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Examine the cornerstone incidents of modern gay political history!
Scandal: Infamous Gay Controversies of the Twentieth Century is a compelling and thorough examination of same-sex controversies that range from accusations of obscenity and libel to espionage, treason, murder, and political dissent, with penalties that included censorship, imprisonment, deportation, and death. In each case, scandal brought the subject of homosexuality into public view in an explosive, sensational manner, stalling (and sometimes reversing) any progress made by the gay and lesbian community in mainstream society. Author Marc E. Vargo details the dignity, courage, and wisdom displayed by the gay men and women under attack in the face of public judgment.
A unique blend of biography and gay political history, Scandal: Infamous Gay Controversies of the Twentieth Century recounts seven international incidents that tally the cost of being homosexual in a heterosexual society. In each episode, gay men or lesbians are targeted for legal persecution, subjected to sensationalized media coverage, and publicly condemned. The book examines the short- and long-term consequences of each controversy for those involved and the impact each scandal had on gay and mainstream society.
Scandal: Infamous Gay Controversies of the Twentieth Century documents the stories of:
Scandal: Infamous Gay Controversies of the Twentieth Century is a compelling and thorough examination of same-sex controversies that range from accusations of obscenity and libel to espionage, treason, murder, and political dissent, with penalties that included censorship, imprisonment, deportation, and death. In each case, scandal brought the subject of homosexuality into public view in an explosive, sensational manner, stalling (and sometimes reversing) any progress made by the gay and lesbian community in mainstream society. Author Marc E. Vargo details the dignity, courage, and wisdom displayed by the gay men and women under attack in the face of public judgment.
A unique blend of biography and gay political history, Scandal: Infamous Gay Controversies of the Twentieth Century recounts seven international incidents that tally the cost of being homosexual in a heterosexual society. In each episode, gay men or lesbians are targeted for legal persecution, subjected to sensationalized media coverage, and publicly condemned. The book examines the short- and long-term consequences of each controversy for those involved and the impact each scandal had on gay and mainstream society.
Scandal: Infamous Gay Controversies of the Twentieth Century documents the stories of:
- Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini--his 1975 murder and its subsequent cover-up
- British diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean--their defection to Russia at the height of the Cold War
- Cuban political dissident Reinaldo Arenas--his imprisonment in the 1960s that led to the exposure of the violent homophobia of the Castro regime
- Irish consul Roger Casement--his execution on treason charges and the later accusation that crucial evidence had been forged
- South African human rights activist Simon Nkoli--his persecution by his countrys all-white, pro-apartheid government
- British writer Radclyffe Hall--the obscenity trial in the 1920s surrounding her novel, The Well of Loneliness
- German emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II--the expos of his relationship with Prince Eulenburg
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Scandal
Infamous Gay Controversies of the Twentieth Century
HARRINGTON PARK PRESS
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Scandal
Infamous Gay Controversies of the Twentieth Century
Marc E. Vargo, MS
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The Haworth Press, Inc.
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Binghamton, N Y 13904-1580
This edition published 2011 by Routledge
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2003 by Marc E. Vargo. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, microfilm, and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Cover design by Jennifer M. Gaska.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Vargo, Marc
Scandal : infamous gay controversies of the twentieth century / Marc E. Vargo.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-56023-411-3 (alk. paper)ISBN 1-56023-412-1 (soft)
1. Gay menCase studies. 2. ScandalsCase studies. 3. HomosexualityPublic opinionHistory20th century. I. Title.
HQ76. V37 2002
305.389664dc21
2002068533
In memory of my father, Robert Vargo
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Marc E. Vargo, MS, is a staff member in the Psychology Department at Hammond Developmental Center in Hammond, Louisiana. He is the author of Acts of Disclosure: The Coming-Out Process of Contemporary Gay Men (Haworth Press), and The HIV Test: What You Need to Know to Make an Informed Decision. His work has also appeared in the Italian journal Cortex, the British Journal of Medical Psychology, and the Journal of the American Academy of Behavioral Medicine.
CONTENTS
Jeffrey Dudgeon
From the age of sixteen, I was almost entirely at ease with the fact of my homosexuality. Reading novels by Alberto Moravia and others such as James Baldwins Giovannis Room, and John Rechys City of Night, prepared me for a life of brittle glamour, passion, and sadness. In actuality, it has turned out to be much more wholesome and cheerful.
I was a well-informed teenager who had no courage when it came to talking to, or approaching, others. Mentally but not physically brave, I was doomed to six years of enforced celibacy for fear of exposure for a crime that could not even be given a name in the nineteenth century, the crime for which men were hanged, and which, even in twentieth-century Northern Ireland where I lived, made one liable to life imprisonment. I was subject to a level of fear that made it inconceivable to contemplate saying the awful words. I would quicker admit to murder than reveal I was homosexual.
Thus it was that I, a liberal teenager, became very angry at what society had made me deny, and at the result of that denial: lovelessness and sexual emptiness at ones most significantly sexual time. I and others, after we made it through, campaigned, and thereby discovered the dear love of comrades within a new gay familyand a noble cause. We, in our twenties, carried on with ordinary lives but did extraordinary things like demonstrating or appearing on TV in Belfast in the middle of a prolonged and bloody civil war. Luckily, our potential tormentors were too busy destroying one another to care, giving us an exclusive run of the citys center at night. Old-timers said there had been nothing like it in Belfast for thirty years, not since the blackout coincided with the arrival of American troops in the days prior to D-Day in 1944.
Then, in 1974, as a member of the Northern Ireland Gay Rights Association, I launched a human rights case against the British government. It took seven years. Before it had hardly started I was subjected to a raid on my house during which the police removed every single piece of paper therein, including the initial documents relating to my case at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
Released after a lengthy interrogation, I was awakened a week later in the home, and bed, of my boyfriend Douglas, by the same policemen who had at that time entered upon a long investigation of gay activists in the province. My Canadian boyfriend was also arrested and taken away that morning. Oddly (and with the help of liberal writers in particular), the Belfast gay purges became such an embarrassment that the attorney general in London put a stop to the intended prosecutions, which included Douglas and me (both parties well over the age of twenty-one).
The Strasbourg case was not concluded in my favor until 1981, and it was contested by London every step of the way. A year later the law in Northern Ireland was reformed to that which had applied in England since 1967, although, admittedly, the latter legislation was less than ideal. Still, I had won. We had won. I was a reluctant (minor) public figure who appeared on television and received the protection of television fame. Indeed, in December 2000, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) aired a story on the radio about me, the police raids, and the Strasbourg case, so I have become something of a stately homo. Now I assist in training police recruits!
Today in Northern Ireland, out of the peace agreement and the astonishingly, although unremarkable, liberal climate, has come a European first that gives protection in public employmenta statutory duty to produce policy and practice that does not discriminate against gays and lesbians. Things move fast. Twenty-five years ago they wanted to jail me, now my worst problem is being typecast. As a working civil servant I find this new legislation provides great peace of mind and gives me renewed strength where previously I had been slipping back into the closet.
It is, however, a fact to be monotonously observed, that prominent gay men, and to a lesser extent lesbians, invariably hit trouble which may involve bad publicity, the police, and even prison. The list of cases is long and it is being added to, even in these relatively benign times in Europe and North America.
Scandal: Infamous Gay Controversies of the Twentieth Century provides a window into a number of such prominent individuals in recent history who have lived out their homosexual characters, sometimes to excess and oftentimes shockingly. Author Marc E. Vargo provides the reader with a meaty sample of some of those famous, and sometimes infamous, cases of gay controversy and scandal.
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