Quearborn & Perversion: An Early History of Lesbian & Gay Chicago

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Quearborn & Perversion: An Early History of Lesbian & Gay Chicago

Quearborn & Perversion: An Early History of Lesbian & Gay Chicago (2009, 109 min) is a documentary on LGBTQ life in Chicago from 1934 to 1974. Moving from the speakeasys and Henry Gerber’s founding of the Society for Human Rights in the 1930s, to the underground social structure of the 1940s and 1950s, to the dawn of consciousness-raising entities such as the Daughters of Bilitis and Mattachine Midwest in the 1960’s, and concluding with the emergence of the gay liberation movement with the first Pride March and opening of the first community center in the early 1970s.

Release Date

2007-11-01

Year

2007

Duration

1h 49m

Status

Released

Score

0.00

#lgbt#queer-activism#gay-history#documentary

Cast

Studs Terkel

Studs Terkel

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Chuck Renslow

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Valerie Taylor

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Marge Summit

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Jim Flint

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Bill Kelley

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Vernita Gray

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Richard Gray

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Ralla Klepak