04364cam a2200817 4500 532019266 TxAuBib 20210910120000.0 ||||||s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781640091900 1640091904 B07H4N1R4T Amazon d995ed62-2909-42e2-9d61-355c8df16b08 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 675459 675459 675459 4287480 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Polchin, James. Indecent Advances [Libby] : A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall. Catapult, 2019. Education. Cultural Studies. us history. politics. Biography. anthropology. Business. parenting. culture. society. american history. American. World History. psychology. feminism. Architecture. Reference. United States History. History. Urban. Music. Pop Culture. cultural history. Technology. Sociology. Economics. social. political science. history books. political books. historical books. gifts for history buffs. American history books. sociology books. history gifts. history buff gifts. history lovers gifts. history teacher gifts. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 6639kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. History. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML:<b>“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, <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i></b><br /> 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.<br /> As noted by Caleb Cain in <i>The New Yorker</i> review of <i>Indecent Advances</i>, “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.” <i>Indecent Advances</i> 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. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d995ed62-2909-42e2-9d61-355c8df16b08&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d995ed62-2909-42e2-9d61-355c8df16b08&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d995ed62-2909-42e2-9d61-355c8df16b08&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)