Out For Queer Blood The Murder Of Fernando Rios And The Failure Of New Orleans Justice Clayton Delery by Clayton Delery 9781476668840, 1476668841 instant download after payment.

 "A riveting and important work of grassroots LGBT history that reveals the connections and fissures between homophobia and anti-Latino prejudices in U.S. history. Delery unmasks the origins of one of the most sinister legal and cultural foundations of anti-gay oppression: the false accusation of desire and how it has been used to excuse injustice."--Sarah Schulman, award-winning writer and gays rights activist "Delery's treatment of a controversial period in New Orleans history (and in the history of the United States for that matter) needs to be commended for its robustness to chronicle this difficult time. The author draws on contemporary, as well as historical information, and personal experience to expose a larger cadre of disturbing issues than just a rampant homophobia and violence against homosexuals in 1950s-1960s New Orleans. Out for Queer Blood also exposes an inequitable justice system that favored outdated perceptions of sexuality viewing homosexuals more as deviants rather than human beings. As both an objective historian and true crime author, I can recommend Delery's Out for Queer Blood as an integral contribution to the true crime as well as historical genres."--Alan G. Gauthreaux, co-Author, Dark Bayou: Infamous Louisiana Homicides. On a September night in 1958, three New Orleans college students went looking for a gay man to assault. They chose Fernando Rios, who died from the beating he received. In perhaps the earliest example of the "gay panic" defense, the three defendants argued that they had no choice but to beat Rios because he had made an "improper advance." When the jury acquitted the three, the courtroom cheered. The author offers a detailed examination of the murder and the trial.