Title Chicago whispers : a history of LGBT Chicago before Stonewall / St. Sukie de la Croix.

Publication Info.	Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2012]
	©2012

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Description	1 online resource (xviii, 326 pages) : illustrations
	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-311) and index.
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.
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Subject	Gay people -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
	Gays.
	Illinois -- Chicago.
	History.
	Homosexuality -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
	Homosexuality.
	Gender nonconformity -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
	Gender nonconformity.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Subject	Homosexuals.
	Homosexuality.
Other Form:	Print version: De la Croix, St. Sukie. Chicago whispers. Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press, ©2012 9780299286941 (DLC) 2011041961 (OCoLC)756913037
ISBN	9780299286934 (electronic book)
	0299286932 (electronic book)
	9780299286941 (paperback)
	0299286940 (paperback)
	9781283657426
	1283657422
Standard No.	40021084075