Tearoom Trade by Laud Humphreys

Author:Laud Humphreys
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aldine Transaction

6. Howard S. Becker, Outsiders (New York: The Free Press, 1963), p. 103.

As occupational autonomy and marital status remain the most important dimensions along which participants may be ranked, we shall consider four general types of tearoom customers: (1) married men with dependent occupations, (2) married men with independent occupations, (3) unmarried men with independent occupations, and (4) unmarried men with dependent occupations. As will become evident with the discussion of each type, I have employed labels from the homosexual argot, along with pseudonyms, to designate each class of participants. This is done not only to facilitate reading but to emphasize that we are describing persons rather than merely "typical" constructs. In the following table, the defining variables are to be found in the second and third rows ("Marital Status" and "Occupations"), the first row presenting the labels for each class and the names I have chosen for each typical representative.

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