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.
Author(s): Peter Boag
Edition: 1
Publisher: University of California Press
Year: 2003
Language: English
Commentary: 76538
Pages: 337
Illustrations......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction......Page 16
1 Sex on the Road: Migratory Men and Youths in the Pacific Northwest’s Hinterlands......Page 30
2 Sex in the City Transient and Working-Class Men and Youths in the Urban Northwest......Page 60
3 Gay Identity and Community in Early Portland......Page 104
4: From Oscar Wilde to Portland’s 1912 Scandal: Socially Constructing the Homosexual......Page 140
5 Personality, Politics, and Sex in Portland and the Northwest......Page 172
6 Reforming Homosexuality in the Northwest......Page 200
Epilogue: Same-Sex Affairs in the Pacific Northwest: 1912 and After......Page 232
Notes......Page 238
Bibliography......Page 298
Index......Page 324
