Gerrie Schipske: The Long Beach Gay Trials, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Long Beach Gay Trials
- A History of Injustice
- Publisher:
- Arcadia Publishing (SC), 01/2025
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781467157711
- Item number:
- 11907147
- Volume:
- 192 Pages
- Weight:
- 408 g
- Format:
- 229 x 152 mm
- Thickness:
- 8 mm
- Release date:
- 7.1.2025
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
How Long Beach caused the death of John A. Lamb.
Immediately after his 1914 election as mayor of Long Beach, Louis Napoleon Whealton fired the chief of police and raided the city treasury. To replenish the funds, Mayor Whealton concocted a scheme to collect fines from any male "who made advances toward other men." Two special police officers entrapped and arrested thirty-one men, dragging them before a judge to pay up or risk a public trial. When one victim refused to play along, newspapers were quick to publish the names of everyone accused, including local pharmacist and popular churchman John A. Lamb. His suicide made headlines, but the city continued to target gay men well into this century.
Author and historian Gerrie Schipske uncovers the story of a tragic death with far-reaching consequences in Long Beach.
