
Kitty Genovese and “Bystander Apathy”
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The Disgusting Politics of Gay Sex
When we talk about like the gay bars or gay rights movement,gay, whatever, we often kind of leave out lesbians. We're sort of using that as a shorthand for gay men. Straight society finds gay male sex much more disgusting and much more threatening than lesbians. So at the bars that Kitty and Marianne went to, the cops would raid the bar and basically come looking for a handout. And what would happen was you would be hanging out dancing and then there would be a warning system where a red light would flash and you would stop dancing with each other. Then the cops would come and they would look for sex acts.
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