Cargando…

Chicago whispers : a history of LGBT Chicago before Stonewall /

"Chicago Whispers illuminates a colorful and vibrant record of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people who lived and loved in Chicago from the city's beginnings in the 1670s as a fur-trading post to the end of the 1960s. Journalist St. Sukie de la Croix, drawing on years of archiv...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: De la Croix, St. Sukie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press, ©2012.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The explorers
  • The Chicago doctors
  • Chicago's cesspools of infamy
  • Mannish women
  • The Little review
  • Kings and queens of burlesque
  • Towertown
  • Henry Gerber and the German sex reformers
  • Some in the arts
  • The blues and all that jazz
  • Powder puffs
  • Gay life in the 1930s
  • Bronzeville
  • World War II and the 1940s
  • The Cold War
  • Masculinity and the physique culture
  • Lesbian pulp paperbacks and literature
  • Negro arts and literature
  • The night life
  • Trouble with the law
  • Trans-forming drag
  • The sodomy laws
  • The gay pioneers
  • Mattachine midwest and the struggle toward a greater visibility.