Chicago whispers : a history of LGBT Chicago before Stonewall
- Title
- Chicago whispers : a history of LGBT Chicago before Stonewall / St. Sukie de la Croix.
- Published by
- Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press, c2012.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xviii, 326 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Contents
- 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.
- Call number
- JFE 12-5612
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-311) and index.
- Author
- De la Croix, St. Sukie.
- Title
- Chicago whispers : a history of LGBT Chicago before Stonewall / St. Sukie de la Croix.
- Imprint
- Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press, c2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-311) and index.
- LCCN
- 2011041961
- Other standard identifier
- 40021084075
- ISBN
- 9780299286941 (pbk)
- 0299286940 (pbk)
- 9780299286934 (e-book)
- 0299286932 (e-book)
- Research call number
- JFE 12-5612