Gay files: history's grim closet

I think I Am notoriously homosexual too

 

I must be slow...cuz I don't get what the paragraph is reading---at all. Someone with a high IQ break it down 4 me pl0x.

:lol:

 

Basically it's saying "Gay people had it bad."

 

Soka....

 

well what do you know history was wrong and we were oppressed in the past, lets try looking forward shall we? we have things better than ever right now and hopefully we will finally get full equal rights with straight people. The oppression is over and in the past MOVE ON EVERYONE!

 

Wasen't J. Edgar Hoover a notorious cross dresser? Doesnt mean he was gay, though some have pondered that possiblity too. Seems strange that, *pending I read the quote correctly*, he was somewhat nefariously interested in homosexuality as a bad thing.

 

This should be turned into a movie. It would be an awesome movie.

 

holy shit. I don't think I ever realised quite how deep homphobia ran in the not very distant past.. some of this shit is only 10 to 15 years ago.

 

At that time (post World War II), the USA was undergoing the harshest wave of McCarthysm and the government fiercely persecuted communists and 'those suspected as such', as well as homosexuals (who were considered perverts).

The scariest aspect of it all is the use of state intelligence agencies to barge in people's personal lives (something that still persists these days).