{"product_id":"indecent-advances","title":"Indecent Advances","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A grisly, sobering, comprehensively researched new history.' - \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndecent Advances\u003c\/i\u003e is a skilful hybrid of true crime and social history that examines the often-coded portrayal of crimes against gay men in the decades before Stonewall. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNew York University professor and critic James Polchin illustrates how homosexuals were criminalized, and their murders justified, in the popular imagination from 1930s 'sex panics' to Cold War fear of Communists and homosexuals in government. He shows the vital that role crime stories played in ideas of normalcy and deviancy, and how those stories became tools to discriminate against and harm gay men. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJ. Edgar Hoover, Kerouac, Burroughs, Patricia Highsmith, James Baldwin, Allen Ginsberg and Gore Vidal all feature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublished around the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising in 1969, \u003ci\u003eIndecent Advances\u003c\/i\u003e investigates how queer men navigated a society that criminalized them. Polchin shows how this discrimination was ultimately transformed by gay rights activists before Stonewall, and explores its resonances up to and including the policing of Gianni Versace's death in 1997.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Icon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54219770364248,"sku":"9781785785658","price":21.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781785785658_23dca39d-f823-4147-a739-5b2c0fa6c68e.jpg?v=1764311438","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/indecent-advances","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}