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	=== Fairfax Police Drive Nets 65 Homosexuals (1963) ===		=== Fairfax Police Drive Nets 65 Homosexuals (1963) ===
	* ~~The~~ Evening Star ~~reports that "more than 60 men have been arrested after approaching plain clothes officers of the county police vice squad"~~ (September ~~25,~~ 1963).		* [[Fairfax Police Drive Nets 65 Homosexuals, Evening Star (Article, September 1963)]]

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			=== Local Judge Promises Crackdown on "Local Perverts" (December 1954) ===
			* The Key West Citizen reports that Judge Enrique Esquinaldo Jr. will commit to a crackdown on "local perverts", says "the homosexual problem 'is not to serious in Key West -- and we're not going to let it get that way" (December 23, 1954).

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	~~=== Local Judge Promises Crackdown on "Local Perverts" (December 1954) ===~~
	* The Key West Citizen reports that Judge Enrique Esquinaldo Jr. will commit to a crackdown on "local perverts", says "the homosexual problem 'is not to serious in Key West -- and we're not going to let it get that way" (December 23, 1954).

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	~~=== 2 Youths Held in Steward Slaying (August 1954) ===~~
	* The Evening Star reports on two youths, who murdered an allegedly gay man, which "planned to 'roll' homosexuals for their money" (August 10, 1954).

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	=== 2 Youths Held in Steward Slaying (August 1954) ===		=== 2 Youths Held in Steward Slaying (August 1954) ===
	* The Evening Star reports on two youths who murdered an allegedly gay man ~~who~~ "planned to 'roll' homosexuals for their money" (August 10, 1954).		* The Evening Star reports on two youths, who murdered an allegedly gay man, which "planned to 'roll' homosexuals for their money" (August 10, 1954).

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	=== Local Judge Promises Crackdown on "Local Perverts" (December 1954) ===		=== Local Judge Promises Crackdown on "Local Perverts" (December 1954) ===

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	This page covers the history of entrapment, extortion, and blackmail of LGBTQIA+ communities in the [[USA]].		This page covers the history of entrapment, extortion, and blackmail of LGBTQIA+ communities in the [[USA]].

			== United States Navy (1910s) ==

			* See [[Newport Sex Scandal of 1919]]

	== McCarthy Era (1950s) ==		== McCarthy Era (1950s) ==

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This page covers the history of entrapment, extortion, and blackmail of LGBTQIA+ communities in the [[USA]].

== McCarthy Era (1950s) ==

* See [[USA McCarthyism]] for more details

During the McCarthy era, the US government and municipalities pursued gay communities, which the federal government labelled as threats to national security. The FBI under J. Edgar Hoover would participate in blackmailing "homosexual" federal employees and associates, while police detectives would attempt to seduce suspected gay residents to convict them of indecency or moral charges. At the same time, civilians would blackmail local gay individuals or those suspected of being gay, and extort them for money and other resources.

=== US Attorney Leo Rover, for D.C., fights to raise conviction rate for "homosexuals" (April 1954) ===
* The Evening Star reports of a convicted man during a period which US Attorney Leo Rover describes as "a very low percentage of police court convictions in cases involving homosexuals" (April 1, 1954).
* The Evening Star reports that Judge Armond W. Scott refuses to hear a case until a memorandum is studied; "the case came after... sharp commentaries on the trials of suspected homosexuals" (April 5, 1954).
* The Evening Star reports the United States Attorney representing [[Washington D.C.]] "took another step in his fight to raise the conviction rate in homosexual cases" (May 7, 1954).

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=== US Navy Sailor Blackmailed (May 1954) ===
* The Evening Star reports on a 20 year old charged with blackmail for threatening to expose a Navy sailor as a "homosexual" (May 18, 1954).
* The Evening Star reports on the second hearing for a man charged with blackmailing a Navy sailor (May 19, 1954).
* The Evening Star reports on the second man charged with blackmail of a Navy sailor (May 20, 1954).
* The Evening Star reports on two men who extorted "money from a 28-year-old sailor by threatening to expose him as a homosexual" (June 2, 1954).

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=== 2 Youths Held in Steward Slaying (August 1954) ===
* The Evening Star reports on two youths who murdered an allegedly gay man who "planned to 'roll' homosexuals for their money" (August 10, 1954).

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File:1954-08-10-evening-star-2-youths-are-held-in-steward-slaying.png
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=== Local Judge Promises Crackdown on "Local Perverts" (December 1954) ===
* The Key West Citizen reports that Judge Enrique Esquinaldo Jr. will commit to a crackdown on "local perverts", says "the homosexual problem 'is not to serious in Key West -- and we're not going to let it get that way" (December 23, 1954).

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File:1954-12-23-key-west-citizen-judge-promises-crackdown.jpg
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=== Police Methods Criticized By Court (September 1956) ===
* The Evening Star, a newspaper in [[Washington D.C.]], describes court criticism of police entrapment in criminal pursuit of gay individuals (September 27, 1956).

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=== Man Held for Jury In Robbery (1957) ===
* The Evening Star publishes an article describing an alleged crime where a "man threatened to denounce him as a homosexual" (September 5, 1957).

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=== Fairfax Police Drive Nets 65 Homosexuals (1963) ===
* The Evening Star reports that "more than 60 men have been arrested after approaching plain clothes officers of the county police vice squad" (September 25, 1963).

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File:1963-09-25-evening-star-fairfax-police-drive-nets-65-homosexuals.png
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