sporting women with power
90 years ago…
April 2, 1916 – Evangelist Henry Stough, preaching to an all-male audience, states that “immoral” women held too much power. During his speech, he asked the audience “Why is it some men wouldn’t run for mayor?” He then answered, “It’s because Hilda Raymond and Genie Gilbert won’t let them.” Raymond and Gilbert, Stough claimed, were “sporting women,” a euphemism for prostitutes, and that they held enough secrets about Tampa’s power structure to cause “murder and riot, and divorces and bankruptcies on Franklin Street.”
Courtesy of the Tampa Bay History Center.
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