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Partisan, one-sided, the point was that Shaw was prosecuted for this crime only because he was gay, a one-sided view boiled down to some 3 pages In Exile. The anti-Garrison position was presented in the huge volume by James Kirkwood published in 1970, American Grotesque, a book quite sympathetic to homosexuals. Their view is one heard in the 60s - Garrison, a closeted gay, persecuted the innocent Shaw for a variety of reasons, mostly which a psychiatrist might have to unravel. Yet, all the attention to gay New Orleans barely makes a ripple in the Perez/Palmquist book. And this at a time even before the Stonewall riots in New York. Suddenly, there was so much gay gossip and allegations in the national news - news stemming from New Orleans.
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Others suspected of being involved in the plot included David Ferrie, a pilot fired from Eastern Airlines after being convicted of sex with a male teen. Local attorney Dean Andrews claimed that Lee Oswald had come to his office in the early 1960s accompanied with a bunch of gay Latinos. And it was not merely Shaw in the spotlight. One of the big issues nationally in the late 60s was the case of Garrison against Shaw. As the legal maneuvering continued over months, Annette, who would later marry a psychiatrist, added that she had heard the reason for the prosecution was that Shaw would not let Garrison into Shaw's gay circle. The implication was that a gay was too frilly, too frivolous to be involved in anything serious like an assassination. A colleague, Annette, dismissed the entire investigation, "How could Shaw be involved? He's a homosexual!" I was shocked that someone could be judged innocent of murder simply because he was gay. In the late 1960s I was teaching at a Black university in New Orleans as news blared the latest information about District Attorney Jim Garrison's prosecution of local businessman Clay Shaw for partaking in a conspiracy that resulted in the assassination of Pres.
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This book helped me learn of events in gay New Orleans that followed my departure. A former Associate Professor of English, Perez now lives in the French Quarter.
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in English from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 1997. in Criminal Justice from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 1991 and an M.A. Perez currently serves as President of the LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana, a non-profit organization devoted the preservation of LGBT+ history. He has developed a walking tour of New Orleans' rich LGBT+ history. In addition to writing, Perez also owns a small business and is a licensed tour guide. His publications also include a number of scholarly articles in academic journals as well as a number of poems and short stories in various literary journals. He also writes a column on gay New Orleans history for Ambush Magazine. He is also the co-editor (with Jeffrey Palmquist) of My Gay New Orleans: 28 Personal Reminiscences on LGBT+ Life in New Orleans. Frank Perez is a writer who has authored two books: In Exile: The History and Lore Surrounding New Orleans Gay Culture and Its Oldest Gay Bar (with Jeffrey Palmquist) and Treasures of the Vieux Carre: Ten Self-Guided Walking Tours of the French Quarter.