| | glbtq >> social sciences >> Sweden |
 | | As elsewhere in the western world, when the cold war was at its frostiest, the homosexual became a public enemy and a threat to the security of the nation. |
 | | These attitudes may be seen in two scandals that haunted Sweden in the 1950s, the Haijby and Kejne "affairs." Kurt Haijby was a young man who had become acquainted with King Gustav V and thereafter received large amounts of money from the court to keep quiet about his liaison. |
 | | In May 1950, the Kejne affair broke in the press. |
| www.glbtq.com /social-sciences/sweden,2.html (795 words) |