Abstract
Despite unfolding as it did during the sexual revolution of the 1920s, Leopold and Loeb's "trial of the century elicited a deluge of constitutive discourse that struggled against overt articulation and circulation of the boys queerness. In this essay, I argue that those discourses - dominant reportage, in camera courtroom conferences, and Clarence Darrow's famous summation - manifested what I label "passing by proxy, a collusive and convulsive act of straight closeting that speaks queer sexuality despite concerted effort to silence it.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 264-290 |
Number of pages | 27 |
Journal | Quarterly Journal of Speech |
Volume | 91 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 2005 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Clarence Darrow
- In Camera
- Leopold and Leob
- Passing
- Queer
- Silence
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Communication
- Language and Linguistics
- Education