Film

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

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1h 49m

2007

Synopsis

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.

Director

Ron Pajak

DocumentaryHistory

lgbtqueer activismgay historydocumentary

Cast & Crew

Studs Terkel

as Self

Chuck Renslow

as Self

Valerie Taylor

as Self

Marge Summit

as Self

Jim Flint

as Self

Bill Kelley

as Self

Vernita Gray

as Self

Richard Gray

as Self

Ralla Klepak

as Self

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