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.
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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