Out in Evansville : An LGBTQ+ History of River City.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coures, Kelley M.

Series:

American Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evansville (Ind.)--History.

Sexual minorities--Indiana--Evansville--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (129 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The History Press, 2023.

Summary:

From arrests and ostracization to public festivals and drag shows, the LGBTQ+ people of Evansville have walked a twisting path to their current existence. In the early days of the city, local newspapers harassed and bullied members of this group, even going so far as to encourage them to commit suicide. A series of murders in the 1950s and 1960s left Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender population of Evansville without justice and validation. The AIDS epidemic of the 1980s did the same. Happily, things have changed. Today, the city's LGBTQ community is out and proud, and thousands attend the annual Pride parade down Main Street. Looking back on more than a century of uneven progress, Kelley Coures unfolds this often tragic yet at times hopeful story.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Foreword, by Lynn Miller Pease

Acknowledgements

Prologue. Defining This Work

1. Sex and the Victorian City

2. Dear Doctor

3. Andrew Reagan: 1954

4. Jack Burdette and the YMCA: 1960

5. Rudolph Severin Ziemer: 1963

6. Evansville Goes to the Movies

7. Kenneth Sanders: 1966

8. A Girl Named Laura: 1981

9. Reverend Harry Charles Keeton: 1984

10. The Party: AIDS and the City

11. Beginnings of Organized Queer Life into the Modern Era

12. Drag and the Current Climate in the River City

Epilogue. The LGBTQ+ in Today's Evansville

Notes

About the Author.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781439677674

1439677670

OCLC:

1403319670