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In those men who we call Gay today were known in the headlines as “deviants.” Stage 3) The scandalous news broke on August 22, and that was the day it became very dangerous in Mansfield to be Gay. The Police had set up a secret camera in the underground restroom to film the carnal intimacies of Gay men’s covert rendezvous. Tearoom consists of footage shot by the police in the course of a crackdown on public sex in the American Midwest. In the summer of , the Mansfield, Ohio Police Department photographed men in a restroom under the main square of the city.
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On June 23, , in Mansfield, Ohio, the brutal murder of two young girls led to the arrest of Jerrell R. Howell, who admitted to the killings after a struggle to force them “to perform oral sodomy.” Later found incompetent to stand trial, during interrogations Howell had pinned the blame on a specter already haunting law enforcement officers. The culprit insisted that the source of the. Jones, Tearoom. William E. Mansfield 1962
Abstract In August of , police in Mansfield, Ohio, a small industrial city in the Midwest heartland, arrested 18 men on sodomy charges following an undercover public restroom surveillance operation in a public park. The day after most of the arrests had been made, the headline, “Hidden Movie Camera Used By Police To Trap Sexual Deviates At Park Hangout,” splashed across the front page. Sooner or later everyone gets wind of the scandal in Mansfield, and they want to know about the famous underground restrooms in the Square. It has been more than 50 years since it happened, but still people lower their voice when they mention it like it might be a wound still too tender to touch. Case 11
In the summer of , the Mansfield, Ohio, Police Department photographed men in a restroom, filming from a closet through a two-way mirror. Their footage was used in court as evidence against the defendants, all of whom were found guilty of sodomy, which at that time carried a mandatory. In August of , police in Mansfield, Ohio, a small industrial city in the Midwest heartland, arrested 18 men on sodomy charges following an undercover public restroom surveillance operation in a public park. The sting would lead to not just the last sodomy prosecutions in the state before the laws were changed, but also to distribution of a narrated version of the surveillance film the police department produced as a how-to guide for other agencies. William E. Jones's Tearoom
By Vincent Lavoie In the summer of , the Mansfield, Ohio, police department, convinced that homosexual practices created a predisposition to perpetrate serious predatory crimes, decided to put the public restroom in a large park in its town under surveillance. The site was suspected of being the scene of clandestine sexual activities among men of various ages, origins, and social. Many LGBT were getting fed up of the way they were treated by officials and the not so official. People were at breaking point and life seemed unfairly hash for many LGBT at the time. 
Tearoom (1962)
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"Far and away the most historically revelatory work of art I've encountered all year" - Michael Sicinski, selected work, Whitney Biennial Read the Southern Voice review In Mansfield, Ohio, , police hid behind a two-way mirror in a public restroom and filmed the men who had sex there - the so-called "tearoom trade." They used this film footage to arrest and prosecute. .
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MANSFIELD (video, black and white, silent, 9 minutes, ) In the summer of , the Mansfield, Ohio, Police Department photographed men having sex in a public restroom under the main square of the city. A cameraman hid in a closet and watched the clandestine activities through a two-way mirror. .