Certainly being homosexual added to the leverage the blackmailers were able to exert on the victims during this era, but didn't the article also mention that all these men's partners were children? I'd suspect that this fact alone would make targets like this even more vulnerable to blackmail - for example to those with security clearances - today. And as well, for this reason it might also be appropriate to allocate at least some of ones own outrage toward these supposed "victims" themselves.
oceanmutt t1_j6hpbcn wrote
Reply to comment by -mudflaps- in The Chickens and the Bulls: The Rise and Incredible Fall of a Vicious Extortion Ring That Preyed on Prominent Gay Men in the 1960s by PhillipCrawfordJr
Certainly being homosexual added to the leverage the blackmailers were able to exert on the victims during this era, but didn't the article also mention that all these men's partners were children? I'd suspect that this fact alone would make targets like this even more vulnerable to blackmail - for example to those with security clearances - today. And as well, for this reason it might also be appropriate to allocate at least some of ones own outrage toward these supposed "victims" themselves.