The Yankees and the Gay Community

In 1962, R.E.L. Masters study the homosexual revolution reported that vice squad's standard operating procedure was to send officers who quote, had been given formal instruction in common gay mannerisms to the bars. A decoy could pursue a patron into the late hours of the night trying to extract an offer from a timid partner or convince a worry customer of his own sexual intentions. In one lavatory in Los Angeles, officers stationed in an adjacent chamber could walk the length of the men's room alternating among a line of eye holes to watch acts of oral sex opposite the wall. New York, an officer hidden in the pipe chamber of the West Fourth Street subway station, watched for Las Vegas