Reviews

Same-Sex Affairs: Constructing and Controlling Homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest by Peter Boag

mattbailey's review

5.0

The best book I've read on the history of male homosexuality in the US since George Chauncey's Gay New York. Boag uncovered a wealth of documentary evidence and used it not only to craft an intensely local history but to show how the local events were informed by national trends and events and also how they had repercussions beyond Portland. Boag is an excellent writer, and I actually found myself quite moved by some of the stories of the men who found themselves caught up in the repressive social and moral politics of the early 20th century.