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==Alphabetical Subject List== | ==Alphabetical Subject List== | ||
F.B.I. Surveillance of Homosexuals, Alleged Homosexuals, Persons Associated with Homosexuality, Homosexual Groups, and Anti-Homosexual Groups and Persons | F.B.I. Surveillance of Homosexuals, Alleged Homosexuals, Persons Associated with Homosexuality, Homosexual Groups, and Anti-Homosexual Groups and Persons | ||
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A search of the FBI's Vault Index site for "homosexual" on October 9, 2011 returned 76 items. A search on the same date for "homosexuality" returned 26 items, some of which were not included in the original 76 items. A search for "homosexuals" returned 40 items some of which were not included in earlier searches, | A search of the FBI's Vault Index site for "homosexual" on October 9, 2011 returned 76 items. A search on the same date for "homosexuality" returned 26 items, some of which were not included in the original 76 items. A search for "homosexuals" returned 40 items some of which were not included in earlier searches, | ||
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A search for "lesbian" returned 8 items, some of which had not been included in the earlier results and are not yet integrated into the lists below: | A search for "lesbian" returned 8 items, some of which had not been included in the earlier results and are not yet integrated into the lists below: | ||
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(8) J. Edgar Hoover Part 16 of 22 | (8) J. Edgar Hoover Part 16 of 22 | ||
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A search for "lesbianism" returned one result. | A search for "lesbianism" returned one result. | ||
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A search for "lesbians" was made on November 11, 20011, and provided six results not yet integrated into the alphabetical list below: | A search for "lesbians" was made on November 11, 20011, and provided six results not yet integrated into the alphabetical list below: | ||
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(6) Walter Winchell Part 56 of 58. These have not yet been integrated into the alphabetical list below. | (6) Walter Winchell Part 56 of 58. These have not yet been integrated into the alphabetical list below. | ||
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− | A search for the term "gay" included 504 results, all of which may not refer to homosexuality and the results have not been included in this list. A search for "gay and homosexual" returned 21 results not yet included on the list below. | + | <br/> |
+ | A second search for "lesbians" on November 29, 2012 turned up additional references, so the FBI is adding to its online files: | ||
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+ | (1) Liberace Part 3 of 6 | ||
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+ | (2) Alcatraz Escape Part 14 of 17 | ||
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+ | (3) New Alliance Party Part 2 of 3 | ||
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+ | (4) New Alliance Party Part 1 of 3 | ||
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+ | (5) Mattachine Society Part 01 of 03 | ||
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+ | (6) Bremer Kidnapping Part 11 of 459 | ||
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+ | (7) Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy Part 20 of 27 | ||
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+ | (8) New Alliance Party Part 3 of 3 | ||
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+ | (9) Walter Winchell Part 56 of 58 | ||
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+ | A search for the term "gay" [in 20011] included 504 results, all of which may not refer to homosexuality and the results have not been included in this list. A search for "gay and homosexual" returned 21 results not yet included on the list below. | ||
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A search of the Vault Index for the terms "pervert", "perverts, "perversion", and "perversions" (used commonly about homosexuals and homosexuality in the 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s, also returns some entries which refer specifically to homosexuality without using some version of that term. These results have not yet been added to the list below. | A search of the Vault Index for the terms "pervert", "perverts, "perversion", and "perversions" (used commonly about homosexuals and homosexuality in the 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s, also returns some entries which refer specifically to homosexuality without using some version of that term. These results have not yet been added to the list below. | ||
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This research is intended to provide wide-ranging evidence of the surveillance of homosexuals, rumored homosexuals, or homosexuality conducted by the FBI. | This research is intended to provide wide-ranging evidence of the surveillance of homosexuals, rumored homosexuals, or homosexuality conducted by the FBI. | ||
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+ | The designation "African American" is added under the names of some individuals to facilitate research on the FBI's spying on Black homosexual artists, writers, and activists, or those rumored to be homosexual. | ||
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Baldwin, James | Baldwin, James | ||
− | :His FBI files contain references to his homosexualiity. See: Natalie S. Robins, Alien ink: the FBI's War on Freedom of Expression (William Morrow, 1992), page 348, etc. | + | :African American writer, activist. |
+ | :His FBI files contain references to his homosexualiity. See: Natalie S. Robins, ''Alien ink: the FBI's War on Freedom of Expression'' (William Morrow, 1992), page 348, etc. | ||
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Bissinger, Carl. | Bissinger, Carl. | ||
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+ | Black Panther Party | ||
+ | :African American radical left activist organization. | ||
+ | :Search of FBI Vault on Dec 6, 2012 for "Black Panther Party homosexual": | ||
+ | ::COINTELPRO\New Left- Pittsburgh Part 01 of 01 | ||
+ | ::Black Guerilla Family Part 3 of 3 | ||
+ | ::COINTELPRO\New Left- Philadelphia Part 01 of 01 | ||
+ | ::Black Guerilla Family Part 1 of 3 | ||
+ | ::Abbie Hoffman Part 32 of 50 | ||
+ | ::Abbie Hoffman Part 47 of 50 | ||
+ | ::COINTELPRO Black Extremist Part 22 of 23 | ||
+ | ::COINTELPRO White Hate Groups Part 01 of 14 | ||
+ | ::Jonestown Part 23 of 287 | ||
+ | ::Abbie Hoffman Part 26 of 50 | ||
+ | ::Abbie Hoffman Part 43 of 50 | ||
+ | ::COINTELPRO Black Extremist Part 07 of 23 | ||
+ | ::Jonestown Part 190 of 287 | ||
+ | ::Jonestown Part 10 of 287 | ||
+ | ::COINTELPRO\New Left- Los Angeles Part 01 of 02 | ||
+ | ::Jonestown Part 279 of 287 | ||
+ | ::COINTELPRO\New Left- Los Angeles Part 02 of 02 | ||
+ | ::Jonestown Part 285 of 287 | ||
+ | ::Clyde Tolson Part 8 of 11 | ||
+ | ::Clyde Tolson Part 10 of 11 | ||
+ | ::COINTELPRO New Left Butte Part 01 of 01 | ||
+ | ::Jonestown Part 133 of 287 | ||
+ | ::Ralph Abernathy Part 01 of 01 | ||
+ | :Search of FBI Vault on Dec 6, 2012 for "Black Panther Party gay" | ||
+ | ::Stokely Carmichael Part 4 of 5 | ||
+ | :Search of FBI Vault on Dec 6, 2012 for "Black Panther Party lesbian": | ||
+ | ::COINTELPRO Black Extremist Part 21 of 23 | ||
+ | ::J. Edgar Hoover Part 16 of 22 | ||
+ | ::Jonestown Part 177 of 287 | ||
+ | :See also: | ||
+ | ::Carmichael, Stokely | ||
+ | ::Newton, Huey | ||
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Brecht, Bertolt | Brecht, Bertolt | ||
− | [http://vault.fbi.gov/Bertolt%20Brecht%20 FBI Files] | + | :[http://vault.fbi.gov/Bertolt%20Brecht%20 FBI Files] |
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:::Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs (1911-1988) was a German-born atomic scientist who emigrated to Great Britain in the late 1930s. He worked on the joint U.S./British ... | :::Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs (1911-1988) was a German-born atomic scientist who emigrated to Great Britain in the late 1930s. He worked on the joint U.S./British ... | ||
::[http://vault.fbi.gov/search?SearchableText=%22Angela+Calomiris%22&Title=&Subject_usage%3Aignore_empty=&Description=&created%3Alist%3Adate=1970%2F02%2F01&created_usage=range%3Amin&pt_toggle=%23&portal_type%3Alist=ATFile&portal_type%3Alist=ATImage&portal_type%3Alist=Document&portal_type%3Alist=Event&portal_type%3Alist=FDPS&portal_type%3Alist=Favorite&portal_type%3Alist=File&portal_type%3Alist=Folder&portal_type%3Alist=Image&portal_type%3Alist=Large+Plone+Folder&portal_type%3Alist=Link&portal_type%3Alist=News+Item&portal_type%3Alist=Topic&submit=Search FBI Files mentioning "Angela Calomiris" (in quotes)] | ::[http://vault.fbi.gov/search?SearchableText=%22Angela+Calomiris%22&Title=&Subject_usage%3Aignore_empty=&Description=&created%3Alist%3Adate=1970%2F02%2F01&created_usage=range%3Amin&pt_toggle=%23&portal_type%3Alist=ATFile&portal_type%3Alist=ATImage&portal_type%3Alist=Document&portal_type%3Alist=Event&portal_type%3Alist=FDPS&portal_type%3Alist=Favorite&portal_type%3Alist=File&portal_type%3Alist=Folder&portal_type%3Alist=Image&portal_type%3Alist=Large+Plone+Folder&portal_type%3Alist=Link&portal_type%3Alist=News+Item&portal_type%3Alist=Topic&submit=Search FBI Files mentioning "Angela Calomiris" (in quotes)] | ||
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Cambridge Five Spy Ring | Cambridge Five Spy Ring | ||
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− | Caldwell, Taylor | + | Caldwell, Taylor |
− | [http://vault.fbi.gov/Taylor%20Caldwell FBI files] | + | :[http://vault.fbi.gov/Taylor%20Caldwell FBI files] |
− | Capote, Truman | + | Capote, Truman |
− | [http://vault.fbi.gov/Truman%20Capote FBI files] | + | :[http://vault.fbi.gov/Truman%20Capote FBI files] |
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::Part 3 of 4 refers to "homosexual". | ::Part 3 of 4 refers to "homosexual". | ||
::Part 4 of 4 refers to "homosexual". | ::Part 4 of 4 refers to "homosexual". | ||
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+ | Chung, Margaret | ||
+ | :Dr. Margaret "Mom" Chung: From the book ''Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards'' by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu (page 96): "The rumors regarding Chung even surfaced in a 1940 report by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The agent noted that the doctors in Chinatown 'will not say anything about [Chung] but raises his [sic] when she is mentioned. There are rumors that she is a lesbian.'" There are 45 references to the word "lesbian" in the biography of Chung: see http://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Mom-Chung-Fair-Haired-Bastards/dp/0520245288 | ||
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Columbine High School. | Columbine High School. | ||
:FBI Vault: Part 3 of 4 refers to "homosexuals". | :FBI Vault: Part 3 of 4 refers to "homosexuals". | ||
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+ | Cook, Blanche Wiesen | ||
+ | :Historian, writer, activist. | ||
+ | :FBI file? | ||
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+ | Cook, Nancy | ||
+ | :American suffrage leader, teacher, part owner of the Todhunter School and an intimate of Eleanor Roosevelt. Lover of Marion Dickerman. See: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Cook Wikipedia, Nancy Cook] | ||
+ | :FBI files? | ||
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Cullen, Countee | Cullen, Countee | ||
:[http://vault.fbi.gov/search?SearchableText=Cullen%2C+Countee FBI Files] | :[http://vault.fbi.gov/search?SearchableText=Cullen%2C+Countee FBI Files] | ||
+ | :African American writer, teacher. | ||
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Davis, Angela | Davis, Angela | ||
+ | :African American political activist, writer, teacher. | ||
:[http://vault.fbi.gov/search?SearchableText=Davis%2C+Angela FBI Files] | :[http://vault.fbi.gov/search?SearchableText=Davis%2C+Angela FBI Files] | ||
:Does her FBI file refer to homosexuality? | :Does her FBI file refer to homosexuality? | ||
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:Advisor to Joseph McCarthy, alleged to have been dismissed from U.S. Navy for homosexual acts.) Cited in ''J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets'' By Curt Gentry. Page 379 | :Advisor to Joseph McCarthy, alleged to have been dismissed from U.S. Navy for homosexual acts.) Cited in ''J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets'' By Curt Gentry. Page 379 | ||
:[http://vault.fbi.gov/search?SearchableText=%22Charles+Davis%22&Title=&Subject_usage%3Aignore_empty=&Description=&created%3Alist%3Adate=1970%2F02%2F01&created_usage=range%3Amin&pt_toggle=%23&portal_type%3Alist=ATFile&portal_type%3Alist=ATImage&portal_type%3Alist=Document&portal_type%3Alist=Event&portal_type%3Alist=FDPS&portal_type%3Alist=Favorite&portal_type%3Alist=File&portal_type%3Alist=Folder&portal_type%3Alist=Image&portal_type%3Alist=Large+Plone+Folder&portal_type%3Alist=Link&portal_type%3Alist=News+Item&portal_type%3Alist=Topic&submit=Search FBI Files] | :[http://vault.fbi.gov/search?SearchableText=%22Charles+Davis%22&Title=&Subject_usage%3Aignore_empty=&Description=&created%3Alist%3Adate=1970%2F02%2F01&created_usage=range%3Amin&pt_toggle=%23&portal_type%3Alist=ATFile&portal_type%3Alist=ATImage&portal_type%3Alist=Document&portal_type%3Alist=Event&portal_type%3Alist=FDPS&portal_type%3Alist=Favorite&portal_type%3Alist=File&portal_type%3Alist=Folder&portal_type%3Alist=Image&portal_type%3Alist=Large+Plone+Folder&portal_type%3Alist=Link&portal_type%3Alist=News+Item&portal_type%3Alist=Topic&submit=Search FBI Files] | ||
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+ | Delinger, Dave | ||
Deming, Barbara | Deming, Barbara | ||
− | See: See Duberman, Martin B., A Saving Remnant: The Radical Lives of Barbara Deming and David McReynolds. New Press (March 1, 2011). ISBN-10: 1595583238. ISBN-13: 978-1595583239. Deming, Jane Albert, FBI, page 169. | + | :See: See Duberman, Martin B., A Saving Remnant: The Radical Lives of Barbara Deming and David McReynolds. New Press (March 1, 2011). ISBN-10: 1595583238. ISBN-13: 978-1595583239. Deming, Jane Albert, FBI, page 169. |
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:Deran email to Jonathan Ned Katz: "Alma [Routsong] was not "interrogated by the FBI about her lesbian relationship with [me] in the 1960s." What actually happened, and the event on which her short story was based, was that the Undersecretary of the Treasury arranged for me (never Alma) to meet with two Secret Service agents, who read to me the contents of my rather extensive file. Mr. Surrey arranged this meeting with the thought that I then could decide whether the material they had assembled was too damaging to dispute (it was!). Neither Alma nor I ever had any encounter with the FBI.<ref>Deran to Katz, November 24, 2011 1:24:20 PM EST.</ref> | :Deran email to Jonathan Ned Katz: "Alma [Routsong] was not "interrogated by the FBI about her lesbian relationship with [me] in the 1960s." What actually happened, and the event on which her short story was based, was that the Undersecretary of the Treasury arranged for me (never Alma) to meet with two Secret Service agents, who read to me the contents of my rather extensive file. Mr. Surrey arranged this meeting with the thought that I then could decide whether the material they had assembled was too damaging to dispute (it was!). Neither Alma nor I ever had any encounter with the FBI.<ref>Deran to Katz, November 24, 2011 1:24:20 PM EST.</ref> | ||
:See also: Alma Routsong | :See also: Alma Routsong | ||
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+ | Dickerman, Marion | ||
+ | :American suffrage leader, educator, vice-principal of the Todhunter School and an intimate of Eleanor Roosevelt. Lover of Nancy Cook. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Dickerman Wikipedia: Marion Dickerman] | ||
+ | :FBI files | ||
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:Douglas Waller: "Wild Bill Donovan The Spymaster Who Created the ... outhistory.org/.../Douglas_Waller:_%22Wild_Bill_Donovan_The_Sp...Feb 13, 2011 – OutHistory.org would like to know of additional sources referring to William J. Donovan, homosexuals, and homosexuality. | :Douglas Waller: "Wild Bill Donovan The Spymaster Who Created the ... outhistory.org/.../Douglas_Waller:_%22Wild_Bill_Donovan_The_Sp...Feb 13, 2011 – OutHistory.org would like to know of additional sources referring to William J. Donovan, homosexuals, and homosexuality. | ||
:active in anti-homosexual witchhunt in Boise, Idaho? JNK thinks he remembers this. Check. | :active in anti-homosexual witchhunt in Boise, Idaho? JNK thinks he remembers this. Check. | ||
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+ | Duberman, Martin | ||
+ | :Historian, writer, activist. | ||
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:Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault. | :Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault. | ||
:Part 1 of 5 refers to "homosexuals". RESEARCH !!!! | :Part 1 of 5 refers to "homosexuals". RESEARCH !!!! | ||
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+ | Equi, Marie | ||
+ | :Marie Diana Equi (born April 7, 1872, New Bedford, Massachusetts – died July 13, 1952, Portland, Oregon) was an American medical doctor and anarchist. FBI file. | ||
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:FBI Vault: 1,113 pages | :FBI Vault: 1,113 pages | ||
::http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/foiaindex_g.htm | ::http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/foiaindex_g.htm | ||
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+ | Geer, Will. | ||
+ | :actor, best known as Grandpa Zebulon Tyler Walton in the 1970s TV series, The Waltons. In 1934, Geer met Harry Hay at the Tony Pastor Theatre, where Geer worked as an actor. They became lovers, and Hay credited Geer as his political mentor. Hay and Geer participated in a milk strike in Los Angeles, where Hay was first exposed to radical gay activism in the person of "Clarabelle," a drag queen who held court in the Bunker Hill neighborhood, who hid Hay from police. Later that year, Hay and Geer performed in support of the San Francisco General Strike. Hay later founded the Mattachine Society, the first sustained homosexual emancipation organization in the U.S. FBI file on Geer? | ||
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Ginsberg, Allan. | Ginsberg, Allan. | ||
− | On his FBI files: See: Natalie S. Robins, ''Alien ink: the FBI's War on Freedom of Expression'' (William Morrow, 1992), page 348, etc. | + | :On his FBI files: See: Natalie S. Robins, ''Alien ink: the FBI's War on Freedom of Expression'' (William Morrow, 1992), page 348, etc. |
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Hansberry, Lorraine | Hansberry, Lorraine | ||
+ | :African American playwright, essayist, political activist. | ||
:Does her FBI file mention her homosexuality? | :Does her FBI file mention her homosexuality? | ||
:http://www.nypl.org/archives/3686 New York Public Library: Lorraine Hansberry Papers (includes her FBI file). | :http://www.nypl.org/archives/3686 New York Public Library: Lorraine Hansberry Papers (includes her FBI file). | ||
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:Communist Party member; founder of Mattachine Society, Los Angeles. | :Communist Party member; founder of Mattachine Society, Los Angeles. | ||
:Other Mattachine Society founders with CP or left affiliations? | :Other Mattachine Society founders with CP or left affiliations? | ||
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+ | Hellman, Lilian | ||
+ | :Any reference to homosexuality or lesbianism in connection with her writing "The Children's Hour"? | ||
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Hickock, Lorena | Hickock, Lorena | ||
− | : | + | :Journalist, intimate friend of Eleanor Roosevelt. |
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Hudson, Rock. | Hudson, Rock. | ||
:Part 1 of 1 refers to ???. Accessed October 9, 2011 from FBI Vault. | :Part 1 of 1 refers to ???. Accessed October 9, 2011 from FBI Vault. | ||
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+ | Huggins, Ericka | ||
+ | :African American political activist. | ||
Hughes, Langston | Hughes, Langston | ||
+ | African American writer. | ||
[http://vault.fbi.gov/langston-hughes FBI files]. Do they contain any hint at homosexuality? | [http://vault.fbi.gov/langston-hughes FBI files]. Do they contain any hint at homosexuality? | ||
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Johnson, Myrtis | Johnson, Myrtis | ||
:Angela "Calomiris also began dating Myrtis Johnson, the sister-in-law of her FBI handler, Ken Bierly, a fact that attracted attention from the media." See: [[Angela "Angie" Calomiris: August 1, 1916 - January 30, 1995]] | :Angela "Calomiris also began dating Myrtis Johnson, the sister-in-law of her FBI handler, Ken Bierly, a fact that attracted attention from the media." See: [[Angela "Angie" Calomiris: August 1, 1916 - January 30, 1995]] | ||
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+ | Jorgensen, Christine | ||
+ | :FBI files? | ||
Katz, Jonathan Ned | Katz, Jonathan Ned | ||
− | :FBI | + | :FBI file contains no reference to homosexuality. |
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::Part 4 of 4 refers to "lesbian". | ::Part 4 of 4 refers to "lesbian". | ||
::Part 3 of 4 refers to "homosexuals". | ::Part 3 of 4 refers to "homosexuals". | ||
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+ | Lape, Esther | ||
+ | :Journalist, publicist and English professor, one of the founders of the League of Woman Voter, intimate of Eleanor Roosevelt. Life partner of Esther Fisher Read. FBI file? | ||
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Liberace. | Liberace. | ||
− | + | :Part 3 of 6 refers to "homosexuals". Accessed October 9, 2011 from FBI Vault. | |
Locke, Alain | Locke, Alain | ||
+ | :African American writer, teacher. | ||
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+ | Lorde, Audre | ||
+ | :African American poet, essayist, activist. | ||
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::Part 3 of 56 refers to "homosexuals". | ::Part 3 of 56 refers to "homosexuals". | ||
::Part 5 of 56 refers to "homosexuals". | ::Part 5 of 56 refers to "homosexuals". | ||
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+ | McKay, Claude | ||
+ | :African American writer. | ||
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:Peace activist, homosexual. See Duberman, Martin B., A Saving Remnant: The Radical Lives of Barbara Deming and David McReynolds. New Press (March 1, 2011). ISBN-10: 1595583238. ISBN-13: 978-1595583239. Page 35: Reference to McReynold's FBI file. Page 129: reference to FBI's notorious "watch list". Page 257: FBI files cited. | :Peace activist, homosexual. See Duberman, Martin B., A Saving Remnant: The Radical Lives of Barbara Deming and David McReynolds. New Press (March 1, 2011). ISBN-10: 1595583238. ISBN-13: 978-1595583239. Page 35: Reference to McReynold's FBI file. Page 129: reference to FBI's notorious "watch list". Page 257: FBI files cited. | ||
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+ | Miller, Frieda. | ||
+ | :New York State industrial commissioner and later U.S. Women’s Bureau chief. Partner of Pauline M. Newman for fifty-six years. For more details see: http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/newman-pauline, accessed December 10, 2012. | ||
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Milk, Harvey | Milk, Harvey | ||
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:"The Los Angeles Times got a hold of the FBI file on former reporter Jack Nelson through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, revealing that Hoover was pretty panicked that Nelson was going to report he was “homosexual.”<ref>http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/11/hoover_worried_lice-covered_ferret_journalist_would_report_he_was_gay.php</ref> | :"The Los Angeles Times got a hold of the FBI file on former reporter Jack Nelson through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, revealing that Hoover was pretty panicked that Nelson was going to report he was “homosexual.”<ref>http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/11/hoover_worried_lice-covered_ferret_journalist_would_report_he_was_gay.php</ref> | ||
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+ | Newman, Pauline M. | ||
+ | :(October 18, 1887 - April 1986) American labor activist. "In 1918 the ILGWU [International Ladies Garment Workers Union} loaned PN to the Philadelphia WTUL [Women's Trade Union League], which she served as president and organizer until 1923; here she met Frieda Miller (FSM), who was then secretary of the Philadelphia WTUL and who became her lifelong friend." "After 1924 PN lived in NYC and often shared a home with Frieda Miller until the latter's death in 1973. PN helped to raise FSM's adopted daughter, Elisabeth. . . ."<ref>Accessed Dec. 10, 2012 from: http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch00018</ref> FBI file? | ||
Nuestra Familia | Nuestra Familia | ||
:FBI Vault: Part 1 of 1 refers to ?. Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault. | :FBI Vault: Part 1 of 1 refers to ?. Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault. | ||
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+ | Nugent, Richard Bruce | ||
+ | :African American painter. FBI file? | ||
Nureyev, Rudolph | Nureyev, Rudolph | ||
+ | :FBI file? | ||
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+ | Perkins, Francis | ||
+ | :U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet. | ||
+ | :"Confronting family issues--a frequently institutionalized husband with severe psychiatric problems; a deeply secret lesbian relationship with Mary Harriman Rumsey (sister of Averell Harriman); a daughter from whom she was often estranged-Perkins nevertheless exhibited tireless grace under pressure again and again, always rising to the occasion in the name of every and any progressive cause.”-Publishers Weekly, starred review of ''The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR’S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience'' by Kirstin Downey.<ref>Accessed December 10, 2012 from: http://bestpossiblelife.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/praise-for-new-biography-of-frances-perkins/</ref> FBI file? | ||
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:English politician involved in sex scandal. | :English politician involved in sex scandal. | ||
::FBI Vault: Part 8 of 8 refers to "homosexuals". | ::FBI Vault: Part 8 of 8 refers to "homosexuals". | ||
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+ | Read, Elizabeth Fisher | ||
+ | :Scholar, attorney, intimate of Eleanor Roosevelt. Life companion of Esther Lape. FBI file? | ||
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Roosevelt, Eleanor | Roosevelt, Eleanor | ||
− | + | :Intimate friend of Lorena Hickock, a confirmed lesbian, as well as other lesbians. See Blanche Weisen Cook. | |
− | :Intimate friend of Lorena Hickock, a confirmed lesbian, as well as other lesbians. See Blanche Weisen Cook | ||
:See also: Lorena Hickock | :See also: Lorena Hickock | ||
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:Leader of free speech movement, Berkley, California, 1960s. | :Leader of free speech movement, Berkley, California, 1960s. | ||
::Part 09 of 09 refers to "homosexuality". Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault. | ::Part 09 of 09 refers to "homosexuality". Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault. | ||
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+ | Schneiderman, Rose | ||
+ | :(April 6, 1882 – August 11, 1972) was a prominent United States labor union leader, socialist, and feminist. She had a long-term relationship with Maud O'Farrell Swartz (1879-1937), another working class woman active in the Women's Trade Union League, until Swartz' death in 1937. | ||
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:Spellman allerted Pope Paul VI in Rome not to have anything to do with Martin Luther King, who was planning a visit.(Gentry, page 570). All quotes from ''J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets'' by Curt Gentry. | :Spellman allerted Pope Paul VI in Rome not to have anything to do with Martin Luther King, who was planning a visit.(Gentry, page 570). All quotes from ''J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets'' by Curt Gentry. | ||
:See also: [[Francis Joseph Spellman: May 4, 1889—December 2, 1967]] | :See also: [[Francis Joseph Spellman: May 4, 1889—December 2, 1967]] | ||
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+ | Stein, Gertrude | ||
+ | :FBI file? | ||
+ | :See also Toklas, Alice B. | ||
Stevenson, Adlai. | Stevenson, Adlai. | ||
:FBI spread false rumors that he was homosexual. Cited in ''J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets'' By Curt Gentry. Page 402-403, 445, 478. | :FBI spread false rumors that he was homosexual. Cited in ''J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets'' By Curt Gentry. Page 402-403, 445, 478. | ||
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+ | Swartz, Maud O'Farrell | ||
+ | :(1879-1937), labor organizer, feminist, and long-time partner of Rose Schneiderman (see). FBI file? | ||
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+ | :See also Gertrude Stein | ||
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X, Malcolm (originally Malcolm Little) | X, Malcolm (originally Malcolm Little) | ||
+ | African American political activist. | ||
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==Research Request== | ==Research Request== |
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See also:
F.B.I. and Homosexuality: A History MAIN PAGE
F.B.I. and Homosexuality: Bibliography
F.B.I. and Homosexuality: Chronology, Part 1
F.B.I. and Homosexuality: Chronology, Part 2
F.B.I. and Homosexuality: Chronology, Part 3
The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation and Homosexuality
ENTRY UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Persons and Groups Investigated
Alphabetical Subject List
F.B.I. Surveillance of Homosexuals, Alleged Homosexuals, Persons Associated with Homosexuality, Homosexual Groups, and Anti-Homosexual Groups and Persons
This list in construction is composed of the names of individuals and groups listed on the FBI's "Vault Index" website as having some association with homosexuality.[1] This list also contains the names of individuals known or rumored to have been homosexual or bisexual, or who were associated somehow with homosexuality, who had encounters with the FBI. This list also contains the names of individuals associated with homosexuality and who supported, or were alleged to support left-wing or liberal causes. Future research will show if the FBI had files on all these persons and if those files referred to homosexuality.
This research is intended to provide wide-ranging evidence of the surveillance of homosexuals, rumored homosexuals, or homosexuality conducted by the FBI.
The designation "African American" is added under the names of some individuals to facilitate research on the FBI's spying on Black homosexual artists, writers, and activists, or those rumored to be homosexual.
ABSCAM.
- Part 10 of 10 refers to "homosexuality". Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault.
ACTUP
Addams, Jane.
- From the FBI Vault: Jane Addams (1860-1935) was an internationally known social worker, activist, and Nobel Peace Prize winner. This release concerns a treason investigation opened in 1924 involving the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom; Addams was a founding member of the organization. Jane Addams Part 1 of 4, Jane Addams Part 2 of 4; Jane Addams Part 3 of 4; Jane Addams Part 4 of 4
- Addams had a number of intimate relationships with women and it has been suggested that these included sexual desire and perhaps activity. See for example: Nara Schoenberg, "Outing Jane Addams: Was the founder of Hull House a lesbian? And does it matter? Chicago Tribune, February 06, 2007.
Alsop, Joseph
- See: Edwin M. Yoder, Jr., Joe Alsop's Cold War: A Study of Journalistic Influence and Intrigue (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1995), 153–6
American Nazi Party.
- Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault.
- Part 1 of 2 refers to ???.
- Part 1 of 2 refers to "homosexuals".
- Part 2 of 2 refers to "homosexuals".
Amerithrax.
- Part 10 of 30 refers to "homosexuality". Part 05 refers to "lesbian".
- Amerithrax, short for American anthrax attacks, was a multi-agency investigation led by the FBI. It was launched in October 2001. Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault.
Aptheker, Bettina.
- FBI file?
Arvin, Newton
Atlanta Child Murders.
- Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault. Refers to ?
Babcock, Ed.
- Young Republican aid to Joseph McCarthy. Cited in J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets By Curt Gentry. Page 379.
Baldwin, James
- African American writer, activist.
- His FBI files contain references to his homosexualiity. See: Natalie S. Robins, Alien ink: the FBI's War on Freedom of Expression (William Morrow, 1992), page 348, etc.
Bankhead, Talulah.
- FBI Vault: 11 pages. See: http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/foiaindex_b.htm
- Does her FBI file refer to homosexuality?
Beekman, Gustave.
- Proprietor of homosexual brothel in Brooklyn, NY, in 1940s. Cited in J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets By Curt Gentry. Page 287.
Bentley, Elizabeth.
- Mary Price said that Bentley had made homosexual advances to her, which may or may not be true. Source: "Clever Girl, pages 315-316.
Bernstein, Leonard
- 720 pages. See: http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/foiaindex_b.htm
- Does his FBI file refer to homosexuality?
Bissinger, Carl.
Black Panther Party
- African American radical left activist organization.
- Search of FBI Vault on Dec 6, 2012 for "Black Panther Party homosexual":
- COINTELPRO\New Left- Pittsburgh Part 01 of 01
- Black Guerilla Family Part 3 of 3
- COINTELPRO\New Left- Philadelphia Part 01 of 01
- Black Guerilla Family Part 1 of 3
- Abbie Hoffman Part 32 of 50
- Abbie Hoffman Part 47 of 50
- COINTELPRO Black Extremist Part 22 of 23
- COINTELPRO White Hate Groups Part 01 of 14
- Jonestown Part 23 of 287
- Abbie Hoffman Part 26 of 50
- Abbie Hoffman Part 43 of 50
- COINTELPRO Black Extremist Part 07 of 23
- Jonestown Part 190 of 287
- Jonestown Part 10 of 287
- COINTELPRO\New Left- Los Angeles Part 01 of 02
- Jonestown Part 279 of 287
- COINTELPRO\New Left- Los Angeles Part 02 of 02
- Jonestown Part 285 of 287
- Clyde Tolson Part 8 of 11
- Clyde Tolson Part 10 of 11
- COINTELPRO New Left Butte Part 01 of 01
- Jonestown Part 133 of 287
- Ralph Abernathy Part 01 of 01
- Search of FBI Vault on Dec 6, 2012 for "Black Panther Party gay"
- Stokely Carmichael Part 4 of 5
- Search of FBI Vault on Dec 6, 2012 for "Black Panther Party lesbian":
- COINTELPRO Black Extremist Part 21 of 23
- J. Edgar Hoover Part 16 of 22
- Jonestown Part 177 of 287
- See also:
- Carmichael, Stokely
- Newton, Huey
Black Dahlia (Elizabeth Short).
- Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault. In 1947, Elizabeth Ann Short (1924-1947) was brutally mutilated and murdered in Los Angeles. The FBI was heavily involved the investigation.
- Part 3 of 4 refers to "lesbian".
Blitzstein, Marc:
- FBI Vault: See: http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/foiaindex_r.htm
- Does his FBI file refer to homosexuality?
Blunt, Anthony.
- FBI Vault: See: http://vault.fbi.gov/Anthony%20Blunt%20/Anthony%20Blunt%20Part%201%20of%201/view Accessed October 9, 2011.
- An earlier URL listing 37 pages was: http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/foiaindex_b.htm
Bourbon, Rae.
- career as professional female impersonator; was an informant and investigated by the FBI. See: Romesburg, Don. “Longevity and Limits in Rae Bourbon’s Life in Motion,” in Transgender Migrations: The Bodies, Borders, and Politics of Transition, ed. Trystan Cotten (New York: Routledge, 2011), 130-131; and and Romesburg, Don. “Ray Bourbon: A Queer Biography” (MA Thesis, CU Boulder, Fall 2000), 180-187.
Boise, Idaho.
- Anti-homosexual witch hunt. FBI cited in The Boys of Boise: Furor, Vice & Folly in an American City by John Gerassi (University of Washington Press, 2001), pages 7, 22, 49, 165.
- FBI Files (citing Boise)
Brecht, Bertolt
Buck, Pearl.
- Part 3 of 4 refers to term "homosexual". Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault.
- Pearl Buck Part 3 of 4 refers to "homosexuals".
Burgess, Guy
- See also Philby, Kim
Calomiris, Angela "Angie": August 1, 1916 - January 30, 1995
- FBI Files
- FBI Files mentioning Angela Calomiris:
- Eleanor Roosevelt Part 25 of 37
- Klaus Fuchs Part 82 of 111
- Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs (1911-1988) was a German-born atomic scientist who emigrated to Great Britain in the late 1930s. He worked on the joint U.S./British ...
- FBI Files mentioning "Angela Calomiris" (in quotes)
- FBI Files mentioning Angela Calomiris:
Cambridge Five Spy Ring
- FBI Vault: Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault.
- Parts 2, 3, 28, 33, 36, 39 of 42 refer to "homosexual".
- Part 3 of 42 refers to "homosexuals".
- Part 20 of 42 refers to "homosexuals".
- Part 29 of 42 refers to "homosexuals".
- Part 14 of 42 refers to "homosexuals".
- Part 25 of 42 refers to "homosexuals".
- Part 38 of 42 refers to "homosexuals".
- Part 4 of 42 refers to "homosexuals".
- Part 15 of 42 refers to "homosexuals".
Caldwell, Taylor
Capote, Truman
Chambers, Whittaker.
- Cited in J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets By Curt Gentry. Page 363.
Chancellor, John.
- FBI Vault accessed October 9, 2011.
- Part 1 of 4 refers to "homosexual"
- Part 2 of 4 refers to "homosexual" and "homosexuals".
- Part 3 of 4 refers to "homosexual".
- Part 4 of 4 refers to "homosexual".
Chung, Margaret
- Dr. Margaret "Mom" Chung: From the book Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu (page 96): "The rumors regarding Chung even surfaced in a 1940 report by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The agent noted that the doctors in Chinatown 'will not say anything about [Chung] but raises his [sic] when she is mentioned. There are rumors that she is a lesbian.'" There are 45 references to the word "lesbian" in the biography of Chung: see http://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Mom-Chung-Fair-Haired-Bastards/dp/0520245288
Cohn, Roy.
- Cited in J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets By Curt Gentry. Page 412.
- FBI Files
Cohn, Yetta.
- Communist Party member, police woman.
- See: Angela "Angie" Calomiris: August 1, 1916 - January 30, 1995
- No files found on FBI website December 25, 2011
Columbine High School.
- FBI Vault: Part 3 of 4 refers to "homosexuals".
Cook, Blanche Wiesen
- Historian, writer, activist.
- FBI file?
Cook, Nancy
- American suffrage leader, teacher, part owner of the Todhunter School and an intimate of Eleanor Roosevelt. Lover of Marion Dickerman. See: Wikipedia, Nancy Cook
- FBI files?
Covenant The Sword The Arm of the Lord, The.
- Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault.
- Part 2 refers to "homosexual".
- Part 1 of 2 refers to "homosexuals"
Cullen, Countee
- FBI Files
- African American writer, teacher.
Dandridge, Dorothy.
- African American film actress. Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault.
- Part 1 of 1 includes term "homosexual".
Davis, Angela
- African American political activist, writer, teacher.
- FBI Files
- Does her FBI file refer to homosexuality?
Davis, Charles
- Advisor to Joseph McCarthy, alleged to have been dismissed from U.S. Navy for homosexual acts.) Cited in J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets By Curt Gentry. Page 379
- FBI Files
Delinger, Dave
Deming, Barbara
- See: See Duberman, Martin B., A Saving Remnant: The Radical Lives of Barbara Deming and David McReynolds. New Press (March 1, 2011). ISBN-10: 1595583238. ISBN-13: 978-1595583239. Deming, Jane Albert, FBI, page 169.
Deran, Elizabeth
- The entry on author Alma Routsong in Feminists Who Changed the World says that her short story "Strangers in Camelot" is based on being interrogated by the FBI about her lesbian lifestyle in the 1960s. Her lover of the time, Elizabeth Deran, was employed as an economist by the U.S. Government.[2]
- Deran email to Jonathan Ned Katz: "Alma [Routsong] was not "interrogated by the FBI about her lesbian relationship with [me] in the 1960s." What actually happened, and the event on which her short story was based, was that the Undersecretary of the Treasury arranged for me (never Alma) to meet with two Secret Service agents, who read to me the contents of my rather extensive file. Mr. Surrey arranged this meeting with the thought that I then could decide whether the material they had assembled was too damaging to dispute (it was!). Neither Alma nor I ever had any encounter with the FBI.[3]
- See also: Alma Routsong
Dickerman, Marion
- American suffrage leader, educator, vice-principal of the Todhunter School and an intimate of Eleanor Roosevelt. Lover of Nancy Cook. See Wikipedia: Marion Dickerman
- FBI files
Dietrich, Marlene.
- Does she have an FBI file? Does it refer to homosexuality?
Donovan, William J.
- Book Review - Wild Bill Donovan - By Douglas Waller - NYTimes.com www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/books/review/Conant-t.html?...allFeb 11, 2011 – A biography of William J. Donovan, the head of the World War II ... the O.S.S. chief accumulated reports that the F.B.I. director was homosexual. ...
- does the FBI have files on Donovan?
- Douglas Waller: "Wild Bill Donovan The Spymaster Who Created the ... outhistory.org/.../Douglas_Waller:_%22Wild_Bill_Donovan_The_Sp...Feb 13, 2011 – OutHistory.org would like to know of additional sources referring to William J. Donovan, homosexuals, and homosexuality.
- active in anti-homosexual witchhunt in Boise, Idaho? JNK thinks he remembers this. Check.
Duberman, Martin
- Historian, writer, activist.
Ehrlichman, John.
- Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault.
- Part 1 of 5 refers to "homosexuals". RESEARCH !!!!
Equi, Marie
- Marie Diana Equi (born April 7, 1872, New Bedford, Massachusetts – died July 13, 1952, Portland, Oregon) was an American medical doctor and anarchist. FBI file.
FBI agents
- Unnamed, thought to be homosexual). Cited in J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets By Curt Gentry. Page 755.
FBI Files
- Collection of FBI files on homophile groups, homosexual emancipation groups, and gay liberation groups, 1953-1970. Archive of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexua, & Transgender Community Center, New York City.
- 48. FBI FILES
- Archive Number: 48
- Date: 1953 to 1970
- Size: 2 ½ feet
- FBI Files 1953 to 1970
- Provenance
- This collection was donated by Martin Duberman. It came to us in 3 small boxes and 1 large box for a total of 2' 3". On speaking to Mr. Duberman on May 7, 1996 he told me the reason he was able to get his hands on this material. It seems that a Mr. Duncan Osborne , a writer for the Gay Press notified Mr. Duberman that he had sued the Government to obtain the rights to the files. The files had been released. Initially one person must sue the government to get the papers released. Mr. Duberman then paid $500- 600 dollars to get them copied and sent to him.
- The first two boxes are arranged in groups of papers fixed together with metal fasteners, while the third box is all in folders. This box came to the Archive in loose form with each group / organization separated by a slip of paper marked with the organizations name.
- Scope and Content
- The general scope and content of this collection is extensive copies of papers collected on or about the various Mattachine Society, Gay Liberation Front, the North American Conference of Homophile Organizations, the National Planing Conference of Homophile Organizational the Western Conference of Homophile Organizations and their activities over the years 1953 - 1970's. The F.B.I. and The Justice Department kept track of members and events that they attended over this period of time. The records have been censored, sometimes in their entirety. A large amount of the information has been censored with a black marker.
- The information on the particular organizations is at times wildly inaccurate. The collection, therefore, says more about the FBI than it does about the gay movement.
FBI informants
- Unnamed, thought to be homosexual. Cited in J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets By Curt Gentry. Page 412
Florida Legislative Committee ("The Johns Committee")[4]
- The Johns Committee begun interrogating suspected homosexuals among students and faculty on Florida campuses before the Legislature gave specific authorization for the investigation of homosexuals. In 1958, committee chairman Johns illegally sent a covert investigator to the University of Florida after his son, Jerome Johns, told his father that "effeminate instructors had perverted the curriculum."
- In 1961, the Legislature directed the Johns Committee to broaden its investigations to include homosexuals and the "extent of [their] infiltration into agencies supported by state funds," particularly at state colleges and universities such as the University of Florida, Florida State University, and the University of South Florida. Having the power to subpoena witnesses, take sworn testimony, and employ secret informants, the committee spread terror among the closeted lesbian and gay population in state colleges, often using uniformed policemen to pull students and professors out of classes for interrogation.[5] All homosexual acts were crimes under Florida law at that time and remained so until the United States Supreme Court's Lawrence v. Texas ruling in 2003.[6] Admission of homosexuality constituted moral turpitude and was grounds for firing or expulsion from college. Research Request: FBI files, connection?
Gay Activists Alliance
- FBI Vault: 534 pages
Gay Activists Alliance:
- FBI Vault: 135 pages.
- From the F.B.I. website: "This Civil Rights organization originated [sic] at Ohio State University in the 1970's and had several other Chapters throughout the United States, which were concerned with equal rights for gays and lesbians." URL: http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/gayalli.htm
- Part 01
- Part 02
Gay Liberation Front
- FBI Vault: 1,113 pages
Geer, Will.
- actor, best known as Grandpa Zebulon Tyler Walton in the 1970s TV series, The Waltons. In 1934, Geer met Harry Hay at the Tony Pastor Theatre, where Geer worked as an actor. They became lovers, and Hay credited Geer as his political mentor. Hay and Geer participated in a milk strike in Los Angeles, where Hay was first exposed to radical gay activism in the person of "Clarabelle," a drag queen who held court in the Bunker Hill neighborhood, who hid Hay from police. Later that year, Hay and Geer performed in support of the San Francisco General Strike. Hay later founded the Mattachine Society, the first sustained homosexual emancipation organization in the U.S. FBI file on Geer?
Genet, Jean
- FBI files?
Georgetown University student, female.
- "When a Georgetown University professor was questioned by an FBI agent . . . about one of his students, he attributed both her lesbianism and her affinity for leftist ideology to her psychological problems."[5]
Ginsberg, Allan.
- On his FBI files: See: Natalie S. Robins, Alien ink: the FBI's War on Freedom of Expression (William Morrow, 1992), page 348, etc.
Gold, Harry.
- Part 29 of 108 refers to "homosexuality". Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault.
Goodman, Paul
- Goodman’s outspoken support for young Vietnam War draft resisters . . . earned him the FBI classification of "subversive homosexual"[6]
Hansberry, Lorraine
- African American playwright, essayist, political activist.
- Does her FBI file mention her homosexuality?
- http://www.nypl.org/archives/3686 New York Public Library: Lorraine Hansberry Papers (includes her FBI file).
- See: Ben Keppel. The Work of Democracy: Ralph Bunche, Kenneth B. Clark, Lorraine Hansberry, and the Cultural Politics of Race. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, YEAR? .
Hay, Harry.
- Communist Party member; founder of Mattachine Society, Los Angeles.
- Other Mattachine Society founders with CP or left affiliations?
Hellman, Lilian
- Any reference to homosexuality or lesbianism in connection with her writing "The Children's Hour"?
Hells Angels.
- Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault.
Helms, Jesse.
- Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault.
- Parts 03, 04 of 07 refer to "lesbian".
- Part 04 of 07 refers to "homosexuals".
- Part 03 of 07 refers to "homosexuals".
Hickock, Lorena
- Journalist, intimate friend of Eleanor Roosevelt.
Hitler, Adolph.
- See: http://vault.fbi.gov/adolf-hitler Accessed October 9, 2011. (Users of OutHistory would like to know if this file contains any allegations of homosexuality.)
Holliday, Judy
- See: Angela "Angie" Calomiris: August 1, 1916 - January 30, 1995
- See also: Yetta Cohn
Hoover, John Edgar: January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972
{See also Tolson, Clyde.
- FBI Vault. Part 11 of 22 refers to "homosexuality". Part 16 refers to "lesbian", Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault.
- FBI files "include several memos regarding FBI agents visits, which included "vigorous interrogation" and "forcefully" presented points, made to individuals who made accusations or passed on rumor that J. Edgar Hoover was homosexual. Files note retribution taken against an employee of the National Labor Relations Board."[7]
Hudson, Rock.
- Part 1 of 1 refers to ???. Accessed October 9, 2011 from FBI Vault.
Huggins, Ericka
- African American political activist.
Hughes, Langston
African American writer.
FBI files. Do they contain any hint at homosexuality?
Hutchins, Grace
- Does her FBI file refer to homosexuality?
- See also: Rochester, Anna
Inge, William
- FBI file?
Isherwood, Christopher
- FBI file?
Jack the Ripper.
- Part 1 of 1 refers to "homosexual". Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI vault.
Jenkins, Walter.
- Aid to Lyndon Johnson, arrested for homosexual solicitation just before presidential election.
- Cited in J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets By Curt Gentry. Page 579-580.
Johnson, Myrtis
- Angela "Calomiris also began dating Myrtis Johnson, the sister-in-law of her FBI handler, Ken Bierly, a fact that attracted attention from the media." See: Angela "Angie" Calomiris: August 1, 1916 - January 30, 1995
Jorgensen, Christine
- FBI files?
Katz, Jonathan Ned
- FBI file contains no reference to homosexuality.
Kameny, Franklin
- His dossier entered FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's files for "sexual deviants." Quoted from "FRANKLIN KAMENY" by Michael Huffington, in the Washington Post.
Karpis, Alvin
FBI Files
Kaye, Danny
FBI Files
Kepner, James
Kinsey, Alfred.
- FBI Vault: See: http://vault.fbi.gov/Alfred%20Kinsey Accessed October 9, 2011 from FBI Vault.
- Parts 3, 4 refer to "homosexual". Other parts also refer to "homosexual",
- Part 2 of 4 refers to "homosexuals". Alfred Kinsey Part 4 of 4 refers to "homosexuals".
- Part 4 of 4 refers to "lesbian".
- Part 3 of 4 refers to "homosexuals".
Lape, Esther
- Journalist, publicist and English professor, one of the founders of the League of Woman Voter, intimate of Eleanor Roosevelt. Life partner of Esther Fisher Read. FBI file?
Lash, Joseph.
- Accessed October 9, 2011 from FBI Vault.
Liberace.
- Part 3 of 6 refers to "homosexuals". Accessed October 9, 2011 from FBI Vault.
Locke, Alain
- African American writer, teacher.
Lorde, Audre
- African American poet, essayist, activist.
MacArthur, General Douglas\.
- FBI Vault: Part 4 of 4 refers to "homosexuals".
Mattachine Society
- See: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) release of material from FBI file number 100-HQ-403320 Subject: The Mattachine Society, 1948-1971 - [PDF 43 MB - 28-Jun-2010] at: http://governmentattic.org/
- NOTE: Large file: 43 MB
- Part 03 of 03 refers to "lesbian". Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault.
- Part 03 of 03 refers to "lesbianism". Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault.
- Part 03 of 03 refers to "homosexuals". Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault.
McCarthy, Joseph.
- U. S. Senator. Cited in J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets By Curt Gentry. Page 432, 434.
- FBI Vault:
- Files accessed October 9, 2011 from FBI Vault.
- Part 3 of 56 refers to ?
- Part 35 of 56 refers to "homosexuals".
- Part 3 of 56 refers to "homosexuals".
- Part 5 of 56 refers to "homosexuals".
McKay, Claude
- African American writer.
McReynolds, David
- Peace activist, homosexual. See Duberman, Martin B., A Saving Remnant: The Radical Lives of Barbara Deming and David McReynolds. New Press (March 1, 2011). ISBN-10: 1595583238. ISBN-13: 978-1595583239. Page 35: Reference to McReynold's FBI file. Page 129: reference to FBI's notorious "watch list". Page 257: FBI files cited.
Miller, Frieda.
- New York State industrial commissioner and later U.S. Women’s Bureau chief. Partner of Pauline M. Newman for fifty-six years. For more details see: http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/newman-pauline, accessed December 10, 2012.
Milk, Harvey
- See also Moscone, Dan White
National Organization for Women (NOW)
Nelson, Jack.
- "The Los Angeles Times got a hold of the FBI file on former reporter Jack Nelson through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, revealing that Hoover was pretty panicked that Nelson was going to report he was “homosexual.”[8]
Newman, Pauline M.
- (October 18, 1887 - April 1986) American labor activist. "In 1918 the ILGWU [International Ladies Garment Workers Union} loaned PN to the Philadelphia WTUL [Women's Trade Union League], which she served as president and organizer until 1923; here she met Frieda Miller (FSM), who was then secretary of the Philadelphia WTUL and who became her lifelong friend." "After 1924 PN lived in NYC and often shared a home with Frieda Miller until the latter's death in 1973. PN helped to raise FSM's adopted daughter, Elisabeth. . . ."[9] FBI file?
Nuestra Familia
- FBI Vault: Part 1 of 1 refers to ?. Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault.
Nugent, Richard Bruce
- African American painter. FBI file?
Nureyev, Rudolph
- FBI file?
Perkins, Francis
- U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet.
- "Confronting family issues--a frequently institutionalized husband with severe psychiatric problems; a deeply secret lesbian relationship with Mary Harriman Rumsey (sister of Averell Harriman); a daughter from whom she was often estranged-Perkins nevertheless exhibited tireless grace under pressure again and again, always rising to the occasion in the name of every and any progressive cause.”-Publishers Weekly, starred review of The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR’S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience by Kirstin Downey.[10] FBI file?
Police, local.
- Said to cover up information about FBI agents arrested for homosexual solicitation).
- Cited in J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets By Curt Gentry. Page 419.
Profumo, John (Bowtie).
- English politician involved in sex scandal.
- FBI Vault: Part 8 of 8 refers to "homosexuals".
Read, Elizabeth Fisher
- Scholar, attorney, intimate of Eleanor Roosevelt. Life companion of Esther Lape. FBI file?
Robins, Jerome
Rochester, Anna
- does her FBI file refer to homosexuality?
- See also: Hutchins, Grace
Röhm, Ernst Julius
- Does his FBI file refer to homosexuality?
Roosevelt, Eleanor
- Intimate friend of Lorena Hickock, a confirmed lesbian, as well as other lesbians. See Blanche Weisen Cook.
- See also: Lorena Hickock
Routsong, Alma
- The entry on Routsong in Feminists Who Changed the World says that her short story "Strangers in Camelot" is based on being interrogated by the FBI about her lesbian lifestyle in the 1960s. Her lover of the time, Elizabeth Deran, was employed as an economist by the U.S. Government.[11]
- See also Elizabeth Deran who says she was interviewed by the "Secret Service", and that neither she nor Routsong were interviewed by the FBI.
Rukeyser, Muriel
- Does her FBI file refer to homosexuality?
Rustin, Bayard
- Homosexual, Black civil rights leader.
- See: Kenneth O'Reilly, Racial matters: the FBI's secret file on Black America, 1960-1972 (Free Press, 1989), page 148.
Savio, Mario
- Leader of free speech movement, Berkley, California, 1960s.
- Part 09 of 09 refers to "homosexuality". Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault.
Schneiderman, Rose
- (April 6, 1882 – August 11, 1972) was a prominent United States labor union leader, socialist, and feminist. She had a long-term relationship with Maud O'Farrell Swartz (1879-1937), another working class woman active in the Women's Trade Union League, until Swartz' death in 1937.
Spellman, Francis (Cardinal)
- "The FBI maintained close ties with Spellman, largley through Lou Nichols, and later, the New York SAC John Malone, even though Hoovers files contained numerous allegations that Spellman was a very active homosexual." (Gentry, J.E.H., note, page 347).SOURCE????
- "By the spring of 1954 Hoover, realizing that he, too, could be charged with having questionable associations [TOLSON], as he had accused so many others of having, was complaining to the president that "McCarthy had reached a point where he was actually impeding the investigation of Communists...." (Gentry, page 436).
- Spellman allerted Pope Paul VI in Rome not to have anything to do with Martin Luther King, who was planning a visit.(Gentry, page 570). All quotes from J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets by Curt Gentry.
- See also: Francis Joseph Spellman: May 4, 1889—December 2, 1967
Stein, Gertrude
- FBI file?
- See also Toklas, Alice B.
Stevenson, Adlai.
- FBI spread false rumors that he was homosexual. Cited in J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets By Curt Gentry. Page 402-403, 445, 478.
Swartz, Maud O'Farrell
- (1879-1937), labor organizer, feminist, and long-time partner of Rose Schneiderman (see). FBI file?
Supreme Court, United States
- Part 16 of 34 refers to "homosexuality". Part 24 of 34 refers to "lesbian". Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault.
Shine, G. David
- close associate of Roy Cohn and Joseph McCarthy
Sullivan, Noel.
Thurman, Wallace
African American writer.
Toklas, Alice B.
- FBI file?
- See also Gertrude Stein
Tolson, Clyde A.
- See also: J. Edgar Hoover
United States Presidential candidate (unnamed).
- Cited in J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets By Curt Gentry. Page 51.
United States Senator (unnamed).
- Cited in J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets By Curt Gentry. Page 35.
United States Supreme Court. See "Supreme Court".
Valenti, Jack.
Van Vechten, Carl
Vidal, Gore
Waco FBI Transcripts Tapes.
- Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault. 206 - 207 refers to "homosexuals".
Walsh, Thomas I. [Senator (Democrat)]
FBI file?
Warhol, Andy
Welles, Summner
- Friend and advisor to Franklin D. Roosevelt.[12]
White, Dan
- See also: Moscone, Milk
Williams, Tennessee
Winchell, Walter.
- Part 58 of 58 refers to "homosexual". Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault.
X, Malcolm (originally Malcolm Little)
African American political activist.
- FBI file on FBI website
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Notes
- ↑ From the FBI Vault Index site: The FBI has converted many FOIA documents to an electronic format (PDF), and they may be viewed below. In the case of voluminous pages, only summaries or excerpts from the documents are online. Subjects are sorted alphabetically by first name. You can also use your browser's find feature to locate subjects on the page. Searches of the Vault Index:
A search of the FBI's Vault Index site for "homosexual" on October 9, 2011 returned 76 items. A search on the same date for "homosexuality" returned 26 items, some of which were not included in the original 76 items. A search for "homosexuals" returned 40 items some of which were not included in earlier searches,
A search for "lesbian" returned 8 items, some of which had not been included in the earlier results and are not yet integrated into the lists below:
(1) Mattachine Society Part 03 of 03;
(2) Jesse Helms Part 04 of 07;
(3) Alfred Kinsey Part 4 of 4;
(4) Black Dahlia (E Short) Part 3 of 4 In 1947, Elizabeth Ann Short (1924-1947) was brutally mutilated and murdered in Los Angeles. The FBI was heavily involved the investigation as it pertained to ...
(5) Jesse Helms Part 03 of 07;
(6) Supreme Court Part 24 of 34;
(7) Amerithrax Part 05 of 30 Amerithrax, short for American anthrax attacks, was a multi-agency investigation led by the FBI. It was launched in October 2001, when letters laced with ... ;
(8) J. Edgar Hoover Part 16 of 22
A search for "lesbianism" returned one result.
A search for "lesbians" was made on November 11, 20011, and provided six results not yet integrated into the alphabetical list below:
(1) New Alliance Party Part 3 of 3;
(2) Liberace Part 3 of 6;
(3) New Alliance Party Part 1 of 3;
(4) Alcatraz Escape Part 14 of 17;
(5) New Alliance Party Part 2 of 3;
(6) Walter Winchell Part 56 of 58. These have not yet been integrated into the alphabetical list below.
A second search for "lesbians" on November 29, 2012 turned up additional references, so the FBI is adding to its online files:
(1) Liberace Part 3 of 6
(2) Alcatraz Escape Part 14 of 17
(3) New Alliance Party Part 2 of 3
(4) New Alliance Party Part 1 of 3
(5) Mattachine Society Part 01 of 03
(6) Bremer Kidnapping Part 11 of 459
(7) Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy Part 20 of 27
(8) New Alliance Party Part 3 of 3
(9) Walter Winchell Part 56 of 58
A search for the term "gay" [in 20011] included 504 results, all of which may not refer to homosexuality and the results have not been included in this list. A search for "gay and homosexual" returned 21 results not yet included on the list below.
A search of the Vault Index for the terms "pervert", "perverts, "perversion", and "perversions" (used commonly about homosexuals and homosexuality in the 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s, also returns some entries which refer specifically to homosexuality without using some version of that term. These results have not yet been added to the list below.
A Note on the URLS
On October 8, 2011 some of the earlier-listed URLs on this page from the FBI Vault are no longer working. The same content appears to be available on the FBI Vault website under different URLs that have not yet been added to this page, replacing the earlier ones.
For the FBI's site see: [http://vault.fbi.gov/reading-room-index Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Vault Index. - ↑ Routsong, Alma. In: Lesbians Who Changed the World. Elizabeth Deran, "Patience & Sarah Come to Life", in Patience and Sarah By Isabel Miller. ReadHowYouWant, June 11, 2010. Paperback: 312 pages ISBN-10: 1458774082. ISBN-13: 978-1458774088.
- ↑ Deran to Katz, November 24, 2011 1:24:20 PM EST.
- ↑ Wikipeddia: Florida Legislative Committee. Accessed December 5, 2011.
- ↑ David K. Johnson, The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government (University of Chicago Press, XXXX), pages 35-36.
- ↑ Website of the film Paul Goodman Changed My Life.
- ↑ Accessed November 11, 2011 from http://www.paperlessarchives.com/hoover.html
- ↑ http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/11/hoover_worried_lice-covered_ferret_journalist_would_report_he_was_gay.php
- ↑ Accessed Dec. 10, 2012 from: http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch00018
- ↑ Accessed December 10, 2012 from: http://bestpossiblelife.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/praise-for-new-biography-of-frances-perkins/
- ↑ Routsong, Alma. In: Lesbians Who Changed the World. Elizabeth Deran, "Patience & Sarah Come to Life", in Patience and Sarah By Isabel Miller. ReadHowYouWant, June 11, 2010. Paperback: 312 pages ISBN-10: 1458774082. ISBN-13: 978-1458774088 page 237.
- ↑ Cited in J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets By Curt Gentry. Page 307-308.