Cincinnati Before Stonewall: The Untold Queer History of the Queen City Teen & Young Adult Sword & Sorcery Fantasy Martin Duberman

Martin Duberman

life will go back to normal

A kind of love that the world can't take away

and in the closet

She has an apartment

Cincinnati Before Stonewall: The Untold Queer History of the Queen City Teen & Young Adult Sword & Sorcery Fantasy Martin DubermanLong before Stonewall, queerness thrived in the Queen City. From queer soldiers in 1862 to drag kings and queens who lit up saloons and concert halls, Cincinnati's early LGBTQ+ history reaches into the forgotten corners of the city's past, introducing unlikely and extraordinary figures. Like Mary Ann Jefferson, a Black transgender woman who, in the late nineteenth century, became a fixture in the criminal underworld of Rat Row, Cincinnati's most