Out and Proud in Chicago: An Overview of the City’s Gay Community

Out and Proud in Chicago takes readers through the long and rich history of the citys LGBT community. Lavishly illustrated with color and black-and white-photographs the book draws on a wealth of scholarly historical and journalistic sources. Individual sections cover the early days of the 1800s to World War II the challenging community-building years from World War II to the 1960s the era of gay liberation and AIDS from the 1970s to the 1990s and on to the citys vital post-liberation present.