Queer Twin Cities

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Author: Kevin P. Murphy

ISBN-10: 0816653216

ISBN-13: 9780816653218

Category: Gay communities -> History

The Twin Cities is home to one of the largest and most vital GLBT populations in the nation-and one of the highest percentages of gay residents in the country. Drawn from the pioneering work of the Twin Cities GLBT Oral History Project-a collective organization of students, scholars, and activists devoted to documenting and interpreting the lives of GLBT people in Minneapolis and St. Paul-Queer Twin Cities is a uniquely critical collection of essays on Minnesota's vibrant queer communities,...

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A pioneering look at the queer history, politics, and spaces of the Twin Cities.

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Queer Twin Cities Jennifer L. Pierce1. Queering Oral History: Reflections on the Origins of the Twin Cities GLBT Oral History Project Jason Ruiz2. Calculating Risk: History of Medicine, Transgender Oral History, and the Institutional Review Board Michael David Franklin3. Sexuality in the Headlines: Intimate Upheavals as Histories of the Twin Cities Ryan Patrick Murphy and Alex T. Urquhart4. The Myth of the Great White North: Claiming Queer People of Color Histories in the Twin Cities (A Roundtable Discussion)Charlotte Albrecht, Brandon Lacy Campos, and Jessica Giusti5. A Single Queer Voice with Polyphonic Overtones: Elise Matthesen and the Politics of Subjectivity in the Twin Cities Mark Soderstrom6. Two-Spirits Organizing: Indigenous Two-Spirit Identity in the Twin Cities Region Megan L. MacDonald7. Skirting Boundaries: Queer Bar Cultures in the Postwar Twin Cities Amy M. Tyson8. Sex and the Cities: Reevaluating 1980s Feminist Politics in Minneapolis and St. Paul Pamela Butler9. The Gay Land Rush: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Life of Post-Welfare Minneapolis Ryan Patrick Murphy10. Private Cures for a Public Epidemic: Target(ing) HIV and AIDS Medications in the Twin Cities Alex T. Urquhart and Susan Craddock11. Gay Was Good: Progress, Homonormativity, and Oral History Kevin P. Murphy Notes Contributors Index

\ From the Publisher"I see so much in Queer Twin Cities of my own experience as a citified queer made by the metropolitan American Midwest. This unprecedented and engrossing book descends into the diverse nexus of so-called flyover country, complicating and elucidating the intersecting histories of a vibrant urban people who claim our place queerly in the middle." —Barrie Jean Borich, author of My Lesbian Husband\ "This exemplary collection, which blends the riveting storytelling of first-person experience with passionate analysis and determined archival sleuthing is a model of politically engaged research that offers a fascinating window onto an under-appreciated aspect of two great Midwestern cities." —Susan Stryker, Associate Professor of Gender Studies, Indiana University-Bloomington\ \ \