ABSTRACT
During the 1960s, the fledgling gay press began to publicize "gay bashing", heterosexual assaults on LGBT persons as a form of recreation. The chapter on "Lust" in Stanford Lyman's The Seven Deadly Sins: Society and Evil discusses queer derelicts in detail. Fichte's ethnographic novels, especially Die Palette, evoke homosexuelle wandering through an underground world of decay and degradation, in the company of miscreants: "the marginal and subterranean types, the bums, the homosexuals, the drug addicts, the petty criminals". A 1994 article about the most influential criminologists in the English-speaking world awarded the honor to Marvin E. Wolfgang, Alfred Blumstein, Michael J. Hindelang and James Q. Wilson, a conservative political commentator who evoked the queer derelict throughout his career. The figure of the Wandering Jew, cursed by Christ to "tarry until I return", was a part of the iconography of the Middle Ages.
