Chicago Whispers: A History of LGBT Chicago before Stonewall

Contents

vii Contents Foreword ix John D’Emilio Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 3 1 The Explorers 6 2 The Chicago Doctors 12 3 Chicago’s Cesspools of Infamy 19 4 Mannish Women 27 5 The Little Review 35 6 Kings and Queens of Burlesque 44 7 Towertown 56 8 Henry Gerber and the German Sex Reformers 70 9 Some in the Arts 88 10 The Blues and All That Jazz 97 11 Powder Puffs 109 12 Gay Life in the 1930s 120 13 Bronzeville 143 14 World War II and the 1940s 160 15 The Cold War 169 16 Masculinity and the Physique Culture 181 17 Lesbian Pulp Paperbacks and Literature 199 18 Negro Arts and Literature 206 19 The Night Life 218 Contents viii 20 Trouble with the Law 230 21 Trans-Forming Drag 236 22 The Sodomy Laws 248 23 The Gay Pioneers 255 24 Mattachine Midwest and the Struggle toward a Greater Visibility 268 Bibliography 283 Index 313 ...