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Out for Queer Blood: The Murder of Fernando Rios and the Failure of New Orleans Justice

Out for Queer Blood: The Murder of Fernando Rios and the Failure of New Orleans Justice - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Clayton DeleryAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2017-10-12Pages:234
Language:EnglishPublisher:Exposit BooksISBN-13:9781476668840ISBN-10:1476668841UPC:9781476668840Book Category:True Crime, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Murder, LGBTQ+ Studies, Minority StudiesBook Topic:Gay StudiesSize:8.70 x 5.80 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCRFNJ44H6

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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Exposit BooksISBN-13:9781476668840ISBN-10:1476668841UPC:9781476668840Book Category:True Crime, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Murder, LGBTQ+ Studies, Minority StudiesBook Topic:Gay StudiesSize:8.70 x 5.80 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCRFNJ44H6
Clayton Delery, a retired teacher from the Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts previously published The Up Stairs Lounge Arson, which was named Book of the Year by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities in 2015. He lives in New Orleans.
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Clayton Delery

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