We're Here, We're Queer

We're Here We're Queer contains over 100 interviews with activists, artists, writers, and others who helped lay the groundwork for the current LGBTQ world. Primarily conducted in the 1990s these chats with some of the defining members of the community provide an excellent window onto the world during this tumultuous and pivotal stage of our history. Included in this collection are conversations with Quentin Crisp, Edmund White, Samuel Steward, The Daughters of Bilitis, Harry Hay, Dorothy Allison, Dick Sargent, David Wojnarowicz, E. Lynn Harris, Tommy Tune, Joan Nestle, Holly Woodlawn, RuPaul, Sarah Schulman, Paul Monette, Chuck Renslow, Jerry Herman, Sapphire, Susie Bright, Michael Cunningham, Dennis Cooper, Janis Ian, Pam Tent, Jewelle Gomez, Michelangelo Signorile, George Chauncey, Camille Paglia, Scott Heim, Scott O'Hara, and many more.

Author: Owen Keehnen
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 06/23/2011
Pages: 486
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.84lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.98d
ISBN: 9781463606213

About the Author
Writer and historian Owen Keehnen's fiction, essays, erotica, reviews, and interviews have appeared in hundreds of magazines and anthologies worldwide, including the upcoming Windy City Queer from University of Wisconsin Press. He is the co-author (along with Tracy Baim) of Leatherman: The Legend of Chuck Renslow (Prairie Avenue Productions, 2011). His forthcoming novel, The Sand Bar, is due in autumn 2011 from Lethe Press. Keehnen is the author of the horror novel Doorway Unto Darkness (Dancing Moon Press, 2010) and recently published the humorous gay novel I May Not Be Much But I'm All I Think About (e-gaymag.com). He is also co-editor of Nothing Personal: Chronicles of Chicago's LGBTQ Community 1977-1997 (Firetrap Press, 2009) and contributed 10 of the biographical essays in the groundbreaking coffee-table book Out and Proud in Chicago (Surrey/Agate, 2008). Keehnen is a founding board member of The Legacy Project and currently serves as secretary for the LGBT history-education-arts program focused on pride, acceptance, and bringing proper recognition to the courageous lives and contributions of international LGBTQ historical figures (legacyprojectchicago.org). He is the former programming director for Gerber/Hart Library and has had two queer monologues adapted for the stage. He has written regular columns in such magazines as Penthouse Forum and Men's Style and was author of the Starz books, a four-volume series of interviews with gay porn stars. He was co-editor of the Windy City Times Pride Literary Supplement for several years and continues working periodically as a features writer for the newspaper. He lives in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood with his partner, Carl, and his two ridiculously spoiled dogs, Flannery and Fitzgerald.

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