[Clipping: "DPD vice unit wages 50-year war against gay men" and other highlighted news]

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Newspaper clipping from Pegasus News featuring the article that extends over multiple pages "DPD vice unit wages 50-year war against gay men" published in August of 2007. The article appears highlighted and focus on the the prosecution of the gay community by the DPD in Dallas through the abuse of sodomy and lewdness laws in the 1950s and 1960s.

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34 x 29 cm.

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Webb, David August 3, 2007.

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Newspaper clipping from Pegasus News featuring the article that extends over multiple pages "DPD vice unit wages 50-year war against gay men" published in August of 2007. The article appears highlighted and focus on the the prosecution of the gay community by the DPD in Dallas through the abuse of sodomy and lewdness laws in the 1950s and 1960s.

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34 x 29 cm.

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  • Pegasus News, Dallas, August 3, 2007

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  • Preferred Citation: Jack Evans and George E. Harris Collection (The Dallas Way) (AR0788), University of North Texas Special Collections

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LGBT Collections

Publications pertaining to issues relevant to the LGBT community. The collection includes The Dallas Voice, a weekly newspaper for the gay community in North Texas that has been published since 1984.

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  • August 3, 2007

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Webb, David. [Clipping: "DPD vice unit wages 50-year war against gay men" and other highlighted news], clipping, August 3, 2007; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1730117/: accessed May 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.

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