Queer Twin Cities: Volume 31

The Twin Cities is home to one of the largest and most vital GLBT populations in the nation — and one of the highest percentages of gay residents in the country. Drawn from the pioneering work of the Twin Cities GLBT Oral History Project — a collective organization of students, scholars and activists devoted to documenting and interpreting the lives of GLBT people in Minneapolis and St. Paul — Queer Twin Cities is a uniquely critical collection of essays on Minnesota’s vibrant queer communities, past and present. A rich blend of oral history, archival research and ethnography, Queer Twin Cities uses sexuality to chart connections between people’s lives in Minnesota. Topics range from turn-of-the-century Minneapolis amid moral reform — including the highly publicized William Williams murder trial and efforts to police Bridge Square, aka ‘skid row’ — to northern Minnesota and the importance of male companionship among lumber workers, and to postwar life, when the increased visibility of