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Queer Clout - Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics (Paperback)
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Queer Clout - Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics (Paperback)
Series: Politics and Culture in Modern America
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In postwar America, the path to political power for gays and
lesbians led through city hall. By the late 1980s, politicians and
elected officials, who had originally sought political advantage
from raiding gay bars and carting their patrons off to jail, were
pursuing gays and lesbians aggressively as a voting bloc-not least
by campaigning in those same bars. Gays had acquired power and
influence. They had clout. Tracing the gay movement's 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
nation's great inland metropolis. Timothy Stewart-Winter challenges
the traditional division between the homophile and gay liberation
movements, and stresses gay people's and African Americans' shared
focus on police harassment. He highlights the crucial role of black
civil rights activists and political leaders in offering white gays
and lesbians not only a model for protest but also an opening to
join an emerging liberal coalition in city hall. The book draws on
diverse oral histories and archival records spanning half a
century, including those of undercover vice and police red squad
investigators, previously unexamined interviews by midcentury
social scientists studying gay life, and newly available papers of
activists, politicians, and city agencies. As the first history of
gay politics in the post-Stonewall era grounded in archival
research, Queer Clout sheds new light on the politics of race,
religion, and the AIDS crisis, and it shows how big-city politics
paved the way for the gay movement's unprecedented successes under
the nation's first African American president.
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