The secret anti-gay history of the U.S. postal service - The Daily Dot

Contents:

• GAY RETIRED SF POSTAL SPECTOR PENS MEMOIR
• TAL OF A GAY POSTAL INSPECTOR: YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP! KDLE EDN
• TAL OF A GAY POSTAL INSPECTOR: YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP!
• THE SECRET ANTI-GAY HISTORY OF THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE

GAY RETIRED SF POSTAL SPECTOR PENS MEMOIR

They ranged om a natnal scheme that profed om havg gay men wh HIV obta multiple life surance polici to a Cajun chef volved a Ponzi scheme. It turned to his 181-page memoir "Tal of a Gay Postal Inspector: You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

He also not the book's prologue that, over the urse of his reer, he met fewer than six other gay feral law enforcement officers. "I ed to tell people that I was not a gay Postal Inspector, but rather a Postal Inspector who happened to be gay, " Greenspan, who first moved to San Francis 1991, not the book.

I am an openly gay retired feral agent who worked for the US Postal Inspectn Service. I wrote this book to pass the time takg re of my bt iend, my mom, her last years Fort Myers, FL, not exactly the hotbed of gay proceeds om the book will be add to scholarships my mom's name at Cornell Universy. I enjoy bikg, skig and golf and I umpire slow pch softball the Gay Softball League San Francis and I also travel to gay tournaments throughout the US.

TAL OF A GAY POSTAL INSPECTOR: YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP! KDLE EDN

I was privileged to umpire 25 Gay World Seri tournaments before retirg after last season. Well-wrten, Funny, Wty - Easy Readg Crime Stori told wh a Gay Perspective. After readg the first chapter I uld not stop envisng “Tal of a Gay Postal Inspector…” as a s.

While an overwhelmg majory of crimal vtigatns are que ser, Mari Greenspan choos to offer his narrative om a lighter perspective and, as we know om the tle of his book, a gay one as well. I hope Mari has already begun wrg “MORE Tal of a Gay Postal Inspector…”.

Milk was one of the first openly gay elected officials the U. S., but this week there were dozens of openly gay mayors, state reprentativ, several members of Congrs, and U. The stg print is an unprecented gay rights supporter who has livered on many of his promis to the muny.

TAL OF A GAY POSTAL INSPECTOR: YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP!

Postal Service honorg a gay movement lear, when 50 years ago this agency’s precsor, the U. Gay mercial and social works were some of the agency’s prime targets.

In 1953, the Post Office clared ONE magaze, the first wily distributed gay news and featur outlet, unmailable. The edors of ONE fought back, takg their se all the way to the Supreme Court, which led 1958 that mere discsns of homosexualy did not nstute obsceny, pavg the way for today’s LGBT prt media.

The Post Office also sought to supprs the even more popular physique magaz, which nnected gay men throughout the natn by offerg the first wily available homoerotic imagery. Bob Mizer, the publisher of Physique Pictorial, was one of many who went to prison for marketg y pictur of men posg straps to gay men.

THE SECRET ANTI-GAY HISTORY OF THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE

They had unvered a 750-member pen pal club of gay men who subscribed to a mcle magaze available on every newsstand Ameri.

Gay men ncelled subscriptns and self-censored their rrponnce. But like many public officials of the day, they felt that open discsns of homosexual activy or displays of male ontal nudy “promoted homosexualy” Amerin society and th mered supprsn.

Although the Post Office lost most of s obsceny s the urts, ntued to brg lawsus that bankpted many burgeong gay magaz and mail-orr bs. How far we have e that an agency formerly engaged a mpaign to supprs the gay movement now honors one of s lears wh a stamp. Johnson is the thor of The Lavenr Sre: The Cold War Persecutn of Gays and Lbians, teach at the Universy of South Florida.