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

directed by Ron Pajak

20071h 49m
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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.

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Studs Terkel

Studs Terkel

Self

C

Chuck Renslow

Self

V

Valerie Taylor

Self

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Marge Summit

Self

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Jim Flint

Self

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Bill Kelley

Self

V

Vernita Gray

Self

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Richard Gray

Self

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Director

Ron Pajak

Language

EN

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