A must read for those interested in social movements and american politics since the 1960s.

Queer clout chicago politics culture. Chicago and the rise of gay politics by timothy stewart winter in 1924 a chicago postal clerk henry gerber founded the society for human rights one of the nations first gay rights organizations. Johnson who resigned from the white house staff in 1964. Cloth 2016 isbn 9780812247916 6500s outside the americas 5200 paper 2017 isbn 9780812224061 2495a outside the americas 1899 ebook editions are available from selected online vendors a volume in the series politics and culture in modern america. His first book queer clout.

Queer clout enriches our understanding of political activism in the 1970s and 80s by examining the strategies that gay. Chicago and the rise of gay politics followed by a qa with kathleen belew assistant professor of u. The karla scherer center for the study of american culture in partnership with the urban network the center for the study of gender and sexuality and the seminary co op is pleased to present a lecture by timothy stewart winter assistant professor of history rutgers university queer clout. The stonewall uprising and harvey.

He appeared on chicago tonight and the morning shift and discussed his research with kathleen belew assistant professor of history at the karla scherer center for the study of american culture at the university of chicago. Timothy stewart winter is assistant professor of us. Timothy stewart winter challenges the traditional division between the homophile. Timothy stewart winter is a historian of sexuality gender and modern us politics.

320 pages 6 x 9 31 illus. Predictably it was swiftly shut down. Tracing the gay movements trajectory since the 1950s from the closet to the corridors of power queer clout is the first book to weave together activism and electoral politics shifting the story from the coastal gay meccas to the nations great inland metropolis. In the early 1950s a chicago nurse shirley willer created a sanctuary network for lgbt.

His first book queer clout. And as i argue in my recent book queer clout. This type of history is rarely written about so to have a detailed account of the history of the political movement in chicago for the lgbtq community is essential and refreshing. Queer clout offers an in depth account of the lgbtq civil right movement.

He is now working on a book about walter jenkins a longtime aide to lyndon b. Chicago and the rise of gay politics cities like chicago are actually more representative of that early evolution. Chicago and the rise of gay politics penn 2016. Chicago and the rise of gay politics university of pennsylvania press january 2016 traces the role of big city municipal politics in the gay movements path from the closets to.

Queer clout chicago and the rise of gay politics timothy stewart winter.