The straight state: sexuality and citizenship in twentieth-century America

Abstract

List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 PART I: Nascent Policing Chapter 1: IMMIGRATION A New Species of Undesirable Immigrant: Perverse Aliens and the Limits of the Law, 1900-1924 19 Chapter 2: MILITARY We Are Merely Concerned with the Fact of Sodomy: Managing Sexual Stigma in the World War I-Era Military, 1917-1933 55 Chapter 3: WELFARE Most Fags Are Floaters: The Problem of Unattached Persons during the Early New Deal, 1933-1935 91 PART II: Explicit Regulation Chapter 4: WELFARE With the Ugly Word Written across It: Homo-Hetero Binarism, Federal Welfare Policy, and the 1944 GI Bill 137 Chapter 5: MILITARY Finding a Home in the Army: Women's Integration, Homosexual Tendencies, and the Cold War Military, 1947-1959 174 Chapter 6: IMMIGRATION Who Is a Homosexual?: The Consolidation of Sexual Identities in Mid-twentieth-century Immigration Law, 1952-1983 214 Conclusion 255 Index 265

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