Sophomore Megan Householter joins Hollie Marquess to discuss how the tactics of Vice Squads, like entrapment, led to the forming of the Mattachine Society at mid-century and, ultimately, to a modern gay rights movement.
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Selected Bibliography:
Call, Hal. Interview by Eric Marcus, n.d., in “Hal Call.” March 16, 2017, Making Gay History: LGBTQ Oral Histories from the Archives, produced by Pineapple Street Media, podcast, 22:35, https://makinggayhistory.com/podcast/episode-13-hal-call/
Charles, Douglas M. Hoover’s War on Gays: Exposing the FBI’s “Sex Deviates” Program. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, September 2015.
D’Emilio, John. Making Trouble: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University. New York: Routledge Publishing, 1992.
Hay, Harry. Radically Gay: Gay Liberation in the Words of its Founder. Edited by Will Roscoe. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996.
Lvovsky, Anna. Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life Before Stonewall. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, May 2021. ProQuest.
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