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Hardcover
Publisher: Agate Surrey
Tracy Baim
Out and Proud in Chicago takes readers through the long and rich history of the city's 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 city's vital, post-liberation present.
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| Great book about great people in a great city. |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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Tracy Baim has written an absolutely wonderful history about the LGBT history of the cit of Chicago. WONDERFUL !!! You won't be able to put it down.
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| Terrible Book on Gay Chicagoans |
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This 224 page book is the worse misrepresentation on GLBT Chicagoans to hit the market. It's full of male-bashing homophobic [...] and self-loathing dogs from Traci Baim and other so-called "lesbians" to homosexually abstinent creeps like alderman Tom Tunney and activists Otis Richardson and Max Smith.
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| A Beautiful Look at Chicago |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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Baim, Tracy. "Out and Proud in Chicago", Agate Surrey Books, 2008.
A Beautiful Look at Chicago
Amos Lassen
The gay community of Chicago has every reason to be proud with the publication of a new book which gives an overview of gay life in the windy city. I understand that it was produced to tie in with a television documentary of the same title. Isn't it good to see that our community is receiving the same type of coverage as other civil rights movements?
I have only good things to say about "Out and Proud in Chicago"--the photographs and the writing are both excellent and the book is not only for the people of Chicago, it is for all of us. What happened in Chicago has happened everywhere and although circumstances and locations may be different, the goal is the same--to give us the equal rights that we all deserve. The rights movement began simultaneously on both the east and west coasts and in the Midwest (Chicago) but for some reason, Middle America has been ignored in that reference. Chicago was greatly influenced by what was happening in New York and several northeastern gay rights leaders visited to help organize the community.
The book has many illustrations and it has been admirably researched using history, journalism and scholarship. We get a good look at not only the history but the culture of the city. Baim organized the book into chronological sections beginning with the Prairie Settlement and moving forward to the present time. She also provides a chapter about what to expect from the future. Baim brings us a history that once was hidden but now takes its place among other histories of the city. This is a wonderful addition to the canon of gay literature.
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