Further Reading
The history of queer liberation is intrinsically linked to the history of nightlife and the special site of the queer bar. Presented in conjunction with Sadie Barnette: The New Eagle Creek Saloon, this reading list presents a collection of books on these intertwined trajectories.
In addition, a reading room containing free access to selections from this list is located adjacent to Sadie Barnette: The New Eagle Creek Saloon where we invite you to browse, read, charge your phone, or just relax.
Many of these titles are also available for purchase in the Walker’s collectible design store, Idea House 3. Open during gallery hours as well as online 24/7.
Queer Nightlife by Kemi Adeyemi, Kareem Khubchandani, and Ramon H. Rivera-Servera
Feels Right: Black Queer Women and the Politics of Partying in Chicago by Kemi Adeyemi
Wide-Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965 by Nan Alamilla Boyd
There’s a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life by Jafari S. Allen
No Sleep: NYC Nightlife Flyers 1988-1999 by DJ Stretch Armstrong & Evan Auerbach
Butch Queens Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit by Marlon M. Bailey
Black Trans Feminism by Marquis Bey
Assembling a Black Counter Culture by DeForrest Brown, Jr
Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form by Tyler Bradway and Elizabeth Freeman
New York: Club Kids by Walt Cassidy (Waltpaper)
HomoCore: The Loud and Raucous Rise of Queer Rock by David Ciminelli, Ken Knox
Urban Nightscapes: Youth Cultures, Pleasure Spaces and Corporate Power by Paul Chatterton and Robert Hollands
Transgender Rights by Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang, and Shannon Price Minter
Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation by Robert W. Fieseler
Legendary: Inside the House Ballroom Scene by Gerard H. Gaskin
Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution by Amin Ghaziani
Area: 1983-1987 by Eric Goode, Jennifer Goode
Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility by Reina Gossett, Eric A. Stanley, and Johanna Burton
Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader by Michael Hames-García and Ernesto Javier Martínez
Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence by Christina B. Hanhardt
Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940 by Chad Heap
Blacktino Queer Performance by E. Patrick Johnson and Ramón H. Rivera-Servera
Night Fever : Designing Club Culture 1960-today by Mateo Kries, Jochen Eisenbrand, Catharine Rossi, Katarina Serulus, and Jörg Heiser.
Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980–1983 by Tim Lawrence
Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979 by Tim Lawrence
The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master’s House by Audre Lorde
Together, Somehow: Music, Affect, and Intimacy on the Dancefloor by Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta
Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric by Madison Moore
Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco’s Tenderloin by Joseph Plaster
Can the Monster Speak? Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts by Paul B. Preciado
Wild Things: A Trans-Glam-Punk-Rock Love Story by Lynette Reini-Grandell
Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR): Survival, Revolt, and Queer Antagonist Struggle by Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson
Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness by Marlon B. Ross
Club Kids: Underground Culture by Raven Smith
Queer Twin Cities by Twin Cities GLBT Oral History Project
Land of 10,000 Loves: A History of Queer Minnesota by Stewart Van Cleve
THE FUN: The Social Practice of Nightlife in NYC by Jake Yuzna