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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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 Franklin D. Roosevelt played a key role in this witchunt - - one of the earliest documented examples of organized Navy homophobia.
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senior naval officials, gay sailors, suspected gays, nameless vice, immoral conditions, navy lawyer Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Rhode Island, United States, Providence Journal, Training Station, Bishop Perry, Admiral Dunn, Justice Department, Red Cross, George Richard, Captain Leigh, Judge Brown, Secretary Daniels, Captain Campbell, Fred Hoage, Harrison Rideout, Samuel Neal Kent, Ervin Arnold, Forty Steps, Bureau of Navigation, Cliff Walk, Fall River, Frank Dye, Josephus Daniels, Chaplain Kent New!
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