December 8, 2011
LGBTQ* History You Should Know (And Probably Never Heard Of)  Homo History and the Prisoner of Alcatraz Alcatraz,  San Francisco Bay’s “Rock,” opened as a prison in the 1934. The prison, considered the most intense maximum-security facility in the United States, housed the most “dangerous and incorrigible” criminals in the country. Murderers, mob bosses, serial murderers and enemies of the state were sent to Alcatraz. Also incarcerated at the mighty prison where men who committed the punishable crime of sodomy. Frank Bolt (pictured above) was Alcatraz’s first inmate, processed on July 1, 1934. Bolt was convicted and imprisoned on the charge of being caught in a homosexual act and received a five-year sentence for acts of sodomy. He would later die at Alcatraz. -Nine of the first twenty-five prisoners processed and housed at Alcatraz were jailed on charges of sodomy. Source: The Portable Queer: Homo History p.25-26

LGBTQ* History You Should Know (And Probably Never Heard Of)

 Homo History and the Prisoner of Alcatraz

Alcatraz,  San Francisco Bay’s “Rock,” opened as a prison in the 1934. The prison, considered the most intense maximum-security facility in the United States, housed the most “dangerous and incorrigible” criminals in the country. Murderers, mob bosses, serial murderers and enemies of the state were sent to Alcatraz. Also incarcerated at the mighty prison where men who committed the punishable crime of sodomy.

Frank Bolt (pictured above) was Alcatraz’s first inmate, processed on July 1, 1934. Bolt was convicted and imprisoned on the charge of being caught in a homosexual act and received a five-year sentence for acts of sodomy. He would later die at Alcatraz.

-Nine of the first twenty-five prisoners processed and housed at Alcatraz were jailed on charges of sodomy.

Source: The Portable Queer: Homo History p.25-26

(Source: knowhomo, via projectqueer)

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