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Cleveland Daily Advertiser, August 4, 1836, page 1: The 1st ambiguous use of lesbian as female to female sex appears here, the term homosexual was used originally.

Cleveland Leader, September 9, 1878, page 3: The 2nd ambiguous use of lesbian as female to female sex appears here, the term homosexual was used originally approximately 2200 years ago.

Cleveland Leader, June 3, 1894, page 11: The first unambiguous use of lesbian as female to female sex appears here, the term was used originally approximately 2200 years ago.

Plain Dealer, April 14, 1901, page 31: G Constant Lounsbury's Novel of poems features Sappho-esque poetry with the influence of a lesbian muse.

Plain Dealer, December 20, 1903, page 43: In an article re Bliss Carman's poetry the mystery is solved, Sappho was a Lesbian from Lesbos, not sure if Cleveland readers would have known.

Cleveland Leader, April 17, 1904, page 4: Poetic Novel where Bliss Carman tantalizes like Sappho, "he has caught the lesbian manner".

Plain Dealer, April 22, 1907, page 4: Harrison Grey Fiske gets rights to Percy MacKaye's Theater SAPPHO AND PHAON Sappho was a lesbian poet from Lesbos.

Cleveland Leader, July 3, 1913, page 4: In an article about dancing barefoot the term lesbian is used, though it may not be related to the lesbianism of today.

Plain Dealer, July 26, 1914, page 39: A NEW MESSAGE FROM THE FIRST SUFFRAGETTE explains the significance and new interest in Lesbian poet Sappho from ancient Greek times.

Plain Dealer, July 19, 1925, page 57: Sex dramas well received abroad, FALLEN ANGELS develops an entire act along homosexual lines.

Plain Dealer, October 3, 1926, page 20: More than 900 little blue Novels 4c ea with 25 or more, Novel #692 HOMOSEXUAL LIFE.

Plain Dealer, October 10, 1926, page 81: Theater THE CAPTIVE is excellent drama with daring lesbian theme that many in the US audience may not figure out completely.

Plain Dealer, February 26, 1928, page 105: Your choice of 640 popular Novels 5c ea post paid, Novel #692 HOMOSEXUAL LIFE.

Plain Dealer, March 9, 1930, page 21: Get little blue Novels at 5c ea, incl carriage costs, Novel #692 HOMOSEXUAL LIFE.

Plain Dealer, December 26, 1932, page 18: Theater SIGN OF THE CROSS depicts ancient Rome with sadism, lesbianism and perversion.

Plain Dealer, July 23, 1933, page 12: At Versailles, the Little Trianon was the semi-palace of Louis XIV where Marie Antoinette frolicked with pamphleteers and poetasters cast Marie as a Lesbian pervert.

Plain Dealer, October 1, 1940, page 8: They used the same espionage years ago where Alfred Redl was exposed, then blackmailed as a homosexual.

Plain Dealer, March 26, 1946, page 10: War always brings wholesale murders, during WW1 German PI Georg Haarmann, a homosexual, killed young men to supply the black market with meat.

Plain Dealer, April 13, 1946, page 10: Will Germany repeat WW1 murder spree as they arrest those with homosexual inclinations.

Plain Dealer, September 12, 1946, page 8: Film OPEN CITY recounts Rome's bitterness toward Germany and Mussolini amid suffering of its citizens, the film features a German lesbian spy.

Plain Dealer, September 6, 1948, page 17: Confirmed gambler suffers from disease where conflicts in emotions are homosexual tendencies accompanied by social defamation.

Plain Dealer, February 3, 1949, page 8: Harold Beach, paroled after 5 years for homosexual contact with an 11 year old, killed a woman after his release and is put to death.

Plain Dealer, April 3, 1949, page 107: Theater A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE has a subtext of Blanche du Bois' previous husband who was addicted to homosexual practices and killed himself.

Plain Dealer, May 29, 1949, page 30: Novel THE SHOW OF VIOLENCE details a wife that kills her two kids and tries to kill herself because her husband revealed he was a homosexual.

Plain Dealer, January 8, 1950, page 2: During his trial it is revealed that a man was discharged from the Marines for homosexual activities.

Plain Dealer, March 26, 1950, page 241: Novel GAY YEAR explores the world of homosexuals comes with a revealing and sympathetic tale of people who travel a dark and lonely road.

Plain Dealer, April 5, 1950, page 2: In an advice column, a pathologist advises a safety group that sex offenses against children of a homosexual nature are by psychotic or psychopathic individuals

Plain Dealer, April 21, 1950, page 12: Ninety-one sex perverts fired by the State Department have been rehired elsewhere in the government. The State Department views one of the most flagrant security risk as the blackmail of those discovered to be homosexuals.

Plain Dealer, April 26, 1950, page 1: McCarthy asserts ex-red state dept official a commy, homosexuals in sensitive positions are a grave risk of blackmail.

Plain Dealer, January 2, 1951, page 29: Theater A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE uses heterosexual characters as surrogates to discuss queer sexuality in the 40's when homosexuality was a taboo and often discussed through metaphor

Plain Dealer, March 28, 1951, page 1: US admints firing of 4 in consulate, one confessed homosexual and is linked to bribery.

Plain Dealer, March 28, 1951, page 4: US admints firing of four in consulate, one confessed to being a homosexual and is linked to bribery.

Plain Dealer, July 2, 1951, page 24: Pursuit of happiness tells of a woman whose husband was a homosexual, so she had the marriage annulled and drifted into mysery.

Plain Dealer, January 27, 1952, page 24: A guard at the Warrensville Pennitentiary szx charged with aiding a prisoner to escape and another was charged with allowing prisoners into homosexual only ward where they can take advantage of the homosexuals.

Plain Dealer, February 4, 1952, page 12: The Lower Mall, a film house that often showed films with controversial content, would draw in the Ohio Censor Board, and it appears at this time the board would allow lesbian scenes, but not male homosexual.

Plain Dealer, March 2, 1952, page 21: Novel USA CONFIDENTIAL is the only book that will tell you the terrible things happening to your city right now, and we say the emerging homosexual influence is problem number one.

Plain Dealer, September 17, 1952, page 5: Laughter seizes Goldsby at trial as psychologist testifies that he is a homosexual, a dimwit and a mental juvenile of paranoid thinking.

Plain Dealer, September 20, 1952, page 4: Slayer seeks mercy, Goldsby talked rationally about his homosexuality and seeks to avoid the death penalty.

Plain Dealer, December 2, 1952, page 15: House probers resent defense of sexy novels like WOMEN'S BARRACKS, however, the author says it was milder than Plato's treatment of homosexual experiences.

Plain Dealer, April 26, 1953, page 110: Dear Mary Hayworth tells smitten female that among bachelors there are various types, including latent homosexuals, best to forget him and move on.

Plain Dealer, April 26, 1953, page 141: Novel THE ANGRY ANGEL starts with the fall of Hungary to the Nazis, there is a homosexual man among a group of democrats that escape and join the resistance.

Plain Dealer, November 22, 1953, page 138: Theater TEA AND SYMPATHY has a boy in prep school suspected of homesexuality, while untrue, persecution visits anyway.

Plain Dealer, December 20, 1953, page 124: Novel THE POWDER KEG highlights a standard women's prison with an assortment of sadistic and or homosexual matrons.

Plain Dealer, February 9, 1954, page 14: Charles Custer admits to two homosexual acts at a late night party with teen boys at his Parma apartment and he embezzled funds from the city to pay for it, he resigns, but the investigation continues.

Plain Dealer, February 21, 1954, page 140: Theater THE IMMORALIST is adapted from a novel by Andre Gide, a great French writer who was also a homosexual.

Plain Dealer, February 24, 1954, page 13: The State Department fires 590, 99 transferred to other jobs due to "homosexual tendencies".

Plain Dealer, February 25, 1954, page 4: Two figures in parma sex case appear in court, Custer, a homosexual, threw a party with embezzled funds at his apartment with lots of homosexuals.

Plain Dealer, May 15, 1954, page 23: LA TV show CONFIDENTIAL FILE dealt with homesexuality and included film clips of the Mattachine Society. In the show one of the homosexuals happens to be a member of that society.

Plain Dealer, June 6, 1954, page 186: Mother of son who was one of twenty-one soldiers that refused to come home from Korea, the US says the were communists, along with a homosexual.

Plain Dealer, August 22, 1954, page 131: Ask Mary Haworth's column today has a tangential reference to a homosexual brother.

Plain Dealer, September 30, 1954, page 2: The mutilated body of a missing Iowa boy found in a pasture, police interviewed as a suspect a psychotic salesman believed to be a homosexual.

Plain Dealer, January 2, 1955, page 22: Probers lash out at Missouri prisons after 2600 prisoners were interviewed, homosexuality was wide open among many other problems.

Plain Dealer, March 21, 1955, page 29: A effeminate male transvestite has experienced what he described as repulsive homosexual advances. He decided to he married and had 2 children. Ultimately, he was unhappy and the marriage ended in divorce.

Plain Dealer, May 4, 1955, page 19: Theater CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF wins a Pulitzer with an underlying theme of homosexuality.

Plain Dealer, May 8, 1955, page 152: Sympathy wins where sin fails in script and novels as author complains there are too many superficial homosexual plays and novels today.

Plain Dealer, September 4, 1955, page 36: This critic is tired of plays backing away from themes like homosexuality in fear theater goers will be squeamish.

Plain Dealer, December 15, 1955, page 9: Potts story shows that the La Crescenta sweep against molesters of children was used to coax confessions of homosexuasl and others.

Plain Dealer, March 10, 1956, page 23: Film ADORABLE CREATURES deals with a man who swear he is faithful to his new bride while a mannish woman lives across the hall who is so obviously Lesbian.

Plain Dealer, July 2, 1956, page 32: DR ALVAREZ says men who want to be women or transvestites should not worry parents as they are rarely aggressive.

Plain Dealer, September 29, 1956, page 25: Theater TEA AND SYMPATHY features a trio in prep school accused of homosexuality, which is not exactly true, but the damage is done.

Plain Dealer, January 20, 1957, page 175: Many young heterosexuals are tossed in prisons and forced into homosexual activity, putting hardened prisoners in violation of youth sex laws punishable in some states to life in prison.

Plain Dealer, January 23, 1957, page 17: Theater LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT had homosexuality censored out of it and was replaced with a man of furtive heterosexual behavior.

Plain Dealer, August 14, 1957, page 11: Hollywood uses private investigators and hidden mini-microphones to uncover homosexual acts and other infidelities.

Plain Dealer, October 28, 1957, page 33: Theater COMPULSION opens on Broadway featuring homosexual behaviors between Loeb and Leopold, both of which murdered 14 year old Bobbie Franks in what they saw as the perfect crime.

Plain Dealer, November 10, 1957, page 117: Investigators in the Robert Franks murder, feel Loeb and Leopold were guilty of a homosexual relationship and the 14 yr old boy resisted their approaches and so was killed.

Plain Dealer, November 26, 1957, page 16: Novel/Theater COMPULSION uses interviews with Nathan Leopold to cast his co-murderer as a homosexual that led him astray.

Plain Dealer, August 25, 1958, page 27: English researches homosexual "sex variants", in one case a homosexual was subjected to intense psychiatric investigation and was given male hormones. They concluded that nothing worked, so homosexuality is inborn.

Plain Dealer, November 16, 1958, page 164: Novel THE BELL by Iris Murdoch details a reformed homosexual who moves to a new town to start over, unfortunately a young man arouses his desires almost immediately.

Plain Dealer, April 19, 1959, page 14: A handful of bad boys are blamed for a prison riot, a guard says Myles and Smart were being used as homosexuals and suggests segregation of vulnerables into special homosexual wards.

Plain Dealer, May 11, 1959, page 27: Dr Avarez suggests treating homosexuals as kindly as anyone who was born with any other mental peculiarity.

Plain Dealer, June 11, 1959, page 15: Film THREE STRANGE LOVES follows 3 girls from ballet school as they share their loves in flashbacks, one is married and pregnant, a second is a lesbian and the third is a widow.

Plain Dealer, June 28, 1959, page 152: Dr Alvarez theorizes that suicide in British male students arise as some fear sex and are appalled when they discover they are homosexual.

Plain Dealer, July 10, 1959, page 17: Theater CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF performed by Chagrin Players gets bogged down in talky drama, but the homosexual elements come through just fine.

Plain Dealer, August 9, 1959, page 246: Article theorizes that the loneliness of career women is because they often meet men already married or who are either homosexual men who lack the strength to satisfy a woman.

Plain Dealer, August 12, 1959, page 26: Dr Alvarez says the public needs facts about homosexuals as he has moderated his views into describing homosexuality as a very common mental quirk.

Plain Dealer, August 16, 1959, page 148: Proust's Paris worled revealed in biography, PROUSE THE EARLY YEARS, reveals a possible early 1900s homosexual relationship.

Plain Dealer, November 22, 1959, page 168: A new novel criticizes homosexuality laws, stating that one British citizen was jailed for writing affectionate letters to another man.

Plain Dealer, January 4, 1960, page 28: Oscar Wilde's last manuscript is finally released to the public, Wilde is famous for having a homosexual association with Lord Alfred Douglas and was jailed for 2 years.

Plain Dealer, February 5, 1960, page 8: Film SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER follows the fate of a surely pampered homosexual.

Plain Dealer, March 6, 1960, page 122: Review of the 1960 Film releases includes THE CAPTIVE with its lesbian theme adapted from the theater version.

Plain Dealer, May 15, 1960, page 159: Novel UNDERSTANDING JUVENILE DELINQUENCY notes that all teens do something that could land them in juvenile detention, if caught, and that those that are caught can have their personality permanently changed while in detention. Homosexuality is mentioned as one of those changes.

Plain Dealer, July 18, 1960, page 23: Dr Alvarez says homosexuality runs in families, meaning that it is inherited.

Plain Dealer, December 1, 1960, page 47: Theater THE BEST MAN is a drama at a political convention closely following the tricks used to get ballots from delegates, one candidate in the running is smeared as a homosexual and cannot come back from the false accusation.

Plain Dealer, December 18, 1960, page 42: Life of Sal Agron details the life of an unwanted boy living on the streets of New York City that meets a generous homosexual and was well paid in lieu of favors.

Plain Dealer, March 10, 1961, page 15: Theater THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE is a detectives story in which a countess contends for a homosexual painter.

Plain Dealer, March 17, 1961, page 14: Article shows how the use of portraying someone as homosexual can lead to dire consequences, including death.

Plain Dealer, June 18, 1961, page 120: Dr Alvarez gets letters from wives who find out their mate is a homosexual that just married a women "to get a housekeeper".

Plain Dealer, September 19, 1961, page 41: Theater THE BEST MAN is a drama at a political convention with the barter used to get ballots, one in the running is smeared as a homosexual.

Plain Dealer, October 29, 1961, page 176: Theater WE'VE COME THROUGH features the odd pairing of a homosexual male and a plain girl, and that goes about as far as you think it would.

Plain Dealer, February 4, 1962, page 11: Wild young criminals are filling up our prisons. They are often put into forced homosexual situations with dominant, older convicts.

Plain Dealer, March 16, 1962, page 14: Dr Alvarez VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE underappreciated by his relatives, the main character brands his sister's boyfriend a homosexual.

Plain Dealer, March 26, 1962, page 21: Dr Alvarez analyzes THE VICTIM, where the lead character has his life on a very nice track and throws it away for homosexual sex.

Plain Dealer, June 22, 1962, page 8: Film THE OSTRICH HAS TWO EGGS tells the story of a father who discovers that one of his adult sons is a homosexual.

Plain Dealer, June 27, 1962, page 12: Film A TASTE OF HONEY, a homosexual takes care of a pregnant child to comfort and take care of her.

Plain Dealer, June 28, 1962, page 38: Theater A TASTE OF HONEY, a homosexual takes care of a pregnant child to comfort and take care of her.

Plain Dealer, July 18, 1962, page 27: Theater ZOO STORY has homosexual Jerry stepping into Central Park, meeting an experienced homosexual named Peter, but he is paralyzed by fear of reacting homosexually, finally resulting in physical alteration.

Plain Dealer, August 12, 1962, page 134: Novel ACT OF ANGER involves a trial in a southwestern state that tries to make homicide justifiable against a homosexual attack.

Plain Dealer, September 18, 1962, page 32: Theater STEP ON A CRACKdeals with a family that is a mess and has incestuous and homosexual overtones.

Plain Dealer, October 21, 1962, page 235: Prison riots have a reason as all inmates experience homosexual advances. These encounters can become a permanent problem for some when they get out.

Plain Dealer, November 15, 1962, page 4: A British homosexual spy named Vassall, was blackmailed by the Russians when they learned of his sexuality. When the US State Dept learned of this, they began to cleanse its ranks of homosexuals.

Plain Dealer, November 29, 1962, page 13: US tightens guidelines for Consul positions, as a British homosexual named Vassall was photographed in embarrassing situations and then blackmailed by the Soviets.

Plain Dealer, April 26, 1963, page 5: Vassall, a homosexual, had a job in Moscow and was blackmailed into giving up sensitive information.

Plain Dealer, May 16, 1963, page 56: Film NO EXIT is a way-out melodrama where a lesbian, nymphomaniac and cowardly man share a hotel room and make sexual plays for each other, with some lesbian overtones.

Plain Dealer, June 9, 1963, page 10: As a reaction to the Vassals British spy scandal, officials in the UK announce that men who are homosexual ought not be appointed to serve our country.

Plain Dealer, June 11, 1963, page 34: William John Vassall was a homosexual spy who sent admiralty secrets to Moscow as Ivanov cultivated the more diseased officials in UK society.

Plain Dealer, July 15, 1963, page 16: Fans wail about filth in movies, yet every Theater and novel has syphilis or homosexuals in it.

Plain Dealer, September 10, 1963, page 39: Novel THE THIRD MAN MYSTERY deals with a former member of the British foreign service who is a homosexual and amenable to blackmail.

Plain Dealer, November 17, 1963, page 168: Theater MAN AND BOY is a broken-backed combination of sentimental nonsense, fantastic finagling and an excursion into sexual deviation.

Plain Dealer, November 25, 1963, page 30: Theater ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO's NEST has a latent homosexual who voluntarily committed himself to the asylum to avoid jail time.

Plain Dealer, December 1, 1963, page 233: Vassall, a homosexual, had a job in Moscow and was blackmailed into giving up sensitive information.

Plain Dealer, December 7, 1963, page 34: Theater MAN AND BOY features a father who builds an empire on false transaction and his son who changed his name to stay out of his fathers issues. While taking cover, the father moves in with the son and uses his son as a lure to a homosexual businessman to stave off financial collapse.

Plain Dealer, December 21, 1963, page 13: Porter contends we should quarantine the feebleminded and those with mental defects like homosexuals.

Plain Dealer, February 23, 1964, page 125: Novel HURRAY critic says wow a novel without a dirty word or mention of homosexuality.

Plain Dealer, February 27, 1964, page 54: Theater BECKET contains a deeply personal relationship between two intense men one of which is King Henry II.

Plain Dealer, April 5, 1964, page 241: Weak, non-manly fathers often turn to divorce, but this makes a child far more likely to become neurotic, homosexual or delinquent.

Plain Dealer, April 19, 1964, page 142: Film THE SILENCE has three main characters, a lesbian, a nymphomaniac and a boy that catches the two women in a sexual moment.

Plain Dealer, May 17, 1964, page 175: Novel RADCLIFFE is a story of profound emotional homosexual attachment between two very unattractive men.

Plain Dealer, June 20, 1964, page 11: According to Atlas Magazine, Europe is being invaded by American terms like gangster, jukebox, and boy, in a homosexual sense.

Plain Dealer, July 10, 1964, page 72: May Company department store's book sale includes ACT OF ANGER, which outlines a homosexual attack, a murder and the subsequent trial.

Plain Dealer, July 19, 1964, page 160: Novel THE PRESIDENT features a college that picks a corrupt homosexual to be their next president and that does not end well.

Plain Dealer, July 27, 1964, page 16: Theater CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF as performed by Chagrin Players, gets bogged down in talky drama, however, the homosexual elements come through just fine.

Plain Dealer, September 13, 1964, page 153: May Company department store's book sale includes THE HOMOSEXUAL AND HIS SOCIETY as a view from within, this is an analysis of various types of homosexuals.

Plain Dealer, September 24, 1964, page 35: Novel PREVIOUS CONVICTIONS features a man, Mr. Crane, who was a frenzied middle-western alcoholic homosexual and, yet, an exceptional poet.

Plain Dealer, September 27, 1964, page 189: Novel A SINGLE MAN describes a single day in the life of a homosexual professor as he lives and teaches is southern California.

Plain Dealer, October 11, 1964, page 186: Bookstore advertises the book FEMALE HOMOSEXUALITY, a world review on lesbian practices including psychoanalytic theories and pathology with clinical data.

Plain Dealer, October 16, 1964, page 4: The US Government begins investigating employees with homosexual tendencies as this has caused blackmail in the past by spies from Moscow.

Plain Dealer, October 18, 1964, page 177: Your TV set is now showing content that was censored in Ohio prior to 1955. Back then, words like as homosexual, impotence and cheating would have been substituted with more acceptable terms, even if they were false.

Plain Dealer, October 29, 1964, page 19: In an interview with British author John Braine, he states that he disapproved of American novels with homosexual content as they do not depicts what women needs.

Plain Dealer, October 30, 1964, page 45: Film LILITH features an apprentice therapist who is drawn to a beautiful woman. She promises to love for him, but she also has a lesbian fling and sex with others at the same time.

Plain Dealer, November 8, 1964, page 178: Novel THE DANGEROUS SEX, THE MYTH OF FEMININE EVIL features a look back in time where homosexuality is traced back to primitive villages, though in the past, lesbian behavior would have been less understood and, so, overlooked until now.

Plain Dealer, November 9, 1964, page 8: Politics, 3600 member Parents League of Houston assails movies as objectionable, including those with homosexual themes.

Plain Dealer, December 15, 1964, page 34: Theater THE KNACK has one line "are you homosexual," and the answer "no, but thanks for asking".

Plain Dealer, January 1, 1965, page 48: Theater THE COMMITTEE has no script as the performers react to clues from the audience, at most performances, there are homosexual themes.

Plain Dealer, January 24, 1965, page 145: Theater THE TOILET takes place largely in the lavatory of a boy's high school with 7 urinals, the Negro gets a sort of homosexual letter from a white boy deposited on his "black only" urinal. Unfortunately the Negro stomps the white boy to death.

Plain Dealer, March 7, 1965, page 167: Novel JUSTIN MOYAN is a review of about people of the stage, including a homosexual playright and two homosexuals actors.

Plain Dealer, May 10, 1965, page 54: Theater TINY ALICE is reviewed as depraved and revolting and features a religious lay homosexual who corrupts wealthy nymphomaniacs for donations.

Plain Dealer, May 23, 1965, page 36: Head of decency for the American Baptist Church exclaims downtown San Francisco gay shops as greatest displays of obscenity he has seen.

Plain Dealer, June 21, 1965, page 40: Theater BESSIE SMITH, a Negro, was in a car accident. She is brought to a white hospital where a rancid-mouthed white nurse insults everyone and will not treat the Negro, who later dies.

Plain Dealer, July 11, 1965, page 19: Novel ACT OF ANGER, a homosexual attack, murder and a trial of Mexican boy provides a lots of courtroom excietment.

Plain Dealer, July 12, 1965, page 41: Theater based on THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA takes place in a run-down Mexican hotel with an offensive minister and a gamey lesbian stuck in the desert.

Plain Dealer, July 19, 1965, page 44: Theater A PATRIOT FOR ME reviewed as malodorous and shocking with shattering and disturbing love scenes between men.

Plain Dealer, August 15, 1965, page 167: Dr Alvarez flips! Wildeblood was falsey accused of being homosexual and spent 18 months in prison, it is time get rid of homosexual laws.

Plain Dealer, August 29, 1965, page 138: Novel TWO PEOPLE and here we go again with what is fast becoming the same old story of a male homosexual relationship.

Plain Dealer, September 17, 1965, page 16: One of the three accepted categories of security risks presently is the homosexual, who is considered especially susceptible to blackmail.

Plain Dealer, September 21, 1965, page 38: Film DARLING is the story of an amoral young woman who has a fling with a homosexual photographer in Paris.

Plain Dealer, September 30, 1965, page 30: Theater THE DEVILS ADVOCATE is a man-hunting drama in which one theme has a priest interacting with a homosexual cynic.

Plain Dealer, November 11, 1965, page 61: A bill to legalize private homosexual acts between consenting male adults was intorduced in the House of Lords for the second succesive session.

Plain Dealer, November 19, 1965, page 55: Novel THE SCANDAL is psychological, delicate and comic presentation of homosexuality.

Plain Dealer, December 5, 1965, page 184: Marcel Proust was a homosexual poet who rejected his own inversion and used homosexuality as a symbol of universal original sin.

Plain Dealer, December 12, 1965, page 1: Psychiatrists are now advising that student sex is a private affair while at college.

Plain Dealer, December 12, 1965, page 17: In a report of campus sex it was concluded that homosexual students should not automatically be dismissed from the campus.

Plain Dealer, December 22, 1965, page 46: This film is a shocking study of a homosexuals insertion into a married couple in the lower classes of London.

Plain Dealer, December 26, 1965, page 135: Rebellion is a sign your child is becoming independent, male and female adolescents struggle with proving they are not homosexual.

Plain Dealer, January 15, 1966, page 14: Kenneth Tynan advocates for sexual permissiveness and does not have a problem with homosexuality either.

Plain Dealer, February 10, 1966, page 3: In the Mossler trial, Mrs Mossler, now a widow, testified her husband covorted with gay people and that his murder was likely by the hand of a sex deviate.

Plain Dealer, February 19, 1966, page 33: Film INSIDE DAISY CLOVER has Daisy's new record getting snapped up quickly, she then meets a male star who is a drunk and a homosexual.

Plain Dealer, February 19, 1966, page 34: In the Mossler trial, the defense tries to say the murdered Jacques Mossler was also a homosexual.

Plain Dealer, February 25, 1966, page 18: In the Mossler Trial, the defense also tries to pin the murder on a wandering, bloody homosexual that was found six miles away the evening of the murder.

Plain Dealer, March 3, 1966, page 12: Professors, deans, theatrical personalities, officers in the armed services, all homosexual, are victims in a massive blackmail ring.

Plain Dealer, March 6, 1966, page 1: Conjugal visits could be a way to relieve sexual tension in Ohio prisons, and visits by various religions could help as well.

Plain Dealer, March 6, 1966, page 24: Weekend furloughs for honor prisoners might be a way to lessen sexual tensions in Ohio prisons.

Plain Dealer, March 7, 1966, page 12: The House of Commons is repealing homosexual laws simply because the act is no longer thought of as an unnatural vice.

Plain Dealer, March 7, 1966, page 45: Censoring material coming in and out of Ohio prisons is important and the author thinks making Playboy available may lessen homosexual tensions.

Plain Dealer, March 13, 1966, page 1: In Cleveland, after the clubs close, another world opens, there are places where you can get stone drunk or have a homosexual experience, and this world lasts until dawn.

Plain Dealer, March 20, 1966, page 152: Novel THE TELLING is a story full of cliches and amongst the teachers there is a homosexual and a nymphomaniac.

Plain Dealer, April 4, 1966, page 9: New York's divorce law that until now only included adultery, will now include homosexual and other deviate acts.

Plain Dealer, April 10, 1966, page 47: Novel THE WIZARD OF LONELINESS has a buck-tooth librarian that is a homosexual.

Plain Dealer, April 10, 1966, page 243: Research on twins showed that identical twins are 39 out of 40 likely to both be homosexual, the figure is only 10 percent for fraternal twins.

Plain Dealer, April 17, 1966, page 9: Besides trying to end military exclusion, gays set up fund to defend homosexuals in court.

Plain Dealer, April 23, 1966, page 11: How to avoid getting drafted in Viet Nam, pamphlets on college campuses show students how to act homosexual or fake a seizure, and more.

Plain Dealer, May 7, 1966, page 1: A California state Senate Committee investigation concludes that UC Berkely seeths with Communist and homosexual activity and is a nationwide center for anti-Viet Nam war movement.

Plain Dealer, May 8, 1966, page 133: Dr Alvarez comes to the defense of homosexuals and the Mattachine Society fights for better understanding and help from heterosexuals is.

Plain Dealer, May 8, 1966, page 197: Novel PUBLIC FACES IN PRIVATE PLACES details the runup to presidential election and for one candidate, Ashton better not be caught with Raymond or it is over for his father.

Plain Dealer, May 15, 1966, page 162: Theater THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE has a central character that by day is generous to civic causes, by night she is a masculine, drunken mess.

Plain Dealer, May 18, 1966, page 13: Theater A SONG AT TWILIGHT deals with the vulnerability of blackmail of successful creative artist who are homosexual.

Plain Dealer, May 22, 1966, page 32: UC Berkley is found to have widespread Communist and homosexual activiy says California state sentate committee, others fight this description.

Plain Dealer, May 24, 1966, page 17: The word CAMP is added to the dictionary as slang, originally homosexual jargon meaning so extreme as to amuse.

Plain Dealer, June 5, 1966, page 18: Novel WITCHES SABBATH sees a rascal homosexual, con-man and friend to some of Paris most picturesque personalities caught in his scandalous life.

Plain Dealer, June 14, 1966, page 6: When an 8 year old boy was sexually molested, stabbed and shot, the police concetrated on about 12 men with homosexual tendencies.

Plain Dealer, July 10, 1966, page 160: Film THE GROUP has Candace Bergen stepping out of her father's shadow, taking the role of lesbian.

Plain Dealer, August 28, 1966, page 245: Some psychiatrists speculate obscene calls are made by latent homosexuals who hate women and derive pleasure from their fear and outrage.

Plain Dealer, October 2, 1966, page 294: According to this article homosexuals are now welcomed in the under world.

Plain Dealer, November 27, 1966, page 152: Theater THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE sees a soap-opera heroine by day, turn into a cigar puffing sadist who torments her lesbian body by night.

Plain Dealer, December 8, 1966, page 64: Seamen union asked not to be a part of Britain's liberalization of homosexualtiy laws.

Plain Dealer, December 21, 1966, page 19: A bill legalizing private homosexual acts between consenting male adults should become law in the UK today.

Plain Dealer, January 1, 1967, page 74: Novel THE BEASTS has the main character Farley stripped of his dreams and then his humanity as he descends into a thief and a homosexual.

Plain Dealer, January 8, 1967, page 153: Film NIGHT GAMES has a childbirth scene where a young boy shows his homosexual tendencies by using makeup and false eyelashes.

Plain Dealer, January 8, 1967, page 154: Film THE CHELSEA GIRLS peers at what is presumed to happen in several rooms of a New York hotel including lesbian and homosexual themes.

Plain Dealer, February 5, 1967, page 166: Novel FRIENDSHIP AND FRATRICIDE: AN ANALYSIS OF WHITTAKER CHAMBERS AND ALGER HISS adds that Chamber's poetry showed traces of homosexuality.

Plain Dealer, February 16, 1967, page 1: The self-proclaimed leader of a Fifth Reich group at Cleveland Heights high was found delinquent with a University Circle adult homosexual.

Plain Dealer, February 17, 1967, page 16: Theater REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE has Marlin Brando playing a homosexual and Liz Taylor tastefully stripping to the buff.

Plain Dealer, February 26, 1967, page 11: Is their a homosexual angle to the JFK assassination, it is reported that gay Mexicans or Cubans were in Oswalds office when FBI originally visited.

Plain Dealer, March 18, 1967, page 10: In the Shaw trial, Shaw is the only JFK conspirator that is still alive, Oswald was killed by Ruby, Ferrie, a former homosexual pilot, was found dead in bed.

Plain Dealer, April 27, 1967, page 28: Radio ALAN DOUGLAS SHOW WKYC Shirley Willer and other members from the Lesbian Daughters of Belitis of New York are featured.

Plain Dealer, May 17, 1967, page 1: Homosexual blackmail ring hits member of Congress, a general, an admiral and two well-known singers, at least 30 have been convicted.

Plain Dealer, June 11, 1967, page 160: Film PERSONA features two women who resemble each other in and out that fall for each other in the end.

Plain Dealer, June 25, 1967, page 133: According to this article, the aura of decay in many films, novels and plays is intensified by homosexual playrights that show it is women who are the destroyers.

Plain Dealer, July 2, 1967, page 114: Letters regarding the "sick theater article from 1967-06-25" almost all agreed that 4 letters words in regard to sex and perverse sex activity should not be in theater or movies.

Plain Dealer, July 5, 1967, page 8: Homosexual law passes house of commons in London that repeals all penalties for homosexual acts, but not lesbian acts.

Plain Dealer, July 14, 1967, page 22: Britain's House of Lords approved a bill allowing homosexual acts in private between consenting adults in a 111 to 48 vote.

Plain Dealer, July 29, 1967, page 14: The Archbishop of Canterbury defended Jesus against suggestion that he was homosexual, saying his dealings with men and women were of a perfect man.

Plain Dealer, August 6, 1967, page 142: Novel A SECOND-HAND LIFE has an asexual male, the author's previous Novel THE FALL OF VALOR has a homosexual in it.

Plain Dealer, September 2, 1967, page 2: New York now allows divorce for adultery, cruel treatment, desertion, imprisonment, and homosexual or other deviant sexual acts.

Plain Dealer, September 7, 1967, page 33: TV The series NYPD episode 1 deals with the existence of a ring blackmailing homosexuals, while making a point that it is safter to out oneself.

Plain Dealer, September 17, 1967, page 179: Novel CHRISTINE JORGENSEN is an autobriography about a sex change to an underdeveloped male with abnormally high levels of female hormones.

Plain Dealer, September 22, 1967, page 73: TV BONANZA has been the most-watched show in the US for 6 years, one son has been described as a spiteful homosexual.

Plain Dealer, September 24, 1967, page 186: Novel IT ENDS WITH REVELATIONS says when at home, a wife should stay with their homosexual husband, the novel attempts to plead for understanding of homosexual husbands.

Plain Dealer, November 1, 1967, page 3: Paper disputes Reagan's denial that he fired two homosexual staffers, the facts show they were on staff for 6 months and Reagan new it and left them there.

Plain Dealer, November 8, 1967, page 8: Paper disputes Reagan's denial that he fired two homosexual staffers that were part of a Sacramento blackmail ring.

Plain Dealer, November 11, 1967, page 17: Psychoanalysts claims to turn promiscuous homosexual into a married father of two.

Plain Dealer, November 19, 1967, page 156: Film THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE sees Angela Lansbury turn down the role of a lesbian.

Plain Dealer, November 25, 1967, page 20: Technician employed by a defense contractor admitted homosexuality to keep his security clearance in tact saying if he is out he is immune to blackmail.

Plain Dealer, December 10, 1967, page 199: Novel NO LAUGHING MATTER follows six siblings as they grow up, the youngest is a beguiling, art-collecting, homosexual dilettante.

Plain Dealer, December 16, 1967, page 26: ACLU will take a more active role defending disinherited groups such as homosexuals, students, mentally ill, convict, and the like.

Plain Dealer, December 17, 1967, page 102: Sweden ponders relaxed taboos saying that sex is already everywhere anyway.

Plain Dealer, November 25, 1967, page 20: Technician employed by a defense contractor admitted homosexuality to keep his security clearance in tact saying if he is out he is immune to blackmail.

Plain Dealer, December 10, 1967, page 199: Novel NO LAUGHING MATTER follows six siblings as they grow up, the youngest is a beguiling, art-collecting, homosexual dilettante.

Plain Dealer, December 16, 1967, page 26: ACLU will take a more active role defending disinherited groups such as homosexuals, students, mentally ill, convict, and the like.

Plain Dealer, December 17, 1967, page 102: Sweden ponders relaxed taboos saying that sex is already everywhere anyway.

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