The Boys of Boise: Furror, Vice, and Folly in an American City
In 1955, a manufactured scandal, pushed by the Idaho Daily Statesman and conservative elites, rocked the city of Boise, Idaho with charges of a widespread "homosexual underworld" and a number of convictions of members of the Boise community to sentences ranging from probation to life imprisonment. Written ten years later, this piece of investigative journalism recounts the origins of the probe and discusses the trials that followed. Gerassi (political science, Queens College, New York) argues...
