Coming Sunday
I don't do advance promotion for many stories, but Lorraine Ahearn has written one heckuva piece we're running Sunday about a nearly forgotten -- and never known to many of us -- chapter in Greensboro's history: A roundup in 1957 of 32 men accused of being homosexual and charged with crimes against nature.
Unlike sweeps of subsequent decades, involving raids on public parks and gay bars, Greensboro's 1957 trials focused on private acts behind closed doors.
The purpose, in the words of the police chief, was to "remove these individuals from society who would prey upon our youth," and to protect the town from what a presiding judge called 'a menace."
Most of them were sent to prison for years, perhaps based on false testimony. Check it out.
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So now that she spearheaded the N&R move to get rid of Chief David Wray she's going after the Chief from 50 years ago?
Wow, does she hold a grudge, or what?
Posted on September 16, 2006 12:11 AM
I had forgotten how powerful you think she is, jaycee. I must send her out to get me a lottery ticket.
Posted on September 16, 2006 8:14 AM
What was the point of this lost piece of history?
Why did it make the front page unless of course our local leadership is going for a repeat...sigh
I wonder how many gay readers dropped your paper?
Posted on September 18, 2006 11:24 PM