Lucas Hilderbrand

Preface. Drunk History, or I Just Wanna Hear a Good Beat xiii
Acknowledgments. I Feel Love/Can’t Get You Out of My Head xxi
Introduction. We Were Never Being Boring 1
Part I. Cultures
1. Nights in Black Leather: Inventing a Bar Culture in Chicago 37
Interlude 1. Triangle Lounge in Denver 62
2. Show Me Love: Female Impersonation and Drag in Kansas City 68
Interlude 2. Safe Spaces in Detroit 94
Part II. Politics
3. Somewhere There’s a Place for Us: Urban Renewal, Gentrification, and Class Conflicts in Boston 101
Interlude 3. Seattle Counseling Service 124
4. Midtown Goddam: Discrimination, Coalition, and Community in Atlanta 127
Interlude 4. Gay Switchboard in Philadelphia 151
Part III. Institutions
5. Welcome to the Pleasuredome: Legends of Sex and Dancing in New York 157
Interlude 5. The Saloon in Minneapolis 192
6. Proud Mary’s: An Institution in Houston 198
Interlude 6. The Main Club in Superior, WI 220
Part IV. Reinventions
7. Further Tales of the City: Queer Parties in Post-disco San Francisco 227
Interlude 7. The Casa Nova in Somerset County, PA 255
8. Donde Todo es Diferente: Queer Latinx Nightlife in Los Angeles / Researched and Written with Dan Bustillo 260
Interlude 8. Mable Peabody’s Beauty Parlor and Chainsaw Repair in Denton, TX 289
Epilogue. After Hours: Pulse in Orlando 294
Appendix 1. Selected Bars and Clubs 303
Appendix 2. LGBTQ+ Periodicals 313
Notes 317
Bibliography 395
Index 425