TY - BOOK AU - Polchin,James TI - Indecent advances: a hidden history of true crime and prejudice before Stonewall SN - 9781640091894 PY - 2019/// CY - Berkeley, California PB - Counterpoint KW - Crime and the press KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Gays KW - Press coverage KW - Criminals N1 - Includes bibliographic resources; Introduction: Criminalizing Queer Men -- When The Men Came Home: Sailors, Scandals, and Mysteries in the 1920s -- War on the Sex Criminal: Defining Psychopaths and Sex Deviants in the 1930s -- Behind the Headlines: Homosexual Hoodlums, Working-Class Criminality, and Queer Victims in the 1930s and 1940s -- Terror in the Streets: Indecent Advances, Homosexual Panic, and the Threat of Queer Men in Post-World War II America -- The Homosexual Next Door: Kinsey and the Private Life of Sex in the Cold War -- Stories of Prejudice and Suffering: Pervert Colonies, Homosexual Worlds, and the Birth of a New Minority -- Conclusion: Politics of Violence ER -