Hoover's war on gays : exposing the FBI's "sex deviates" program /

Hoover's war on gays : exposing the FBI's "sex deviates" program / Douglas M. Charles.

"At the FBI, the "Sex Deviates" program covered a lot of ground, literally; at its peak, J. Edgar Hoover's notorious "Sex Deviates" file encompassed nearly 99 cubic feet or more than 330,000 pages of information. In 1977-1978 these files were destroyed--and it would see...

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Main Author: Charles, Douglas M. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2015]
Subjects:
United States. > Federal Bureau of Investigation > History.
Homosexuality > Government policy > United States > History > 20th century.
Gay people > United States > History > 20th century.
Intelligence service > United States > History > 20th century.
Internal security > United States > History > 20th century.
United States > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • Was J. Edgar Hoover gay? Does it matter?
  • "The victim of a degenerate": the origins of FBI surveillance of gays, 1937
  • "Sex perverts in government service": Second World War gay baiting and the FBI investigations of Sumner Welles, David Walsh, and Philip Faymonville
  • "Sex deviates in government service": the lavender scare and the FBI sex deviates program and file
  • "Take this crowd on and make them 'put up or shut up'": the FBI; the Mattachine Society; ONE, Inc.; and the Daughters of Bilitis
  • "Something uniquely nasty": The FBI; the Mattachine Societies of New York and Washington, DC; Donald Webster Cory; and ECHO
  • "It's a thing that you just can't tell": the FBI and the Johnson and Nixon administrations
  • "I'm ready to die for the cause!": the FBI confronts Gay Liberation
  • Epilogue.

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