Lindsay Graham
speaker
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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Only now, as the cuffs slap against your wrists, do you realize that this was all a setup.
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In cities and towns across America, LGBTQ people were targeted, arrested, then threatened with public embarrassment and large fines.
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This process was known as entrapment, even though police officials publicly denied any such practice.
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In New York City, police were well aware of cruising culture and used it as a way to arrest and shake down gay men.
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And by nineteen sixty six, city police were using entrapment methods to arrest more than one hundred men a week.
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Many of these arrested men called into the New York branch of the Matachin Society to report their stories of entrapment, and the new president of Matachin, New York wanted to do something.
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Dick Leash had grown up in Kentucky, where he'd been one of those gay men drawn to the bright lights of New York.
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Dick Leish had grown up in Kentucky, where he'd been one of those gay men drawn to the bright lights of New York.
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But after arriving in the village, Leish realized that the cosmopolitan city he'd relocated to was in some ways more dangerous than his hometown.
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Now, as a Matachine leader, the 31-year-old decided his first order of business would be to try to eliminate the practice of entrapment.
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He and other Matachin volunteers began to chronicle the stories of men who'd been entrapped, and a pattern emerged.
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A man would be approached at a gay bar or a park by a plainclothes police officer dressed and acting as if he were looking for sex.
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In some cases the officer would even engage in sexual contact, and only afterward announce that he was making an arrest.
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Once the victim was cuffed and booked at a police station, the officer would recommend an attorney, someone who specialized in the relevant charges, usually solicitation or loitering.
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But of course, the attorneys didn't come cheap, and they were in on the scheme.
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The arrested men, fearful for their jobs and their reputations, and often their wives back home, succumbed to the pressure.
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For the police, it was a double win.
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They hit their quota of arrests while also getting kickbacks from the exorbitant lawyer fees.
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In the fall of nineteen sixty six, Leisch and the Matachin Society were heartened by the election of John Lindsay as the new mayor of New York.
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The good looking Republican inspired comparisons to John Kennedy, and his win was tentatively seen as a good thing by LGBTQ voters who felt things couldn't have been any worse under the previous mayor, and that perhaps this new one would begin to listen.
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