The Boston Sex Scandal by Mitzel (1980)
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Overview: THIS IS ENTRAPMENT
BOSTON — John Kelly (not his real name) was walking on the first floor of the Boston Public Library in Copley Square last week when he was approached by an attractive young man dressed in tight-fitting clothes. “What do you like to do?” the young man asked John. “What do you mean?” John replied. “I mean sex.” was the answer. “Oh. I guess I like to screw.” The young man showed him a badge.
For that conversation. John Kelly was arrested and charged with “open and gross lewdness,” a felony carrying maximum penalties of three years in jail and/or a $300. fine, He was taken at gunpoint, in handcuffs, to Boston Police District Four.
Steven Smith (not his real name) was walking on the third floor of the library when the same young man smiled at him and scratched his own crotch. After exchanging pleasantries, the young man told Steven he was under arrest for “open and gross lewdness.” When they got to the station, Steven, who is 35 years old, was told he had been charged with prostitution. Their cases are similar to that of Kevin Jones (not a real name), who was in the library for a concert and had to use the bathroom. The same young man approached him, asked if he was interested in “fooling around,” and gestured for him to come closer. Kevin said that he wasn’t interested. “But aren’t you gay?” the young man asked. “Yes. but I’m not interested,” Kevin answered. “You’re under arrest.” The charge was open and gross lewdness.
Genre: Non-fiction, Investigative Journalism
OVER 100 MEN HAVE BEEN ARRESTED AT THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY in the last few weeks. They are charged with offenses from prostitution to gross and open lewdness. These are felonies. 40 men have already pleaded guilty, the arrests continue daily. Three policemen have been planted in the men’s room of the Boston Public Library. They stand at the urinals, expose themselves, solicit others and manipulate themselves. They arrest anyone they perceive to be gay — including, so far, a straight man.
ENTRAPMENT IS ILLEGAL wherever it occurs. Men are being arrested only for the reason that they are gay.
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
EMERGENCY MASS DEMONSTRATION Sat., April 1,1978 1 PM
Boston Public Library
PROTEST THIS OUTRAGE END POLICE HARASSMENT
The best account of the Revere sex ring case, one of the 20th century’s seminal anti-gay witch hunts.
“Mitzel’s book is a brilliant and disturbing piece of investigative journalism. Brilliant because it meticulously documents and spotlights a witchhunt that might otherwise have appeared little more than isolated and accidental incidents. Disturbing because it reveals the ease with which many people — thirty years after McCarthyism — still allow themselves to be seduced by yellow journalism, government inspired hysteria, and antisexual foolishness into turning the victim into the criminal, and the criminal into the victim. This book is a welcome addition to the arsenal not only of men and boys who love each other, but of all those who wish to put an end to the tyranny of fear, stupidity, and the arrogance of the state. Mitzel touches a raw nerve.” DAVID THORSTAD
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