Searching the FBI Website for Homosexual History

Introduction: Searching the FBI's "Vault" Website for LGBT and Heterosexual History

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fag

There is a problem searching for this term since "FAG" was apparently used as an FBI acronym. Research needed to clarify.

faggot

Black Panther Party Part 14 of 34

The Black Panther Party (BPP) is a black extremist organization founded in Oakland, California in 1966. It advocated the use of violence and guerilla tactics to ...

Jesse Helms Part 03 of 07

Michael Jackson Part 01 of 01

At top of page: “FROM VAN NUYS CITY ATTY. T. 3104780152 2, 1992 #895 P. 10”

Exerpted from typed letter, apparently, sent by a disturbed male:

“I’m not a bad looking dude and im not a homosexual, I tried to be faithful to the best of my ability all my life, because I knew someday GOD would see me through, I didn’t know it was [------] I only knew there was someone in the world for me. They stole my life from me, and you know what people are thinking, ‘I thought he was a faggot’ Do you know how hard it is for a faggot to get pussy these days ? With the addition of AIDS, if a female has sex with a man she believes is a homo she is crazy.”

gay

533 items matching your search terms: December 26, 2011. Only some of these uses of the word "gay" may be relevant to homosexual history. Compare with documents that include term "homosexual". Some of the files including the term gay are:

Atlanta Child Murders Part 18 of 24

Black Dahlia (E Short) Part 1 of 4

In 1947, Elizabeth Ann Short (1924-1947) was brutally mutilated and murdered in Los Angeles.

Black Panther Party Part 26 of 34

Gay Activist Alliance

Gay Activist Alliance Part 01 of 02

Gay Activist Alliance Part 02 of 02

Columbine High School Part 3 of 4

Jesse Helms Part 03 of 07

Jesse Helms Part 04 of 07

J. Edgar Hoover Appointment and Phone Logs Part 15 of 44

Liberace Part 3 of 6

A search of the F.B.I. website indicates that the investigative file titled “Liberace Part 3 of 6” contains the search terms "lesbians", "homosexuals" (meaning male homosexuals), “queers”, and a reference to "the 'gay life'". See: F.B.I.: “Notorious Types and Places of Amusement”, October 15, 1955-April 15, 1956

New Alliance Party Part 3 of 3

New Alliance Party Part 1 of 3

Sen. Joseph (Joe) McCarthy Part 13 of 56

Walter Winchell Part 47 of 58

dike

FBI Vault website search performed January 7, 2012: 40 items matching your search terms. Subscribe to an always-updated feed of these search terms

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Mary Jo Kopechne (Chappaquiddick) Part 2 of 2

Mary Jo Kopechne (Chappaquiddick) Part 1 of 2

Al Capone Part 8 of 36

16th Street Church Bombing Part 29 of 50

Alfred Sarant Part 66 of 103

Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy Part 16 of 27

Edward Moore “Ted” Kennedy (1932-2009) served as a U.S. senator from 1962 to 2009. The files below range from 1961 to 2001. The bulk of this material concerns ...

Edward Kennedy (Duke) Ellington Part 01 of 01

American Nazi Party Part 1 of 2

Henry Louis (H.L.) Mencken Part 1 of 2

Malcolm Little (Malcolm X) New York File 26 of 41

Animal Mutilation Part 2 of 5

Kansas City Massacre Part 89 of 93

Mississippi Burning (MIBURN) Case Part 5 of 9

16th Street Church Bombing Part 25 of 50

16th Street Church Bombing Part 28 of 50 pages(1-249)

John L. Lewis Part 31 of 32

Aristotle Onassis Part 5 of 11

American Friends Service Committee Part 25 of 33

Viola Liuzzo Part 15 of 17

16th Street Church Bombing Part 8 of 50

American Friends Service Committee Part 24 of 33

Highlander Folk School Part 4 of 19

Weather Underground (Weathermen) Part 6 of 6

Willard Skousen Part 6 of 7

Klaus Fuchs Part 15 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 ...

Highlander Folk School Part 17 of 19

UFO Part 6 of 16

16th Street Church Bombing Part 6 of 50 pages(1-249)

Alfred Sarant Part 76 of 103

Bremer Kidnapping Part 171 of 459-

dyke

Searched term on January 6, 2012

Abner Zwillman Part 2 of 7

American Friends Service Committee Part 1 of 33

Amerithrax Part 10 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 ...

Bremer Kidnapping Part 73 of 459

Bremer Kidnapping Part 133 of 459-

Bremer Kidnapping Part 187 of 459-

Bremer Kidnapping Part 199 of 459-

E. B. (William) Dubois Part 3 of 5

Kansas City Massacre Part 68 of 93

Kansas City Massacre Part 71 of 93

Kansas City Massacre Part 80 of 93

Kansas City Massacre Part 88 of 93

Kansas City Massacre Part 89 of 93

Lucille Ball Part 01 of 01

Mary Jo Kopechne (Chappaquiddick) Part 1 of 2

Mary Jo Kopechne (Chappaquiddick) Part 2 of 2

Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy Part 14 of 27

Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy Part 16 of 27

Edward Moore “Ted” Kennedy (1932-2009) served as a U.S. senator from 1962 to 2009. The files below range from 1961 to 2001. The bulk of this material concerns ...

homo

Michael Jackson Part 01 of 01 Research Request:See if this comes up in a search for "homo"

At top of page: “FROM VAN NUYS CITY ATTY. T. 3104780152 2, 1992 #895 P. 10”

Exerpted from typed letter, apparently, sent by a disturbed male:

“I’m not a bad looking dude and im not a homosexual, I tried to be faithful to the best of my ability all my life, because I knew someday GOD would see me through, I didn’t know it was [------] I only knew there was someone in the world for me. They stole my life from me, and you know what people are thinking, ‘I thought he was a faggot’ Do you know how hard it is for a faggot to get pussy these days ? With the addition of AIDS, if a female has sex with a man she believes is a homo she is crazy.”

homosexual

76 items matching search term: December 26, 2011.

All 76 items have been retrieved and listed here.

They will be put in order of their parts.

Abbie Hoffman Part 32 of 50

Abbie Hoffman Part 47 of 50

Alfred Kinsey Part 2 of 4

Alfred Kinsey Part 3 of 4

Alfred Kinsey Part 4 of 4

Alcatraz Escape Part 4 of 17

American Nazi Party Part 1 of 2

Atlanta Child Murders Part 15 of 24

Atlanta Child Murders Part 23 of 24

Atlanta Child Murders Part 8 of 24

Atlanta Child Murders Part 17 of 24

Atlanta Child Murders Part 24 of 24

Cambridge Five Spy Ring Part 2 of 42

Cambridge Five Spy Ring Part 3 of 42

Cambridge Five Spy Ring Part 4 of 42

Cambridge Five Spy Ring Part 9 of 42

Cambridge Five Spy Ring Part 12 of 42

Cambridge Five Spy Ring Part 13 of 42

Cambridge Five Spy Ring Part 14 of 42

Cambridge Five Spy Ring Part 15 of 42

Cambridge Five Spy Ring Part 20 of 42

Cambridge Five Spy Ring Part 25 of 42

Cambridge Five Spy Ring Part 27 of 42

Cambridge Five Spy Ring Part 28 of 42

Cambridge Five Spy Ring Part 31 of 42

Cambridge Five Spy Ring Part 32 of 42

Cambridge Five Spy Ring Part 33 of 42

Cambridge Five Spy Ring Part 34 of 42

Cambridge Five Spy Ring Part 36 of 42

Cambridge Five Spy Ring Part 38 of 42

Cambridge Five Spy Ring Part 39 of 42

Cambridge Five Spy Ring Part 41 of 42

Cambridge Five Spy Ring Part 42 of 42

Covenant The Sword The Arm of the Lord, The Part 2 of 2

Clyde Tolson Part 9 of 11

Clyde Tolson Part 8 of 11

Hoover reports to Tolson, De Loach, and Gale on his briefing the in-coming Nixon administration on the importance of FBI background checks on all White House aides, mentioning the Eisenhower administration's failure to check the background of one appointee [Arthur H. Vandenberg, Jr. (see chronology 1952, December).] Term homosexual appears on page 236 of the FBI file. For OutHistory's transcription of this text see: J. Edgar Hoover to Clyde Tolson, Cartha De Loach, and James H. Gale: November 26, 1968. On FBI and homosexuality chronology: 1968, November 26.

Clyde Tolson Part 10 of 11

Dorothy Dandridge Part 1 of 1

Louis Arlan Kerr, arrested by the FBI for a crime, says he is homosexual, and gives names of other homosexuals. For term homosexual see: FBI Arrests Louis Arlan Kerr: May 10, 1955. On chronology: 1955. May 10.

Edward Moore “Ted” Kennedy (1932-2009) served as a U.S. senator from 1962 to 2009. The files below range from 1961 to 2001. The bulk of this material concerns ...

See also: Senator Edward....

Eleanor Roosevelt Part 8 of 37

On October 24, 1950, Eleanor Rooosevelt writes to Hoover and passes along to the FBI a letter from a disturbed individual. Interviewed by an FBI agent the letter writer “admitted being a manic depressive, paying $2500 in 1945 for psychiatric treatment and the interviewing agent received the impression [-----] was homosexual.“ Eleanor Roosevelt, Part 8 of 37, page 78.

Harry Gold Part 104 of 108

Harry S. Truman Part 02 of 03

Hells Angels, The Part 4 of 6

Jack Soble Part 1 of 11

Jack the Ripper Part 1 of 1

Jesse Helms Part 04 of 07

Jesse Helms Part 03 of 07

John Chancellor Part 3 of 4

John Chancellor Part 4 of 4

John Chancellor Part 1 of 4

John Chancellor Part 2 of 4

John Profumo (Bowtie) Part 7 of 8

Jonestown Part 1 of 3

Joseph Lash Part 3 of 8

Malcolm Little (Malcolm X) HQ File 12 of 27

An FBI memo of February 5, 1964 reports an FBI interview on February 4 with Malcolm Little who advised he was known as Malcolm X: “He stated that the so-called Negro leaders are incompetent to lead the Negroes and stated that BAYARD RUSTIN, who was a leader of the one day school boycott in New York City on February 3, 1964, is nothing but a homosexual. He furnished no other information on either RUSTIN or any other person he considered a Negro leader.” Malcolm Little (Malcolm X) HQ File 12 of 27, page 99.

Malcolm X Part 15 of 38

Marilyn Monroe Part 2 of 2

Mattachine Society

Begun in 1950, the Mattachine Society was an early homosexual rights advocacy organization. It became the subject of an FBI internal security investigation ...

Mattachine Society Part 03 of 03

Michael Jackson Part 01 of 01 Research Request:JNK thinks this did not come up in search for "homosexual"--What's the date of this???? check

At top of page: “FROM VAN NUYS CITY ATTY. T. 3104780152 2, 1992 #895 P. 10”

Exerpted from typed letter, apparently, sent by a disturbed male:

“I’m not a bad looking dude and im not a homosexual, I tried to be faithful to the best of my ability all my life, because I knew someday GOD would see me through, I didn’t know it was [------] I only knew there was someone in the world for me. They stole my life from me, and you know what people are thinking, ‘I thought he was a faggot’ Do you know how hard it is for a faggot to get pussy these days ? With the addition of AIDS, if a female has sex with a man she believes is a homo she is crazy.”

Nuestra Familia Part 1 of 1

Pearl Buck Part 3 of 4

Robert F. Kennedy Part 2 of 14

Rock Hudson Part 1 of 1

Rudolph Nureyev Part 2 of 2

Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy Part 14 of 27

See also: Edward ...

Sen. Joseph (Joe) McCarthy Part 3 of 56

Sen. Joseph (Joe) McCarthy Part 30 of 56

Sen. Joseph (Joe) McCarthy Part 56 of 56

Sen. Joseph (Joe) McCarthy Part 28 of 56

Sen. Joseph (Joe) McCarthy Part 35 of 56

Sen. Joseph (Joe) McCarthy Part 18 of 56

Sen. Joseph (Joe) McCarthy Part 17 of 56

Sen. Joseph (Joe) McCarthy Part 34 of 56

Sen. Joseph (Joe) McCarthy Part 46 of 56

Walter Winchell Part 56 of 58

Walter Winchell Part 58 of 58

Willard Skousen Part 2 of 7

homosexuality

Search on December 29, 2011

ABSCAM Part 10 of 10

Amerithrax Part 10 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 ...

Alfred Kinsey Part 3 of 4

Cambridge Five Spy Ring Part 36 of 42

Cambridge Five Spy Ring Part 4 of 42

Cambridge Five Spy Ring Part 3 of 42

Cambridge Five Spy Ring Part 14 of 42

Cambridge Five Spy Ring Part 12 of 42

Cambridge Five Spy Ring Part 28 of 42

Cambridge Five Spy Ring Part 39 of 42

Harry Gold Part 29 of 108

J. Edgar Hoover Part 11 of 22

Jesse Helms Part 04 of 07

John Chancellor Part 3 of 4

John Chancellor Part 4 of 4

Mario Savio Part 09 of 09

Mario Savio (1942-1996) was a political and human rights activist from the University of California at Berkeley who became the voice of the Free Speech ...

Mattachine Society Part 03 of 03

Sen. Joseph (Joe) McCarthy Part 3 of 56

Sen. Joseph (Joe) McCarthy Part 28 of 56

Sen. Joseph (Joe) McCarthy Part 35 of 56

Supreme Court Part 16 of 34

homosexuals

Searched this term on January 3, 2012: 40 items matching search term

Alfred Kinsey Part 3 of 4

Alfred Kinsey Part 4 of 4

American Nazi Party Part 1 of 2

American Nazi Party Part 2 of 2

Cambridge Five Spy Ring Part 3 of 42

Cambridge Five Spy Ring Part 4 of 42

Cambridge Five Spy Ring Part 14 of 42

Cambridge Five Spy Ring Part 15 of 42

Cambridge Five Spy Ring Part 20 of 42

Cambridge Five Spy Ring Part 25 of 42

Cambridge Five Spy Ring Part 29 of 42

Cambridge Five Spy Ring Part 38 of 42

Columbine High School Part 3 of 4

General Douglas MacArthur Part 4 of 4

Jesse Helms Part 03 of 07

Jesse Helms Part 04 of 07

John Chancellor Part 2 of 4

John Chancellor Part 3 of 4

John Chancellor Part 4 of 4

John Ehrlichman Part 1 of 5

John Profumo (Bowtie) Part 8 of 8

Liberace Part 3 of 6

A search of the F.B.I. website indicates that the investigative file titled “Liberace Part 3 of 6” contains the search terms "lesbians", "homosexuals" (meaning male homosexuals), “queers”, and a reference to "the 'gay life'". See: F.B.I.: “Notorious Types and Places of Amusement”, October 15, 1955-April 15, 1956

Mattachine Society Part 03 of 03

Pearl Buck Part 3 of 4

Sen. Joseph (Joe) McCarthy Part 3 of 56

Sen. Joseph (Joe) McCarthy Part 5 of 56

Sen. Joseph (Joe) McCarthy Part 35 of 56

The Covenant The Sword The Arm of the Lord Part 1 of 2

Waco FBI Transcripts Tapes 206 - 207

lesbian

8 items matching search term on January 3, 2012. Subscribe to an always-updated feed of these search terms

Alfred Kinsey Part 4 of 4

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 ...

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 ...

J. Edgar Hoover Part 16 of 22

Jesse Helms Part 03 of 07

Jesse Helms Part 04 of 07

Mattachine Society Part 03 of 03

Supreme Court Part 24 of 34

lesbianism

1 item matching search term: January 3, 2012. Subscribe to an always-updated feed of these search terms

Mattachine Society Part 03 of 03

lesbians

6 items matching search term on January 3, 2012. Subscribe to an always-updated feed of these search terms

Alcatraz Escape Part 14 of 17

Liberace Part 3 of 6

A search of the F.B.I. website indicates that the investigative file titled “Liberace Part 3 of 6” contains the search terms "lesbians", "homosexuals" (meaning male homosexuals), “queers”, and a reference to "the 'gay life'". See: F.B.I.: “Notorious Types and Places of Amusement”, October 15, 1955-April 15, 1956

New Alliance Party Part 1 of 3

New Alliance Party Part 2 of 3

New Alliance Party Part 3 of 3

Walter Winchell Part 56 of 58

queers

Search date: January 6, 2012

American Nazi Party Part 1 of 2

Bremer Kidnapping Part 62 of 459

Cambridge Five Spy Ring Part 27 of 42

John Chancellor Part 3 of 4

John Chancellor Part 4 of 4

John L. Lewis Part 18 of 32

Liberace Part 3 of 6

A search of the F.B.I. website indicates that the investigative file titled “Liberace Part 3 of 6” contains the search terms "lesbians", "homosexuals" (meaning male homosexuals), “queers”, and a reference to "the 'gay life'". See: F.B.I.: “Notorious Types and Places of Amusement”, October 15, 1955-April 15, 1956

Sen. Joseph (Joe) McCarthy Part 56 of 56

Steve Allen Part 2 of 4

Taylor Caldwell Part 8 of 11