Queer Clout : Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics PDF
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QUEER CLOUT POLITICS AND CULTURE IN MODERN AMERICA Series Editors Margot Canaday, Glenda Gilmore, Michael Kazin, Stephen Pitti, and Thomas J. Sugrue Volumes in the series narrate and analyze political and social change in the broadest dimensions from 1865 to the present, including ideas about the ways people have sought and wielded power in the public sphere and the language and institutions of politics at all levels—local, national, and transnational. The series is motivated by a desire to reverse the fragmentation of modern U.S. history and to encourage synthetic perspectives on social movements and the state, on gender, race, and labor, and on intellectual history and popular culture. QUEER CLOUT Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics Timothy Stewart-Winter UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS PHILADELPHIA Copyright(cid:2)2016UniversityofPennsylvaniaPress Allrightsreserved.Exceptforbriefquotationsused forpurposesofrevieworscholarlycitation,noneofthis bookmaybereproducedinanyformbyanymeanswithout writtenpermissionfromthepublisher. Publishedby UniversityofPennsylvaniaPress Philadelphia,Pennsylvania19104-4112 www.upenn.edu/pennpress PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica onacid-freepaper 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Stewart-Winter,Timothy,1979–author. Queerclout:Chicagoandtheriseofgaypolitics/Timothy Stewart-Winter. pagescm—(PoliticsandcultureinmodernAmerica) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-0-8122-4791-6(alk.paper) 1.Gayrights—Illinois—Chicago—History—20thcentury. 2.Homosexuality—Politicalaspects—Illinois—Chicago— History—20thcentury.3.Gays—Politicalactivity— Illinois—Chicago—History—20thcentury.4.Minorities— Politicalactivity—Illinois—Chicago—History—20thcentury. 5.Socialchange—Illinois—Chicago—History—20thcentury. 6.Chicago(Ill.)—Politicsandgovernment—20thcentury.I.Title. II.Series:PoliticsandcultureinmodernAmerica F548.9.G29S742016 323.3(cid:2)2640973—dc23 2015019092 To my parents This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS ListofAbbreviations ix Introduction 1 1. ALittleWorldWithinaWorld 14 2. MaximumFeasibleIntimidation 41 3. FreakingFagRevolutionaries 71 4. ClarkandDiverseyIsOurGhetto! 95 5. LesbianSurvivalSchool 132 6. BalanceofPower 153 7. ANewDiseaseIsNotWelcomeHere 186 8. FlexingGayEconomicMuscle 207 Notes 235 Index 289 Acknowledgments 301 This page intentionally left blank ABBREVIATIONS ACS ArthurC.SchenckPapers,GH ACTUP ACTUP/ChicagoRecords,SpecialCollectionsResearch Center,UniversityofChicagoLibrary Booster Booster,LernerNewspapers CD ChicagoDefender CDN ChicagoDailyNews CGAN ChicagoGayAllianceNewsletter CGC ChicagoGayCrusader CHM ChicagoHistoryMuseum CLL ChicagoLesbianLiberation CMSN ChicagoMattachineSocietyNewsletter CR ChicagoReader CST ChicagoSun-Times CT ChicagoTribune CWLU ChicagoWomen’sLiberationUnionrecords,CHM DOBCCN NewsletteroftheDaughtersofBilitis,ChicagoChapter FK FrankKamenyPapers,LibraryofCongress,Washington,DC GAA GayActivistsAlliancerecords,NewYorkPublicLibrary GAS GregoryA.SpraguePapers,CHM GH Gerber/HartLibraryandArchives,Chicago GL BarbaraGittings/KayLahusenPapers,NYPL GLCMC GayandLesbianCoalitionofMetropolitanChicagorecords, GH IGLTF IllinoisGayandLesbianTaskForcerecords,GH ILGTF IllinoisLesbianandGayTaskForcerecords,GH JG JohnGagnonPapers,SpecialCollectionsandUniversity Archives,StonyBrookUniversity,StonyBrook,NY JR JackRinellaPapers,GH
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