Same-sex affairs : constructing and controlling homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest / Peter Boag.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-307) and index.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE: WORKING-CLASS SAME-SEX AFFAIRS -- 1. Sex on the Road: Migratory Men and Youths in the Pacific Northwests Hinterlands -- 2. Sex in the City: Transient and Working-Class Men and Youths in the Urban Northwest -- PART TWO: MIDDLE-CLASS SAME-SEX AFFAIRS -- 3. Gay Identity and Community in Early Portland -- 4. From Oscar Wilde to Portlands 1912 Scandal: Socially Constructing the Homosexual -- PART THREE: PROGRESSIVISM AND SAME-SEX AFFAIRS -- 5. Personality, Politics, and Sex in Portland and the Northwest -- 6. Reforming Homosexuality in the Northwest -- Epilogue. Same-Sex Affairs in the Pacific Northwest: 1912 and After -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

At the turn of the twentieth century, two distinct, yet at times overlapping, male same-sex sexual subcultures had emerged in the Pacific Northwest: one among the men and boys who toiled in the region's logging, fishing, mining, farming, and railroad-building industries; the other among the young urban white-collar workers of the emerging corporate order. Boag draws on police logs, court records, and newspaper accounts to create a vivid picture of the lives of these men and youths--their sexual practices, cultural networks, cross-class relations, variations in rural and urban experiences, and ethnic and racial influences.

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