1951-05-26

DONALD MACLEAN and GUY BURGESS, British spies; No…both spies were not born on the same day. But it is the day that the two British Foreign Office Officials defected to Russia, setting in motion an English witch hunt as vicious as America’s contemporary McCarthy investigations. Unfortunately for their Gay brothers, and especially for their old Oxford classmates, Maclean and Burgess were homosexuals. Their actions brought new meaning to the dreaded term “security risk” and cost numerous innocent Gay men and women their livelihoods and, in some cases, (as in the mathematician Alan Turing) their lives. No, Virginia, not all Gay men are good Gay men. And here’s a surprise…neither are straight men.