{"product_id":"chicago-after-stonewall-a-history-of-lgbtq-chicago-from-gay-lib-to-gay-life-9781734146493","title":"Chicago After Stonewall: A History of LGBTQ Chicago From Gay Lib to Gay Life","description":"From the Author of the groundbreaking Chicago LGBTQ history book, \u003cem\u003eChicago Whispers\u003c\/em\u003e!\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cem\u003eChicago After Stonewall: Gay Lib to Gay Life\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is by award-winning historian, journalist, and Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame inductee, St Sukie de la Croix - author of the groundbreaking \u003cem\u003eChicago Whispers: A History of LGBT Chicago Before Stonewall.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cb\u003eChicago After Stonewall\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e is a detailed account of how LGBTQ Chicagoans responded to the Stonewall Riots. The book pulls together jigsaw pieces of information from many sources, including a wealth of documents held in the McCormick Library of Special Collections at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, to reveal a picture of a raggle-taggle band of dysfunctional rebels with one cause.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn post-Stonewall Chicago, several attempts were made to publish a gay newspaper, but none lasted. The longest was the Chicago Gay Crusader with twenty-six issues, between 1973-1975. However, the paper was irregular and a hangover from the 1960s hippie underground press in style. It wasn't until June 20, 1975, when Grant L. Ford published Volume 1\/Number 1 of \u003cem\u003eChicago Gay Life\u003c\/em\u003e, that Chicago boasted a professional gay newspaper.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHowever, from the Stonewall Riots until the publication of \u003cem\u003eChicago Gay Life\u003c\/em\u003e, there was no reliable source for local gay news, only irregular gay publications like \u003cem\u003eThe Paper\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMattachine Midwest Newsletter\u003c\/em\u003e, or hippie underground\/alternative rags, \u003cem\u003eSeed\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eKaleidoscope\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eReader\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eSecond City\u003c\/em\u003e, and college newspapers like \u003cem\u003eMaroon\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRoosevelt Torch\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book begins with Stonewall and Henry Weimhoff, a University of Chicago student, and ends with the first issue of \u003cem\u003eGay Life\u003c\/em\u003e on June 20, 1975, and an impassioned editorial by Valerie Bouchard for the community to \"come together, unite, and focus on similarities and not differences.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rattling Good Yarns Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50483297911058,"sku":"9781734146493","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_aced0ae9-c9c3-4b0a-9a2c-64061dc73f30.jpg?v=1730359573","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/chicago-after-stonewall-a-history-of-lgbtq-chicago-from-gay-lib-to-gay-life-9781734146493","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}