Upcoming Events at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Description
Part of our Pride Month Programming. A skillful hybrid of true crime and social history that examines the relationship between the media and popular culture in the portrayal of crimes against gay men in the decades before Stonewall.
Event Details
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 his first book, Indecent Advances, 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.
Published in time for the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising on June 28, 1969, Indecent Advances investigates how queer men navigated a society that criminalized them and displayed little compassion for the violence they endured.
Polchin and Eric Marcus (host of Making Gay History) will discuss this revelatory and meticulously researched book, and its "forgotten" chapter of queer history.
Published in time for the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising on June 28, 1969, Indecent Advances investigates how queer men navigated a society that criminalized them and displayed little compassion for the violence they endured.
Polchin and Eric Marcus (host of Making Gay History) will discuss this revelatory and meticulously researched book, and its "forgotten" chapter of queer history.
