Lindsey Graham
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American History Tellers · FAN FAVORITE: Stonewall | Why Don't You Do Something? | 3 · 16 Sep 2026
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The victims included a member of Congress, two Army generals, a Princeton professor, and a Navy admiral.
The last of these, Admiral William Church, took his own life rather than testify about his sexuality before a grand jury.
These stories were shocking, but even more shocking for some Stonewall patrons was that one of the extortionists named in the Times' exposé was also the club's doorman.
Tipped to the danger, the 1968 New York Mattachine Society newsletter warned its readers that Stonewall's doorman, Ed Murphy, was in fact an ex-felon,
In and out of jail his whole life, Murphy had been charged with larceny, extortion, and impersonating a police officer.
Murphy pled guilty under a federal indictment to the extortion charges.
But because Murphy had made a deal to provide the state with more evidence, his sentence was reduced to a mere five years probation.
With just a slap on the wrist, Murphy had escaped any jail time and was now back on the street.
Mattachine's newsletter reported, Murphy has an interest in the Stonewall, along with several other gay clubs in New York.
We caution our readers to never use your real name when cruising.
And remember, that trick or hustler you just picked up may be working for the management.
But it wasn't just Stonewall's doorman Murphy extorting money.
The scheme filtered down to Stonewall waiters and busboys as well.
They targeted middle-class gay men who looked like they could afford to pay.
Victims who could not pay were pulled further into the scheme and forced to turn around and blackmail other gay men.
There was nowhere, it seems, where LGBTQ people could exist without having to look over their shoulders.
Not Stonewall's dance floor, not the whole of the village.
The extortion rings stretch all the way to Wall Street.
According to one bartender who also worked as a pageboy on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, the pickings were all too easy.
Between the brokers, married and single, and the exchange employees, there were more gay men on Wall Street than at any gay bar.
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