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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 city's 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 Chicago's LGBT past that had been forgotten, suppressed, or overlooked. Including 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…
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1 edition- Other · English · 2012The University of Wisconsin Press · 326 pages · 9780299286941
GaysHomosexualityTransgenderismHistoryGender nonconformityGays, historyHomosexuality, historyChicago (ill.), social conditions