Eric Cervini

“After two Republican senators learned that the son of Senator Lester Hunt of Wyoming, a Democrat, had been arrested in Lafayette Park, they gave Hunt a choice. He could withdraw from his 1954 reelection campaign or face the publicity of his son’s homosexual arrest. The Senate was virtually tied. If Hunt resigned, he risked shifting power to the Republicans. On the morning of June 19, 1954, Senator Hunt, a straight victim of antigay political blackmail, entered his Capitol office and shot himself with a .22-caliber rifle.”
― Eric Cervini, The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America

“What the hell ever happened to the concept of freedom and equality that we espouse?” wrote Dick Michaels, editor of The Los Angeles Advocate. “What difference does it make whether the straights push us around directly or do it through other, uptight homosexuals. This is what the concept of ‘image’ eventually leads to. The image becomes more important than the goal.”
― Eric Cervini, The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America