Thanks for all the detailed info! Very interesting.
So basically, you could be an out gay person and not get arrested if you stuck to Harlem/working-class areas and didn't try to sully "respectable" places with your presence? Or if you were a sufficiently feminine man that you weren't threatening ideas of masculinity (i.e. it's okay for a girly man to take on a woman's role, but not a manly man)?
I'm glad the sodomy laws weren't enforced much. The penalty was much stronger in America than in the UK, wasn't it?
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Date: 2012-01-10 09:17 am (UTC)So basically, you could be an out gay person and not get arrested if you stuck to Harlem/working-class areas and didn't try to sully "respectable" places with your presence? Or if you were a sufficiently feminine man that you weren't threatening ideas of masculinity (i.e. it's okay for a girly man to take on a woman's role, but not a manly man)?
I'm glad the sodomy laws weren't enforced much. The penalty was much stronger in America than in the UK, wasn't it?