Roosevelt's luta contra os gays

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Forgotten Anti-Gay Sex Crusade

The Newport Sex Scandal of 1919 targeted men having sex with men in the Navy, prefiguring the legalized persecution of LGBT citizens in and out of the armed services.

It was one of the first 20th-century anti-gay witch-hunts, a panic that gripped the American Navy between 1919 and 1921.
The Newport Sex Scandal, taking its name from the Rhode Island town it unfolded in, thrust the issue of same-sex friendship, same-sex desire and same-sex sexual intimacy into a national debate about homosexuality.
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