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Author(s):	St. Sukie de la Croix

Date:	2021	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0299286940
Pages:	312	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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Chicago Whispers illuminates a colorful and vibrant record of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people who lived and loved in Chicago from the citys beginnings in the 1670s as a fur-trading post to the end of the 1960s. Journalist St. Sukie de la Croix, drawing on years of archival research and personal interviews, reclaims Chicagos LGBT past that had been forgotten, suppressed, or overlooked.
    Included here are Jane Addams, the pioneer of American social work  blues legend Ma Rainey, who recorded Sissy Blues in Chicago in 1926  commercial artist J. C. Leyendecker, who used his lover as the model for The Arrow Collar Man advertisements  and celebrated playwright Lorraine Hansberry, author of . Here, too, are accounts of vice dens during the Civil War and classy gentlemens clubs  the wild and gaudy First Ward Ball that was held annually from 1896 to 1908  gender-crossing performers in cabarets and at carnival sideshows  rights activists like Henry Gerber in the 1920s  authors of lesbian pulp novels and publishers of physique magazines  and evidence of thousands of nameless queer Chicagoans who worked as artists and musicians, in the factories, offices, and shops, at theaters and in hotels. offers a diverse collection of alternately hip and heart-wrenching accounts that crackle with vitality.
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