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Ed Murphy: Gay Blackmailer and Activist

Ed Murphy is not a relation, but he’s an interesting story in my life.  Ed was an integral figure in the “Chickens and the Bulls” homosexual blackmail scandal in the mid-1960s.  He was probably involved in a series of blackmail schemes run by the Mob out of the Stonewall Inn in New York as well.  He stole, and threatened and blackmailed most of his life.  He got away with it...