The Long Beach Gay Trials: A History of Injustice

by Gerrie Schipske

How Long Beach caused the death of John A. Lamb.

Immediately after his 1914 election as mayor of Long Beach, Louis Napoleon Whealton fired the chief of police and raided the city treasury. To replenish the funds, Mayor Whealton concocted a scheme to collect fines from any male "who made advances toward other men." Two special police officers entrapped and arrested thirty-one men, dragging them before a judge to pay...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467157716
• ISBN13: 9781467157711
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 192 Pages