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Forgotten Gay Scandals From the Past

Charles Ewing Mackay was the mayor of Wanganui, New Zealand - in 1920 he shot and seriously wounded a writer who had threatened to expose him for being gay. It turned out he had previously sought "treatment" for his sexuality and wound up doing time for attempted murder.

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by Anonymousreply 112August 30, 2019 2:30 AM

Gukjv

by Anonymousreply 1August 20, 2018 11:34 PM

Google "Navy gay witch hunt" and see what you find from over the years.

by Anonymousreply 2August 22, 2018 5:22 AM

This one in particular. They've never stopped.

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by Anonymousreply 3August 22, 2018 5:27 AM

fascinating just fascinating

by Anonymousreply 4August 22, 2018 6:46 AM

The US Navy's search for Dorothy and her friends:

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by Anonymousreply 5August 22, 2018 8:16 AM

This line from r3's article made me laugh:

“I have never in my life seen a prettier girl than Princess Mary. She is the daintiest little thing I ever laid eyes on.” Princess Mary was a naval cadet!

by Anonymousreply 6August 22, 2018 2:14 PM

While everyone knows of the Cleveland Street Scandal of 1889-90, the earlier Dublin Castle Scandal is lesser known. The famous rentboy John ‘Dublin Jack’ Saul featured in both. (His excellent biography The Sins Of Jack Saul by the crime writer Glenn Chandler was published last year. If buying, make sure you get the 2nd edition which contains additional information.) Also lesser known is the theft of the Irish Crown Jewels, which was totally covered up by the British Govt because of its homosexical associations. Even people who know of it generally aren’t aware that it rumbled on behind the scenes for a decade afterwards. Irish politicians repeatedly tried to expose the truth. It happened at the same time as the gay Eulenberg scandal in Germany, which is probably the humdinger of all gay scandals. Even Cleveland St pales beside it.

by Anonymousreply 7August 22, 2018 2:42 PM

Everyone know of nazi Germany’s Night Of The Long Knives, and the brownshirts leaders found in bed with their chauffeurs etc, but Hitler also found out about his PR officer Putzi Hanfstaengl‘s transgressions in the same area. I love the anecdote that his ranting dressing down of Putzi was so loud, it caused the window frames to hum, attracting the attention of passers by across the street!

by Anonymousreply 8August 22, 2018 2:52 PM

Speaking of the Irish Crown Jewels, that story is really fascinating. Ernest Shackleton's gay ne'er-do-well brother might have stolen them!!

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by Anonymousreply 9August 22, 2018 2:56 PM

That article on the Jewels is shoddy, and the one in The Independent they link to is even shoddier. At one stage it refers to “George VII”!!! The only George VII will be Prince William’s screamer of a son.

by Anonymousreply 10August 22, 2018 3:19 PM

Pope Julius III and his "cardinal nephew", an hustler he picked up off the streets of Rome, had his brother adopt, and then made a cardinal. The Protestants ran with it.

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by Anonymousreply 11August 22, 2018 3:23 PM

^ wow, he was like the Daddy Rackover of yesteryear

by Anonymousreply 12August 22, 2018 3:25 PM

R11: I bet he liked sitting on that chair where your balls get touched.

by Anonymousreply 13August 22, 2018 4:40 PM

Robert Kennedy and the lavender witch hunt.

by Anonymousreply 14August 22, 2018 4:47 PM

There was a lavender witch hunt but Kennedy was not responsible for it

by Anonymousreply 15August 22, 2018 4:49 PM

r15, I keep saying, he wasn't responsible for it; it was not his idea originally. I don't know whose idea it originally was; Hoover wouldn't surprise me at all. But it was his assignment when he went to work for the Justice Department after he got out of University of Virginia Law School. Hepursued it ruthlesly. AMEN.

by Anonymousreply 16August 22, 2018 4:56 PM

The last Medici Grand Duke...

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by Anonymousreply 17August 22, 2018 5:50 PM

Harvard’s purge

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by Anonymousreply 18August 22, 2018 6:05 PM

I almost forgot.

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by Anonymousreply 19August 22, 2018 6:11 PM

The policeman who solicited Larry Craig in the public bathroom was handsome. Craig's defense should have been "Look, even a straight guy like myself couldn't resist him."

by Anonymousreply 20August 22, 2018 6:18 PM

Summer Welles (and FDR was pretty pro gay then)

by Anonymousreply 21August 22, 2018 6:20 PM

Larry “Wide Stance” Craig will never be forgotten.

by Anonymousreply 22August 22, 2018 6:56 PM

Yeah, "wide stance" is now a part of the lexicon

by Anonymousreply 23August 22, 2018 10:00 PM

More about the 1884 Dublin Castle scandal

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by Anonymousreply 24August 22, 2018 10:36 PM

The inmortal Brian Sewell (who write an autobiography about his own endless cruising) on the last Medici...

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by Anonymousreply 25August 23, 2018 12:05 AM

write = wrote!

by Anonymousreply 26August 23, 2018 12:06 AM

r25, that was interesting. Thanks!

by Anonymousreply 27August 23, 2018 2:12 AM

The Boys From Boise

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by Anonymousreply 28August 23, 2018 3:49 PM

Hhhh

by Anonymousreply 29August 23, 2018 7:53 PM

R25 The late Mr Sewell has a very windy delivery.

I never saw him but it seems he had lots of fans.

Are you saying one of his volumes of memoirs mentions his own cruising or Medici's cruising?

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by Anonymousreply 30August 26, 2018 12:10 AM

Who was the LBJ Supreme Court nominee who was found with a guy in a bathroom? He had to withdraw his nomination. I think he lucked out in one way, because 2 days later, Teddy Kennedy killed that girl at Chappaquidick and people forgot about the dick-sucking judge.

by Anonymousreply 31August 26, 2018 12:47 AM

Kevin Spacey getting "mugged" in a park that was a well-known cruising spot.

by Anonymousreply 32August 26, 2018 12:54 AM

Liberace suing the Daily Mirror in 1959 for claiming he was a homosexual. (he won)

by Anonymousreply 33August 26, 2018 12:56 AM

Kevin Spacey getting caught "rock climbing" with a twink

by Anonymousreply 34August 26, 2018 2:43 AM

dssd

by Anonymousreply 35August 26, 2018 2:52 PM

R34 I had forgotten that one. I do remember the stories about Spacey creeping on a PA during the filming of House of Cards.

by Anonymousreply 36August 26, 2018 3:04 PM

[quote]Who was the LBJ Supreme Court nominee who was found with a guy in a bathroom? He had to withdraw his nomination.

Are you conflating Walter Jenkins, LBJ's top administrative assistant, who was caught giving a blow job in the YMCA bathroom and resigned; with Abe Fortas, whom LBJ wanted to be Chief Justice but was blocked by Rethugs, and who later resigned due to ethics violations, which were financial, not sexual?

Of note, Jenkins was married and the father of six children

by Anonymousreply 37August 26, 2018 6:33 PM

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia dying in bed with an underage Mexican boy in Texas on Valentine's Day.

by Anonymousreply 38August 26, 2018 6:38 PM

Chief Justice Taney got caught by a chambermaid in his guesthouse bed with underage slave boy.

by Anonymousreply 39August 26, 2018 6:43 PM

r37, LBJ withdraw Abe Fortas's and Homer Thornberry's supreme court nominations. Thornberry succeeded him in Congress.

by Anonymousreply 40August 26, 2018 6:58 PM

R37, I remember there were 2 Court nominees that were rejected, Haynesworth and Carswell. One of them had to withdraw because of bathroom hanky-panky.

by Anonymousreply 41August 27, 2018 1:41 AM

wrong. neither Haynesworth nor Carswell were withdrawn, they were both voted down by the Senate and sexcapades were not a factor in either case.

by Anonymousreply 42August 27, 2018 4:47 AM

The murder of Peter Arne

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by Anonymousreply 43August 27, 2018 2:35 PM

Eddie "I'm Just Giving Herm A Ride" Murphy

by Anonymousreply 44August 27, 2018 2:42 PM

Not really a scandal but, in the spirit of it all

by Anonymousreply 45August 27, 2018 2:43 PM

R42, Carswell was convicted of "battery" for advances made on an undercover police officer. 3 years later, he was severely beaten after inviting a man back to his hotel room in Atlanta.

by Anonymousreply 46August 29, 2018 3:07 AM

Carswell sounds like your typical far right, self-loathing closeted freeper shitstain

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by Anonymousreply 47August 29, 2018 3:16 AM

Basil I, who fucked his way from a stable boy to the throne of Byzantium seducing a number of powerful men along the way. Someone should do a lurid biopic.

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by Anonymousreply 48August 29, 2018 3:17 AM

Anyone remember that scandal in Bakersfield, CA about 20 years ago where it ended up half of the powers that be in the town were gay on the down low and sleeping with twinks? I think there were a couple of murders.

by Anonymousreply 49August 29, 2018 3:37 AM

Rock Hudson, Jim Barnett and the Univ of Kentucky Wildcats football team of 1959-1961.

by Anonymousreply 50August 29, 2018 3:39 AM

r49, link please

by Anonymousreply 51August 29, 2018 3:41 AM

[quote]In 1976, Harrold Carswell made headlines when he was arrested and convicted of propositioning an undercover police officer in a Tallahassee men's room. "Our investigation of Carswell had been so superficial," FBI assistant director William Sullivan later admitted, "that we never found he was a homosexual."

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by Anonymousreply 52August 29, 2018 4:01 AM

The great Montesini farce...

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by Anonymousreply 53August 29, 2018 11:41 AM

British television personality Michael Barrymore came out after being married to a woman for something like twenty years.

Then a closeted young man was found dead in MB's swimming pool after a party. Was a huge scandal here in the UK.

by Anonymousreply 54August 29, 2018 11:46 AM

Barrymore got away with a lot!

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by Anonymousreply 55August 29, 2018 11:52 AM

I remember Boise had a scandal about city leaders and their boys, but Bakersfield too?

by Anonymousreply 56August 29, 2018 11:56 AM

The very gay Viscount Tredegar holding black masses in a Roman cemetary in the 1920s while he was Papal Chamberlain Of The Sword and Cape (black velvet & gold braid: divine!) to Pope Pius was slightly pushing it.

by Anonymousreply 57August 29, 2018 12:06 PM

let's all sue each other.

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by Anonymousreply 58August 29, 2018 12:16 PM

Pope Paul VI in 1975 requesting Catholic Churches hold a day of prayer in response to Roger Peyrefitte outing him. Oh the humanity! In the long annals of hypocrisy in the Catholic Church, this was right up there with the best.

by Anonymousreply 59August 29, 2018 12:19 PM

Cultures that whine about not being allowed in the Country Club are cultures that sexually brutalize the small and the weak.

by Anonymousreply 60August 29, 2018 12:50 PM

[quote]the policeman who solicited Larry Craig in the public bathroom was handsome

Mmmmm------unh uh.

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by Anonymousreply 61August 29, 2018 1:30 PM

He's kind of hot in a dumb way

by Anonymousreply 62August 29, 2018 2:33 PM

Fascinating article, r18.

by Anonymousreply 63August 29, 2018 3:06 PM

R55 What in the world did I just watch! That was amazingly... bizarre! It's starts off with a random American military guy just because he could and then a whole corps of Brits appear, and before you know it they are all singing and dancing! The American sure was cute in his day, the uniform doesn't hurt. Did not expect for him to be a dancer too, scene after scene kept shocking me. Incredible..

by Anonymousreply 64August 29, 2018 5:10 PM

Barrymore was hiding in plain sight

by Anonymousreply 65August 29, 2018 10:56 PM

Barrymore was everywhere at one point in the UK. I never really saw the appeal, but he was incredibly popular with a certain segment of the viewing public.

by Anonymousreply 66August 29, 2018 11:00 PM

The Portland YMCA scandal of 1912

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by Anonymousreply 67August 30, 2018 3:02 AM

Sir John Gielgud was caught sucking cock in a London tearoom in the early 1950s and promptly announced his retirement. Humiliated, he intended the retirement to be permanent but after a year close friends, including the Olivers, encouraged him to try a comeback. He was terrified before his first entrance, sure that he would be booed off the stage. Instead, he was met with a standing ovation.

by Anonymousreply 68August 31, 2018 7:29 AM

^ Oliviers, not Olivers. I thought I had fixed that.

by Anonymousreply 69August 31, 2018 7:31 AM

[quote]He's kind of hot in a dumb way

No. Just, no.

by Anonymousreply 70August 31, 2018 8:26 AM

George Maharis caught in a men's restroom sting

by Anonymousreply 71September 1, 2018 1:59 AM

Maharis was caught twice in similar situations in the 1960s, r71. The first time he was still doing Route 66 and CBS got it hushed up. The next time, he had insanely walked off of the show and the incident appeared in the press. A minor career after that.

by Anonymousreply 72September 1, 2018 8:17 AM

Was Maharis a sex addict?

by Anonymousreply 73September 1, 2018 2:10 PM

There has to be some gay ones in this list of political sex scandals in the US..

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by Anonymousreply 74September 1, 2018 3:12 PM

Miss Nancy and Aunt Fancy.

by Anonymousreply 75September 1, 2018 9:50 PM

Orrin Hatch getting caught up in a raid by the cops on a ranch in Arizona during the early 1980s. What the now confiscated and long destroyed Police report will never say, is how he was with a coterie of other closeted gay men, who were dressed up western style, including assless chaps and cock rings.

by Anonymousreply 76September 1, 2018 10:51 PM

All chaps are assless.

by Anonymousreply 77September 1, 2018 11:56 PM

r74, thanks for the link. I had forgotten about this guy:

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by Anonymousreply 78September 2, 2018 2:24 AM

Basil I, r48, cut / uncut size verificatia? Come on this is DL.

by Anonymousreply 79September 2, 2018 9:32 AM

There it is, r78, he is smelling that plate of warm cookies...such a Dalalounge tru-ism !

by Anonymousreply 80September 2, 2018 1:12 PM

Remember Ed Schrock?

by Anonymousreply 81September 2, 2018 7:54 PM

Lord Beauchamp fucking his male servants

by Anonymousreply 82September 3, 2018 9:01 PM

This looks like a clearing house for some.

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by Anonymousreply 83September 4, 2018 11:49 AM

I think the hypocrisy of Pope Paul having that relationship with Paolo Carlini while denying a fair slab of the world effective birth control (and so screwing up the planet) would have to stand a fair chance of being the No1 gay scandal of the 20th century. (He apparently also had a thing when in Milan with Edmund Purdom, and was certainly friendly with the gay and mad Lord Tredegar.)

One can argue that the Eulenburg Scandal was the big one because Prince Eulenberg & the gay figures at the Kaisers court were doves, & their removal faciltated the hawks and the First World War.

So: one gay scandal caused millions to die, while the other bought the birth of unwanted millions.

by Anonymousreply 84September 4, 2018 2:38 PM

The facebook page at r83 is bizarrely fascinating

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by Anonymousreply 85September 4, 2018 2:46 PM

PBS's The Frugal Gourmet, Jeff Smith.

[quote]In 1997, seven men filed a civil lawsuit against Smith, charging him with sexual abuse. Six alleged that they were molested as teenagers in the 1970s while working at Smith's deli and catering service in Tacoma; the seventh claimed that he was assaulted in 1992, at age 14, after Smith picked him up as a hitchhiker. Smith denied the allegations, and no criminal charges were filed, but he and his insurers settled the cases for an undisclosed amount in 1998. The litigation ended his television career, though he continued his writing and charitable work.

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by Anonymousreply 86September 4, 2018 6:55 PM

[quote]bizarrely fascinating

I bet Little Peach raked it in. Not so much The Princess!

by Anonymousreply 87September 4, 2018 7:02 PM

Love the name "Little Peach"

by Anonymousreply 88September 4, 2018 8:48 PM

Liberace’s 1959 UK libel case.

The immortal offending paragraph called him "…the summit of sex — the pinnacle of masculine, feminine, and neuter. Everything that he, she, and it can ever want… a deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavoured, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother love".

by Anonymousreply 89September 5, 2018 10:23 AM

What's funny is that he actually WON the case

by Anonymousreply 90September 5, 2018 2:35 PM

During the Michael Barrymore incident I used to see him at AA meetings in Chelsea. I was a university student at the time and yes, he cruised me I found him a bit sexy. Tall, lean, dark.

Always thought it was quite courageous of him to show his face during that mess.

by Anonymousreply 91September 5, 2018 5:29 PM

R86, sounds like the frugal gourmet got off easy (no pun intended). In that photo, he looks like a daddy who can't wait to get into his leathers.

by Anonymousreply 92September 7, 2018 1:02 AM

r49, is this what you're talking about?

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by Anonymousreply 93August 20, 2019 3:40 AM

All the talk of Lord Mountbatten reminded me of the Playland scandal - it involved a bunch of prominent men (the ringleader was a friend of Prince Charles) luring teen runaway boys into prostitution

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by Anonymousreply 94August 20, 2019 3:45 AM

R50 I have that book and I started reading it but didn't get to the juicy parts yet. Endless talk about high school and football games and families. Fuck I can't remember the name. I have a ebook of it.

by Anonymousreply 95August 20, 2019 4:56 AM

R92, Jeff Smith was dead within 6 years of the accusations.

by Anonymousreply 96August 20, 2019 5:05 AM

The Johns Commission in Florida conflated communism and homosexuality, and went after school systems and universities in particular. In the end, it killed the careers of hundreds of college professors, grad students, and other teachers. Some committed suicide or attempted it.

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by Anonymousreply 97August 20, 2019 6:10 AM

Father Ritter. Disguised his predatory ways by way of helping and giving “love” to teen runaways. He did a lot of good providing food and shelter to runaway homeless teen hustlers, but it came at a price. He even wrote a book about it, which I read, marveling at how he was managing to hide in plain sight. It was pretty obvious to anyone with any homosexual inclination that the guy was a gay predator and loved young trade.

He was later accused by multiple kids, his halfway house was renamed, while any association with him was terminated. Sweeping everything under the rug in the tradition of the golden era of the Catholic church’s Pedophile Witness Protection Program, he was reassigned to some village in Africa, where I’m sure he continued enjoying teen BBC.

Howard Stern has a ball with Ritter’s hypocrisy.

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by Anonymousreply 98August 20, 2019 7:58 AM

See is any eldersisters get this one from 1964:

"Why did the lights go out in the White House"?

Because Walter Jenkins blew a fuse!

by Anonymousreply 99August 20, 2019 8:04 AM

Could it be that some of the trashy little street sisters helped by Father Ritter smelled some big $$$, tried to shake him down and when he would not pay they went to the cops with their lies?

by Anonymousreply 100August 20, 2019 8:15 AM

R100 there were receipts of misappropriated charity funds. Ritter was not accused of anything sexual.

by Anonymousreply 101August 20, 2019 8:48 AM

Was not charged, he was indeed accused.

by Anonymousreply 102August 20, 2019 8:49 AM

The alleged gay scandal of Roger Casement is of interest here.

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by Anonymousreply 103August 20, 2019 9:06 AM

That Barrymore clip was hysterical. r55? He could hardly pry his eyes off of the crotch of the American cadet in the first segment. And then he was flirting big time with a couple of the British regiment. They were all blushing. I can only imagine what he was saying to them under his breath.

by Anonymousreply 104August 20, 2019 9:06 AM

r103, it wasn't "alleged"

by Anonymousreply 105August 20, 2019 4:37 PM

Tory politicians being supplied with underage rent boys

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by Anonymousreply 106August 27, 2019 2:43 PM

rerrrrr

by Anonymousreply 107August 28, 2019 2:30 AM

The story about Gielgud is incorrect. He never missed a beat in his career after being charged for “cottaging.” He was in rehearsal for a play at that time and appeared for rehearsal the next day with some trepidation, of course, when an actress in the company, Sybil Thorndike, admonished him for being silly and defused the situation.

by Anonymousreply 108August 28, 2019 11:00 PM

^ It's not true that he "never missed a beat" - he actually considered suicide at one point

by Anonymousreply 109August 29, 2019 3:34 PM

The legend of the demise of Jeff Alm, a former Houston Oiler, has apparently never been publicly corroborated. Rampant rumors at the time, though.

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by Anonymousreply 110August 29, 2019 5:49 PM

British politician Ron Davies lost his career for a 'moment of madness' - well, two at least, one on Clapham Common that cost him his London career and another at a Welsh cruising area that ended his come-back. He claimed he was looking for badgers and badger-spotting became a bit of a euphemism for a while.

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by Anonymousreply 111August 29, 2019 6:13 PM

I was looking for badgers in that airport men's room

by Anonymousreply 112August 30, 2019 2:30 AM
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