Queer Clout - Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics

Informationen zum Autor Timothy Stewart-Winter Klappentext Timothy Stewart-Winter is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University-Newark. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1. A Little World Within a World Chapter 2. Maximum Feasible Intimidation Chapter 3. Freaking Fag Revolutionaries Chapter 4. Clark and Diversey Is Our Ghetto! Chapter 5. Lesbian Survival School Chapter 6. Balance of Power Chapter 7. A New Disease Is Not Welcome Here Chapter 8. Flexing Gay Economic Muscle Notes Index Acknowledgments

Product details

• Authors: Timothy Stewart-Winter
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.02.2016
• EAN: 9780812247916
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4791-6
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Politics and Culture in Modern; Politics and Culture in Modern America; Politics and Culture in Modern
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous