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Author Polchin, James, author.

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

Publication Info. Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2019.

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  070.449 POLCHIN    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  070.4493 POLCHIN    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  070.4493 POLCHIN    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  364.1523 POL    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  070.449 POL    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  070.44 POL    Check Shelf
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  070.449 POL    Check Shelf
Edition First hardcover edition.
Description 244 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographic resources and index.
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.
Subject Crime and the press -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Gays -- Press coverage -- United States.
Criminals -- Press coverage -- United States.
Crime and the press. (OCoLC)fst00883031
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9781640091894
1640091890
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