Lindsay Graham
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1,224 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 6d ago
Lindsay Graham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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More often than not, citizens and performers were targeted in hostile ways by police because of their sexuality and the color of their skin.
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A young man named Aaron Payne experienced that hostility firsthand.
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A performer originally from Trenton, New Jersey, a twenty three year old Payne traveled to the village in the late forties to make a name for himself in the cabaret scene.
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A black gay man with thick coke bottle glasses, Payne performed bawdy stand up routines and torch songs that combined comedy with coded references to his experiences as a gay man.
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But after being arrested and convicted under vague charges that police characterized as degeneracy, Paine found himself unable to perform in any club, anywhere in the city.
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Despite this, Paine's routine was good enough that one club, called the Saud de Champagne, allowed him to perform without a cabaret license.
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But one night in nineteen fifty, a plainclothes policeman happened to catch Paine's performance.
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Shocked by the subject matter and shocked when he noticed other customers in the club who appeared to be gay, the policeman had the entire venue shut down.
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The city revoked the club's license for permitting homosexuals to congregate.
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and permitting a performance by a homosexual.
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But New York's crackdown on LGBTQ culture didn't stop at cabaret shutdowns.
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New York Mayor Robert Wagner trumpeted these actions as victories for law and order politics.
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The mayor's allies at the neighborhood level encouraged discriminatory practices in an open campaign to drive LGBTQ people from the area completely.
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Both active duty and plainclothes police infiltrated places where LGBTQ people gathered, arresting people indiscriminately.
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These arrests could happen anywhere in the city, in Harlem, in Midtown, and certainly in Greenwich Village, where the police trained their focus specifically on cruising culture.
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Cruising was slang for picking up sexual partners, and it was a way gay men could meet each other while not obviously outing themselves.
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One man could signal interest in another through glances or by walking past the other person repeatedly.
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Some people wore specific items of clothing, like brightly colored or folded scarves.
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You could cruise anywhere, on the street, in a bar, and for many it was a harmless and integral part of the gay male experience.
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But opinions on the safety of cruising varied drastically, as some men merely posed as gay in order to harass and attack gay men.
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