The Boston Sex Scandal

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"During the past decade the growing gay movement has come under increasing attacks from the reactionaries. Coordinated campaigns by Anita Bryant, LAPD Det. Lloyd Martin, Judianne Densen-Gerber and many others sought to mobilize prejudice against "gay rights" by depicting all gay men as "child molesters" and "kiddie pornographers." In the 1970's, massive police round-ups were launched in L.A., New Orleans, Boston and other cities, using the cover of sensational press lies and false charges of rape and abuse of minors. The Boston Sex Scandal is a detailed and documents story of the official attack unleashed in Boston. It is the history of political corruption, exploitation of homophobia, dirty politics by the established political machine, and the panic of established gay leaders in the midst of a witchhunt. The Boston Sex Scandal is, more importantly, also the story of a resistance, begun by a few radical homosexuals, which built on the gay community so that, for the first time, the gay movement embraced gay pedophiles and their cause and fought back. The Boston Sex Scandal is the history of a beginning" -- Page 4 of cover.