Lucas Hilderbrand offers a panoramic history of gay bars in the United States, demonstrating the central roles that bars have played in queer public life across the country.
Lucas Hilderbrand offers a panoramic history of gay bars in the United States, demonstrating the central roles that bars have played in queer public life across the country.
Lucas Hilderbrand is Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine, and author of Inherent Vice: Bootleg Histories of Videotape and Copyright, also published by Duke University Press, and Paris Is Burning: A Queer Film Classic.
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Preface. Drunk History, or I Just Wanna Hear a Good Beat xiii Acknowledgments. I Feel Love/Can’t Get You Out of My Head xxi Introduction. We Were Never Being Boring 1 Part I. Cultures 1. Nights in Black Leather: Inventing a Bar Culture in Chicago 37 Interlude 1. Triangle Lounge in Denver 62 2. Show Me Love: Female Impersonation and Drag in Kansas City 68 Interlude 2. Safe Spaces in Detroit 94 Part II. Politics 3. Somewhere There’s a Place for Us: Urban Renewal, Gentrification, and Class Conflicts in Boston 101 Interlude 3. Seattle Counseling Service 124 4. Midtown Goddam: Discrimination, Coalition, and Community in Atlanta 127 Interlude 4. Gay Switchboard in Philadelphia 151 Part III. Institutions 5. Welcome to the Pleasuredome: Legends of Sex and Dancing in New York 157 Interlude 5. The Saloon in Minneapolis 192 6. Proud Mary’s: An Institution in Houston 198 Interlude 6. The Main Club in Superior, WI 220 Part IV. Reinventions 7. Further Tales of the City: Queer Parties in Post-disco San Francisco 227 Interlude 7. The Casa Nova in Somerset County, PA 255 8. Donde Todo es Diferente: Queer Latinx Nightlife in Los Angeles / Researched and Written with Dan Bustillo 260 Interlude 8. Mable Peabody’s Beauty Parlor and Chainsaw Repair in Denton, TX 289 Epilogue. After Hours: Pulse in Orlando 294 Appendix 1. Selected Bars and Clubs 303 Appendix 2. LGBTQ+ Periodicals 313 Notes 317 Bibliography 395 Index 425
Preface. Drunk History, or I Just Wanna Hear a Good Beat xiii Acknowledgments. I Feel Love/Can’t Get You Out of My Head xxi Introduction. We Were Never Being Boring 1 Part I. Cultures 1. Nights in Black Leather: Inventing a Bar Culture in Chicago 37 Interlude 1. Triangle Lounge in Denver 62 2. Show Me Love: Female Impersonation and Drag in Kansas City 68 Interlude 2. Safe Spaces in Detroit 94 Part II. Politics 3. Somewhere There’s a Place for Us: Urban Renewal, Gentrification, and Class Conflicts in Boston 101 Interlude 3. Seattle Counseling Service 124 4. Midtown Goddam: Discrimination, Coalition, and Community in Atlanta 127 Interlude 4. Gay Switchboard in Philadelphia 151 Part III. Institutions 5. Welcome to the Pleasuredome: Legends of Sex and Dancing in New York 157 Interlude 5. The Saloon in Minneapolis 192 6. Proud Mary’s: An Institution in Houston 198 Interlude 6. The Main Club in Superior, WI 220 Part IV. Reinventions 7. Further Tales of the City: Queer Parties in Post-disco San Francisco 227 Interlude 7. The Casa Nova in Somerset County, PA 255 8. Donde Todo es Diferente: Queer Latinx Nightlife in Los Angeles / Researched and Written with Dan Bustillo 260 Interlude 8. Mable Peabody’s Beauty Parlor and Chainsaw Repair in Denton, TX 289 Epilogue. After Hours: Pulse in Orlando 294 Appendix 1. Selected Bars and Clubs 303 Appendix 2. LGBTQ+ Periodicals 313 Notes 317 Bibliography 395 Index 425
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