Boutilier v. Immigration and Naturalization Service (1967), by Marc Stein

This was originally published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1967 ruling in Boutilier v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, which upheld the deportation of Clive Michael Boutilier, a Canadian citizen and U.S. permanent resident classified by the INS as “afflicted with psychopathic personality” based on his homosexuality. First published by OutHistory on May 22, 2017.

Mainstream Media

Sidney E. Zion, “U.S. Appeals Court Backs Order Deporting Alien as Homosexual,” New York Times, 9 July 1966, 12.

“The Case of the Elusive Euphemism,” Time, 22 July 1966, 45-46.

“Other Action,” Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, 7 Nov. 1966.

“Court Will Rule on Homosexuals,” New York Times, 8 Nov. 1966, 24.

“Supreme Court’s Actions,” New York Times, 8 Nov. 1966, 24.

“Deportation of Alien Homosexual Fought,” ACLU Bulletin #2295, 3 Apr. 1967, 4.

“Deportation for Homosexuality Violates Due Process, Union Tells High Court,” Civil Liberties, Apr. 1967, 6.

Barry Schweid, “Hoffa Will Get Hearing on His Fraud Conviction,” Bridgeport Telegram [CT],23 May 1967, 7.

Barry Schweid, “Supreme Court Grants New Hearing for Hoffa,” Kennebec Journal [ME], 23 May 1967, 8.

“Alabama Integration Delay Turned Down,” Los Angeles Times, May 23, 1967, 6.

“Alien Homosexuals Can’t Enter,” Tucson Daily Citizen, 23 May 1967, 22.

“Court Bars Homosexuals from Admission to US,” Modesto Bee [CA],23 May 1967, A7.

“High Court Denies Homosexual Plea,” New York Times, 23 May 1967, 49.

“High Court Eyes One-Man, One-Vote Rule at City Level,” San Antonio Express, 23 May 1967, A4.

“High Court Orders New Hoffa Hearing,” Cumberland News, 23 May 1967, 1.

“High Court Rejects Appeal of Sex Deviate to Stay in U.S.,” Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, 23 May 1967, 13.

“Hoffa Has Chance to Upset Charge,” Idaho Falls Post-Register, 23 May 1967, 11.

“Hoffa Wins Chance to Upset Conviction,” Oil City Derrick [PA], 23 May 1967, 2.

“Hoffa Wins Hearing on Mail Fraud,” Frederick Post [MD],23 May 1967, 1.

“Hoffa Wins Hearing on Mail Fraud,” Frederick News [MD], 23 May 1967, 18.

“Homosexuals Ban Upheld,” Long Beach Independent Press-Telegram [CA], 23 May 1967, A4.

“Homosexuals Ineligible for U.S. Entry,” London Free Press [Ontario, Canada], 23 May 1967.

“Homosexuals Ruled Ineligible to Enter U.S.,” Toronto Globe and Mail [Ontario, Canada], 23 May 1967.

“Right to Bar Immigrants on Morals Okayed,” Lubbock Avalanche-Journal [TX],23 May 1967, 10.

“Sex Deviates Can Be Barred from U.S.,” Petersburg Progress-Index [VA], 23 May 1967, 2.

“Tribunal Says Immigration Ban Means Homosexuals,” Fresno Bee [CA],23 May 1967, 12A.

“What’s News,” Wall Street Journal, 23 May 1967, 1.

“High Court Gives Drug Firms Right to Challenge Curbs,” Washington Post, 23 May 1967, A2.

“Supreme Court’s Actions,” New York Times, 23 May 1967, 33.

“Supreme Court Actions,” New York Times, 23 May 1967, 61.

“Canadian Homosexual Deported from U.S.,” Toronto Star [Ontario, Canada],24 May 1967.

“Court Upholds U.S. Ban on Homosexuals,” Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph, 24 May 1967, 3A.

“Court Upholds U.S. Power to Bar Homosexual,” Cedar Rapids Gazette [IA],24 May 1967, 20C.

“Court Rules on Ineligible Immigrants,” Stars and Stripes [European], 24 May 1967, 3.

“Immigration Ban on Homosexuals,” Stars and Stripes [Pacific], 24 May 1967, 4.

“Reformists Hit Rule on Homosexuals,” Doylestown Daily Intelligencer [PA], 24 May 1967, 2.

“State News in Brief,” Tyrone Daily Herald [PA], 24 May 1967, 5.

“Court Ruling Attacked,” Mansfield News Journal [OH], 25 May 1967, 17.

“Supreme Court Is Said Unjust in Deportation of Homosexuals,” Raleigh Register [WV] 25 May 1967, 11.

“The Nation: Decision on Homosexuality,” Los Angeles Times, 28 May 1967, D4.

Letter to the Editor, “Are Homosexuals Psychopathic?,” Playboy, July 1967,135.

“Deportation of Homosexuals – An Important Case,” Sexology, Aug. 1967, 71.

Joseph Murray, Playboy Forum, Playboy, Sept. 1967, 184.

Webster Schott, “Civil Rights and the Homosexual: A 4-Million Minority Asks for Equal Rights,” New York Times, 12 Nov 1967, 44-47, 49-50, 52, 54, 59-60, 62, 66, 69-70, 72-73.

Clark P. Polak, letter to the editor, Sexology, Jan. 1968, 388.

“A Minority’s Plea: U.S. Homosexuals Gain in Trying to Persuade Society to Accept Them,” Wall Street Journal, 17July 1968, 1, 23.

Martin Hoffman, “Homosexual,” Psychology Today, 3, no. 2 (1969): 43-45, 70.