Indecent advances : a hidden history of true crime and prejudice before Stonewall / James Polchin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2019.Edition: 1st hardcover edDescription: 244 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781640091894
  • 1640091890
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 070.4/493643 23
LOC classification:
  • HV6168 .P65 2019
Contents:
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.
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Book Book Stonewall Non-Fiction HV 6168 POL 2019 1 Available 237651

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.

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