Guy Strait - Revision history

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	==Guy Strait and J. Edgar Hoover==		==Guy Strait and J. Edgar Hoover==

	Anthony Summers' J. Edgar Hoover biography, "Official and Confidential", says that an older associate of Lyric's owner took two boys from the Lyric studio down to Hoover in San Diego. Strait was the oldest of those arrested in the 1973 scandal. Linedecker says Strait "claims to be the first person to accuse Hoover of being a closet queen." Strait may have been the unidentified "older associate"; Summers and other clearly knew the name.		Anthony Summers' [[J. Edgar Hoover]] biography, "Official and Confidential", says that an older associate of Lyric's owner took two boys from the Lyric studio down to Hoover in San Diego. Strait was the oldest of those arrested in the 1973 scandal. Linedecker says Strait "claims to be the first person to accuse Hoover of being a closet queen." Strait may have been the unidentified "older associate"; Summers and other clearly knew the name.

	==Further Information==		==Further Information==

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	*[https://www.boywiki.org/en/Guy_Strait BoyWiki Article] - Similar detail, and pics.		*[https://www.boywiki.org/en/Guy_Strait BoyWiki Article] - Similar detail, and pics.

			==References==

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	<div style="margin-right: 25px; float: left;">__TOC__</div>'''Guy Strait''' (March 25, 1920-March, 1987), founded the first gay newspaper in San Francisco in 1961. By 1977, he had "cornered the market on the production of 'kiddie porn'".<ref>For discussion of Strait's ~~arrest~~, see Mori Reithmayr, ''[https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f2870916-9c5f-4145-bff4-f3c376837d2f/download_file?file_format=application%2Fpdf&safe_filename=Reithmayr_2022_Community_before_liberation.pdf&type_of_work=Thesis Community before Liberation: Theorizing Gay Resistance in San Francisco, 1953-1969]'' (2022 PhD Thesis, University of Oxford). See especially Ch. 4, ''Guy Strait and the openness of early homophile theorizing of community''.</ref>		<div style="margin-right: 25px; float: left;">__TOC__</div>'''Guy Strait''' (March 25, 1920-March, 1987), founded the first gay newspaper in San Francisco in 1961. By 1977, he had "cornered the market on the production of 'kiddie porn'".<ref>For discussion of Strait's relationship to the early gay community, see Mori Reithmayr, ''[https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f2870916-9c5f-4145-bff4-f3c376837d2f/download_file?file_format=application%2Fpdf&safe_filename=Reithmayr_2022_Community_before_liberation.pdf&type_of_work=Thesis Community before Liberation: Theorizing Gay Resistance in San Francisco, 1953-1969]'' (2022 PhD Thesis, University of Oxford). See especially Ch. 4, ''Guy Strait and the openness of early homophile theorizing of community''.</ref>

	It is belittling to dismiss Guy Strait as a child pornographer, or excuse him as a pornographer who strayed over the bounds into children, or explain him as a product of the San Francisco sixties counterculture. In some ways that counterculture was a product of Guy Strait. He published the city’s first gay newspapers in 1961. He defined that time and place: his 1967 essay “What is a Hippie?” is on college reading lists today.		It is belittling to dismiss Guy Strait as a child pornographer, or excuse him as a pornographer who strayed over the bounds into children, or explain him as a product of the San Francisco sixties counterculture. In some ways that counterculture was a product of Guy Strait. He published the city’s first gay newspapers in 1961. He defined that time and place: his 1967 essay “What is a Hippie?” is on college reading lists today.

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	<div style="margin-right: 25px; float: left;">__TOC__</div>'''Guy Strait''' (March 25, 1920-March, 1987), founded the first gay newspaper in San Francisco in 1961. By 1977, he had "cornered the market on the production of 'kiddie porn'".		<div style="margin-right: 25px; float: left;">__TOC__</div>'''Guy Strait''' (March 25, 1920-March, 1987), founded the first gay newspaper in San Francisco in 1961. By 1977, he had "cornered the market on the production of 'kiddie porn'".<ref>For discussion of Strait's arrest, see Mori Reithmayr, ''[https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f2870916-9c5f-4145-bff4-f3c376837d2f/download_file?file_format=application%2Fpdf&safe_filename=Reithmayr_2022_Community_before_liberation.pdf&type_of_work=Thesis Community before Liberation: Theorizing Gay Resistance in San Francisco, 1953-1969]'' (2022 PhD Thesis, University of Oxford). See especially Ch. 4, ''Guy Strait and the openness of early homophile theorizing of community''.</ref>

	It is belittling to dismiss Guy Strait as a child pornographer, or excuse him as a pornographer who strayed over the bounds into children, or explain him as a product of the San Francisco sixties counterculture. In some ways that counterculture was a product of Guy Strait. He published the city’s first gay newspapers in 1961. He defined that time and place: his 1967 essay “What is a Hippie?” is on college reading lists today.		It is belittling to dismiss Guy Strait as a child pornographer, or excuse him as a pornographer who strayed over the bounds into children, or explain him as a product of the San Francisco sixties counterculture. In some ways that counterculture was a product of Guy Strait. He published the city’s first gay newspapers in 1961. He defined that time and place: his 1967 essay “What is a Hippie?” is on college reading lists today.

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	Strait was arrested in the fall of 1973, in the scandal that brought down Lyric and which the Meese Commission later called "the first child pornography ring [...] brought to public view." (Attorney General's Commission on Pornography (1986) PART 3: Law Enforcement Recommendations. Chapter 3, paragraph 5. [http://www.porn-report.com/303-child-pornography-law-recommendations.htm])		Strait was arrested in the fall of 1973, in the scandal that brought down Lyric and which the Meese Commission later called "the first child pornography ring [...] brought to public view." (Attorney General's Commission on Pornography (1986) PART 3: Law Enforcement Recommendations. Chapter 3, paragraph 5. [http://www.porn-report.com/303-child-pornography-law-recommendations.htm])

	Strait and an associate were arrested before the others twelve accused in the scanal. Samples of Strait's work had turned up when a "sex ring" was broken up in Houston, and an unedited film was found by police in the Redwood City trailer. Strait says the film showed three boys and a girl, while Sgt. Lloyd Martin of the LAPD (who seems to be fixated on boys) mentions only the three boys. But apparently the Holiday Inn mirror reflected Strait with a 16mm camera on his shoulder.		Strait and an associate were arrested before the others twelve accused in the scanal. Samples of Strait's work had turned up when a "sex ring" was broken up in Houston, and an unedited film was found by police in the Redwood City trailer. Strait says the film showed three boys and a girl, while Sgt. [[Lloyd Martin]] of the LAPD (who seems to be fixated on boys) mentions only the three boys. But apparently the Holiday Inn mirror reflected Strait with a 16mm camera on his shoulder.

	Strait says he jumped bail and the charges were later dropped. Linedecker says he "became something of a cause celebré for a time." Robin Lloyd quotes one of Strait's magazines as saying he was in Turkey or Greece but that police thought he was in New York. He was actually in Rockford, Illinois. He was arrested in Phoenix, Arizona on April 23, 1976 and charged with a "nearly four-year-old incident in Rockford." (Something's wrong here, since that would be before he left California.) He served three years in prison in Illinois, first at Statesville Prison and then at Vienna Correctional Center. He was released in 1980, just after his sixtieth birthday. Online rumor says he left the country and died in exile in Europe. The Social Security Death Index Search on rootsweb.com (ssdi.rootsweb.com) gives his date of death as March, 1987.		Strait says he jumped bail and the charges were later dropped. Linedecker says he "became something of a cause celebré for a time." Robin Lloyd quotes one of Strait's magazines as saying he was in Turkey or Greece but that police thought he was in New York. He was actually in Rockford, Illinois. He was arrested in Phoenix, Arizona on April 23, 1976 and charged with a "nearly four-year-old incident in Rockford." (Something's wrong here, since that would be before he left California.) He served three years in prison in Illinois, first at Statesville Prison and then at Vienna Correctional Center. He was released in 1980, just after his sixtieth birthday. Online rumor says he left the country and died in exile in Europe. The Social Security Death Index Search on rootsweb.com (ssdi.rootsweb.com) gives his date of death as March, 1987.

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	*[https://www.boywiki.org/en/Guy_Strait BoyWiki Article] - Similar detail, and pics.		*[https://www.boywiki.org/en/Guy_Strait BoyWiki Article] - Similar detail, and pics.

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	*[https://www.boywiki.org/en/Guy_Strait BoyWiki Article] - Similar detail, and pics.		*[https://www.boywiki.org/en/Guy_Strait BoyWiki Article] - Similar detail, and pics.

	[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Censorship]][[Category:Gay]][[Category:Child Pornography]][[Category:Art]][[Category:TV and Media]][[Category:People]][[Category:People: American]][[Category:People: Deceased]][[Category:People: Media]][[Category:History & Events: Personal Scandals]][[Category:Law/Crime]][[Category:Law/Crime: American]][[Category:History & Events: Real Crime]][[Category:History & Events: American]][[Category:History & Events: 1970s]][[Category:History & Events: 1980s]]		[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Censorship]][[Category:Gay]][[Category:Child Pornography]][[Category:Art]][[Category:TV and Media]][[Category:People]][[Category:People: Sympathetic Activists]][[Category:People: American]][[Category:People: Deceased]][[Category:People: Media]][[Category:History & Events: Personal Scandals]][[Category:Law/Crime]][[Category:Law/Crime: American]][[Category:History & Events: Real Crime]][[Category:History & Events: American]][[Category:History & Events: 1970s]][[Category:History & Events: 1980s]]

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	Strait told a Senate subcommittee that he wouldn't photograph children under fourteen for pornography. "Over fourteen, I don't consider them children. They're sexually mature. Let's say fourteen is not a child, thirteen may or may not be, and fifteen sure as hell is not." He claimed to have no trouble finding models. "No one jumps in front of a camera for money. These kids do it for ego. Take a youngster who has never been appreciated. You tell him he's good looking enough to be in front of a camera and people will want to see him and be interested." According to one of the reports of the Illinois Legislative Investigating Committee, he claims never to have filmed children in sexual activity with adults. (Sexual Exploitation of Children, a report to the General Assembly. Illinois Legislative Investigating Committee. Chicago, Ill. August 1980, p. 167.)		Strait told a Senate subcommittee that he wouldn't photograph children under fourteen for pornography. "Over fourteen, I don't consider them children. They're sexually mature. Let's say fourteen is not a child, thirteen may or may not be, and fifteen sure as hell is not." He claimed to have no trouble finding models. "No one jumps in front of a camera for money. These kids do it for ego. Take a youngster who has never been appreciated. You tell him he's good looking enough to be in front of a camera and people will want to see him and be interested." According to one of the reports of the Illinois Legislative Investigating Committee, he claims never to have filmed children in sexual activity with adults. (Sexual Exploitation of Children, a report to the General Assembly. Illinois Legislative Investigating Committee. Chicago, Ill. August 1980, p. 167.)

	It is worth noting that at Strait's prime in the pornography business, the [[~~age~~ of ~~consent~~]] in many states was fourteen. While accusations involving pornographic films were bandied about in the press in the 1973 scandal, none of the 90 indictments were for pornography, and Strait was sent to prison not for filming three Rockford boys, but for taking one of them to bed afterwards.		It is worth noting that at Strait's prime in the pornography business, the [[Age of Consent]] in many states was fourteen. While accusations involving pornographic films were bandied about in the press in the 1973 scandal, none of the 90 indictments were for pornography, and Strait was sent to prison not for filming three Rockford boys, but for taking one of them to bed afterwards.

	==Los Angeles and Lyric==		==Los Angeles and Lyric==

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	==External links==		==External links==

	*[https://www.boywiki.org/en/Guy_Strait BoyWiki Article]]		*[https://www.boywiki.org/en/Guy_Strait BoyWiki Article] - Similar detail, and pics.

	[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Censorship]][[Category:Gay]][[Category:Child Pornography]][[Category:Art]][[Category:TV and Media]][[Category:People]][[Category:People: American]][[Category:People: Deceased]][[Category:People: Media]][[Category:History & Events: Personal Scandals]][[Category:Law/Crime]][[Category:Law/Crime: American]][[Category:History & Events: Real Crime]][[Category:History & Events: American]][[Category:History & Events: 1970s]][[Category:History & Events: 1980s]]		[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Censorship]][[Category:Gay]][[Category:Child Pornography]][[Category:Art]][[Category:TV and Media]][[Category:People]][[Category:People: American]][[Category:People: Deceased]][[Category:People: Media]][[Category:History & Events: Personal Scandals]][[Category:Law/Crime]][[Category:Law/Crime: American]][[Category:History & Events: Real Crime]][[Category:History & Events: American]][[Category:History & Events: 1970s]][[Category:History & Events: 1980s]]

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	The Chicago Tribune articles are reprinted in Sexual Exploitation of Children, Hearings Before the Subcomm. on Crime of the House Comm. on the Judiciary, 95th Cong., 1st Sess. (1977) pp 428-42. The "statement of Guy Strait, producer of child pornography" appears in the same volume on pp 23-28.		The Chicago Tribune articles are reprinted in Sexual Exploitation of Children, Hearings Before the Subcomm. on Crime of the House Comm. on the Judiciary, 95th Cong., 1st Sess. (1977) pp 428-42. The "statement of Guy Strait, producer of child pornography" appears in the same volume on pp 23-28.

			==External links==

			*[https://www.boywiki.org/en/Guy_Strait BoyWiki Article]]

	[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Censorship]][[Category:Gay]][[Category:Child Pornography]][[Category:Art]][[Category:TV and Media]][[Category:People]][[Category:People: American]][[Category:People: Deceased]][[Category:People: Media]][[Category:History & Events: Personal Scandals]][[Category:Law/Crime]][[Category:Law/Crime: American]][[Category:History & Events: Real Crime]][[Category:History & Events: American]][[Category:History & Events: 1970s]][[Category:History & Events: 1980s]]		[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Censorship]][[Category:Gay]][[Category:Child Pornography]][[Category:Art]][[Category:TV and Media]][[Category:People]][[Category:People: American]][[Category:People: Deceased]][[Category:People: Media]][[Category:History & Events: Personal Scandals]][[Category:Law/Crime]][[Category:Law/Crime: American]][[Category:History & Events: Real Crime]][[Category:History & Events: American]][[Category:History & Events: 1970s]][[Category:History & Events: 1980s]]