... repression. The book opens with the introduction of bathhouse reforms in 1879–1881, which targeted one of the city's premier spaces for homosexual sex and socialization. It ends in 1914, when the city became thoroughly militarized before entering its tumultuous revolutionary phase, during which it ceased...

... negotiation of illicit male homosexual sex, friendship, and cruising, uncovering a historically fascinating urban milieu in which efforts to manage the moral landscape often unintentionally facilitated queer encounters....

... Ross Andrew Israel City Council Cocks Harry Houlbrook Matt Lipsky Michael municipal bathhouses plan St. Petersburg nuisance laws queer men police activity queer sexual policing surveillance homosexual sex informal policing sodomy laws queer spatial practices On September 25, 1900, at two...