Here's a US based research project which readers might be interested in getting involved with.
F.B.I. Surveillance of Homosexuals and Gay Groups
OutHistory.org, the website on LGBT history, is asking the public to
help document the evidence of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s
surveillance of homosexuals, alleged homosexuals, and gay groups
around the nation.
The website encourages the community’s participation in the recovery
of LGBT history. It offers a public forum for logged on users to add
to existing entries and create new articles.
Historian Jonathan Ned Katz, co-director of OutHistory, initiated the
survey after seeing the film J. Edgar. “After viewing that speculative
interpretation of J. Edgar Hoover’s life I was eager to know what
evidence exists of the rumors about his sexual proclivities. I wanted
to learn what was actually documented about the F.B.I.’s spying on
homosexuals, alleged homosexuals, and homosexual rights groups.”
“After surveying some of what’s published about the FBI’s surveillance
of homosexuality, I put notes about it on OutHistory.org,” says Katz.
“But I soon realized that the numbers of persons spied on, and the
quantity of spying incidents is much greater than I could research by
myself.
To initiate this public research project, Katz created an OutHistory
page titled the “F.B.I. and Homosexuality”. This introduces the
subject, and provides links to (1) a bibliography of relevant articles
and books, (2) a chronology of events, and (3) a list of persons and
groups investigated. All of these are open to public additions. Katz
asks the public to add data to these entries.
OutHistory’s introduction to this survey may be viewed at:
http://www.outhistory.org/wiki/F.B.I._and_Homosexuality:_A_History
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