LEADER 03045nam 2200529 450 001 9910554259403321 005 20231212180345.0 010 $a0-226-76981-X 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226769813 035 $a(CKB)4940000000601119 035 $a(DE-B1597)588994 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226769813 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6550533 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6550533 035 $a(OCoLC)1246576614 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002428826 035 $a(EXLCZ)994940000000601119 100 $a20210218d2021 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aVice patrol $ecops, courts, and the struggle over urban gay life before Stonewall /$fAnna Lvovsky$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aChicago :$cThe University of Chicago Press,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (360 p.) $c16 halftones 225 1 $aChicago scholarship online 300 $aAlso issued in print: 2021. 311 $a0-226-76964-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tCONTENTS --$tList of Illustrations --$tINTRODUCTION --$tONE / When Anyone Can Tell --$tTWO / Expert Witnesses on Trial --$tTHREE / Plainclothes Decoys and the Limits of Criminal Justice --$tFOUR / The Rise of Ethnographic Policing --$tFIVE / Peepholes and Perverts --$tSIX / The Popular Press and the Gay World --$tEPILOGUE --$tAcknowledgments --$tList of Abbreviations --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 8 $aIn the mid-twentieth century, gay life flourished in American cities even as the state repression of queer communities reached its peak. Liquor investigators infiltrated and shut down gay-friendly bars. Plainclothes decoys enticed men in parks and clubs. Vice officers surveilled public bathrooms through peepholes and two-way mirrors. In 'Vice Patrol', Anna Lvovsky chronicles this painful story, tracing the tactics used to criminalize, profile, and suppress gay life from the 1930s through the 1960s, and the surprising controversies those tactics often inspired in court. Lvovsky shows that the vice squads' campaigns stood at the center of live debates about not only the law's treatment of queer people, but also the limits of ethical policing, the authority of experts, and the nature of sexual difference itself-debates that had often unexpected effects on the gay community's rights and freedoms. 410 0$aChicago scholarship online. 606 $aMale homosexuality$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aGay people$xLegal status, laws, etc$zUnited States 606 $aVice control$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aMale homosexuality$xHistory 615 0$aGay people$xLegal status, laws, etc. 615 0$aVice control$xHistory 676 $a306.76/60973 700 $aLvovsky$b Anna$01219622 801 0$bStDuBDS 801 1$bStDuBDS 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910554259403321 996 $aVice patrol$92820020 997 $aUNINA