Queer Twin Cities

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The Twin Cities is home to one of the vital largest and most necessary GLBT populations within the nation-and one of the vital best percentages of gay residents within the country. Drawn from the pioneering work of the Twin Cities GLBT Oral History Project-a collective organization of students, scholars, and activists devoted to documenting and interpreting the lives of GLBT people in Minneapolis and St. Paul-Queer Twin Cities is a uniquely crucial choice of essays on Minnesota’s vibrant queer communities, past and present.
 
A wealthy blend of oral history, archival research, and ethnography, Queer Twin Cities uses sexuality to chart connections between people’s lives in Minnesota. Topics range from turn-of-the-century Minneapolis amid moral reform-including the highly publicized William Williams murder trial and efforts to police Bridge Square, aka “skid row”-to northern Minnesota and the significance of male companionship among lumber workers, and to postwar life, when the increased visibility of queer life went hand in hand with increased regulation, repression, and violence. Other essays present a portrait of early queer spaces within the Twin Cities, such as Kirmser’s Bar, the Viking Room, and the Persian Palms, and the proliferation of establishments like the Dugout and the 19 Bar. Exploring the activism of GLBT/Two-Spirit indigenous people, the antipornography movements of the 1980s, and the role of gay men within the gentrification of Minneapolis neighborhoods, this volume brings the history of queer life and politics within the Twin Cities into fascinating focal point.
 
Engaging and revelatory, Queer Twin Cities offers a crucial analysis of local history and community and fills a glaring omission within the culture and history of Minnesota, taking a look not only to a remarkable past, but to our collective future.

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