Jefferson Poland
Jefferson Poland | |
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| Born | John Jefferson Poland July 12, 1942 |
| Died | November 17, 2017 (aged 75) |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Jefferson Fuck Poland Jefferson Clitlick |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Known for | Sexual Freedom League |
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John Jefferson Poland (July 12, 1942 – November 17, 2017), who sometimes went by Jefferson Fuck Poland and Jefferson Clitlick,[1] was an activist who co-founded the Sexual Freedom League.
Early life
Poland was born in Indiana in 1942.[2][3] He became a student at Florida State University and majored in sociology. He was expelled from that university in 1960 for his integrationist work with the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE). He participated with the Freedom Riders in Florida and in June 1961 was one of the "Tallahassee Ten" who were arrested for unlawful assembly at a segregated airport restaurant. A year later, he was involved in Ban the Bomb activities.[4][5] Poland moved to California and worked as an agricultural labor organizer, renting a room in the home of Dolores Huerta. He worked with CORE to register black voters in Louisiana in the summer of 1963.[6]
Sexual Freedom League
In 1963, Poland founded the Sexual Freedom League in New York City with Leo Koch.[7] He then moved to the San Francisco Bay Area and focused his organizing efforts near the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco State University. Poland founded various chapters, including ones in the East Bay, San Francisco, Berkeley and San Diego. However, he did not run these organizations himself; he would found them and then turn them over to others. Poland was a graduate student at San Francisco State University.[8][9][10][11][12] Poland, after attempting to attend the Berkeley City Council meeting of September 22, 1970, was arrested and later convicted of disturbing the peace and interfering with a police officer in the line of duty. He served 90 days at Santa Rita Rehabilitation Center near Dublin.[13]
Psychedelic Venus Church
In 1970, Poland founded the Psychedelic Venus Church (PsyVen or PVC), an offshoot of the Sexual Freedom League, with Mother Boats becoming president. He felt that the leadership of the Sexual Freedom League was becoming too "bourgeois". Each meeting began with smoking marijuana. The meetings continued in the San Francisco Bay Area until 1972.[14][15][16] The Church had 700 members by 1971 but disbanded in 1973.[17]
Jefferson Poland Archive
Poland turned over his archives to the Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley, where they are now available for public viewing by academic researchers.[citation needed]
Sex offense conviction
By 1980, Poland had moved to San Diego. In 1983, Poland was charged with molesting the 8- or 9-year-old daughter of an acquaintance whom he babysat. Poland fled the country and he lived for five years as a fugitive in India, Australia, and New Zealand. In 1988, he was arrested in Hawaii. By that time he had changed his last name legally to "Clitlick".[18] He pled no-contest to California Penal Code 288(a), "lewd or lascivious act with a child under 14 years of age," a felony, and was sentenced to a year in prison and to register as a sex offender.[19][20][21]
Death
Poland died on November 17, 2017, at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.[citation needed]
Books
- Sex Marchers by Jefferson F. Poland and Sam Sloan (1968) ISBN 1881373053 published by Elysium Growth Press, 2nd Edition (2006) ISBN 0-923891-13-7 by Ishi Press
- Second Bite of the Apple, The Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley, Collection number: BANC MSS 70/143 c
- The Records of the San Francisco Sexual Freedom League by Jefferson F. Poland and Valerie Alison, Olympia Press, 1971, ISBN 0700413200
Notes
- ↑ Weigel, Moira (2016). Labor of Love. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. pp. 145–146. ISBN 9780374182533.
- ↑ Allyn, David (May 23, 2016). Make Love, Not War: The Sexual Revolution: An Unfettered History. Routledge. pp. 41–53. ISBN 9781134934737.
he would tell Jeff to strip and then whipped the naked boy with a belt. Eventually Jeff told his mother about his father's beatings, and mother and son fled to Houston, Texas.
- ↑ Grant 1995, pp. 139–150 "Jefferson Poland was born in Indiana in 1942"
- ↑ "Sit-in at a Miami diner". Retrieved June 30, 2016.
- ↑ Dalzell, Tom (November 15, 2014). "Gone: Sexual Freedom League (And a Look at Body Freedom)". Retrieved June 29, 2016.
- ↑ Sides 2009, Ch. 2.
- ↑ Allyn 2000, p. 43-44.
- ↑ Marinacci, Michael (July 1, 1998). "Sex, drugs and Hindu Godes: The story of the Psychedelic Venus Church". Archived from the original on February 3, 2003. Retrieved June 30, 2001.
- ↑ Rorabaugh 2015, p. 110.
- ↑ St. Clair, Katy (September 24, 2003). "Children of Om". East Bay Express. Retrieved January 26, 2024.
- ↑ "Berkeley Historical Plaque Project - Sexual Freedom League". Retrieved June 30, 2016.
- ↑ Schaefer 2014, Ch. 1.
- ↑ Boats, Mother (November 13–19, 1970). "Fuck gets ninety days for democracy!". Berkeley Barb. p. 5. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
- ↑ The Records of the San Francisco Sexual Freedom League by Jefferson F. Poland and Valerie Alison with preface by Herbert Gold, Olympia Press, 1971
- ↑ Clifton 2006, p. 148.
- ↑ Holzer 2015, Ch. 3.
- ↑ Kelly, Aidan (January 30, 2013). "A History of the Craft in America: California and Councils, 1967-1973, Part II". Retrieved June 30, 2016.
- ↑ Grant 1995.
- ↑ Blair, Tom (October 6, 1988). "Title: Tom Blair". San Diego Union-Tribune.
- ↑ Callahan, Bill (September 9, 1988). "Child molester gets one year in jail". San Diego Union-Tribune.
- ↑ "Child molestation". San Diego Union-Tribune. August 12, 1988.
Cited texts
- Allyn, David (2000). Make love, not war: the sexual revolution, an unfettered history. Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 0-316-03930-6. paperback ISBN 0415929423
- Clifton, Chas (2006). Her Hidden Children: The Rise of Wicca and Paganism in America. Rowman Altamira. ISBN 0759102015.
- Grant, Linda (1995). Sexing the Millennium: Women and the Sexual Revolution. Grove Press. ISBN 9780802133496. (reprint)
- Hekma, G. (2014). Sexual Revolutions. Springer. ISBN 978-1137321466.
- Hoffman, Brian (2015). Naked: A Cultural History of American Nudism. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0814790540.
- Holzer, Hans (2015). Witches: True Encounters with Wicca, Covens, and Magick. Hachette Books.
- Rorabaugh, W. J. (2015). American Hippies. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107049239.
- Schaefer, Eric (2014). Sex Scene: Media and the Sexual Revolution. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0822376804.
- Sides, Josh (2009). Erotic City: Sexual Revolutions and the Making of Modern San Francisco. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199888542.
External links
- Jefferson Poland at IMDb
- Jefferson F. Poland papers, approximately 1965-1973
- Undated letter from Jefferson Poland to Martin Luther King, Jr. Archived August 22, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
- MLK's response date November 16, 1962 Archived August 22, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
- 1942 births
- American tax resisters
- Free love advocates
- American people convicted of child sexual abuse
- People from the San Francisco Bay Area
- People extradited from Australia
- People extradited to the United States
- American prisoners and detainees
- Prisoners and detainees of California
- American cannabis activists
- 2017 deaths