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Chicago Whispers: A History of LGBT Chicago before Stonewall

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Chicago Whispers illuminates a colorful and vibrant record of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered individuals who lived and loved in Chicago from the town’s beginnings within the 1670s as a fur-trading post to the tip of the 1960s. Journalist St. Sukie de la Croix, drawing on years of archival research and personal interviews, reclaims Chicago’s LGBT past that had been forgotten, suppressed, or lost sight of.
    Included here are Jane Addams, the pioneer of American social work; blues legend Ma Rainey, who recorded “Sissy Blues” in Chicago in 1926; commercial artist J. C. Leyendecker, who used his lover as the model for “The Arrow Collar Man” advertisements; and celebrated playwright Lorraine Hansberry, writer of A Raisin within the Sun. Here, too, are accounts of vice dens all over the Civil War and classy gentlemen’s clubs; the wild and gaudy First Ward Ball that used to be held every year from 1896 to 1908; gender-crossing performers in cabarets and at carnival sideshows; rights activists like Henry Gerber within the 1920s; authors of lesbian pulp novels and publishers of “physique magazines”; and evidence of thousands of nameless queer Chicagoans who worked as artists and musicians, within the factories, offices, and shops, at theaters and in hotels. Chicago Whispers offers a diverse selection of alternately hip and heart-wrenching accounts that crackle with vitality.


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