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Throughout the 1950s and ’60s, the FBI and several police departments kept lists of known homosexuals and their friends, and even places they frequented, and the U.S. Post Office kept a list of addresses of people who received mail of a suspected homosexual nature.

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The only known photograph taken during the first night of the Stonewall Riots, by photographer Joseph Ambrosini, shows youth scuffling with NYPD officers.

Throughout the 1950s and ’60s, the FBI and several police departments kept lists of known homosexuals and their friends, and even places they frequented, and the U.S. Post Office kept a list of addresses of people who received mail of a suspected homosexual nature.

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  • none [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    Key thing about the FBI was that is was run by a fairly openly (for the time) gay man for majority of its existence, specifically during this time when the dynamics were being entrenched.

    Not about hating homosexuality, it’s about control and power. Creating a premise on which to blackmail people not out of vigilance against intrusion, but so they could weild over others. Sex of any sort is OK as long as in reinforces hireachy.