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Same-sex affairs : constructing and controlling homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest /

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Same-Sex Affairs is a path-breaking history of male homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest from 1890 to 1930.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boag, Peter, 1961- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2003]
Subjects:
Male homosexuality > Northwest, Pacific > History.
Migrant labor > Sexual behavior > Northwest, Pacific > History.
Gay men > Northwest, Pacific > History.
Gay men > Oregon > Portland > History.
Homosexualité masculine > Nord-Ouest, Côte (Amérique du Nord) > Histoire.
Travailleurs migrants > Sexualité > Nord-Ouest, Côte (Amérique du Nord) > Histoire.
Homosexuels masculins > Nord-Ouest, Côte (Amérique du Nord) > Histoire.
Homosexuels masculins > Oregon > Portland > Histoire.
Gay men
Male homosexuality
Oregon > Portland
Pacific Northwest
History
Online Access:ebrary
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of Contents:
  • Part one: Working-class same-sex affairs
  • 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
  • Part two: Middle-class same-sex affairs
  • 3. Gay identity and community in early Portland
  • 4. From Oscar Wilde to Portland's 1912 scandal: socially constructing the homosexual
  • Part three: Progressivism and same-sex affairs
  • 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.