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

In the mid-twentieth century, gay life flourished in American cities even as the state repression of queer...
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Author: Anna Lvovsky
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Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle Over Urban Gay Life Before Stonewall by Lvovsky, Anna

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

BD$262.29

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

BD$262.29
Author: Anna Lvovsky
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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 clubs. Vice officers surveilled public bathrooms through peepholes and two-way mirrors.

In Vice Patrol, Anna Lvovsky chronicles this painful story, tracing the tactics used to criminalize, profile, and suppress gay life from the 1930s through the 1960s, and the surprising controversies those tactics often inspired in court. Lvovsky shows that the vice squads' campaigns stood at the center of live debates about not only the law's treatment of queer people, but also the limits of ethical policing, the authority of experts, and the nature of sexual difference itself--debates that had often unexpected effects on the gay community's rights and freedoms. Examining those battles, Vice Patrol enriches understandings of the regulation of queer life in the twentieth century and disputes about police power that continue today.

Author: Anna Lvovsky
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 05/24/2021
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.39lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780226769646


Review Citation(s):
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About the Author
Anna Lvovsky is assistant professor of law at Harvard Law School.

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