Status Updates From Tearoom Trade: Impersonal S...

Bro was stalking people to become participants??? Showing up to their houses by asking police officers via license plates??

Humphreys is not an ethical person as much as he tries to convince himself and us

According to this book, many tearoom regulars were actually more socially conservative than their peers. They assumed “the breastplate of righteousness” to avoid being found out.

“There’s a witch behind every witchhunt” is also an expression I haven’t heard before but makes me think instantly of Roy Cohn.

Also… does he really expect us to believe he was a wholly detached observer for sixty hours in these places? Not too credible!

I get why this book is controversial but damn if it isn’t interesting. Speculation of Humphreys’ own motives in studying tearoom assignations as a closeted gay man is interesting enough, but it is also fascinating documentation of the minutiae of a bygone era.

into a reaction to the text in 1973

The retrospect begins hilariously —