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Indecent Advances
Author | : James Polchin |
Publsiher | : Catapult |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2020-05-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781640093874 |
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Edgar Award finalist, Best Fact Crime American Masters (PBS), “1 of 5 Essential Culture Reads” One of CrimeReads’ “Best True Crime Books of the Year” “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.
Advances in Communications and Media Research
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Nova Publishers |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Communication |
ISBN | : 1600211895 |
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An Angel in Sodom
Author | : Jim Elledge |
Publsiher | : Chicago Review Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2022-10-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781641605687 |
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Henry Gerber was the father of American gay liberation. Born in 1892 in Germany, Henry Gerber was expelled from school as a boy and lost several jobs as a young man because of his homosexual activities. He emigrated to the United States and enlisted in the army for employment. After his release, he explored Chicago's gay subculture: cruising Bughouse Square, getting arrested for "disorderly conduct," and falling in love. He was institutionalized for being gay, branded an "enemy alien" at the end of World War I, and given a choice: to rejoin the army or be imprisoned in a federal penitentiary. Gerber re-enlisted and was sent to Germany in 1920. In Berlin, he discovered a vibrant gay rights movement, which made him vow to advocate for the rights of gay men at home. He founded the Society for Human Rights, the first legally recognized US gay-rights organization, on December 10, 1924. When police caught wind of it, he and two members were arrested. He lost his job, went to court three times, and went bankrupt. Released, he moved to New York, disheartened. Later in life, he joined the DC chapter of the Mattachine Society, a gay-rights advocacy group founded by Harry Hay who had heard of Gerber's group, leading him to found Mattachine. An Angel in Sodom is the first and long overdue biography of the founder of the first US gay rights organization.
A Dictionary of the English Language
Author | : Johnson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1076 |
Release | : 1818 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : UBBE:UBBE-00082266 |
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A Dictionary Of The English Language In Which The Words Are Deduced From Their Originals And Illustrated In Their Different Significations By Examples From The Best Writers Together With A History of the Language and an English Grammar
Author | : Samuel Johnson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1098 |
Release | : 1818 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : ONB:+Z178872701 |
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A Dictionary of the English Language in which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals and Illustrated in Their Different Significations Together with a History of the Language and an English Grammar By Samuel Johnson Whith Numerous Corrections and with the Addition of Several Thousand Words by the Rev H J Todd In Four Volumes Vol 1 4
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1086 |
Release | : 1818 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : IBNF:CF990987806 |
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A Dictionary of the English Language
Author | : Samuel Johnson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1072 |
Release | : 1818 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : UCAL:C2652185 |
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A Dictionary of the English Language The fifth edition
Author | : Samuel Johnson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1122 |
Release | : 1785 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BL:A0023671095 |
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