The First Known Gay

The First Known Gay Spy

Raymond Lecomte (1857-1921). As the first secretary of the French legation in Berlin, Lecomte infiltrated the homosexual clique surrounding the German Prince Philipp von Eulenburg. His discovery that Germany was bluffing in the Morocco crisis of 1906 led to a French diplomatic victory at the Algeciras Conference. This in turn led to Eulenburg’s exposure as a homosexual and his subsequent ruin. Lecomte’s activities are the first known instance of a homosexual’s using his sexual contact for espionage.