Queer Newark charts an alternate history of LGBTQ life in America where working-class people of color are the central actors. Uncovering the sites and people of Newark’s queer past in bars, discos, ballrooms, and churches, these essays reveal how violence, poverty, and homophobia could never suppress joy, resistance, love, and desire.
Queer Newark charts an alternate history of LGBTQ life in America where working-class people of color are the central actors. Uncovering the sites and people of Newark’s queer past in bars, discos, ballrooms, and churches, these essays reveal how violence, poverty, and homophobia could never suppress joy, resistance, love, and desire.
WHITNEY STRUB is an associate professor of history at Rutgers University–Newark, where he co-directs the Queer Newark Oral History Project. His many books include Perversion for Profit: The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right and Obscenity Rules: Roth v. United States and the Long Struggle over Sexual Expression.
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Introduction Whitney Strub Chapter 1: Sodom on the Passaic: Excavating Early Queer Histories of Newark, 1870s-1940s Peter Savastano and Timothy Stewart-Winter Chapter 2: The View from Mulberry and Market: Revisiting Newark’s Forgotten Gay and Lesbian Nightlife Anna Lvovsky Oral History excerpt #1: John Chapter 3: Toward a Queer Newark Left: Sexuality and Activism in the New Left and Black Power Eras Whitney Strub Oral History excerpt #2: Yvonne Hernandez Chapter 4: Glitter on Halsey Street: Queer and Trans World-Making in Newark, 1970s-present Kristyn Scorsone Oral History excerpt #3: Angela Raine Chapter 5: Project Fire: AIDS, Erasure, and Black Queer Organizing in Newark Jason Chernesky Chapter 6: Ballroom Interlude The Queer Newark Oral History Project Chapter 7: At Home in the Hood: Black Queer Women Resisting Narratives of Violence and Plotting Life at the G Corner LeiLani Dowell Oral History excerpt #4: June Dowell-Burton Chapter 8: Let’s Talk about Sex, Baby!: Queer Newark Oral Histories, La’Raine Magazine, and the Politics of Sex in the Archive Dominique Rocker Chapter 9: “Temos Muitas Coisas Pra Fazer”: Market Identities and Queer Community Building in the Brazilian Ironbound and Greater Queer Newark Yamil Avivi Oral History excerpt #5: Alicia Heath-Toby Chapter 10: “Newark Police Don’t Do Nothing for Me; They Don’t Protect and Serve”: Policing LGBTQ+ Communities Danielle M. Shields and Carse Ramos Chapter 11: “I’m Walking Here”: Reframing Queer History Through a Walking Tour Mary Rizzo and Christina Strasburger Epilogue: Remembering Sakia, Remembering Ourselves Zenzele Isoke
Acknowledgments Notes References Notes on Contributors Index
Introduction Whitney Strub Chapter 1: Sodom on the Passaic: Excavating Early Queer Histories of Newark, 1870s-1940s Peter Savastano and Timothy Stewart-Winter Chapter 2: The View from Mulberry and Market: Revisiting Newark’s Forgotten Gay and Lesbian Nightlife Anna Lvovsky Oral History excerpt #1: John Chapter 3: Toward a Queer Newark Left: Sexuality and Activism in the New Left and Black Power Eras Whitney Strub Oral History excerpt #2: Yvonne Hernandez Chapter 4: Glitter on Halsey Street: Queer and Trans World-Making in Newark, 1970s-present Kristyn Scorsone Oral History excerpt #3: Angela Raine Chapter 5: Project Fire: AIDS, Erasure, and Black Queer Organizing in Newark Jason Chernesky Chapter 6: Ballroom Interlude The Queer Newark Oral History Project Chapter 7: At Home in the Hood: Black Queer Women Resisting Narratives of Violence and Plotting Life at the G Corner LeiLani Dowell Oral History excerpt #4: June Dowell-Burton Chapter 8: Let’s Talk about Sex, Baby!: Queer Newark Oral Histories, La’Raine Magazine, and the Politics of Sex in the Archive Dominique Rocker Chapter 9: “Temos Muitas Coisas Pra Fazer”: Market Identities and Queer Community Building in the Brazilian Ironbound and Greater Queer Newark Yamil Avivi Oral History excerpt #5: Alicia Heath-Toby Chapter 10: “Newark Police Don’t Do Nothing for Me; They Don’t Protect and Serve”: Policing LGBTQ+ Communities Danielle M. Shields and Carse Ramos Chapter 11: “I’m Walking Here”: Reframing Queer History Through a Walking Tour Mary Rizzo and Christina Strasburger Epilogue: Remembering Sakia, Remembering Ourselves Zenzele Isoke
Acknowledgments Notes References Notes on Contributors Index
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