James Polchin is an Edgar Award nominated writer, professor, and cultural historian. Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall (Counterpoint) is out now in paperback.
James Polchin interviews Hoffman about a 1913 crime that traumatized Winnipeg's Jewish community, and the family connections that led him to investigate the case.
"Queer people have always had a relationship to crime—often by force rather than choice. Our very existence has been outlawed, criminalized, medicalized."