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Chargement... Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewallpar James Polchin
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Being an account of murders of homosexuals during the period between WWI and the Stonewall riot, with considerable emphasis on how they were covered in the press. The book is very interesting and informative, to a point. However, readers who are not fans of true crime writing surely will eventually find the endless litany of gruesome killings pretty monotonous, and this is not helped by the samey modus operandii, viz., bind and strangle, with occasional pausings to bash a skull or offer up a gunshot. The author does attempt to bring in some tangents, but generally they consist of literary criticism, another genre I'm not too fond of. The book was at its best when it finished off the crime narratives and recounted the breathless tone of the newspaper accounts and, to a lesser extent, the courtroom arguments and reactions of judge and jury. It might be useful to add that this is perhaps the first book I have read which was published in this century which is free from errors typographical, syntactical, grammatical, and there are even no homonym errors. Congratulations to author, editor, and publisher! ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML:??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 right Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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