellow runaway whom the diarist meets on the street in Coos Bay, Oregon.[17][18][19]
Despite the lack of any evidence in the book that the diarist's name is Alice, the covers of various editions have suggested that her name is Alice by including blurb text such as "This is Alice's true story"[20] and "You can't ask Alice anything anymore. But you can do something—read her diary."[21] Reviewers and commentators have also frequently referred to the anonymous diarist as "Alice",[1][8][9][12][15][22][23] sometimes for convenience.[24][25]
In the 1973 television film based on the book, the protagonist played by Jamie Smith-Jackson is named "Alice".[26] The protagonist is also named "Alice Aberdeen" in the 1976 stage play adaptation.[11]
The manuscript that later became Go Ask Alice was initially prepared for publication by Beatrice Sparks, a Mormon therapist and youth counselor then in her early 50s, who had previously done various forms of writing. Sparks had reportedly noted that the general public at that time lacked knowledge about youth drug abuse, and she likely had both educational and moral motives for publishing the book.[24][25][27] Sparks later claimed that the book was based on a real diary she received from a real teenage girl,[27] although this claim was never substantiated[24] and the girl has never been identified[4] (see Authorship and veracity controversies).
With the help of Art Linkletter, a popular talk show host for whom Sparks had worked as a ghostwriter, the manuscript was passed on to Linkletter's literary agent, who sold it to Prentice Hall.[27] Linkletter, who had become a prominent anti-drug crusader after the 1969 suicide of his daughter Diane,[28] also helped publicize the book.[29][30][31] Even before its publication, Go Ask Alice had racked up large advance orders of 18,000 copies.[29]
Public reception[edit]
Upon its 1971 publication, Go Ask Alice quickly became a publishing sensation[32] and an international bestseller, being translated into 16 languages.[2] Its success has been attributed to the timing of its publication at the height of the psychedelic era, when the negative effects of drug use were becoming a public concern.[33] Alleen Pace Nilsen has called it "the book that came closest to being a YA phenomenon" of its time, although saying it was "never as famous as [the later] Harry Potter, Twilight, and Hunger Games series".[2] In addition to being very popular with its intended young adult audience, Go Ask Alice also attracted a significant number of adult readers.[32]
Libraries had difficulty obtaining and keeping enough copies of the book on the shelves to meet demand.[34][35] The 1973 television film based on the book heightened reader interest,[35] and librarians reported having to order additional copies of the book each time the film was broadcast.
By 1975, more than three million copies of the book had reportedly been sold,[30] and by 1979 the paperback edition had been reprinted 43 times. The book remained continuously in print over the ensuing decades, with reported sales of over four million copies by 1998,[1] and over five million copies by 2009.[3] The actual number of readers probably surpassed the sales figures, as library copies and even personal copies were likely circulated to more than one reader.[36] Go Ask Alice has been cited as establishing both the commercial potential of young adult fiction in general, and the genre of young adult anti-drug novels,[1] and has been called "one of the most famous anti-drug books ever published."[6]
Critical response[edit]
Go Ask Alice received positive initial reviews, including praise from Webster Schott in The New York Times, who called it an "extraordinary work", a "superior work" and a "document of horrifying reality [that] possesses literary quality".[37] It was also recommended by Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and The Christian Science Monitor,[33] and ranked number 1 on the American Library Association's 1971 list of Best Books for Young Adults.[38] Some reviews focused on the realism of the book's material, without further addressing the literary merit of the book.[22][23][33][39] According to Nilsen and Lauren Adams, the book was not subjected to the regular forms of literary criticism because it was presumed to be the real diary of a dead teenager.[2][33] Lina Goldberg has suggested that the publishers were motivated to list the author as "Anonymous" partly to avoid such criticism.[25]
Years after its publication, Go Ask Alice continued to receive some good reviews, often in the context of defending the book against censors (see Censorship).[8] In a 1995 Village Voice column for Banned Books Week, Nat Hentoff described it as "an extraordinarily powerful account of what it's actually like to get hooked on drugs" that "doesn't preach".[40]
However, starting in the 1990s, the book began to draw criticism for its heavy-handedness, melodramatic style and inauthenticity, in view of the growing consciousness that it was fiction rather than a real teenager's diary (see Authorship and veracity controversies).[1][5][41][33][42] Reviewing the book again for The New York Times in 1998, Marc Oppenheimer called it "poorly written", "laughably written", and "incredible", although some other writers have pointed to the material as being plausible or even appealing to young readers.[33] The portrayal of the diarist's drug use, progressing from unwittingly ingesting LSD to injecting speed within a few days, and making a similar quick transition from her first use of marijuana to heroin, has been deemed unrealistic.[5][25][43] The book has been criticized for equating homosexuality with "degradation", illness, sin, and guilt.[43] More recent analyses have expressed ethical concerns with the book's presentation of fiction to young readers as a true story.[2][25][42] Despite all these criticisms, the book is frequently called a young adult classic.[5][36][44]
Educational use[edit]
Although school boards and committees reached varying conclusions about whether Go Ask Alice had literary value,[30][31] educators generally viewed it as a strong cautionary warning against drug use.[31] It was recommended to parents and assigned or distributed in some schools as an anti-drug teaching tool. However, some adults who read the book as teens or pre-teens have written that they paid little attention to the anti-drug message and instead related to the diarist's thoughts and emotions,[41][45] or vicariously experienced the thrills of her rebellious behavior.[5][33] Reading the book for such vicarious experience has been suggested as a positive alternative to actually doing drugs.[46] Go Ask Alice has also been used in curricula dealing with mood swings[47] and death.
Authorship and veracity controversies[edit]
Although Go Ask Alice has been credited to an anonymous author since its publication, and was originally promoted as the real, albeit edited, diary of a real teenage girl, over time the book has come to be regarded by researchers as a fake memoir written by Beatrice Sparks,[2][3][4][5][6][24][25] possibly with the help of one or more co-authors.[1] Despite significant evidence of Sparks' authorship, a percentage of readers and educators have continued to believe that the book is a true-life account of a teenage girl.[3][24][25]
Beatrice Sparks authorship controversy[edit]
Go Ask Alice was originally published by Prentice Hall in 1971 as the work of an unnamed author "Anonymous". The original edition contained a note signed by "The Editors" that included the statements, "Go Ask Alice is based on the actual diary of a fifteen-year-old drug user....Names, dates, places and certain events have been changed in accordance with the wishes of those concerned."[3][48] The paperback edition first published in 1972 by Avon Books contained the words "A Real Diary" on the front cover just above the title,[49] and the same words were included on the front covers of some later editions.[33]
The cover art of the Avon Books paperback edition of Go Ask Alice presented it as "A Real Diary".
Upon its publication, almost all contemporary reviewers and the general public accepted it as primarily authored by an anonymous teenager. According to Lauren Adams, Publishers Weekly magazine was the only source to question the book's authenticity on the grounds that it "seem[ed] awfully well written".[33] Reviews described the book as either the authentic diary of a real teenage girl,[1][12][22] or as an edited or slightly fictionalized version of her authentic diary.[23][50] Some sources claimed that the girl's parents had arranged for her diary to be published after her death.[10][22][50] However, according to Alleen Pace Nilsen, a "reputable source in the publishing world" allegedly said that the book was published anonymously because the parents had initiated legal action and threatened to sue if the published book could be traced back to their daughter.[27]
Not long after Go Ask Alice's publication, Beatrice Sparks began making public appearances presenting herself as the book's editor.[5] (Ellen Roberts, who in the early 1970s was an editor at Prentice Hall,[51] was also credited at that time with having edited the book;[52] a later source refers to Roberts as having "consulted" on the book.)[53] According to Caitlin White, when Sparks' name became public, some researchers discovered that copyright records listed Sparks as the sole author—not editor—of the book, raising questions about whether she had written it herself.[5] Suspicions were heightened in 1979 after two newly published books about troubled teenagers (Voices and Jay's Journal) advertised Sparks' involvement by calling her "the author who brought you Go Ask Alice".[27][33][54]
In an article by Nilsen, based in part on interviews with Sparks and published in the October 1979 issue of School Library Journal, Sparks said that she had received the diaries that became Go Ask Alice from a girl she had befriended at a youth conference. The girl allegedly gave Sparks her diaries in order to help Sparks understand the experiences of young drug users and to prevent her parents from reading them. According to Sparks, the girl later died, although not of an overdose. Sparks said she had then transcribed the diaries, destroying parts of them in the process (with the remaining portions locked in the publisher's vault and unavailable for review by Nilsen or other investigators), and added various fictional elements, including the overdose death. Although Sparks did not confirm or deny the allegations that the diarist's parents had threatened a lawsuit, she did say that in order to get a release from the parents, she had only sought to use the diaries as a "basis to which she would add other incidents and thoughts gleaned from similar case studies," according to Nilsen.[27]
Nilsen wrote that Sparks now wanted to be seen as the author of the popular Go Ask Alice in order to promote additional books in the same vein that she had published or was planning to publish. (These books included Jay's Journal, another alleged diary of a real teenager that Sparks was later accused of mostly authoring herself.[55]) Nilsen concluded, "The question of how much of Go Ask Alice was written by the real Alice and how much by Beatrice Sparks can only be conjectured."[27] Journalist Melissa Katsoulis, in her 2009 history of literary hoaxes Telling Tales, wrote that Sparks was never able to substantiate her claim that Go Ask Alice was based on the real diary of a real girl and that copyright records continued to list her as the sole author of the work.[24]
Urban folklore expert Barbara Mikkelson of snopes.com has written that even before the authorship revelations, ample evidence indicated that Go Ask Alice was not an actual diary. According to Mikkelson, the writing style and content—including a lengthy description of an LSD trip but relatively little about "the loss of [the diarist's] one true love", school, gossip or ordinary "chit-chat"— seems uncharacteristic of a teenage girl's diary.[4] The sophisticated vocabulary of the diary suggested that it had been written by an adult rather than a teen.[4][56] Mikkelson also noted that in the decades since the book's publication, no one who knew the diarist had ever been tracked down by a reporter or otherwise spoken about or identified the diarist.[4]
In hindsight, commentators have suggested various motivations for the publishers to present Go Ask Alice as the work of an anonymous deceased teenager, such as avoiding literary criticism,[25] lending validity to an otherwise improbable story,[25] and stimulating young readers' interest by having the book's anti-drug advice come from a teenager rather than an adult. Sparks said that while there were "many reasons" for publishing the book anonymously, her main reason was to make it more credible to young readers.[27] Although the book has been classified as fiction (see Treatment of book as fiction and non-fiction), the publisher has continued to list its author as "Anonymous".
Controversies involving other works by Sparks[edit]
Sparks was involved in a similar controversy regarding the veracity of her second diary project, the 1979 book Jay's Journal. It was allegedly the real diary, edited by Sparks, of a teenage boy who committed suicide after becoming involved with the occult.[25] The publisher's initial marketing of the book raised questions about whether Sparks had edited a real teenager's diary or written a fictional diary, and recalled the same controversy with respect to Go Ask Alice.[57] Later, the family of real-life teenage suicide Alden Barrett contended that Jay's Journal used 21 entries from Barrett's real diary that the family had given to Sparks, but that the other 191 entries in the published book had been fictionalized or fabricated by Sparks, and that Barrett had not been involved with the occult or "devil worship".[55]
Sparks went on to produce numerous other books presented as diaries of anonymous troubled teens (including Annie's Baby: The Diary of Anonymous, a Pregnant Teenager and It Happened to Nancy: By an Anonymous Teenager) or edited transcripts of therapy sessions with teens (including Almost Lost: The True Story of an Anonymous Teenager's Life on the Streets). Some commentators have noted that these books use writing styles similar to Go Ask Alice[33] and contain similar themes, such as tragic consequences for spending time with bad companions, a protagonist who initially gets into trouble by accident or through someone else's actions, and portrayal of premarital sex and homosexuality as always wrong.[25] Although Sparks was typically listed on these books as editor or preparer, the number of similar books that Sparks published, making her "arguably the most prolific Anonymous author in publishing",[56] fueled suspicions that she wrote Go Ask Alice.[33][56]
Linda Glovach authorship claims[edit]
In a 1998 New York Times book review, Mark Oppenheimer suggested that Go Ask Alice had at least one author besides Sparks. He identified Linda Glovach, an author of young-adult novels, as "one of the 'preparers'—let's call them forgers—of Go Ask Alice", although he did not give his source for this claim.[1] Publishers Weekly, in a review of Glovach's 1998 novel Beauty Queen (which told the story, in diary form, of a 19-year-old girl addicted to heroin),[58] also stated that Glovach was "a co-author of Go Ask Alice".[7]
Treatment of book as fiction and non-fiction[edit]
Cover of the 2011 Arrow Books paperback edition, containing the words "This Is Alice's True Story"
Following Sparks' statements that she had added fictional elements to Go Ask Alice, the book was classified by its publishers as fiction (and remains so classified as of 2016) and a disclaimer was added to the copyright page: "This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental."[3]
Despite the classification and the disclaimer, Go Ask Alice has frequently been taught as non-fiction in schools and sold as non-fiction in bookstores.[25] The publishers also continued to suggest that the book was true by including the "Editors' Note" stating that the book was based on an actual diary, and listing the author as "Anonymous", with no mention of Sparks.[3] As of 2011, a UK paperback edition published and marketed by Arrow Books contained the statement "This Is Alice's True Story" on the front cover.[20]
Censorship[edit]
Go Ask Alice has been a frequent target of censorship challenges due to its inclusion of profanity and references to runaways, drugs, sex and rape.[9] Alleen Pace Nilsen wrote that in 1973, Go Ask Alice was "the book that teens wanted to read and that adults wanted to censor" and that the censors "felt the book did more to glorify sex and drugs than to frighten kids away from them."[2] Challenges began in the early 1970s following the initial publication of the book, and continued at a high rate through the ensuing decades.[9]
Some challenges resulted in the removal of the book from libraries, or in parental permission being required for a student to check the book out of a library.[9] According to The New York Times, in the 1970s it became common practice for school libraries to keep Go Ask Alice off library shelves and make it available to students only upon request, a practice which was criticized as being a form of censorship.[34] A 1982 survey of school librarians across the United States, co-sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English, found that Go Ask Alice was the most frequently censored book in high school libraries.[59][60]
Decades after its original publication, Go Ask Alice became one of the most challenged books of the 1990s and 2000s. On the American Library Association (ALA) list of the 100 most frequently challenged books of the 1990s, Go Ask Alice was ranked at number 25;[61] on the ALA list compiled for the 2000s, it rose to position 18.[62]
The likely authoring of the book by one or more adults rather than by an unnamed teenage girl has not been an issue in censorship disputes.[3][9] Nilsen and others have criticized this on the basis that the dishonesty of presenting a probable fake memoir to young readers as real should raise greater concerns than the content.[2][25][42]
Adaptations[edit]
The ABC television network broadcast a made-for-television movie, Go Ask Alice, based on the book. It starred Jamie Smith-Jackson, William Shatner, Ruth Roman, Wendell Burton, Julie Adams, and Andy Griffith.[10] Also among the cast were Robert Carradine, Mackenzie Phillips, and Charles Martin Smith.[63] The film was promoted as an anti-drug film based on a true story.[10]
The film was first aired as the ABC Movie of the Week on January 24, 1973.[10][64] It was subsequently rebroadcast on October 24, 1973 and the network also made screening copies available to school, church and civic groups upon request.[65] The film drew generally good reviews[10][26][66][67] (with one critic calling it "the finest anti-drug drama ever presented by TV"[67]), but was also criticized for lacking the complexity of the book[26] and for not offering any solutions to the problem of teen drug addiction.[68] The adaptation by Ellen Violett was nominated for an Emmy Award.[65]
In 1976, a stage play version of the book, adapted by Frank Shiras, was published by The Dramatic Publishing Company.[11] The play has been produced by various high school and community theatre groups.[69][70][71][72]
Stand-up comedian Paul F. Tompkins' 2009 comedy album Freak Wharf contains a track titled "Go Ask Alice" in which he derides the book as "the phoniest of balonies" and jokingly suggests it was authored by the writing staff of the police drama series Dragnet. The album title comes from a passage in the book in which the diarist refers to a mental hospital as a "freak wharf".[73]
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^ a b c d e f g h i White, Caitlin (2014-07-03). "'Go Ask Alice' Is Still Awash in Controversy, 43 Years After Publication". Bustle. New York City: Bustle.com. Archived from the original on 2016-12-29. Retrieved 2016-12-29.
^ a b c d Hendley, Nate (2016). The Big Con: Great Hoaxes, Frauds, Grifts, and Swindles in American History. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. pp. 161–163. ISBN 9781610695862.
^ a b "Beauty Queen". Publishers Weekly. New York City: publishersweekly.com. Archived from the original on 2016-12-22. Retrieved 2016-12-22. FYI: Glovach is a co-author of Go Ask Alice.
^ a b c Chapman, Geoffrey (1974-04-10). "'Go Ask Alice' Contains a Contemporary Message". Bennington Banner. Bennington, Vermont. p. 16. Retrieved 2016-12-23 – via Newspapers.com.
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^ a b c d e f Foster, Bob (1973-01-08). "Screenings". The Times. San Mateo County, California. p. 12. Retrieved 2016-12-20 – via Newspapers.com.
^ a b c Shiras, Frank (1976). Go Ask Alice: A Full Length Play. Woodstock, Illinois: The Dramatic Publishing Company. pp. 1–3. ISBN 0871294907.
^ a b c Loebker, Terri (1971-10-16). "Books In Review: Diary of a Young Drug Addict". The Cincinnati Enquirer. p. Teen-Ager–p. 3. Retrieved 2016-12-21 – via Newspapers.com. "Go Ask Alice", (title adapted from Grace Slick's song, "White Rabbit",) is the anonymous diary of a 15-year-old drug user.
^ "Rock Hits Often Push Drug Messages". The Arizona Republic. Phoenix, Arizona. 1970-02-18. p. 14–A. Retrieved 2016-12-21 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Magazine: Is Alice In Wonderland Really About Drugs?". BBC News. 2012-08-20. Archived from the original on 2016-09-08. Retrieved 2016-12-21.
^ a b Logan, Patty (1974-01-12). "Diary of a 15-Year-Old Recommended by Reviewer". The Cincinnati Enquirer. Cincinnati, Ohio. p. 13. Retrieved 2016-12-27 – via Newspapers.com. The book's subject (we are never given her name, but assume she is Alice) comes from a normal, middle-class family...
^ Anonymous (1971). Go Ask Alice (Avon Books paperback ed.). New York City: Prentice-Hall (published 1972). pp. 102–103. ISBN 0380005239. If I don't give Big Ass a blow he'll cut off my supply...Big Ass makes me do it before he gives me the load. Everybody is just lying around here like they're dead and Little Jacon is yelling, 'Mama, Daddy can't come now. He's humping Carla.'
^ a b Turner (2013-04-25). "Guest Review: Go Ask Alice by Anonymous". alittleshelfofheaven.blogspot.com. Kristy. Archived from the original on 2017-03-24. Retrieved 2017-03-24. Despite the book being titled Go Ask Alice, the "Alice" character is only mentioned briefly, after the narrator just picks up her bags and leaves home, and ends up in Coos Bay, Oregon. One sentence in the diary may, or may not, state the diarist's name; "Daddy can't come, he's humping Carla"....All I can say is this encounter did not end well for "Carla" (I use the quotations because her name has never been confirmed).
^ a b Girl Detective (2012-07-11). ""Go Ask Alice" by Beatrice Sparks et al". girldetective.net. Girl Detective (blog). Archived from the original on 2017-03-24. Retrieved 2017-03-24. The Alice of the title refers to the woman on drugs in the Jefferson Airplane song, as well as a girl the "narrator" meetings [sic] in the novel. It's theorized that the author is "Carla" as from p. 113: "Big Ass makes me do it before he gives me the load. Little Jacon is yelling, "Mama, Daddy can't come now. He's humping Carla."
^ Anonymous (1971). Go Ask Alice (Avon Books paperback ed.). New York City: Prentice-Hall (published 1972). p. 107. ISBN 0380005239. Then I talked to Alice, who I met just sitting stoned on the curb. She didn't know whether she was running away from something or running to something, but she admitted that deep in her heart she wanted to go home.
^ a b Anonymous (1971). Go Ask Alice (Mandarin Paperbacks 1991 ed.). London: Arrow Books (published 2011). Front cover. ISBN 9780099557494.
^ Anonymous (1971). Go Ask Alice (First paperback ed.). New York City: Avon Books (published 1972). Back cover. LCCN 74-159446. Avon Catalog N431.
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^ a b c Janke, Lynn (1971-12-18). "Death Hovers Over Dismal Drug Scene: Overdose Victim Leaves a Diary". The Indianapolis Star. p. 6. Retrieved 2016-12-21 – via Newspapers.com. "Go Ask Alice," written anonymously, is based on the actual diary of a girl "turned on" to drugs when she was 15.
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^ Johnson, Ted (2010-05-27). "Art Linkletter's War on Drugs". Variety. New York City: Variety.com. Archived from the original on 2017-01-07. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
^ a b "Prentice-Hall has built up large advances..." Publishers Weekly. Vol. 200, part 1 (bound volume ed.). New York City: R.R. Bowker. 1971. p. 34. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
^ a b c Boettner, Jack (1975-05-15). "'Alice' Called Obscene: Mother Fights for School Ban on Book". Los Angeles Times. p. R Part II – 3. Retrieved 2016-12-26 – via Newspapers.com.
^ a b c Clarke, John (1978-02-18). "The Alice Affair". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. p. 8 – via Proquest.
^ a b Stegall, Tim (2015-01-02). "Book Review: Review: Dear Nobody: The True Diary of Mary Rose". The Austin Chronicle. Austin, Texas. Archived from the original on 2016-04-04. Retrieved 2016-12-26.
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Adams, Lauren (September 1998). "A Second Look: Go Ask Alice". The Horn Book Magazine. Boston: The Horn Book Inc. pp. 587–592 – via ProQuest.
^ a b "What Reviewers Wrote". The New York Times — Long Island Weekly. 1978-01-22. p. 6 L.I. Archived from the original on 2016-12-26. Retrieved 2016-12-26 – via Proquest.
^ a b Meyers, Christene C. (1974-05-05). "Controversial Book Popular in Billings". Billings Gazette. Billings, Montana. p. 18. Retrieved 2016-12-27 – via Newspapers.com.
^ a b Beidler, Philip D. (1994). Scriptures for a Generation: What We Were Reading in the '60s. Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press. p. 36-38. ISBN 9780820317878.
^ Schott, Webster (1972-05-07). "Childrens Books". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-05-26.
^ Carr, Mary; Van Horn, Carole (1972). "Books for Children and Young People: Critical Health Problems". Wisconsin Library Bulletin (Google Books ed.). Division of Library Services, Department of Public Instruction (published 2006-10-12). 67–68 (September–October 1972): 316. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
^ "Go Ask Alice by Anonymous". Kirkus Reviews. 1971-09-14. Archived from the original on 2017-01-06. Retrieved 2017-01-06.
^ Hentoff, Nat (1995-10-03). "Ralph Reed's Reading List". The Village Voice. New York City. p. 10 – via ProQuest.
^ a b Jamison, Leslie (2014-05-27). "What's the Best 'Bad Book You've Ever Read?". The New York Times Book Review. Archived from the original on 2014-06-01. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
^ a b c Valentine, Jenny (2015-08-28). Drabble, Emily (ed.). "Banned, Burned, or Simply Life Changing: What Are the Best Dangerous Books?". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 2015-12-31. Retrieved 2017-01-06.
^ a b Cuseo, Allan A. (1992). Homosexual Characters in YA Novels: A Literary Analysis 1969–1982. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, Inc. pp. 62–64. ISBN 9780810825376.
^ Everson, Katie (2015-09-08). "Why I've Written a Book for Teenagers About Taking Drugs". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 2017-01-02. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
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^ Anderson, Julie (November 2002). "When Parents' Rights Are Wrong: Should Parents Be Able to Prohibit Their Kids From Reading School Library Books?". School Library Journal. 48 (11): 43 – via ProQuest.
^ A Study Guide for Joanne Greenberg's "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden". Novels for Students. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale, Cengage Learning. 2016. p. PT 33. ISBN 9781410348944. The novel Go Ask Alice (1971), by James Jennings, written in diary form, tell [sic] the story of a teenage girl who suffers from terrible mood swings that are exacerbated by drug use. Although this source identifies the book's author as "James Jennings", without further discussion, no other reliable source support has been found for a person named James Jennings being an author or co-author of the book.
^ Anonymous (1971). Go Ask Alice (First ed.). Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall Inc.
^ Anonymous (1971). Go Ask Alice (First paperback ed.). New York City: Avon Books (published 1972). Front cover. LCCN 74-159446. Avon Catalog N431.
^ a b Cumberland, Donna, Assistant Librarian (1972-01-21). "Library Jottings: Books For Winter". Anderson Daily Bulletin. Anderson, Indiana. p. 8. Retrieved 2016-12-21 – via Newspapers.com. The diary is published by her parents, who wish to remain anonymous...Some events have been changed to protect them, so the book is classified as fiction...
^ dePaola, Tomie (2015). The Magical World of Strega Nona: A Treasury. New York City: Nancy Paulsen Books (Penguin Group (USA)). p. vi. ISBN 9780399173455.
^ "Teachers To Discuss Textbook Censorship". Kansas City Times. Kansas City, Missouri. The Star's Own Service. 1975-03-08. p. 4A. Retrieved 2016-12-21 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Potter, Christine (2015-09-25). "Christine Potter: Time Travels: OK, This Is Really Happening..." Chrispygal.weebly.com. Archived from the original on 2016-12-29. Retrieved 2016-12-29. I worked with editor Ellen Roberts, who'd consulted on the old YA diary Go Ask Alice.
^ B. Dalton (1978-10-15). "Voices (advertisement)". Los Angeles Times. p. 18 (Book Review section). Retrieved 2017-01-06 – via Newspapers.com.
^ a b Dieterle, Ben (2004-06-03). "Teen Death Diary". Salt Lake City Weekly. Salt Lake City, Utah. Archived from the original on 2006-06-29. Retrieved 2016-12-22.
^ a b c Bisbort, Alan (2008). Media Scandals. Scandals in American History. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. p. 93. ISBN 9780313347658. ISSN 1942-0102.
^ Schwartz, Sheila (1980-09-21). "'Jay's Journal' Deplorable". Poughkeepsie Journal. Poughkeepsie, New York. p. 17B. Retrieved 2017-01-05 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Glovach, Linda (1998). Beauty Queen. New York City: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-205161-5.
^ The Associated Press (1982-11-28). "Librarians Say 'Go Ask Alice' Is Censored Most in Schools". The New York Times. p. 73 – via ProQuest.
^ "School Library Censorship Increasing". The Palm Beach Post. Palm Beach County, Florida. Associated Press. 1982-12-05. p. AA10. Retrieved 2016-12-22 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "100 Most Frequently Challenged Books: 1990–1999". ALA.org. American Library Association. Archived from the original on 2016-11-13. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
^ "Top 100 Banned/ Challenged Books: 2000-2009". ALA.org. American Library Association. 26 March 2013. Archived from the original on 2016-12-13. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
^ Maltin, Leonard, ed. (1994). Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide (1995 ed.). New York City: Plume. p. 494. ISBN 978-0451181725.
^ "A World Premiere! Go Ask Alice (advertisement)". The Arizona Republic. Phoenix, Arizona. 1973-01-24. p. E–4. Retrieved 2016-12-27 – via Newspapers.com.
^ a b Holston, Noel (1973-10-24). "Television: 'Alice' Powerful Drug Statement". Orlando Sentinel Star. Orlando, Florida. p. 12–D. Retrieved 2016-12-20 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Hoffmann, Steve (1973-01-24). "TV and Radio: 'Go Ask Alice' Is TV Must Tonight". The Cincinnati Enquirer. p. 8. Retrieved 2016-12-20 – via Newspapers.com.
^ a b "Award-Winning Film Scheduled". The Mercury. Pottstown, Pennsylvania. 1973-10-23. p. A 6. Retrieved 2016-12-27 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Holsopple, Barbara (1973-01-23). "ABC Drug Movie A Bad Trip: Currie Consistently Currie Despite Marie's Maneuvering: Go Ask Alice What?". Pittsburgh Press. p. 45. Retrieved 2016-12-20 – via Newspapers.com.
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Almost Lost
Annie's Baby
^ Sparks, Beatrice (1971). Go ask Alice. ISBN 9780133571110.
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Through this, we aim to provide excellent footballing opportunities for those who show outstanding potential.
The aim of the Player Development Centre (PDC) is to provide a professional coaching environment in which to develop the techniques, skills and tactical awareness of talented players, allowing for the individuals to reach their full potential on the pitch.
This development is facilitated through regular training sessions, delivered by highly qualified coaches with a wealth of experience within the elite game. Training takes the format of age-appropriate activities, designed to optimise the successful acquisition of desired returns and game-related practices that allow for growth of a player's game craft.
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The PDC works closely with the Burnley FC Academy and both initiatives share the same philosophy, work ethos and training syllabus. The PDC will support the infrastructure of the Academy by providing a mirrored centre, in which the Academy can track and identify talented players, and also, compete against, in regular fixtures.
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Galway TD urges appeals board to reconsider oral hearing over Westwood development
Galway Bay fm newsroom – A Galway TD is urging An Bord Pleanala to reconsider its decision to refuse an oral hearing over the proposed development of student accommodation at the site of the Westwood Hotel in the city.
The hotel in Dangan has been purchased by the Ziggurat Student Investment Fund – which plans to replace the hotel with high-end student accommodation, offering 400 spaces.
Galway West TD Noel Grealish says an oral hearing must be held to give local residents an opportunity to have their say.
Deputy Grealish says he has written to the Bord's chairperson requesting that an oral hearing be reconsidered.
He says the proposed demolition of the Westwood Hotel will deprive the area's aging population of a social amenity.
Deputy Grealish claims the proposed plans would also cause parking issues for those in the area, you can hear more from him on FYI Galway from 5…
Plans progress for new ambulance base at Merlin Park Hospital
Over 400 young people in Galway are long-term unemployed
GBFM News
Galway Bay fm newsroom – UHG was the third most overcrowded hospital in the country last month.
728 patients were waiting for a bed during January.
Meanwhile, 417 patients were waiting on trolleys at Portiuncula Hospital – the worst January on record for the Ballinasloe hospital.
11,289 people were recorded on hospital trolleys since January 1st
That's up 2 and half thousand on the same time last year.
University Hospital Limerick continues to be the worst affected by over-crowding, accounting for 10 per cent of the overall figure, at 1,180.
Cork, Galway, Letterkenny, and St. Vincent's in Dublin make up the top five – totalling of over 3,000.
That's in stark contrast with the bottom five – Tullamore, Portlaoise, the National Children's Hospital, Connolly Hospital, and Waterford – with a combined total of 213.
The INMO says, "a lack of adequate planning has put unnecessary stress on nurses and the patients", describing January's figures as "unacceptably high".
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Galway Bay fm newsroom – Athenry, Loughrea, Headford and Gort are now priorities for upcoming transport studies.
Systra Ltd will carry out some of the studies, which must also align with each Local area plan.
The studies will look at modes of travel, options for new Active Travel measures and a traffic management plan.
Councillor Andrew Reddington explains how this has come about and outlines how it will work in Headford, for example
Galway Bay fm newsroom – Galway has a home vacancy rate just above the national average of 4 percent.
Across the county, 6 percent of homes are vacant, according to Gerdirectory's Residential Buildings Report.
At the end of 2022, Leitrim had the highest number of vacancies, at 12 percent, followed closely by Mayo on 11 percent.
While Dublin has the lowest, with just one percent of homes there vacant.
Nationally, over 83,500 residential properties were vacant last month, with the report finding the West was worst affected.

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Bernard Marcus
Bernard "Bernie" Marcus (born May 12, 1929) is an American businessman and philanthropist. He co-founded Home Depot and was the company's first CEO; he served as Chairman of the Board until retiring in 2002.
Bernard Marcus was born to Russian Jewish immigrant parents in Newark, New Jersey. He grew up in a tenement and graduated from South Side High School in 1947. Marcus wanted to become a doctor but could not afford the tuition, so he worked for his father as a cabinet maker through Rutgers University to earn a pharmacy degree. While there he joined the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity. He was also a brother of Alpha Kappa Psi Business Fraternity.
Later, Marcus worked at a drugstore as a pharmacist but became more interested in the retailing side of the business. He worked at a cosmetics company and various other retail jobs, eventually reaching a position as a top executive with Handy Dan Improvement Centers, a Los Angeles-based chain of home improvement stores. In 1978, after a disagreement with his boss at Handy Dan, he and Home Depot co-founder Arthur Blank were both fired. In 1979 - with the help of New York investment banker Ken Langone who assembled a group of investors - in addition to his business partner Arthur Blank, they launched the highly successful home-improvement retailer The Home Depot. The store revolutionized the home improvement business with its warehouse concept. Blank, Marcus, and Langone became billionaires. Marcus served as the company's first CEO for 19 years and also served as chairman of the board until his retirement in 2002. Mr. Marcus was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 2006.
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Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign maintains a page of anti-endorsements: denunciations from billionaire ghouls and their enablers
Boing Boing 11 Jul 2019
Bernie Sanders wants you to know who hates him. billionaire sociopaths like Andrew Pudzer, Kenneth Lagone ("This is the antichrist!"), Lowell McAdam ("contemptible"), Lloyd Blankfein ("dangerous"); Alan Greenspan; Third Way ("an existential threat"), Bernard Marcus ("the enemy"), and more! (via /r/LateStageCapitalism) ... ....
Bernie Sanders Unveils 'Anti-Endorsement' List of Billionaires
Truth Dig 11 Jul 2019
... Jeffrey Immelt; Former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein; Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan; Centrist think-tank Third Way; Former Goldman Sachs partner Leon Cooperman; Home Depot co-founder Bernard Marcus; and Billionaire hedge fund manager Stanley Druckenmiller....
Bernie Sanders is proud to list Haim Saban as an 'anti-endorsement'
Cleveland Jewish News 10 Jul 2019
"No, minus one ... Besides Saban, there are Lloyd Blankfein and Leon Cooperman, both former Goldman Sachs executives; Bob Iger, the Disney CEO; Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chief; and Bernard Marcus, the Home Depot co-founder. Some of the "anti-endorsements" — particularly Marcus — are Republicans and unlikely to give to any Democrat ... ....
#BoycottHomeDepot Trends After Store's Co-founder Pledges to Donate to Donald Trump 2020 Campaign
Newsweek 09 Jul 2019
Numerous social media users slammed Home Depot co-founder Bernard Marcus after learning he plans to donate to President Donald Trump's re-election campaign ... Marcus, who retired from Home Depot in 2002 after serving as its first CEO, made the comments while discussing his plans to leave most of his fortune to charitable causes after his death....
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Marcus Russell was already managing Johnny Marr and Bernard Sumner when he first saw Oasis at the Hop and Grape in Manchester back in 1993. Others had told him they were just 'Stone Roses wannabes' ... ....
Palestine Is Being Led to the Crematorium
CounterPunch 28 Jun 2019
How silly of me; of course not ... "That's all [money] I care about ... Those funds came from Sheldon and Miriam Adelson, Paul Singer and Bernard Marcus, donors who have made no secret, both through public statements and funding think tanks that support military action against Iran, of their desire for the United States to destroy the Islamic Republic ... ....
Brinkmanship in the Gulf gets more dangerous
Deccan Chronicle 25 Jun 2019
He and his officials not only ... The conclusion is unavoidable that President Trump's Iran policy is now being shaped and propelled by the extreme right-wing donors, such as Sheldon Adelson and Bernard Marcus, who funded his campaign with millions of dollars and are committed to the destruction of the Islamic Republic ... .......
Three Vols selected in NBA Draft
Citizen Tribune 21 Jun 2019
Admiral Schofield then was selected by the Philadelphia 76ers with the 42nd overall pick ... Williams was just the fifth Tennessee player with remaining collegiate eligibility ever to hear his name called in the NBA Draft, joining fellow juniors Bernard King (1977), Marcus Haislip (2002) and Jarnell Stokes (2014) and Harris (2011), who was a freshman....
Three Vols selected in 2019 NBA Draft
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Nicola Currie looking to rise above the rest at Royal Ascot
Business Day 17 Jun 2019
The history of Royal Ascot dates back to 1711, when Queen Anne decided to pursue her love of horse racing ... Ascot racecourse was born ... Goosen has engaged leading heavyweight rider Bernard Fayd'Herbe and said. "Bernard was quick to phone me for the ride when the nomination sheet came out. Anton Marcus also phoned, but he was too late and he joked ... Race 1....
Essential Arts: Call it a comeback — MOCA's new shows reveal an institution ascendant
The Los Angeles Times 15 Jun 2019
Newsletter Carolina A. Miranda Arts & Culture Essential Arts. Call it a comeback — MOCA's new shows reveal an institution ascendant ... (Christopher Knight / Los Angeles Times) ... The cast of Long Beach Opera's "The Central Park Five," from left, Nathan Granner, Bernard Holcomb, Derell Acon, Orson Van Gay and Cedric Berry. (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)....
51 Waterbury students receive Certificate of Excellence Awards
Republican American 31 May 2019
School Superintendent Dr. Verna Ruffin and Deputy Superintendent Dr. Gregory Rodriguez recognized 51 students of all ages this year for outstanding conduct both inside and outside of school ... The following is a list of all the winners.. Bucks Hill PreK Obianuju Nwadukwe Pre-K 4 ... W ... Kennedy Marcus Lovett (12th). Waterbury Career Academy David Bernard (9th)....
What Have Top Trump Donors Been Up to Since 2016?
truthout 16 May 2019
Bernard Marcus is the co-founder of Home Depot and also the Israel Democracy Institute, a research center focused on" strengthening the foundations of Israeli democracy." Alongside his wife Billi Wilma, the loyal GOP donor doled out $7 million to pro-Trump groups in 2016 and has stayed on the political radar ever since....


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Q: print in new line in callback function in javascript This is my code for callback function in javascript:
callback(
        undefined,

        body.current.weather_descriptions[0] +
          "." +
          "It is currently " +
          body.current.temperature +
          " degrees. It feels like " +
          body.current.feelslike +
          " degrees. There is " +
          body.current.precip +
          "% chance of rain."
      );

My desired output is:
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Partly cloudy.
It is currently 26 degrees.
It feels like 26 degrees.
There is 0% chance of rain.

But my output coming is:
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Partly cloudy.It is currently 26 degrees. It feels like 26 degrees. There is 0% chance of rain.

I tried many things but not getting desired output, can you help ?

A: Ok to literally throw back at you the solved version of what you gave us..
callback(
    undefined,

    body.current.weather_descriptions[0] +
      ".\n" +
      "It is currently " +
      body.current.temperature +
      " degrees.\nIt feels like " +
      body.current.feelslike +
      " degrees.\nThere is " +
      body.current.precip +
      "% chance of rain."
  );

A: On mobile, so excuse the lack of formatting.
Add in "\n\r" each place you want to add a new line. So something like
"It is currently: " + your.call.data + "\n\rdegrees outside".

A: If you need to display this in a browser, use "
" tag to places where you need the new lines:
callback(
        undefined,

        body.current.weather_descriptions[0] +"
"
          "." +
          "It is currently " +
          body.current.temperature +
          " degrees." +"
" "It feels like " +
          body.current.feelslike
          " degrees." +"
"+ "There is " +
          body.current.precip +
          "% chance of rain."
      );

If you need to display this in a console, use "\n" to places where you need the new lines:
callback(
        undefined,

        body.current.weather_descriptions[0] +"\n"
          "." +
          "It is currently " +
          body.current.temperature +
          " degrees." +"\n" "It feels like " +
          body.current.feelslike
          " degrees." +"\n"+ "There is " +
          body.current.precip +
          "% chance of rain."
      );

A: You can insert literal newline character in a string with \n. For example:
const myString = "Hello,\nThat's a nice Tnettenba.";
console.log(myString);

Hello,
That's a nice Tnettenba.

Or, you can use backticks to create a string literal with newlines. For example:
const anotherString = `Hello,
That's a nice Tnettenba.`;

Will produce the same output as above.
Using strings delineated with backticks is helpful in this situation, as any whitespace (newlines, indents) are preserved, which is often desirable when formatting text for display. Eg.
const myTable = `
  | ID  | Name            |
  -------------------------
  | 001 | Hello, World!   |
  | 002 | Brave New World |
`;

Will output:

  | ID  | Name            |
  -------------------------
  | 001 | Hello, World!   |
  | 002 | Brave New World |

Note the leading spaces.

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News & Politics / Activism / Why refugees were celebrating at Athens Pride
Why refugees were celebrating at Athens Pride
Solidarity across borders
Posted Saturday 8th June 2019 /
Text By Alex King
Photography © Theo McInnes
The opening of Athens' first community centre for LGBTQI+ refugees provides a much-needed safe space for people marginalised and persecuted – both from inside and outside the refugee community.
"When my father discovered I was gay, he said my mother must be a lesbian and he abandoned our family," remembers Joseph, an LGBTQ refugee and activist from Uganda. "Everyone thought we were demonically possessed and they rejected us. Everything bad that happened in the village was blamed on my family."
Uganda is one of the hardest places in the world to be gay. Homosexuality has been against the law since the country was under British colonial rule and can still be punished with life imprisonment. After being kicked out of his village at 19, Joseph hid his identity and went to Uganda's capital, Kampala. Three years later, he returned home in the hopes of seeing his family, but villagers told him: "Never come back."
That night, a mob formed to murder him. Joseph escaped but they killed his mother and sister in revenge instead. After fleeing to neighbouring Kenya's sprawling Kakuma refugee camp, Joseph learned his father had been imprisoned by police and tortured to death.
Homophobic attacks and abuse are an ongoing problem in Kakuma – and Kenya as a whole. So, like thousands of others, Joseph decided his only hope for safety was to attempt the long and perilous journey to Europe. He crossed Africa by lorry, then the Mediterranean by boat, to arrive at the notorious Moria camp on Lesvos.
With relocations to the rest of Europe moving at a snail's pace, Greece has become a bottleneck for refugees, and many official camps are four-to-five times over their capacity. With provision stretched to the limit, LGBTQ refugees face particularly severe challenges as they are often marginalised and persecuted both from inside and outside the refugee community – facing homophobia, denial of support, sabotaging of their asylum claims by homophobic translators and, sometimes, physical attacks.
After making it to mainland Greece, Joseph struggled to survive. He found work but his employers withheld his salary. Later, through Orange House, he met Justin Hilton, an American philanthropist and founder of Safe Place International in July 2017, and began helping him to acquire and furnish apartments for Athens Housing Collective (AHC), which provides accommodation for LGBTQ refugees.
Today, Joseph is AHC's project coordinator. He helps new arrivals find their feet, work through the traumas they have overcome, as well as the challenges they face going forward. The regular programme is for six months, but some need more time and support. The cooperative has supported 150 beneficiaries to date and currently there are 46 residents in Athens – but they want to grow to support 100 people at any one time.
"Most of our residents come through the Greek islands – Lesvos or Samos, for example – so the traumatic experiences there leave many with depression," Joseph explains. "The first two months with us are spent resting and recovering, then we work with them to assess their needs and help with their next steps; counselling, medication, language or employment training, legal assistance and other support."
One of the residents Joseph works closely with is Sakar, who was formerly a nurse for the elderly in Iran. Sakar doesn't want to talk about the circumstances that forced her to leave Iran, but her experiences left her with ongoing mental health issues. She lived in Athens for six months before finding AHC, sleeping in parks, then at the Babylon LGBT squat in the semi-autonomous Exarcheia neighbourhood (which has since been evicted by police, as authorities ramp up their campaign against Athens' refugee squats and self-organised spaces). She says life there was tough and many straight people lived there, too.
Sakar's hands are covered in tattoos, symbols like diamonds and crosses; a code that references her experiences in Iran, her journey to Europe and her life in Athens. Today, she says she feels safe. She enjoys the English classes and social events with other residents because these give her something to focus on, suppressing the torment that rages inside her and the pain she feels for leaving her young son back in Iran. "These things make me forget my bad thoughts," she says, welcoming the stability she has to work on trying to reunite with her son.
"Upon arriving in Athens, refugees face homelessness while waiting months for housing from government, NGOs and grassroots organisations or squats," explains Rachael Worthen, a coordinator at Safe Place Greece. "LGBTQI+ individuals in particular face a continuation of the very persecution they fled in their home country within multinational mixed accommodation settings. The LGBTQI+ community are doubly marginalised and denied a safe space. Barriers they face range from daily micro-aggressions and language barriers, to a lack of LGBTQI+ aware health and mental health services, homophobic/transphobic attacks and sexual violence, to exploitation through prostitution and survival sex."
Progress on LGBTQI+ rights in Greece have long lagged behind the rest of Europe, but recent years have seen significant steps forward in both legal rights and social acceptance — yet homophobic attacks are still a regular occurrence.
Manasif was forced to flee Pakistan after members of his own family tried to kill him for being gay. He struggled on the streets of Athens before eventually finding accommodation with AHC, who also helped him enrol in hairdresser training. This is the first step on his journey to becoming a fashion designer – his dream from a young age, but one which caused him to be persecuted at home in Pakistan.
After graduating from AHC, Manasif moved into UNHCR housing, but with many refugees in similar circumstances facing eviction, he still lives a very precarious existence. "I fear what happens when eventually I have to leave the accommodation," he says. "It will be hell, I will have nothing."
The official opening of Athens' first community centre for LGBTQI+ refugees has been timed to coincide with the enormous Athens Pride celebrations this weekend. Run by Safe Place Greece, the centre provides food, educational and fitness classes, workshops and washing and cooking facilities — but, above all, a much-needed safe social space.
For Manasif and others, the centre provides an important place to connect with the wider community and they will attend this weekend's Pride celebrations together, alongside other local groups. Following a number of high-profile homophobic attacks, it represents an important opportunity to build bridges of solidarity between refugee and Greek LGBTQI+ communities.
"I can be true to myself here," Manasif reflects. "Yes, I'm happy. In my past life I would never say I'm gay. Here, I feel safe, I feel open. I left my name and everything at home. Greece is also racist but no-one knows about me, so I'm free."
Find out more and support Athens LGBTQI+ community centre.
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Structural characterization of urinary metabolites of the antiarrhythmic drug encainide in human subjects.
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Metabolism of the antiarrhythmic drug encainide was studied in human subjects after a single 50-mg oral dose. Encainide labeled on the carbonyl carbon with 14C and at the benzylic (2'-1-ethyl) carbon with 13C was administered to four normal healthy male subjects. A large proportion of the radioactive dose (42%) was excreted in the urine in the first 24 hr. The total urinary excretion was 47.0 +/- 4.6% and total fecal excretion was 38.7 +/- 5.7% over 5 days. The conjugated metabolites excreted in the urine were hydrolyzed with beta-glucuronidase/arylsulfatase, and were isolated and purified by HPLC. Structural characterization was carried out by a combination of fast atom bombardment-mass spectrometry, gas chromatography/electron impact mass spectrometry, and 1H-NMR spectroscopy. Structures of the metabolites were confirmed by co-elution on HPLC with authentic standards when available. Six metabolites of encainide were identified from the hydrolyzed urine together with unchanged drug. In addition to already known metabolites O-demethyl-encainide, 3-methoxy-O-demethyl-encainide, and N,O-di-demethyl-encainide, three new metabolites were identified: N-demethyl-3-methoxy-O-demethyl-encainide, 3-hydroxy-encainide, and O-demethyl-encainide-lactam. These metabolites accounted for greater than 90% of the radioactivity excreted in the urine. Four major routes of metabolism were identified: first, O-demethylation of the aromatic methyl ether; second, formation of methylated catechol derivatives; third, N-demethylation of the piperidyl nitrogen; and fourth, oxidation at carbon alpha to the piperidyl nitrogen. A plausible scheme for the metabolism of encainide in human subjects is proposed.
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CES 2020 - The Korean giant is playing the flexibility card for its new personal assistant.
Who said a robot should have two arms and two legs? Especially not Samsung. Monday evening, the Korean manufacturer presented its new companion robot and personal assistant: Ballie in the shape of a tennis ball. It even has the color yellow. Equipped with a camera, it moves around the house, monitors pets, manages connected devices in the house, etc. He even turns into a sports coach. It's hard not to think of the sympathetic droid from Star Wars, BB-8, watching him roll on the stage in the footsteps of H.S Kim, the CEO of Samsung.
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Following a recent chat with Hengyi's Head of Marketing & Business Development, Stephen Speer, an new impression was born of a Chinese-backed, yet distinctly Melbourne-based developer intent on achieving great things within the local context.
Hengyi's initial Bruce Henderson-designed project at 199 William Street is well into construction as seen above, with remaining apartments on offer for sale exclusively within the local market. The rebirthed office complex which will include a Wyndham Hotel upon completion is scheduled to open its doors within months, and Urban Melbourne may just be first through the door to have a look around.
Light House is the flagship project for Hengyi Australia. The size, eye-catching design and methodology behind Light House at 450 Elizabeth Street have ensured the projects success and ingratiated Hengyi to many locally.
Once the initial partnership was forged with co-developer Sixth Grange, the numbers for Light House were adjusted resulting in a taller proposal which gained approval from Planning Minister Matthew Guy. Thereafter a local retail sales campaign was launched in unison with five investor roadshows through Southeast Asia with Malaysia proving to be the highest yielding stop.
Overall sales for the 607 apartments within Light House now stand beyond 80%, and of those roughly 60% have been to Australian buyers. Sales have been strong over all available layouts with a proportionately healthy percentage of apartments carrying three bedrooms, a result of Hengyi adjusting to local market desires.
Rather than utilising parent company Shandong HYI's resources, local institutions have financed the construction of Light House with demolition slated to begin during September. Piling and associated works will ensue over some months, resulting in the first signs of the tower's skyward movement during 2015. Construction is due for completion early 2017.
Asked what is next on the back of Light House's success, Stephen Speer suggests Australia is Hengyi's oyster. Given the right project specific dynamics or joint-venture partner, the firm would develop anywhere based upon the opportunity presented. Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Darwin were nominated as potential cities, depending upon the opportunities that arise.
Hengyi Australia have hit the ground running, one can only wonder what the firm has in store next?