Chicago whispers : a history of LGBT Chicago before Stonewall /
De la Croix, St. Sukie.
Chicago whispers : a history of LGBT Chicago before Stonewall / St. Sukie de la Croix. - Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press, (c)2012. - 1 online resource (xviii, 326 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
9780299286934
Gays--History.--Illinois--Chicago
Homosexuality--History.--Illinois--Chicago
Gender nonconformity--History.--Illinois--Chicago
Transgenderism--Chicago--History.--Illinois
Electronic Books.
HQ76 / .C453 2012
Chicago whispers : a history of LGBT Chicago before Stonewall / St. Sukie de la Croix. - Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press, (c)2012. - 1 online resource (xviii, 326 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
9780299286934
Gays--History.--Illinois--Chicago
Homosexuality--History.--Illinois--Chicago
Gender nonconformity--History.--Illinois--Chicago
Transgenderism--Chicago--History.--Illinois
Electronic Books.
HQ76 / .C453 2012