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

2007, English. Directed by Ron Pajak.

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.

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1 November 2007
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Quearborn & Perversion: An Early History of Lesbian & Gay Chicago (2007) was directed by Ron Pajak and stars Studs Terkel, Chuck Renslow, Valerie Taylor.

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