Queer Clout: Chigo and the Rise of Gay Polics (Polics and Culture Morn Ameri): Stewart-Wter, Timothy: 9780812247916: Books

Contents:

• HOMOSEXUALS BUYG BABI FOR SOCIAL MEDIA CLOUT: GAY COUPL USE SURROGACY TO TRAFFIC CHILDREN – STEW PETERS
• IS LARRAY GAY? OR JT PRETENDG TO BE GAY FOR CLOUT?
• JERROD CARMICHAEL OUT AS GAY HIS NEW EDY SPECIAL
• QUEER CLOUT: CHIGO AND THE RISE OF GAY POLICS
• CARSON GAY
• QUEER CLOUT: CHIGO AND THE RISE OF GAY POLICS (POLICS AND CULTURE MORN AMERI) HARDVER – FEBARY 16, 2016
• QUEER CLOUT: CHIGO AND THE RISE OF GAY POLICS

HOMOSEXUALS BUYG BABI FOR SOCIAL MEDIA CLOUT: GAY COUPL USE SURROGACY TO TRAFFIC CHILDREN – STEW PETERS

why make good tweets or good ntent or good anythg when u n tweet im gay 24/7 and get a whole ass followg and tons of clout. The polil mobilizatn of gays and lbians Chigo relied part on a agile alliance wh the cy’s black muny. That’s jt one of many fascatg revelatns ptured the book, “Queer Clout: Chigo and the Rise of Gay Polics” by Timothy Stewart-Wter, a Universy of Chigo alumn who currently teach history at Rutgers Universy Newark, New Jersey.

“Queer Clout” follows the polil rise of Chigo’s LGBT muny, om fightg agast police raids of the cy’s gay bars to beg urted by the cy’s first Ain-Amerin mayor, Harold Washgton, and then s later by Barack Obama as he climbed om beg a ltle-known state lawmaker to ultimately beg the natn’s first black print. "Chigo is actually more reprentative than New York and San Francis of the trajectory of gay polics, " said Stewart-Wter. And so, gay bar raids went on longer here, gay people had to have more alli orr to w clout Cy Hall than other plac.

IS LARRAY GAY? OR JT PRETENDG TO BE GAY FOR CLOUT?

In 2013, the chief jtice of the Uned Stat suggted that the gay-rights ‘‘lobby’’ was so ‘‘polilly powerful’’ that gay upl nied equal accs to marriage should not be nsired a disadvantaged class servg protectn om the urts. And yet, only fifty years ago, gays and lbians were social and polil pariahs, facg harassment wherever they gathered.

This book trac that trajectory—om the closet to the rridors of power—and chronicl the rise of gay polics the postwar Uned Stat. The path of gays and lbians to polil power led through cy hall and veloped primarily rponse to the nstant threat of arrt unr which they lived. By the late 1980s, ci where policians had only recently sought polil advantage om raidg gay bars and rtg their patrons off to jail, gays and lbians had acquired sufficient power and fluence for elected officials to pursue them aggrsively as a potential votg bloc—not least by mpaigng those same bars.

JERROD CARMICHAEL OUT AS GAY HIS NEW EDY SPECIAL

Gays now had clout.

Gay migratn to ci was a major feature of postwar urban life, one that nsequentially shaped urban liberalism. After World War II, unprecented numbers of e´migre´s om smaller ci, towns, ral areas, and suburbs left their fai of orig and joed urban gay society, where they learned they uld fd both anonymy and muny. As Carl Wtman wrote of San Francis, the most fluential manifto of the gay-liberatn movement, ‘‘We me not bee is so great here, but bee was so bad there.

QUEER CLOUT: CHIGO AND THE RISE OF GAY POLICS

’’ In subsequent s, the gay-rights movement flourished and drew predomantly whe and middle-class cy dwellers. As urban gay muni swelled wh newly out and newly arrived gay people, their sire for regnn and their need for ernment protectns began to realign the polil views of a small but growg mory. In growg numbers, gays and lbians chafed agast their outst stat; they mand that lol ernment, and particularly the police, treat them as rights-bearg cizens.

Gay-liberatn rally Grant Park, April 1970, wh New York activist Martha Shelley addrsg the crowd through a megaphone. Close-up of prottors at gay-liberatn rally Grant Park, April 1970.

CARSON GAY

Chigo Gay Alliance flyer for Pri event, 1972. Kelley, sponsor of proposed gay-rights ordance, on the ver of the Chigo Gay Csar, January 1973.

Full-page antigay prt advertisement paid for by the Plymouth Foundatn, September 1979.

Black gay activists Bud Billiken Para. The rise of the gay movement postwar Ameri was shaped by a liberal fah civil liberti as well as, the 1960s, by the Vietnam-era antiwar movement, the hippie unterculture, and the rebirth of femism. In Chigo, where gay mobilizatn was weaker and route police raids persisted longer than the vanguard ci of New York and San Francis, gays and lbians joed an emergg aln.

QUEER CLOUT: CHIGO AND THE RISE OF GAY POLICS (POLICS AND CULTURE MORN AMERI) HARDVER – FEBARY 16, 2016

A key factor enablg them to challenge police harassment succsfully was the example of mands by blacks for police reform, and what enabled gays and lbians to ga power—a toehold cy hall—was the emergence of progrsive, black-led lol electoral alns. The gay movement flourished the soil of urban polics not only bee gay people were ncentrated major ci but also bee was big-cy municipal ernment that Ain Amerins and their whe alli cricized police practic, mand reform of the crimal-jtice system, and lled for cln and tolerance as erng ials. As the Democratic Party began slowly to regnize the mands of blacks and Latos, women, and gays and lbians, black elected officials were stmental cementg the importance of gays and lbians the new electoral aln.

QUEER CLOUT: CHIGO AND THE RISE OF GAY POLICS

The black civil rights movement provid gays not only a mol but also new opportuni to ga visibily and fluence at the municipal level, as black and whe liberals broke open urban mach and rejected tradnal polil stctur they viewed as rpt and unfair. As police harassment dimished and as more gay people me out and realized they had no reurse if they were fired for beg gay, they aga turned to the civil rights mol veloped by Ain Amerins to seek legislatn to protect them, and to black elected officials to fend their civil rights.