Daniel Frontino Elash

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Daniel Frontino Elash is currently a practicing local historian in southern Oregon. He’s has tried to combine queer and class-conscious organizing most of his life, has an MA in American History from San Francisco State University. Elash worked as a dishwasher, a retail clerk, a baker, a barista, a manual day laborer, an internet network technician, an office manager, an in-home caregiver, and was in a punk rock band among other things.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Daniel Frontino Elash

  • U.S.
    Peekskill remembered

    Peekskill remembered

    September 5, 2009 By Daniel Frontino Elash

    The concert scheduled for Aug. 27, 1949, in Peekskill, N.Y., was supposed to be routine. Though it had been organized by People’s Artists, a brand new spin-off organization of the People’s Songs formation that had launched...

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  • World
    Persecuted Middle East gays hope for resettlement

    Persecuted Middle East gays hope for resettlement

    September 2, 2009 By Daniel Frontino Elash

    In Iran, there is a three to four day gap between when an individual is reported to the police for being homosexual, and when the police arrive to arrest that individual. Most flee before the police...

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  • Opinion
    Peekskill remembered

    Peekskill remembered

    September 2, 2009 By Daniel Frontino Elash

    The concert scheduled for Aug. 27, 1949, in Peekskill, N.Y., was supposed to be routine. Though it had been organized by People's Artists, a brand new spin-off organization of the People's Songs formation that had launched...

    Read more