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Steamboats Are Ruining Everything

Steamboats Are Ruining Everything

A writer in Brooklyn

It didn’t use to get better

I reviewed James Polchin’s Indecent Advances, a history of antigay violence and the homosexual-panic defense, for the New Yorker website.

Posted on 26 June 201926 June 2019Author Caleb CrainCategories gay history, items new in print, politics, reviews, violence

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