Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics

by Timothy Stewart-Winter

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081222406X
• ISBN13: 9780812224061
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"