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Garland Warren Johansson was born in 1934, in Philadelphia, with the name Philip Joseph Wallfield. His father was Jewish and so, one presumes, was the young Philip. At some point in his later career, he changed his name to the very Nordic "Warren Johansson," to express the horror he had developed of Jewish homophobia.
His first venture into gay scholarship was to virtually co-author Greek Love with the numismatist (and, much later, the convicted paedophile) Walter Breen.
Johansson Obituary [1] (Solgan 53, p 15)
Greek Love (1964)
'He compiled copious and compelling evidence that the Roman Catholic Church (against the assertions of John Boswell) has maliciously persecuted homosexuals from its earliest days, impeded at times by only its own disorganisation, while maintaining double standards within the church at every level throughout the past two millenia.'
Breen's pederasty was both a kept secret and tolerated behavior in both science fiction and numismatic circles; he was banned from the 1964 Worldcon science fiction convention due to his behavior with children - although he took a room at the convention hotel - a controversy which became known as the "Breendoggle".
Breen was first arrested in the 1950s for "lewd behavior", exposing himself to young boys under a boardwalk in Atlantic City. For a while, he was a leading member of NAMBLA. He was arrested on child molestation charges in 1990, and offered a plea bargain, which resulted in three years' probation. In 1991 he was charged with eight felony counts of child molestation involving a 13-year-old boy, the stepson of science fiction writer Stephen Goldin.
