Cincinnati before Stonewall : the untold queer history of the Queen City / Jacob Hogue.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hogue, Jacob, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sexual minorities--Ohio--Cincinnati--History.

Sexual minorities.

Sexual minorities--Ohio--Cincinnati--Social life and customs--History.

Sexual minorities--Homes and haunts--Ohio--Cincinnati--History.

LGBTQ+ meeting places.

LGBTQ+ centers.

LGBTQ+ people.

Cincinnati (Ohio)--History.

Cincinnati (Ohio).

Physical Description:

171 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Untold queer history of the Queen City

Place of Publication:

Charleston, SC : The History Press, an imprint of Arcadia Publishing ; 2026.

Summary:

"Long before Stonewall, queerness thrived in the Queen City. From queer soldiers in 1862 to drag kings and queens who lit up saloons and concert halls, Cincinnati's early LGBTQ+ history reaches into the forgotten corners of the city's past, introducing unlikely and extraordinary figures. Like Mary Ann Jefferson, a Black transgender woman who, in the late nineteenth century, became a fixture in the criminal underworld of Rat Row, Cincinnati's most dangerous neighborhood. Or Julius "Junkie" Fleischmann, a gay man who, even as the U.S. government launched a purge of homosexuals from its ranks, secretly served as a covert operative for the CIA at the end of World War II. Charting the rise of pre-Stonewall bars, brothels, and hidden sanctuaries that offered fleeting refuge amid relentless repression, historian Jacob Hogue offers a bold, long-overdue reclaiming of queer Cincinnati's place in the American narrative." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The 106th and Bliss

Impersonation beyond the footlights

Be gay, do crime

Too loathsome and obnoxious to print

The impersonator and the pugilist, the plate and the peach

Whispers from the well

The queer West End

Junkie and the big gay panic

The homo problem and the House of Bamboo

Mary and the heaven, Downstairs.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1467170496

9781467170499

OCLC:

1563993307

Publisher Number:

90104662107