Indecent Arrest
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“A fast–paced, meticulously researched, thoroughly engaging (and often infuriating) look–see into the systematic criminalization of gay men and widespread condemnation of homosexuality post–World War I.” —Alexis Burling, San Francisco Chronicle Stories of murder have never been just about killers and victims. Instead, crime stories take the shape of their times and reflect cultural notions and prejudices. In this Edgar Award–finalist for Best Fact Crime, James Polchin recovers and recounts queer stories from the crime pages―often lurid and euphemistic―that reveal the hidden history of violence against gay men. But what was left unsaid in these crime pages provides insight into the figure of the queer man as both criminal and victim, offering readers tales of vice and violence that aligned gender and sexual deviance with tragic, gruesome endings. Victims were often reported as having made “indecent advances,” forcing the accused's hands in self–defense and reducing murder charges to manslaughter. As noted by Caleb Cain in The New Yorker review of Indecent Advances, “it’s impossible to understand gay life in twentieth–century America without reckoning with the dark stories. Gay men were unable to shake free of them until they figured out how to tell the stories themselves, in a new way.” Indecent Advances is the first book to fully investigate these stories of how queer men navigated a society that criminalized them and displayed little compassion for the violence they endured. Polchin shows, with masterful insight, how this discrimination was ultimately transformed by activists to help shape the burgeoning gay rights movement in the years leading up to Stonewall.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: James Polchin |
Publisher |
: Catapult |
Release |
: 2019-06-04 |
Total Pages |
: 256 Pages |
ISBN |
: 9781640091900 |
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: Law reports, digests, etc |
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Release |
: 1908 |
Total Pages |
: Pages |
ISBN |
: MINN:31951D022083025 |
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Genre |
: Justices of the peace |
Author |
: R. M. Hennessy |
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: |
Release |
: 1910 |
Total Pages |
: 989 Pages |
ISBN |
: STANFORD:36105040989803 |
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: Justices of the peace |
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: 1913 |
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: Pages |
ISBN |
: UCAL:C3009084 |
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: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary |
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: |
Release |
: 1974 |
Total Pages |
: Pages |
ISBN |
: STANFORD:36105119505902 |
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: Law reports, digests, etc |
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: |
Release |
: 1899 |
Total Pages |
: 127 Pages |
ISBN |
: MINN:31951D018233347 |
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: Matt Cook |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Release |
: 2003 |
Total Pages |
: 248 Pages |
ISBN |
: 0521822076 |
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: Courts-martial and courts of inquiry |
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: |
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: |
Release |
: 1963 |
Total Pages |
: Pages |
ISBN |
: STANFORD:36105063044114 |
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Genre |
: Arbitration, Industrial |
Author |
: United States. National Railroad Adjustment Board |
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 1086 Pages |
ISBN |
: CORNELL:31924054075241 |
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Product Details :
Genre |
: Electronic books |
Author |
: Florence Tamagne |
Publisher |
: Algora Publishing |
Release |
: 2007 |
Total Pages |
: 490 Pages |
ISBN |
: 9780875863573 |