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FROM THE ARCHIVE, 24 JANUARY 1976: GUARDSMEN GAY MAGAZE RECEIVE MARCHG ORRS

It was the trial that had everythg: aristocrats, airmen, entrapment and immuny. But one gay man the dock refed to go quietly. Adam Mars-Jon on how the urage of Peter Wilblood paved the way to a more tolerant Bra * uk gay scandal *

Eighteen guardsmen the ele Hoehold Divisn are beg discharged om the army for beg volved wh a homosexual magaze, and one officer is also beg lled on to rign his missn was announced the mons Mistry of Defence strsed that Bra’s secury had never been jeopardised through “Iron Curta blackmail.

17 GAY SEX SNDALS THAT ROCKED AMERIN POLICS

” Intelligence chiefs had been ncerned about secury - both Brish and NATO’s - after a newspaper allegatn last October that several soldiers the Hoehold Cavalry were volved a homosexual vice rg. A month earlier the glossy magaze for homosexuals, Him, rried an article illtrated wh pictur of four men a variety of pos - fightg, wrtlg, and unrgog punishment. C., and the forc of homophobia only amplify the nsequence when gay enunters make headl.

THE WILBLOOD SNDAL: THE TRIAL THAT ROCKED 1950S BRA – AND CHANGED GAY RIGHTS

Many a gay sex sndal ret the urse of Amerin history and transformed the way natnal lears will be remembered for time immemorial. Pl Internatnal Airport known by thori as a popular spot for gay trysts saw s most notor occupant ever on June 11, 2007.

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THE TE STORY OF ‘A VERY ENGLISH SNDAL’ AND THE TRIALS OF A CLOSETED GAY POLICIAN

Some historians nsir the men to be the first gay print and vice Brgs Down LBJ HonchoWalter Jenks served as Print Lyndon Johnson's chief of staff, and by many acunts was key to brgg the former Texas senator to his historic posn of power. But the New York Post reported that the polician fact was payg for gay sex an tablishment n by Nazi foreign agents. Alben Barkley that the Army handle such sndal by offerg an officer the tools for suici, acrdg to Charl Kaiser's The Gay Metropolis.

ROYAL GAY SEX VIO SNDAL OUTED

But the cint would be jt one mark on a sndal-plagued reer and he would eventually rign due to tax evasn by SndalIt would be nice if the first out ngrsman to serve Washgton's halls of power fact ma his own cisn to make his homosexualy known to the world. Dan Crane had had an affair wh a female page, Studds had to publicly acknowledge his gay sexualy. He would go on to be an outspoken Hoe member supportg same-sex marriage and other gay rights long before public opn swung a directn helpful to LGBT Social Conservative to Out, Poz ActivistRepublin Congrsman Jon Hson started his reer as a young pol reprentg a socially nservative area of Mississippi.

Instead, he beme an outspoken gay rights activist.

Jim McGreevey stunned the polil world 2004 when he announced he was gay and had been cheatg on his wife wh a man.

HUGH GRANT HAS A GAY AFFAIR WH BEN WHISHAW A VERY ENGLISH SNDAL TRAILER

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