The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America by Margot Canaday

The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America

Margot Canaday

296 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Unearthing startling new evidence from the National Archives, Margot Canaday shows how the state systematically came to penalize homosexuality, ...

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