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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