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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455365003321

Autore

Boag Peter

Titolo

Same-sex affairs [[electronic resource] ] : constructing and controlling homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest / / Peter Boag

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003

ISBN

0-520-93069-X

1-282-35732-8

9786612357329

1-59734-886-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Disciplina

306.76/62/09795

Soggetti

Male homosexuality - Northwest, Pacific - History

Migrant labor - Sexual behavior - Northwest, Pacific - History

Gay men - Northwest, Pacific - History

Gay men - Oregon - Portland - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-307) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Sex on the Road: Migratory Men and Youths in the Pacific Northwest's Hinterlands -- 2. Sex in the City: Transient and Working-Class Men and Youths in the Urban Northwest -- 3. Gay Identity and Community in Early Portland -- 4. From Oscar Wilde to Portland's 1912 Scandal: Socially Constructing the Homosexual -- 5. Personality, Politics, and Sex in Portland and the Northwest -- 6. Reforming Homosexuality in the Northwest -- Epilogue. Same-Sex Affairs in the Pacific Northwest: 1912 and After -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

At the turn of the twentieth century, two distinct, yet at times overlapping, male same-sex sexual subcultures had emerged in the Pacific Northwest: one among the men and boys who toiled in the region's logging, fishing, mining, farming, and railroad-building industries; the other among the young urban white-collar workers of the emerging corporate order. Boag draws on police logs, court



records, and newspaper accounts to create a vivid picture of the lives of these men and youths--their sexual practices, cultural networks, cross-class relations, variations in rural and urban experiences, and ethnic and racial influences.