Homosexual Witch Hunt, 1930s
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A homosexual witch hunt dating to the late I930S, in one of the smaller cities of the U.S., is reported by an anonymous "reliable source" in Arno Karlen's Sexuality and Homosexuality; A New View (N.Y.: Norton, 1971), p. 313.
The arrest and confession of an eminent married man led to the arrest of some thirty others.
The judge sentenced all to six months on the road gang or an alternative of surgical emasculation. He claimed that in the last five years many men had chosen the operation and that the results were perfect. This alternative was not accepted. The suicide of a local doctor ended this antihomosexual crusade.
OutHistory.org would like documentation of this event.
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