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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Cincinnati Before Stonewall: The Untold Queer History of the Queen City

Cincinnati Before Stonewall: The Untold Queer History of the Queen City

Hogue, Jacob

Paperback

Biographies GeneralRegional: Midwest

Publisher Price: $24.99

ISBN10: 1467170496
ISBN13: 9781467170499
Publisher: History Press
Published: May 5 2026
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Long 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 dangerous neighborhood. Or Julius Junkie Fleischmann, a gay man who, even as the U.S. government launched a purge of homosexuals from its ranks, secretly served as a covert operative for the CIA at the end of World War II.

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