Jim Flint 2012 - The Fireside Chat Series
Channel: Fireside Chats with Douglas O'Keeffe
Date: 2018-11-09

Jim Flint is the owner of Chicago's The Baton Show Lounge (http://www.thebatonshowlounge.com/) and the founder of the Continental Pageantry System.

In this interview Jim talks about working in Chicago gay bars in the 60's and 70's, and his book, Jim Flint: The Boy from Peoria.  As an excerpt from the book explains: "Running a gay bar in Chicago in the 1960s and 1970s meant placating corrupt police and city inspectors eager for bribes, as well as shadowy, silk-suited Mafiosi."


Inside Leather History: A Fireside Chat is produced by Douglas O’Keeffe and Mistress Joanne C. Gaddy (the “Producers”).The Chats seek to capture the memories, reflections, and experiences of leaders in the leather and/or LGBTQ communities. With a deep and heartfelt regard for the importance of our history, it is the intent of the Producers to collect, preserve, and appropriately share the stories of our forebears and others who have made significant contributions to the leather and/or LGBTQ communities. This is done through a series of recorded interviews.