Biography
Carey Junkin was a member of the Lexington, Kentucky gay-liberation and lesbian-feminist collective subpoenaed in 1975 by a federal grand jury that was ostensibly hunting the antiwar fugitives Susan Saxe and Katherine Power, but which activists said was being used to map the local radical and gay community. Junkin refused to cooperate and was jailed for civil contempt in March 1975 as one of the six subpoenaed activists who became known as the Lexington Six. He was released on March 31, 1975; of the six, only Jill Raymond held out for the full grand jury term of about fourteen months.
Contact’s May 7, 1975 report individually names James Carey Junkin, aged 19, among the six Lexington grand jury witnesses jailed without bond for contempt after refusing to answer questions in the FBI investigation of Susan Saxe and Katherine Power. Attorneys Robert Sedler and Judith Peterson accused the Justice Department of using the grand jury to compel answers that witnesses could legally decline to give FBI agents. That criticism is attributed to the lawyers. The report supplies no exact jail-entry or physical-release day and does not establish an additional custody episode. The printed spelling differs from the established profile name and is retained as source wording rather than a name correction. Source: https://www.houstonlgbthistory.org/Houston80s/Voice/Contact/contact_19750507.pdf#page=11
