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A Place for Us: Gay Life at Chicago's Belmont Rocks

By Owen Keehnen
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By Owen Keehnen
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Belmont Rocks: Where Chicago Went Queer in Broad Daylight

A Place for Us: Gay Life at Chicago's Belmont Rocks by Owen Keehnen is a vivid work of LGBTQ+ history, queer Chicago history, and oral history that brings a legendary lakefront gathering place back to life. Before rainbow flags, before open-door bars, and before Pride was a season on the calendar, Chicago's queer community carved out freedom on a jagged stretch of Lake Michigan shoreline at the end of Belmont Avenue. It was not a beac...