Indecent Advances A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall

James Polchin

eBook - 2019

Edgar Award finalist, Best Fact CrimeAmerican 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 ChronicleStories 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 hi...dden history of violence against gay men. But what was left unsaid in these crime pages provides insight into... more