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Windy City Queer

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Author : Kathie Bergquist
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299284034
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Windy City Queer written by Kathie Bergquist and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2011-11-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions of the Midwest and, specifically, Chicago to LGBTQ literature have been invaluable yet largely uncelebrated over the last century. This anthology charts a map of queer Chicago and showcases its thriving urban arts community, which boasts a unique history, legacy, and sensibility deeply rooted in the urban Midwest. Here is a first-rate collection of queer voices from Chicago's literary landscape. Celebrated writers Edmund White, Achy Obejas, Sharon Bridgforth, Brian Bouldrey, E. Patrick Johnson, Carol Anshaw, David Trinidad, and Mark Zubro are joined by emerging voices from the queer literary scene. These pieces span all literary genres, from fiction and poetry to memoir and essays, and portray a full gamut of gay Chicago lives from the everyday to the quirky, from public spectacles to quiet intimacies, from family life to nightlife, from dating to marriage, from loving to mourning. The writing that comprises this volume, which seeks to claim a queer space on the literary continuum, is surprising, smart, hilarious, and heart wrenching. "I grew up in and I'm married to Los Angeles, I had a ten year long hot affair with my adopted home NYC, but I have to admit I really left my diasporic midwestern gay heart in Chicago! Windy City Queer is a wonderful deepening of our national imagination about one of our greatest cities and regions."—Tim Miller, author of Body Blows and 1001 Beds

Out and Proud in Chicago

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Author : Tracy Baim
Publisher : Agate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781572846432
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Out and Proud in Chicago written by Tracy Baim and published by Agate Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out and Proud in Chicago takes readers through the long and rich history of the city's LGBT community. Lavishly illustrated with color and black-and white-photographs, the book draws on a wealth of scholarly, historical, and journalistic sources. Individual sections cover the early days of the 1800s to World War II, the challenging community-building years from World War II to the 1960s, the era of gay liberation and AIDS from the 1970s to the 1990s, and on to the city's vital, post-liberation present.

Chicago Whispers

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Author : St. Sukie de la Croix
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299286932
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Chicago Whispers written by St. Sukie de la Croix and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2012-07-11 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 archival research and personal interviews, reclaims Chicago’s LGBT past that had been forgotten, suppressed, or overlooked. Included here are Jane Addams, the pioneer of American social work; blues legend Ma Rainey, who recorded “Sissy Blues” in Chicago in 1926; commercial artist J. C. Leyendecker, who used his lover as the model for “The Arrow Collar Man” advertisements; and celebrated playwright Lorraine Hansberry, author of A Raisin in the Sun. Here, too, are accounts of vice dens during the Civil War and classy gentlemen’s clubs; the wild and gaudy First Ward Ball that was held annually from 1896 to 1908; gender-crossing performers in cabarets and at carnival sideshows; rights activists like Henry Gerber in the 1920s; authors of lesbian pulp novels and publishers of “physique magazines”; and evidence of thousands of nameless queer Chicagoans who worked as artists and musicians, in the factories, offices, and shops, at theaters and in hotels. Chicago Whispers offers a diverse collection of alternately hip and heart-wrenching accounts that crackle with vitality.

A Field Guide to Gay & Lesbian Chicago

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Author : Kathie Bergquist
Publisher : Lake Claremont Press
ISBN 13 : 9781893121034
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book A Field Guide to Gay & Lesbian Chicago written by Kathie Bergquist and published by Lake Claremont Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first and only book to give gay and lesbian travelers the inside scoop on gay-friendly accommodations, shopping, sports, recreation, music, theater, dining, and nightlife in the Windy City. This chatty, opinionated guide to gay life and culture is written by longtime gay-neighborhood-dwelling Chicagoans for residents and visitors. Photos.

Feels Right

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Author : Kemi Adeyemi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781478018698
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book Feels Right written by Kemi Adeyemi and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kemi Adeyemi examines how Black queer women use the queer dance floor to articulate relationships to themselves, the Black queer community, and gentrifying neighborhoods in Chicago.

Do You Remember House?

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Author : Micah E. Salkind
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190698411
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Do You Remember House? written by Micah E. Salkind and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the full story of house music in Chicago, from its emergence to its queer remediation to its memorialization from the late '70s to the present.

Letters to the Future

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Letters to the Future written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Program for a choral performance held June 18, 1994 at the Medinah Temple in Chicago. The musical piece addresses the future of lesbians and gays and incorporates the poetry of lesbian and gay poets.

Queer Clout

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Author : Timothy Stewart-Winter
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812247914
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Queer Clout written by Timothy Stewart-Winter and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queer Clout weaves together activism and electoral politics to trace the gay movement's path since the 1950s in Chicago. Stewart-Winter stresses gay people's and African Americans' shared focus on police harassment, highlighting how black political leaders enabled white gays and lesbians to join an emerging liberal coalition in city hall.

The Great Believers

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Author : Rebecca Makkai
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735223548
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book The Great Believers written by Rebecca Makkai and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF 2018 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER ALA CARNEGIE MEDAL WINNER THE STONEWALL BOOK AWARD WINNER Soon to Be a Major Television Event, optioned by Amy Poehler “A page turner . . . An absorbing and emotionally riveting story about what it’s like to live during times of crisis.” —The New York Times Book Review A dazzling novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him. One by one, his friends are dying and after his friend Nico’s funeral, the virus circles closer and closer to Yale himself. Soon the only person he has left is Fiona, Nico’s little sister. Thirty years later, Fiona is in Paris tracking down her estranged daughter who disappeared into a cult. While staying with an old friend, a famous photographer who documented the Chicago crisis, she finds herself finally grappling with the devastating ways AIDS affected her life and her relationship with her daughter. The two intertwining stories take us through the heartbreak of the eighties and the chaos of the modern world, as both Yale and Fiona struggle to find goodness in the midst of disaster. Named a Best Book of 2018 by The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, Buzzfeed, The Seattle Times, Bustle, Newsday, AM New York, BookPage, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Lit Hub, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, New York Public Library and Chicago Public Library

Against Equality

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Author : Ryan Conrad
Publisher : AK Press
ISBN 13 : 1849351856
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book Against Equality written by Ryan Conrad and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When “rights” go wrong. Does gay marriage support the right-wing goal of linking access to basic human rights like health care and economic security to an inherently conservative tradition? Will the ability of queers to fight in wars of imperialism help liberate and empower LGBT people around the world? Does hate-crime legislation affirm and strengthen historically anti-queer institutions like the police and prisons rather than dismantling them? The Against Equality collective asks some hard questions. These queer thinkers, writers, and artists are committed to undermining a stunted conception of “equality.” In this powerful book, they challenge mainstream gay and lesbian struggles for inclusion in elitist and inhumane institutions. More than a critique, Against Equality seeks to reinvigorate the queer political imagination with fantastic possibility! "In an era when so much of the lesbian and gay movement seems to echo the rhetoric of the mainstream Establishment, the work of Against Equality is an important provocation and corrective.... I hope this book is read widely, particularly by the people who will most disagree with it; in the tradition of the great political pamphleteers, this collection should spark debate around some of the key issues for our movement." —Dennis Altman, author of Homosexual: Oppression & Liberation "Against Equality issues a radical call for social transformation. Against and beyond the "holy trinity" of pragmatic gay politics—marriage, militarism, and prison—the queer and trans voices archived in this collection offer a radical left critique of neoliberalism, capitalism, and state oppression. In a format accessible and enlivening, equally at home in the classroom and on the street, this book keeps our political imaginations alive. Prepare to be challenged, educated, and inspired." —Margot Weiss, author of Techniques of Pleasure

Techniques of Pleasure

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Author : Margot Weiss
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822351595
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Techniques of Pleasure written by Margot Weiss and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lively ethnography, Weiss studies the pansexual BDSM community in the San Francisco Bay Area. Weiss finds that BDSM practice is not as transgressive as the participants imagine, nor is it simply reinforcing of older forms of social domination. Instead she shows how fantasy play depends on pre-existing social hierarchies, even as it also participates in a commodification of desires.

Gay Press, Gay Power

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Author : Tracy Baim
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781480080522
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Gay Press, Gay Power written by Tracy Baim and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From prejudice to pride: straight media coverage of gays, longtime gay newspapers, gay marketing history, plus interviews and essays by prominent journalists of the early gay press era"--Cover.

A Queer History of the United States

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Author : Michael Bronski
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807044652
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book A Queer History of the United States written by Michael Bronski and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction The first comprehensive history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender America, from pre-1492 to the present "Readable, radical, and smart—a must read."—Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home Intellectually dynamic and endlessly provocative, this is more than a “who’s who” of queer history: it is a narrative that radically challenges how we understand American history. Drawing upon primary documents, literature, and cultural histories, scholar and activist Michael Bronski charts the breadth of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, from 1492 to the present, a testament to how the LGBTQ+ experience has profoundly shaped American culture and history. American history abounds with unknown or ignored examples of queer life, from the ineffectiveness of sodomy laws in the colonies to the prevalence of cross-dressing women soldiers in the Civil War and resistance to homophobic social purity movements. Bronski highlights such groundbreaking moments of queer history as: • In the 1620s, Thomas Morton broke from Plymouth Colony and founded Merrymount, which celebrated same-sex desire, atheism, and interracial marriage. •Transgender evangelist Jemima Wilkinson, in the early 1800s, changed her name to "Publick Universal Friend," refused to use pronouns, fought for gender equality, and led her own congregation in upstate New York. • In the mid-19th century, internationally famous Shakespearean actor Charlotte Cushman led an openly lesbian life, including a well-publicized “female marriage.” • in the late 1920s, Augustus Granville Dill was fired by W. E. B. Du Bois from the NAACP’s magazine the Crisis after being arrested for a homosexual encounter. Informative and empowering, this engrossing and revelatory treatise emphasizes that there is no American history without queer history.

On Division

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Author : Goldie Goldbloom
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374720304
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book On Division written by Goldie Goldbloom and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** Winner of the 2020 Jewish Fiction Award ** “A novel of wisdom and uncertainty, of love in its greater and lesser forms, and of the struggle between how it should be and how it is. It is impossible not to be moved.” —Amy Bloom, author of White Houses "This book brings the reader into the heart of a close-knit Jewish family and their joys, loves, and sorrows . . . A marvelous book by a masterful writer.” —Audrey Niffenegger, author of Her Fearful Symmetry and The Time Traveler’s Wife "As beautiful as it is unexpected.” —Claire Messud, author of The Burning Girl Through one woman's life at a moment of surprising change, the award-winning author Goldie Goldbloom tells a deeply affecting, morally insightful story and offers a rare look inside Brooklyn's Chasidic community On Division Avenue, just a block or two up from the East River in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Surie Eckstein is soon to be a great-grandmother. Her ten children range in age from thirteen to thirty-nine. Her in-laws, postwar immigrants from Romania, live on the first floor of their house. Her daughter Tzila Ruchel lives on the second. She and Yidel, a scribe in such demand that he makes only a few Torah scrolls a year, live on the third. Wed when Surie was sixteen, they have a happy marriage and a full life, and, at the ages of fifty-seven and sixty-two, they are looking forward to some quiet time together. Into this life of counted blessings comes a surprise. Surie is pregnant. Pregnant at fifty-seven. It is a shock. And at her age, at this stage, it is an aberration, a shift in the proper order of things, and a public display of private life. She feels exposed, ashamed. She is unable to share the news, even with her husband. And so for the first time in her life, she has a secret—a secret that slowly separates her from the community. Into this life of counted blessings comes a surprise. Surie is pregnant. Pregnant at fifty-seven. It is a shock. And at her age, at this stage, it is an aberration, a shift in the proper order of things, and a public display of private life. She feels exposed, ashamed. She is unable to share the news, even with her husband. And so for the first time in her life, she has a secret—a secret that slowly separates her from the community.

Moving Politics

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Author : Deborah B. Gould
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226305317
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Moving Politics written by Deborah B. Gould and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-12-15 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1980s, after a decade spent engaged in more routine interest-group politics, thousands of lesbians and gay men responded to the AIDS crisis by defiantly and dramatically taking to the streets. But by the early 1990s, the organization they founded, ACT UP, was no more—even as the AIDS epidemic raged on. Weaving together interviews with activists, extensive research, and reflections on the author’s time as a member of the organization, Moving Politics is the first book to chronicle the rise and fall of ACT UP, highlighting a key factor in its trajectory: emotion. Surprisingly overlooked by many scholars of social movements, emotion, Gould argues, plays a fundamental role in political activism. From anger to hope, pride to shame, and solidarity to despair, feelings played a significant part in ACT UP’s provocative style of protest, which included raucous demonstrations, die-ins, and other kinds of street theater. Detailing the movement’s public triumphs and private setbacks, Moving Politics is the definitive account of ACT UP’s origin, development, and decline as well as a searching look at the role of emotion in contentious politics.

A Queer Geography

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Author : Frank Browning
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 030781873X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book A Queer Geography written by Frank Browning and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the gay identity? Do gay people even exist? The bestselling author of The Culture of Desire journeys into the minds of gay men in America and elsewhere to discover how their lives are shaped by time, nation, and desire. In a brilliant argument, Browning shows how and why the gay movement could have only arisen in America.

Bad Boy

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Author : Elliot Wake
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501115014
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Bad Boy written by Elliot Wake and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ren is transgender: assigned female at birth, living now as a male. He films his transition and bravely shares it with the world.