FBI LGBTQIA Records (USA)

The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation has a long history of entrapping, investigating, and spying on LGBTQIA+ organizations. J. Edgar Hoover as FBI Director had one of the most infamous programs on LGBTQIA+ people and organizations, known as the Sex Deviates program.

Related Pages

• East Coast Homophile Organization
• Gay Activists Alliance
• Gay Liberation Front
• Mattachine Society

Records

1940s

• FBI Memo For The Director, FBI (Record, September 1942)
• FBI Morals Charges Brigadier General Philip R Faymonville, FBI (Record, August 1943)
• FBI Memo For The Director on Carmel Offie, FBI (Record, September 1943)
• FBI Memo Obscene Photographs Furnished, FBI (Record, September 1947)

1950s

• FBI Memo Carmel Office, FBI (Record, August 1950)
• FBI Memo Sex Deviates In Government Service, FBI (Record, 1951)
• FBI Case Report Robert Booth Hull, FBI (Record, August 1952)
• FBI Memo One Inc Registered Post Office Box, FBI (Record, July 1953)
• FBI Memo Seattle Police and University of Washington Find No Mattachine, FBI (Record, August 1953)
• FBI Memo The Mattachine Foundation aka The Mattachine Society, FBI (Record, September 1953)
• FBI Memo Mattachine Foundation Dissolved, FBI (Record, December 1953)
• FBI Memo Harry Hay Security Matter, FBI (Record, August 1955)
• FBI Memo The Mattachine Society Inc, FBI (Record, August 1956)

1960s

• FBI Memo Harry Hay, FBI (Record, August 1961)
• FBI Report Harry Hay, FBI (Record, August 1961)
• FBI Memo Mattachine Society of Washington, FBI (Record, August 1962)
• FBI Memo Mattachine Society Picket DOJ, FBI (Record, August 1963)
• FBI Letter Mattachine Society of Washington Information, FBI (Record, August 1965)
• FBI Letter Picketing Of The State Department, FBI (Record, August 1965)
• FBI Letter Picketing Of The State Department, FBI (Record, September 1965)
• FBI Memo Fifth Avenue Peace Parade Committee, FBI (Record, August 1969)
• FBI Letter Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee Hiroshima-Nagasaki Demonstrations, FBI (Record, September 1969)
• FBI Memo 12-06-1969 Information concerning the Gay Liberation Front, FBI (Record, December 1969)
• FBI Memo 12-10-1969 Contrasting Gay Liberation Front and Mattachine Society, FBI (Record, December 1969)

1970s

• FBI Memo 12-14-1971 Gay Activists Alliance Protest Suffolk County Police, FBI (Record, December 1971)
• FBI Memo 04-21-1972 Gay Activists Alliance Miami Zaps, FBI (Record, April 1972)
• FBI Memo 08-10-1972 Gay Activists Alliance Protest Republican National Convention, FBI (Record, August 1972)

External Resources

Archives

• Penn State University, Douglas M. Charles, Ph.D., "FBI Files on LGBTQ Americans"

Books

• Douglas M. Charles, "Hoover's War on Gays: Exposing the FBI's Sex Deviates Program"