Perverts by Official Order: The Campaign Against Homosexuals by the United States Navy (Journal of Homosexuality Series: No. 1)
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (987 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0918393442 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 354 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Refresher Course" according to Htana Black. I was enjoying the freedom of my nation. All seemed well until the Same Sex Marriage issues challenged the world. I purchased this as a survival refresher course following lesbian harassment at work and the subsequent loss of my employment. Seems my work colleagues had read all the gay . Important book in the history of military homophobia. Murphy recounts the Newport, R.I. "scandal" of World War I. The real scandal, of course, is not the fact that gay sailors were having sex but that the U.S. Navy entrapped military personnel and civilians with a series of investigatory abuses. Then-Assistant Secretary of the Navy Frankli
This most extensive systematic persecution of gays in American history occurred with the approval of Navy Secretary Josephus Daniels and Assistant Secretary Franklin Roosevelt, as dozens of sailors were ordered to identify and even seduce gay men in order to report their names to the authorities. Noted historian Lawrence Murphy reveals the details of this sordid campaign that ultimately generated a national scandal and first raised issues of gay rights and governmental persecution of homosexuals.. This candid book documents for the first time the U.S. Navy’s use of entrapment in pursuit of homosexuals in and around Newport, Rhode Island, during the early twentieth century