Indecent advances, a hidden history of true crime and prejudice before Stonewall, James Polchin
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Indecent advances, a hidden history of true crime and prejudice before Stonewall, James Polchin
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographic resources and index
Illustrations
illustrationsplates
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Indecent advances
Oclc number
1078955094
Responsibility statement
James Polchin
Sub title
a hidden history of true crime and prejudice before Stonewall
Table Of 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