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Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Forgotten Anti-Gay Sex Crusade

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The Newport Sex Scandal of 1919 targeted men having sex with men in the Navy, prefiguring the legalized persecution of LGBT citizens in and out of the armed services.

Ben Brenkert
Ben Brenkert
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