Timothy Stewart-Winter — Outed: LBJ's Confidant and the Arrest That Transformed a Presidency - With Thomas Mallon — at The Wharf

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The story of the scandal in the LBJ administration that first brought queer life into the national political conversation in the 1960s. In 1964, Lyndon B. Johnson's longest serving and most trusted advisor, Walter Jenkins, was arrested for soliciting sex in a YMCA bathroom near the White House. The scandal blasted across the front pages of major US newspapers, was dissected and analyzed by the FBI, and became a watershed in making straight America aware of queer life. In Outed, historian Timothy Stewart Winter reveals that the effects of antigay policing were felt not only by the men but by their colleagues, families, and, in this case, the First Family. Walter Jenkins's political banishment had long ranging effects, from how Johnson conducted the remainder of his pres…

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