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FOR CENTURI, BLACKMAIL WAS A TOOL USED TO INTIMIDATE GAY MEN
Though the word “homosexual” would not be ed until the late 19th century, men who slept wh men the early 17th century began to velop their own subculture, and certa parks beme signated plac where they uld meet for laws, social mor and technology changed, so too did the sexual behavrs people blackmailed each other for.
Still, blackmailg men for havg sex wh other men didn’t go away eher the Uned Stat or the Uned beme prevalent aga the 1950s and ‘60s, when a new gay inty and subculture was emergg for men. Sex between men was still illegal and rried a signifint social stigma; durg the Lavenr Sre, the Uned Stat ernment purged some 10, 000 employe spected of beg gay.
Police both Bra and the Uned Stat blackmailed gay men durg this perd. Acrdg to one London p, police the 1950s “looked on homosexuals as a source of extra e.