TY  - BOOK
AU  - Polchin,James
TI  - Indecent advances: a hidden history of true crime and prejudice before Stonewall 
SN  - 9781640091894
AV  - HV6168 .P65 2019
U1  - 070.4/493643 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Berkeley, California
PB  - Counterpoint
KW  - Crime and the press
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Gays
KW  - Press coverage
KW  - Criminals
KW  - Gay men
N1  - 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
ER  -