03045nam 2200529 450 991055425940332120231212180345.00-226-76981-X10.7208/9780226769813(CKB)4940000000601119(DE-B1597)588994(DE-B1597)9780226769813(MiAaPQ)EBC6550533(Au-PeEL)EBL6550533(OCoLC)1246576614(StDuBDS)EDZ0002428826(EXLCZ)99494000000060111920210218d2021 uy| 0engur||#||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierVice patrol cops, courts, and the struggle over urban gay life before Stonewall /Anna Lvovsky[electronic resource]Chicago :The University of Chicago Press,2021.1 online resource (360 p.) 16 halftonesChicago scholarship onlineAlso issued in print: 2021.0-226-76964-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter --CONTENTS --List of Illustrations --INTRODUCTION --ONE / When Anyone Can Tell --TWO / Expert Witnesses on Trial --THREE / Plainclothes Decoys and the Limits of Criminal Justice --FOUR / The Rise of Ethnographic Policing --FIVE / Peepholes and Perverts --SIX / The Popular Press and the Gay World --EPILOGUE --Acknowledgments --List of Abbreviations --Notes --IndexIn 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.Chicago scholarship online.Male homosexualityUnited StatesHistory20th centuryGay peopleLegal status, laws, etcUnited StatesVice controlUnited StatesHistory20th centuryMale homosexualityHistoryGay peopleLegal status, laws, etc.Vice controlHistory306.76/60973Lvovsky Anna1219622StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910554259403321Vice patrol2820020UNINA