Claiming to be enforcing liquor laws, they began arresting employees and patrons of the private lesbian and gay establishment. It was against this backdrop that, in the early morning hours of Saturday, June 28, 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn in New York City. The previous five years had also seen uprisings in Watts, Detroit, Chicago, and Newark and dozens of other cities, in many cases sparked by incidents of widespread racial profiling and abuse of people of color by police. The late 1960s saw frequent police raids, often accompanied by brutality, on gay establishments across the country, which were meeting with increasing resistance. On a hot August night in 1966, “drag queens” and gay “hustlers” at the Compton Cafeteria in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco rose up and fought back when police tried to arrest them for doing nothing more than being out. The Ghosts of Stonewall: Policing Gender, Policing Sex And tracing stories from the judicial bench to the streets and behind prison bars, the authors prove that the policing of sex and gender both bolsters and reinforces racial and gender inequalities. The authors unpack queer criminal archetypes-like 'gleeful gay killers,' 'lethal lesbians,' and 'disease spreaders'-to illustrate the punishment of queer expression, regardless of whether a crime was ever committed. Drawing on years of research, activism, and legal advocacy, Queer (In)Justice is a searing examination of the queer experience-as criminal defendants, prisoners, and survivors of violent crimes. Their supposed crime was later chalked up to a bizarre infraction: 'loitering inside a building.' The event illuminated a long shadow of policing in America, where discrimination and prejudice are pervasive. Some were hit in the head and back others were slammed into walls while being verbally abused. Homophobia- Law and legislation- United States.A groundbreaking work that turns a 'queer eye'on the criminal legal system In March 2003-three decades after Stonewall-police stormed the Power Plant, a private Detroit club frequented by African American LGBT people. Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration- United States. Subject headings Gays- Legal status, laws, etc.- United States. Over the rainbow : where do we go from here?

Objection! : treatment of queers in criminal courtsĬaging deviance : prisons as queer spacesįalse promises : criminal legal responses to violence against LGBT people

The ghosts of Stonewall : policing gender, policing sex Gleeful gay killers, lethal lesbians, & deceptive gender benders : queer criminal archetypes Setting the historical stage : colonial legacies Includes bibliographical references and index. Queer (in)justice : the criminalization of LGBT people in the United States / Joey L. Request This Author Mogul, Joey L., 1969- Title

Queer (In)Justice by Joey L. Mogul