Queer Clout
Subtitle: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780812247916
Subjects: Gay rights; Homosexuality; Gays, political activity; Minorities, political activity, united states; Social change; Chicago (ill.), politics and government
Description: "In postwar America, the path to political power for gays and lesbians ran through city hall. By the late 1980s, politicians and elected officials, who had originally sought political advantage from raiding gay bars and carting their patrons off to jail, were pursuing gays and lesbians aggressively as a voting bloc--not least by campaigning in those same bars. Gays had acquired power and influence. They had clout"--Jacket.