Same-Sex Affairs
Author | : Peter Boag |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2003-08-14 |
ISBN-10 | : 052093069X |
ISBN-13 | : 9780520930698 |
Rating | : 4/5 (9X Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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.