Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle Over Urban Gay Life Before Stonewall by Anna Lvovsky

Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle Over Urban Gay Life Before Stonewall

Anna Lvovsky

360 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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In the mid-twentieth century, gay life flourished in American cities even as the state repression of queer communities reached its peak. Liquor investigators infiltrated and shut down gay-friendly bars. Plainclothes decoys enticed men in parks and...

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