Meet Me in Pervert Park: Epistemology, Positionality, and Praxis in the Queer History of Policing and the Law

IF 0.8 3区 社会学 Q1 HISTORY Law and History Review Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI:10.1017/S0738248022000682
S. Maynard
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Just a stone's throw from the campus of the university in Kingston, Ontario, where I teach, is a small park. Hugging a rocky stretch of Lake Ontario shoreline, Macdonald Park, named after Canada's first prime minister, is better known by locals as “Pervert Park.” Since at least World War II, Pervert Park has been the primary cruising ground in Kingston for men searching for sex with other men, a meeting place for a mix of mostly working-class men, men stationed at the nearby military base, and the occasional intrepid university student. For women, the park's name references a different kind of pervert and signals the potential danger of walking alone in the park at night. Two of the park's main features are the Newlands Pavilion, a bandstand built in 1896, and the Richardson bathhouse, which is really a public washroom and changing facility, and which, when it first opened in 1919, boasted lockers, hot-water showers, and a list of “rules that would be enforced to maintain decorum in the bathing house.” A paved path, punctuated by park benches, connects the pavilion and bathhouse, which, after dark, conveniently becomes an oval track for men cruising around and sometimes having sex behind the pavilion and bathhouse.
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《在变态公园见我:警察和法律的酷儿历史中的认识论、定位性和实践》
离我任教的安大略省金斯敦大学校园只有一箭之遥,就是一个小公园。麦克唐纳公园(Macdonald Park)以加拿大首任总理的名字命名,坐落在安大略湖(Lake Ontario)海岸线的一片岩石地带,当地人称其为“变态公园”(Pervert Park)。至少自第二次世界大战以来,变态公园一直是金斯敦寻找与其他男性发生性关系的男性的主要巡游地,以及偶尔勇敢的大学生。对于女性来说,公园的名字指的是另一种变态,并表明夜间独自在公园行走的潜在危险。公园的两个主要特色是纽兰亭,一个建于1896年的音乐台,还有理查德森澡堂,它实际上是一个公共洗手间和更衣设施,1919年首次开放时,它拥有储物柜、热水淋浴间和一系列“为保持澡堂的礼仪而必须执行的规则”,连接着凉亭和澡堂,天黑后,这里很方便地变成了一条椭圆形的轨道,供男人在凉亭和浴室后面巡游,有时还会做爱。
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期刊介绍: Law and History Review (LHR), America"s leading legal history journal, encompasses American, European, and ancient legal history issues. The journal"s purpose is to further research in the fields of the social history of law and the history of legal ideas and institutions. LHR features articles, essays, commentaries by international authorities, and reviews of important books on legal history. American Society for Legal History
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