Queer clout : Chicago and the rise of gay politics / Timothy Stewart-Winter.
In postwar America, the path to political power for gays and lesbians led through city hall. By the late 1980s, politicians and elected officials, who had originally sought political advantage from raiding gay bars and carting their patrons off to jail, were pursuing gays and lesbians aggressively a...
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2016.
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| Series: | Politics and culture in modern America.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- A little world within a world
- Maximum feasible intimidation
- Freaking fag revolutionaries
- Clark and Diversey is our ghetto!
- Lesbian survival school
- Balance of power
- A new disease is not welcome here
- Flexing gay economic muscle.