Perverts by official order
the campaign against homosexuals by the United States Navy
by Lawrence R. Murphy
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. 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.
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Gays, History, Trials (Sodomy), United States, United States. Navy, Gay sailors, Homophobia in the Armed Forces, Gay military personnel, United states, navy, LGBTQ history, Homosexuels, Procès (Sodomie), Histoire, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING, Marine & Naval, Military Science, Armed Forces, Homoseksuelen, Vervolgingen, Zeemacht, Mouvements de libération des homosexuels, États-Unis. Navy, États-Unis, LGBTQ law & legalPlaces
Newport, Newport (R.I.), Rhode Island, United StatesTimes
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Perverts by official order: the campaign against homosexuals by the United States Navy
1988, Haworth Press
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0866567089 9780866567084
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Perverts by official order: the campaign against homosexuals by the United States Navy
1988, Harrington Park Press
in English
0918393442 9780918393449
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Bibliography: p. 325-330.
Includes index.
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