Out in Evansville
eBook - ePub

Out in Evansville

An LGBTQ+ History of River City

  1. 144 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Out in Evansville

An LGBTQ+ History of River City

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword, by Lynn Miller Pease
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Prologue. Defining This Work
  8. 1. Sex and the Victorian City
  9. 2. Dear Doctor
  10. 3. Andrew Reagan: 1954
  11. 4. Jack Burdette and the YMCA: 1960
  12. 5. Rudolph Severin Ziemer: 1963
  13. 6. Evansville Goes to the Movies
  14. 7. Kenneth Sanders: 1966
  15. 8. A Girl Named Laura: 1981
  16. 9. Reverend Harry Charles Keeton: 1984
  17. 10. The Party: AIDS and the City
  18. 11. Beginnings of Organized Queer Life into the Modern Era
  19. 12. Drag and the Current Climate in the River City
  20. Epilogue. The LGBTQ+ in Today’s Evansville
  21. Notes
  22. About the Author