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THE END OF THE GAY-PANIC LEGAL DEFENSE

While the terms improper advance or cent advance appeared queer crime stori the thirti, was the post–World War II years when such terms ed the prs and the urtroom me to embody the perceived threats of homosexuals on the home ont. ” The New York tabloids prented the teen as a helpls victim of a psychotic homosexual attack. ” The Daily News ntrasted the “d” exprsn on Carr’s “young face” agast the “33 year old former English teacher” who, Carr claimed, was “a homosexual.

By September, when Carr entered a guilty plea of first-gree manslghter, the Assistant District Attorney believed that Carr “had not tend to kill Kammerer, a homosexual, but that Kammerer for more than five years had persisted makg advanc to Carr, which always were repulsed.

Such playfulns unrsred Kerouac’s nflicted feelgs about his own queer sir—what Amburn terms Kerouac’s “homophobic homoeroticism. ” While the term tra referenced workg-class men who have sex wh other men for pay (often assumg the active role sex), also embodied a queer hypermasculy agast more effemate gay men. A iendly placlothman had already warned Jack that the ‘stooli’ had been promised fifty years off 199-year sentenc if they uld prove that Jack was gay.

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