Same-sex affairs : constructing and controlling homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest /
Peter Boag.
- xiv, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-307) and index.
Sex on the Road: Migratory Men and Youths in the Pacific Northwest's Hinterlands -- Sex in the City: Transient and Working-Class Men and Youths in the Urban Northwest -- Gay Identity and Community in Early Portland -- From Oscar Wilde to Portland's 1912 Scandal: Socially Constructing the Homosexual -- Personality, Politics, and Sex in Portland and the Northwest -- Reforming Homosexuality in the Northwest -- Epilogue. Same-Sex Affairs in the Pacific Northwest: 1912 and After. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
"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."--Publisher description.