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- The Boise homosexuality scandal refers to a sweeping investigation of a supposed "homosexual underground" in Boise, Idaho that started in 1955.
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The Boise homosexuality scandal refers to a sweeping investigation of a supposed "homosexual underground" in Boise, Idaho that started in 1955. Beginning with the arrest of three men in October 1955, the investigation broadened to encompass allegations that more than 100 young men and teenage boys had been involved in sexual acts with a ring of ...
- John Gerassi
- 1966
Oct 24, 2015 · Updated October 30, 2015 6:52 PM. How the Idaho Statesman helped fuel the 1955 Boys of Boise hysteria. By Bill Dentzer. The day after Halloween in 1955, a Tuesday, a DC-6 crashed in...
Jun 8, 2023 · Between the fall of 1955 and spring of 1956, sixteen men were arrested in a moralistic scandal that gripped Boise. Allegedly, they were arrested to protect children from sex crimes for which there was very little evidence, but with historical perspective, the scandal was just one ripple effect of the Red and Lavender Scares.
What really happened in this homosexual sex scandal in 1955? Why is it a piece of Boise’s past that tends to be forgotten? On November 3, 1955, the current issue of The Idaho Statesman was published with a marked concern regarding Boise’s culture.
In the fall of 1955, a gay sex scandal erupted in the unassuming, wholesome and “vice-less” town of Boise, Idaho as male teenage sex workers began to disclose their dalliances to authorities. Overnight, Boise’s same-sex underworld, comprised mostly of married family men, was splashed onto headlines and thrust into the spotlight.
In 1955, a manufactured scandal, pushed by the Idaho Daily Statesman and conservative elites, rocked the city of Boise, Idaho with charges of a widespread "homosexual underworld" and a number of convictions of members of the Boise community to sentences ranging from probation to life imprisonment.
The Fall of '55 (2006) is a Documentary film about the Boise homosexuality scandal, a witch-hunt targeted at homosexuals in 1955 that resulted in a number of arrests and prison terms ranging anywhere from six months to life in prison.
