Dan Popkey at the
Idaho Statesman writes an obituary about John Gerassi, the author of
The Boys of Boise:
Gerassi’s book on Boise chronicled a purported 1955 homosexual
sex-ring scare that prompted police to interview almost 1,500 people in a
city that then had a population of 34,000.
The Idaho Statesman
demanded that local officials “Crush the Monster” and called homosexuals
a “cancerous growth.” Boise wound up in Time magazine and newspapers
across the country.
And then Popkey gives a bit more detail about this ring:
In the end, 16 men were arrested, some for consensual sex. Nine were
convicted on charges including lewd and lascivious conduct with children
under 16 and infamous crimes against nature. One was sentenced to life.
There were reports of an underworld that victimized hundreds of
underage boys, but the number dwindled to four or five, some of whom
were paid for sex.
Read more here: http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/08/08/2222026/the-boys-of-boise-author-dies.html#disqus_thread#storylink=cpy
But wait! Homosexuals as child molesters is just a nasty stereotype! Popkey both congratulates Gerassi's book for helping the bring about gay rights, and then admits that these were child molesters.
Read more here: http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/08/08/2222026/the-boys-of-boise-author-dies.html#disqus_thread#storylink=cpy
An intellectually-honest response might be as follows:
ReplyDeleteBack when homosexuals were 'in the closet', the only way a homosexual person would make the news would be by committing a crime.
Homosexuals who were moderately-intelligent were able to live their lifestyle in the closet by not engaging in the crime of homosexual intercourse with a minor. (And not doing anything else that might bring police attention to the homosexual behavior.)
Those homosexuals who could not abstain from homosexual intercourse with minors were more likely to generate scandals, police attention, and books like this.
However, I am still waiting for the mainstream of the homosexual-rights movement to engage in intellectually-honest discussions of this type.
Was Harry Reid involved?
ReplyDeleteI mean, with all the rumors, you begin to wonder.
Karrde. Yes, I await intellectual honesty from them (and many others on the left, too, unfortunately).
ReplyDeleteI first read your argument in reference to alcohol use and abuse during Prohibition and after as an argument for the legalization of various drugs currently illegal.