Visibility Interrupted: Rural Queer Life and the Politics of Unbecoming.

Anna Lvovsky, Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2021, $35.00). I Vice Patrol i attends to how the legal system's conflicting approaches to public performances of cis-male homosexuality, media narratives of gay life, and gay public culture informed one another in the mid-twentieth-century United States. Both Lvovsky and Thomsen speculate about some of the many ways this queer opacity has manifested, largely among white queers in the US. [Extracted from the article]