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LGBT Milwaukee

By Michail Takach

Book information

Publisher
Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Year
2016
ISBN
9781439657324, 9781467117289, 2016932929
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
20 MB (20717299 bytes)
Series
Images of Modern America
Pages
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Time added
2023-01-22 10:51:25
LGBTQIA+ (Nonfiction); History; Sociology; Nonfict

Description

For a medium-size Rust Belt city with German Protestant roots, Milwaukee was an unlikely place for gay and lesbian culture to bloom before the Stonewall Riots. However, Milwaukee eventually had as many—if not more—known LGBTQ+ gathering places as Minneapolis or Chicago, ranging from the back rooms of bars in the 1960s to the video bars of the 1980s to the openly gay bars and Pride Festivals of today. Over the past 75 years, LGBTQ+ people have experienced tremendous social change in America, and Milwaukee is a shining example of how a city of "traditional values" embraced its brothers and sisters to make the city a safe place for them to live; in 2001, Milwaukee was even named the #1 city for lesbians.

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