Finding the Movement: Queer Space...
Finding the Movement: Queer Space, Dance, and Survival, 1970s Detroit, Chicago, & Minneapolis with Finn Enke
Explicit
Our Dyke Histories by Jack Gieseking with Sinister Wisdom
S1 · E10
Jan 26, 2026
37:37
Episode notes

In part two of their conversation about the 1970s, Jack Gieseking and Finn Enke travel through Chicago, Detroit, and Minneapolis to ask what it meant to find—and build—lesbian, queer, trans, feminist, and dyke worlds. Public space was never simply public, especially for lezbiqueertrans people: it was a maze of bars, parties, lesbian lines, softball fields, coffee houses, feminist presses, bookstores, shelters, and the pathways between them. Together, Jack and Finn talk about the racial segregation and exclusion built into bars, the violence of ID ... 

Keywords
lesbian bars
queer parties
Jack Gieseking
queer nightlife
LGBTQ bars
queer archives
Finn Enke
Minneapolis
Detroit
UpperMidwest