Same-Sex Affairs: Constructing and Controlling Homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest

By Peter Boag

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520240480
• ISBN13: 9780520240483
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 335 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"