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“Getting cover… [is] the appearance of intimacy with young women—for communicating innocence to onlooking officers. If lesbian and gay youth hope to avoid police scrutiny, they must…conform to the standards of heterosexual romance…regulation over gender and sexuality."
Criminalized Masculinities: How Policing Shapes the Construction of Gender and Sexuality in Poor Black Communities
Social Problems
Vol. 65 Issue 2, pp. 174–190,
2018
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