September 18, 2006
The gay menace
Greensboro, NC, 1957: Based on a police informant, 32 men were arrested and tried for "unnatural relationships". The investigation really took off until prominent men in the community started appearing on the list, then suddenly there was less interest in pursuing it.
A brief, but interesting, article about this fun episode in history, found at Pandagon.
From the article: "The purpose, in the words of the police chief, was to 'remove these individuals from society who would prey upon our youth,' and to protect the town from what a presiding judge called 'a menace.'" "'It might have started with the (suspects) on the street, but it began to involve people who were upstanding in the community, people in the Jaycees, people who did paper drives,' Burch said recently. 'It just escalated to the point where the investigation was called off.'"
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Interesting article, thanks Mamie ;)
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My old company's HQ is in Greensboro, I've been there many times. It is as benighted a town as I have ever had the misfortune to enter.
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I wonder if the irony of sending gay men, as a punishment for being gay, to a prison where even straight men have sex with other men was lost on these creeps.
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Bush's second choice for Vice President to assail GOP over gay rights
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Ain't that the way it always works? Got Power? Got Ass?
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Like Zorro!
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Bush's second choice for Vice President to assail GOP over gay rights Vice President Danforth would have been just as vocal about gay rights as Vice President "My Daughter is a lesbian" Cheney.
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Even if Danforth isn't suffering from Sour Grape Syndrome, the GOP will be able to use the possibility to discredit him.
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Cheney was the head of the committee to select a vice president for Bush. Cheney made himself the first pick. Being 2nd on that list is not much different than being 102nd.
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link to the story doesn't work for me
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Fuck, sorry about that. I shall try to hunt down a new link.
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This ought to work.
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Link worked fine for me, mandyman. You must just be fuckin' it up. oooh, burn!
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The Daily Show on the dangers of gays in the military.
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Close Order Swanning About via Youtube