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The Origin of Queer Theory: Gayle Rubin's "Thinking Sex"
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The War on Homosexuality in the United States
Many states and large cities conducted their own investigations. In Boise, Idaho in 1955, a school teacher sat down to breakfast with his morning paper and read that the vice president of the Idaho First National Bank had been arrested on felony sodomy charges. He jumped up from his seat, pulled out his suitcases packed as fast as he could, got into his car and drove straight to San Francisco. The cold eggs, coffee and toast remained on his table for two days before someone from his school came by to see what had happened. So therefore Boise, Idaho was forth this law in 1955 and there's a prosecution. And then this other guy freaks out and somehow he's in this paper now
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