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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.
Price: $34.95
Pages: 335
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
14 August 2003
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520240483
Format: Paperback
Peter Boag is Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of Environment and Experience: Settlement Culture in Nineteenth-Century Oregon (California, 1992).
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I: 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 II: 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 III: 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
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I: 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 II: 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 III: 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
Notes
Bibliography
Index