QUEER CLOUT
POLITICS AND CULTURE IN MODERN AMERICA
Series Editors
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Volumes in the series narrate and analyze political and social change in the broadest dimensions from 1865 to the present, including ideas about the ways people have sought and wielded power in the public sphere and the language and institutions of politics at all levels—local, national, and transnational.
The series is motivated by a desire to reverse the fragmentation of modern U.S. history and to encourage synthetic perspectives on social movements and the state, on gender, race, and labor, and on intellectual history and popular culture.
QUEER CLOUT
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Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics
Timothy Stewart-Winter
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
PHILADELPHIA
Copyright © 2016 University of Pennsylvania Press
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University of Pennsylvania Press
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Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Stewart-Winter, Timothy, 1979– author.
Queer clout : Chicago and the rise of gay politics / Timothy Stewart-Winter.
pages cm — (Politics and culture in modern America)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8122-4791-6 (alk. paper)
1. Gay rights—Illinois—Chicago—History—20th century. 2. Homosexuality—Political aspects—Illinois—Chicago—History—20th century. 3. Gays—Political activity—Illinois—Chicago—History—20th century. 4. Minorities—Political activity—Illinois—Chicago—History—20th century. 5. Social change—Illinois—Chicago—History—20th century. 6. Chicago (Ill.)—Politics and government—20th century. I. Title. II. Series: Politics and culture in modern America
F548.9.G29S74 2016
323.3′2640973—dc23
2015019092
To my parents
CONTENTS
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1. A Little World Within a World
2. Maximum Feasible Intimidation
3. Freaking Fag Revolutionaries
4. Clark and Diversey Is Our Ghetto!
7. A New Disease Is Not Welcome Here
8. Flexing Gay Economic Muscle
ABBREVIATIONS
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| ACS | Arthur C. Schenck Papers, GH |
| ACT UP | ACT UP/Chicago Records, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library |
| Booster | Booster, Lerner Newspapers |
| CD | Chicago Defender |
| CDN | Chicago Daily News |
| CGAN | Chicago Gay Alliance Newsletter |
| CGC | Chicago Gay Crusader |
| CHM | Chicago History Museum |
| CLL | Chicago Lesbian Liberation |
| CMSN | Chicago Mattachine Society Newsletter |
| CR | Chicago Reader |
| CST | Chicago Sun-Times |
| CT | Chicago Tribune |
| CWLU | Chicago Women’s Liberation Union records, CHM |
| DOBCCN | Newsletter of the Daughters of Bilitis, Chicago Chapter |
| FK | Frank Kameny Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC |
| GAA | Gay Activists Alliance records, New York Public Library |
| GAS | Gregory A. Sprague Papers, CHM |
| GH | Gerber/Hart Library and Archives, Chicago |
| GL | Barbara Gittings/Kay Lahusen Papers, NYPL |
| GLCMC | Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Metropolitan Chicago records, GH |
| IGLTF | Illinois Gay and Lesbian Task Force records, GH |
| ILGTF | Illinois Lesbian and Gay Task Force records, GH |
| JG | John Gagnon Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY |
| JR | Jack Rinella Papers, GH |
| KI | Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, Indiana University Bloomington |
| LAT | Los Angeles Times |
| LC | Labadie Collection, University of Michigan Special Collections Library |
| LHA | Lesbian Herstory Archives, Brooklyn, NY |
| LM | Phyllis Lyon/Del Martin Papers, GLBT Historical Society, San Francisco |
| LD | Leon Despres Papers, CHM |
| LPCA | Lincoln Park Conservation Association Records, Special Collections, DePaul University Library |
| LW | Lavender Woman |
| MMN | Mattachine Midwest Newsletter |
| MR | Mayoral Records, Harold Washington Archives & Collections, Chicago Public Library |
| MRL | Municipal Reference Library, Chicago Public Library |
| MSNY | Mattachine Society of New York records, NYPL |
| NYPL | New York Public Library |
| NYT | New York Times |
| REM | Robert E. Merriam Papers, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library |
| VWP | Virgil W. Peterson Papers, CHM |
| WBK | William B. Kelley Papers, in possession of William B. Kelley and Chen K. Ooi, Chicago |
| WCT | Windy City Times |
| WP | Washington Post |
| WS | William Simon Papers, CHM |