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The Wild Saga of FDR’s $1 Million Gay Military Sex Sting
The Navy spent $50,000 on the covert sting, and 22 sailors were entrapped and charged with deviancy, historian Sherry Zane said.
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The wild saga of FDR’s $1 million gay military sex sting
Had the consequences not been ruinous for the men entrapped, the story would read like a comedy. Franklin Delano Roosevelt — before he served as 32nd president of the United States — in 1919 approved a secret operation to rid the U.S. Navy in Newport, Rhode Island, of “cocksuckers and rectum receivers.” Their method? Volunteer agents would have gay sex and then tell on the sailors they had sex with for being gay. Roosevelt was serving as assist…
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