Indecent advances : a hidden history of true crime and prejudice before Stonewall /
Polchin, James.
Indecent advances : a hidden history of true crime and prejudice before Stonewall / James Polchin. - 1st hardcover ed. - Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2019. - 244 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-244) and index.
Introduction: criminalizing queer men -- When the men came home: sailors, scandals, and mysteries in the 1920s -- War on the sex criminal: defining psychopaths and sex deviants in the 1930s -- Behind the headlines: homosexual hoodlums, working-class criminality, and queer victims in the 1930s and 1940s -- Terror in the streets: indecent advances, homosexual panic, and the threat of queer men in post-World War II America -- The homosexual next door: Kinsey and the private life of sex in the Cold War -- Stories of prejudice and suffering: pervert colonies, homosexual worlds, and the birth of a new minority -- Conclusion: politics of violence.
9781640091894 1640091890
2018058382
Crime and the press--History--United States--20th century.
Gays--Press coverage--United States.
Criminals--Press coverage--United States.
Gay men--History--United States--20th century.
HV6168 / .P65 2019
070.4/493643
Indecent advances : a hidden history of true crime and prejudice before Stonewall / James Polchin. - 1st hardcover ed. - Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2019. - 244 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-244) and index.
Introduction: criminalizing queer men -- When the men came home: sailors, scandals, and mysteries in the 1920s -- War on the sex criminal: defining psychopaths and sex deviants in the 1930s -- Behind the headlines: homosexual hoodlums, working-class criminality, and queer victims in the 1930s and 1940s -- Terror in the streets: indecent advances, homosexual panic, and the threat of queer men in post-World War II America -- The homosexual next door: Kinsey and the private life of sex in the Cold War -- Stories of prejudice and suffering: pervert colonies, homosexual worlds, and the birth of a new minority -- Conclusion: politics of violence.
9781640091894 1640091890
2018058382
Crime and the press--History--United States--20th century.
Gays--Press coverage--United States.
Criminals--Press coverage--United States.
Gay men--History--United States--20th century.
HV6168 / .P65 2019
070.4/493643