TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2005//
TI  - Passing by Proxy: Collusive and Convulsive Silence in the Trial of Leopold and Loeb
JO  - Quarterly journal of speech
A1  - Morris, Charles E.
SP  - 264
EP  - 290
VL  - 91
IS  - 3
N2  - Despite unfolding as it did during the sexual revolution of the 1920s, Leopold and Loeb's “trial of the century” elicited a deluge of constitutive discourse that struggled against overt articulation and circulation of the boys’ queerness. In this essay, I argue that those discourses—dominant reportage, in camera courtroom conferences, and Clarence Darrow's famous summation—manifested what I label “passing by proxy,” a collusive and convulsive act of straight closeting that speaks queer sexuality despite concerted effort to silence it.<p /> 
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SN  - 0033-5630
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00335630500350350
ID  - ref1
ER  -