Vice Patrol examines how police and courts enforced anti-gay laws before Stonewall
A red tie. Manicured nails. Bleached hair. Loafers. The width of a person s hips. These are just a few of the things cited by vice patrol cops as indicators of someone s sexual preferences in the 1930s through the 1960s.
In
Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle Over Urban Gay Life Before Stonewall, author Anna Lvovsky examines the way that queer communities were policed in the 1930s through the 1960s.
Lvovsky tells the ABA Journal’s Lee Rawles there has been a great deal of scholarship focusing on the experience of queer and gender nonconforming people facing a monolithic, anti-gay state. She chose to concentrate on the actions of liquor regulation boards, police, prosecutors and the courts in enforcing civil codes or criminal laws targeting queer communities. But she did not find a united front.
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We used satellite data to show that when the Gulf Stream migrates closer to the underwater plateau known as the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, as it did after 2008, it blocks the southwestward transport of the Labrador Current that would otherwise provide cold, fresh, oxygen-rich water to the North American shelf, said lead author Gonçalves Neto. This mechanism explains why the most recent decade has been the hottest on record at the edge of the Northeast United States and Canada, as the delivery system of cold water to the region got choked off by the presence of the Gulf Stream.
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IMAGE: An animated map and time series (same color convention) of the 2008 temperature anomaly on the Northwest Atlantic Shelf, highlighting the rapid warming in the most recent decade. view more
Credit: (Animation by Afonso Gonçalves Neto)
KINGSTON, R.I., April 20, 2021 The Northwest Atlantic Shelf is one of the fastest-changing regions in the global ocean, and is currently experiencing marine heat waves, altered fisheries and a surge in sea level rise along the North American east coast. A new paper, Changes in the Gulf Stream preceded rapid warming of the Northwest Atlantic Shelf, published in
Communications Earth & Environment by recent URI Graduate School of Oceanography graduate Afonso Gonçalves Neto reveals the causes, potential predictability and historical context for these types of rapid changes.
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I have been a staff photographer on The Day s visual team since 2017. After graduating with a degree in photojournalism in 2010 I have worked across the country, from Ohio to Washington, at strong community newspapers before returning to my New England roots. You can frequently find me looking for slice-of-life feature photos across our community, working on a different angle at events, with a camera in both hands at sporting events, always capturing the storytelling