Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

by Anderson Cooper

The ideology of New York City was, is, and probably always will be profit.

The woman whose single-minded drive to work for women’s equality and who was motivated by her deep-seated, unapologetic contempt for Black people was enshrined in American history by the country’s first Black president, Barack Obama.

Gloria Morgan stood publicly accused of lesbianism at a time when New York was retreating from having been the open city it was in the 1910s. Homosexual behavior was criminalized, and queer spaces were subject to increasing policing and violence.