Tom Jacobson Deals with Gay Entrapment at Boston Court

Tom Jacobson Deals with Gay Entrapment at Boston Court

Features by Steve Julian  |  May 5, 2010

In 1914, W. H. Warren and B. C. Brown offered their “acting” services to the Long Beach Police Department. They would hang out inside the public bathrooms at the beach and entrap men who agreed to have sex. This “social vagrancy” forms Tom Jacobson’s play The Twentieth Century Way as it looks at this month-long moment in history. READ MORE