Roger Moorhouse is a vice president of finance in New York, with a wife and two children. Julian Prince is a Russian literature professor at Columbia university and in his first committed relationship. Danny Duffy is an assistant manager of produce at his local grocery store, and lives with his mother and brothers. On the surface, these men have little in common. In reality, they are all gay. In today’s world, this classification is less than sensational. But it’s 1960s New York, and homosexuality is considered a crime and even a mental illness. And when police officers raid a gay bar one night, these three men are taken to the station for processing, and worse. Disorderly Men by Edward Cahill follows three men who endure the unjust realities of being gay in pre-Stonewall New York City. And then one night of extremely bad luck changes their lives forever. 

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