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. They had clo
- Title : Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics (Politics and Culture in Modern America)
- Author : Timothy Stewart-Winter
- Rating : 4.88 (241 Vote)
- Publish : 2016-4-9
- Format : Hardcover
- Pages : 320 Pages
- Asin : 0812247914
- Language : English
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. 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. Gays had acquired power and influence. In postwar America, the path to political power for gays and lesbians led through 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 oTimothy Stewart-Winter teaches history at Rutgers University-Newark.
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