Witch Trials In The Crucible

The Witch trials, Much like salem in the 1690s, came back strong during the Gay Rights movements in the 1960s-1990s. People were labeled immoral- set apart from the crowd of people around them and hated for it, much like young girls in The Crucible. Police were sent out as “Public Morals Squad” To take down queer folk around gay bars or establishments, and leading into the aids epidemic, it ended in a lot of deaths and societal outrage. People were labeled Immoral, and treated like dirt. Advertised as sex offenders, many queer people felt unsafe coming out as their identities, and kept their real selves hidden from everyone around them. Children were told to avoid them like the plague for risk of their own safety. This is a lot like in the crucible, where children are taught strict religion from a very long age, and as they watch people go against it in any short way, they’re quickly overcome with the idea that they must hate god, or be possessed in some way by the devil. …show more content…
They would make wide assumptions about people in order to properly arrest them, and sometimes they would find an excuse to have gay people put in jail- An example would be stonewall riots, were they originally were sent to the Stonewall Inn to look at bottle of alcohol to see if they were bootlegged, but used that as an excuse to arrest and harass queer people. This is a lot like Thomas Putnam making wide claims about people he disagrees with in order to have them killed or