Setting: New York City (Lower East Side) circa 1905
Googled: Judaism and homosexuality, Judaism and sin, historic New York gay community, Lower East Side gay history, Judaism homosexuality history

This is a bit of a weird question, so bear with me. My character is a young Jewish man who's fallen in love with his two best friends and realized he's ( Read more... )

Certainly long time, no post. :)  But I've been bitten by the writing bug again, and I'm in great need of information that's being a bit elusive to me.

I intend on writing a fan-fiction for the Black Butler/Kuroshitsuji anime series, that takes place a little later than its current Victorian era time frame. We're looking at...a rough range of 1900 ( Read more... )

Setting: New York City, early 1900s ( Read more... )

Hello, all!

I'm working on a webcomic that takes place mostly in early twentieth-century America, but the story involves a great deal of flashback, so I'm sure I'll be posting here quote frequently now that I've joined (which is good, since you folks know what you're talking about!)

One of my main characters is a young man who was born in 1875 in ( Read more... )

Basically, the characters in this story have taken in two children whose mother is dead and whose father was recently killed in a construction accident. The new potential family is very well-off, though a little unconventional in that the household consists of two men and a woman, none of whom are related to each other. The kids are 3 and 5 and ( Read more... )

Time: Late Edwardian era. Probably about 1908-ish ( Read more... )

This character is German-born but has probably seen a fairly good portion of Central Europe. He is not particularly wealthy, but doesn't give much of a fig about borrowing books and not returning them. The setting is the very late 19th century/very early 20th century ( Read more... )

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TIME: During the Second Boer War (1899-1902 ( Read more... )

searches: Haitian military history, Haiti cacaos (with variations ( Read more... )