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Pullman porter affair
1956 cover of Confidential magazine expose
DateSeptember 1940
TypeSex scandal
CauseLavender scare
ParticipantsSumner Welles
Outcomeforced resignation

The Pullman porter affair was a sex scandal involving the United States Under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles in September 1940. Welles — who was a closeted bisexual — was traveling with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt from Huntsville, Alabama to Washington, D.C., when he solicited sex from two male African-American Pullman porters. The resulting scandal resulted in Welles' resignation from the Department of State.[1]

  1. ^ Wallance, Gregory J. "Sex and the Secret Service". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 8, 2023.

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