Release Date

01 Nov, 2007

Runtime

01:49: (HH:MM)

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.

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Actors

Studs Terkel

Chuck Renslow

Valerie Taylor

Marge Summit

Jim Flint

Bill Kelley

Vernita Gray

Richard Gray

Ralla Klepak

Crew