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100 1 _aPolchin, James,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aIndecent advances :
_ba hidden history of true crime and prejudice before Stonewall /
_cJames Polchin.
260 _aLondon :
_bIcon Books,
_c2020.
263 _a202007
300 _a256 pages :
_billustrations (black and white) ;
_c20 cm
336 _atext
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336 _astill image
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
366 _b20200702
_cAvailable
500 _aOriginally published: 2019.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 8 _aFifty years after Stonewall, critic James Polchin reveals the hidden history of violence against gay men in America.
_b"A grisly, sobering, comprehensively researched new history." - The New Yorker Indecent Advances is a skilful hybrid of true crime and social history that examines the often-coded portrayal of crimes against gay men in the decades before Stonewall. New York University professor and critic James Polchin illustrates how homosexuals were criminalized, and their murders justified, in the popular imagination from 1930s `sex panics' to Cold War fear of Communists and homosexuals in government. He shows the vital that role crime stories played in ideas of normalcy and deviancy, and how those stories became tools to discriminate against and harm gay men. J. Edgar Hoover, Kerouac, Burroughs, Patricia Highsmith, James Baldwin, Allen Ginsberg and Gore Vidal all feature. Published around the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising in 1969, Indecent Advances investigates how queer men navigated a society that criminalized them. Polchin shows how this discrimination was ultimately transformed by gay rights activists before Stonewall, and explores its resonances up to and including the policing of Gianni Versace's death in 1997.
650 0 _aGay men
_xCrimes against
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aGay men
_xViolence against
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aHate crimes
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aGay liberation movement
_xHistory
_y20th century.
_zUnited States
650 7 _aTrue Crime.
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650 7 _aLGBTQ+ Interest.
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650 7 _aSocial services & welfare, criminology
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650 7 _aGay & Lesbian studies
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650 7 _aTrue crime
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650 7 _aPolitical activism
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650 7 _aGay
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