This episode is part of the ChicagoHamburg30 podcast series, which celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Chicago-Hamburg Sister-City Partnership.
Happy Pride Month!
We celebrate with an episode about Queer Chicago featuring two historians of Queer History, Owen Keehnen and Timothy Stewart-Winter.
Topics include the following:
-The difficulties of accessing Queer history since it was repressed and marginalized for so long
-The recovery and reclamation of Queer history
-Early Gay cultures in the Levy District
-The Society for Human Rights, which was the first Gay rights organization in the US, founded in Chicago by Henry Gerber in 1924
-The influence of the German writer and thinker Magnus Hirschfeld on Gay culture in Chicago
-The special historical role of Chicago as the Midwestern Queer city, which differentiates it from the more well-known Gay cities of New York and San Francisco
-The repeal of anti-sodomy laws by the Illinois in 1961, the first state to do so
-Chicago's Human Rights Ordinance of 1988, which formally protected the Queer community from discrimination
-Black Queer Chicago
-Lesbian Chicago
-The AIDS crisis
-The Belmont Rocks and the AIDS Garden
Check out Owen's Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/owenkeehnen/