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.
Gukjv
by Anonymous | reply 1 | August 20, 2018 11:34 PM |
Google "Navy gay witch hunt" and see what you find from over the years.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | August 22, 2018 5:22 AM |
This one in particular. They've never stopped.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | August 22, 2018 5:27 AM |
fascinating just fascinating
by Anonymous | reply 4 | August 22, 2018 6:46 AM |
The US Navy's search for Dorothy and her friends:
by Anonymous | reply 5 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 6 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 7 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 8 | August 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!!
by Anonymous | reply 9 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 10 | August 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.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | August 22, 2018 3:23 PM |
^ wow, he was like the Daddy Rackover of yesteryear
by Anonymous | reply 12 | August 22, 2018 3:25 PM |
R11: I bet he liked sitting on that chair where your balls get touched.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | August 22, 2018 4:40 PM |
Robert Kennedy and the lavender witch hunt.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | August 22, 2018 4:47 PM |
There was a lavender witch hunt but Kennedy was not responsible for it
by Anonymous | reply 15 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 16 | August 22, 2018 4:56 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 Anonymous | reply 20 | August 22, 2018 6:18 PM |
Summer Welles (and FDR was pretty pro gay then)
by Anonymous | reply 21 | August 22, 2018 6:20 PM |
Larry “Wide Stance” Craig will never be forgotten.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | August 22, 2018 6:56 PM |
Yeah, "wide stance" is now a part of the lexicon
by Anonymous | reply 23 | August 22, 2018 10:00 PM |
The inmortal Brian Sewell (who write an autobiography about his own endless cruising) on the last Medici...
by Anonymous | reply 25 | August 23, 2018 12:05 AM |
write = wrote!
by Anonymous | reply 26 | August 23, 2018 12:06 AM |
r25, that was interesting. Thanks!
by Anonymous | reply 27 | August 23, 2018 2:12 AM |
Hhhh
by Anonymous | reply 29 | August 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?
by Anonymous | reply 30 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 31 | August 26, 2018 12:47 AM |
Kevin Spacey getting "mugged" in a park that was a well-known cruising spot.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | August 26, 2018 12:54 AM |
Liberace suing the Daily Mirror in 1959 for claiming he was a homosexual. (he won)
by Anonymous | reply 33 | August 26, 2018 12:56 AM |
Kevin Spacey getting caught "rock climbing" with a twink
by Anonymous | reply 34 | August 26, 2018 2:43 AM |
dssd
by Anonymous | reply 35 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 36 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 37 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 38 | August 26, 2018 6:38 PM |
Chief Justice Taney got caught by a chambermaid in his guesthouse bed with underage slave boy.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | August 26, 2018 6:43 PM |
r37, LBJ withdraw Abe Fortas's and Homer Thornberry's supreme court nominations. Thornberry succeeded him in Congress.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 41 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 42 | August 27, 2018 4:47 AM |
Eddie "I'm Just Giving Herm A Ride" Murphy
by Anonymous | reply 44 | August 27, 2018 2:42 PM |
Not really a scandal but, in the spirit of it all
by Anonymous | reply 45 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 46 | August 29, 2018 3:07 AM |
Carswell sounds like your typical far right, self-loathing closeted freeper shitstain
by Anonymous | reply 47 | August 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.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 49 | August 29, 2018 3:37 AM |
Rock Hudson, Jim Barnett and the Univ of Kentucky Wildcats football team of 1959-1961.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | August 29, 2018 3:39 AM |
r49, link please
by Anonymous | reply 51 | August 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."
by Anonymous | reply 52 | August 29, 2018 4:01 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 Anonymous | reply 54 | August 29, 2018 11:46 AM |
I remember Boise had a scandal about city leaders and their boys, but Bakersfield too?
by Anonymous | reply 56 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 57 | August 29, 2018 12:06 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 Anonymous | reply 59 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 60 | August 29, 2018 12:50 PM |
[quote]the policeman who solicited Larry Craig in the public bathroom was handsome
Mmmmm------unh uh.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | August 29, 2018 1:30 PM |
He's kind of hot in a dumb way
by Anonymous | reply 62 | August 29, 2018 2:33 PM |
Fascinating article, r18.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 64 | August 29, 2018 5:10 PM |
Barrymore was hiding in plain sight
by Anonymous | reply 65 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 66 | August 29, 2018 11:00 PM |
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 Anonymous | reply 68 | August 31, 2018 7:29 AM |
^ Oliviers, not Olivers. I thought I had fixed that.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | August 31, 2018 7:31 AM |
[quote]He's kind of hot in a dumb way
No. Just, no.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | August 31, 2018 8:26 AM |
George Maharis caught in a men's restroom sting
by Anonymous | reply 71 | September 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 Anonymous | reply 72 | September 1, 2018 8:17 AM |
Was Maharis a sex addict?
by Anonymous | reply 73 | September 1, 2018 2:10 PM |
There has to be some gay ones in this list of political sex scandals in the US..
by Anonymous | reply 74 | September 1, 2018 3:12 PM |
Miss Nancy and Aunt Fancy.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | September 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 Anonymous | reply 76 | September 1, 2018 10:51 PM |
All chaps are assless.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | September 1, 2018 11:56 PM |
r74, thanks for the link. I had forgotten about this guy:
by Anonymous | reply 78 | September 2, 2018 2:24 AM |
Basil I, r48, cut / uncut size verificatia? Come on this is DL.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | September 2, 2018 9:32 AM |
There it is, r78, he is smelling that plate of warm cookies...such a Dalalounge tru-ism !
by Anonymous | reply 80 | September 2, 2018 1:12 PM |
Remember Ed Schrock?
by Anonymous | reply 81 | September 2, 2018 7:54 PM |
Lord Beauchamp fucking his male servants
by Anonymous | reply 82 | September 3, 2018 9:01 PM |
This looks like a clearing house for some.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | September 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 Anonymous | reply 84 | September 4, 2018 2:38 PM |
The facebook page at r83 is bizarrely fascinating
by Anonymous | reply 85 | September 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.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | September 4, 2018 6:55 PM |
[quote]bizarrely fascinating
I bet Little Peach raked it in. Not so much The Princess!
by Anonymous | reply 87 | September 4, 2018 7:02 PM |
Love the name "Little Peach"
by Anonymous | reply 88 | September 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 Anonymous | reply 89 | September 5, 2018 10:23 AM |
What's funny is that he actually WON the case
by Anonymous | reply 90 | September 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 Anonymous | reply 91 | September 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 Anonymous | reply 92 | September 7, 2018 1:02 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
by Anonymous | reply 94 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 95 | August 20, 2019 4:56 AM |
R92, Jeff Smith was dead within 6 years of the accusations.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | August 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.
by Anonymous | reply 97 | August 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.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 99 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 100 | August 20, 2019 8:15 AM |
R100 there were receipts of misappropriated charity funds. Ritter was not accused of anything sexual.
by Anonymous | reply 101 | August 20, 2019 8:48 AM |
Was not charged, he was indeed accused.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | August 20, 2019 8:49 AM |
The alleged gay scandal of Roger Casement is of interest here.
by Anonymous | reply 103 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 104 | August 20, 2019 9:06 AM |
r103, it wasn't "alleged"
by Anonymous | reply 105 | August 20, 2019 4:37 PM |
Tory politicians being supplied with underage rent boys
by Anonymous | reply 106 | August 27, 2019 2:43 PM |
rerrrrr
by Anonymous | reply 107 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 108 | August 28, 2019 11:00 PM |
^ It's not true that he "never missed a beat" - he actually considered suicide at one point
by Anonymous | reply 109 | August 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.
by Anonymous | reply 110 | August 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.
by Anonymous | reply 111 | August 29, 2019 6:13 PM |
I was looking for badgers in that airport men's room
by Anonymous | reply 112 | August 30, 2019 2:30 AM |