We’ll explore a chapter in Florida history from the 1950s and 60s when the actions of a state legislative investigation, better known as the Johns Committee, resulted in the expulsion of some 300 teachers and students suspected of being homosexual. The Committee’s 30,000 pages of collected documents were to be sealed for 72 years once the group disbanded, but in the early 1990s, the state Legislature released the documents as public record. We’ll take a look at the historical context of the Johns Committee and its impact through Jacksonville author Julian Farris’s debut novel, The Sin Warriors.
The Sin Warriors
