Tilden was arrested in November 1946 on Sunset Boulevard by the Beverly Hills police and charged with a misdemeanor ("contributing to the delinquency of a minor") for soliciting an under-age male, a 14-year-old boy with whom he was having sex in a moving vehicle. Tilden did not carry his glasses with him and signed a confession without reading it.[17] He was sentenced to a year in prison, but served 7½ months. His five-year parole conditions were so strict they virtually erased all his income from private lessons.[17] He was arrested again in January 1949, after picking up a 16-year-old hitchhiker who remained anonymous until years later, when he filed a lawsuit claiming he had suffered severe mental, physical, and emotional damage from the encounter. The judge sentenced Tilden to a year on probation violation and let the punishment for the charge run concurrently. Tilden served ten months.
Conviction of gays was easy in those days and seldom questioned.
Are you suggesting that we are more enlightened today and as a society condone an adult soliciting a teenager for sex? Or are the rules just different for gays? OK for a grown man to solicit a teenage boy, but not OK for a grown man to solicit a teenage girl?
if you are going to revisit historical persons who had young (very young) consensual gay relations you will need to remove Tchaicovsky, Alexander...just about every great Roman and Greek, Plato, Socrates, Oscar Wilde, Truman Capote, Da Vinci, Michelangelo..........
Gee, wonder if I could find anyone famous and respected in history that r@ped or sexually assaulted women (or are you OK with the r@pe, just the underage part?). Man, I'd have to really look hard I bet
Are you saying that because they are famous, its OK (provided it's not Michael Jackson of course)?
No what I'm saying is it was a very different time and situations but there is a huge difference with what Tilden did and Hewitt did..............
I see, if Hewitt had simply paid these girls for sex, everything would have been OK. Is that what you're saying (though I don't think he paid the hitchhiker. That was just a crime of opportunity and he clearly took advantage of a very emotionally fragile boy and ruined his life.......but its OK, nothing like what Hewitt did
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I suppose when you are watching that Dateline show where they catch sexual predators in the act, you feel sorry for the predators because they were obviously entrapped? Or only if the predators are gay (because we can't say anything bad about gay people, even if they solicit sex from minors. That just wouldn't be politically correct).
If anything Tilden should be pitied
If anything, you should be pitied. So ready to stand up for "gay rights" you defend Tilden's actions. You are a sick person DUROC. And so is Sureshs.
