Tell Me About It Series
By St Sukie de la Croix and Owen Keehnen
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About this series
Tell Me About It 3 Continues the Project of Exploring the Lives of Everyday LGBTQ People and Introduces New Questions!
- Is there a song that lifts your spirits as an LGBTQ person?
- Did you have a mentor(s) in the LGBTQ community and if so, what did they teach you?
- What LGBTQ community activity (spiritual, sporting, activism,
- volunteer work, etc.) gives you the greatest sense of connection andwhat about that activity is fulfilling?
- What are your thoughts about the social and cultural assimilation of LGBTQ people?
- What are the best and worst parts of going out to the bars/clubs?
- When was the first time you realized you were different?
- Tell us about the one that got away?
- Do you experience prejudice in your day-to-day life and if so, what form does it take?
- What movies or TV shows best capture your funny as well as your serious side?
- Did you have a religious upbringing and how did (or does) that affect your life as an LGBTQ person?
- Were you bullied in school and if so, what form did it take?
- Have you ever lived with an LGBTQ lover/partner/spouse? If so,what advice would you give to someone about making a live-in
- relationship work?
- How did your parents react when you came out to them?
- Did you have a famous LGBTQ role model who inspired you to come out?
- When did you first hear about AIDS?
- Have you attended a school reunion as an out LGBTQ person and if so, describe the evening?
- What famous person fanned your desire as a young LGBTQ person and why?
- As a youth or young adult, was there a place, other than a bar, where you congregated with fellow LGBTQ people?
- Name three things that are on your LGBTQ bucket list?
We all have stories — sometimes poignant, sometimes entertaining, and usually quite interesting. As historians of LGBTQ life, St Sukie de la Croix and Owen Keehnen, have been recording and collecting the memories, personal experiences, and anecdotes of queer folks for decades. The Tell Me About It series is an extension of their ongoing work. The Tell Me About It series collects personal anecdotes in response to a series of questions. Like its two predecessors, Tell Me About It 3 is full of moving, horrendous, hilarious, and thought-provoking answers by LGBTQ people from across the country and around the globe, capturing a variety of experiences, often revealing more profound similarities. Tell Me About It 3 offers glimpses of what makes us different, who we are, what we share, and where we fit in.
Titles in the series (2)
- Tell Me About It 2: LGBTQ Secrets, Confessions, And Life Stories: Tell Me About It, #2
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We all have stories — sometimes poignant, sometimes entertaining, and usually quite interesting. As historians of LGBTQ life, St Sukie de la Croix and Owen Keehnen, have been recording and collecting the memories, personal experiences, and anecdotes of queer folks for decades. The Tell Me About It series is an extension of their ongoing work.The Tell Me About It series sheds light on the lives, the circumstances, and the reality of LGBTQ people through the sharing of personal anecdotes in response to a series of questions. The results are a prime example of the power and the connection that comes from sharing our stories. Like its predecessor, Tell Me About It 2 is full of moving, horrendous, hilarious, and thought-provoking answers by LGBTQ people from across the country and around the globe, capturing a variety of experience, yet often revealing more profound similarities. Tell Me About It 2 offers glimpses of what makes us different, who we are, what we share, and where we fit in.
- Tell Me About It 3: LGBTQ Secrets, Confessions, and Life Stories: Tell Me About It
Tell Me About It 3 Continues the Project of Exploring the Lives of Everyday LGBTQ People and Introduces New Questions! Is there a song that lifts your spirits as an LGBTQ person? Did you have a mentor(s) in the LGBTQ community and if so, what did they teach you? What LGBTQ community activity (spiritual, sporting, activism, volunteer work, etc.) gives you the greatest sense of connection andwhat about that activity is fulfilling? What are your thoughts about the social and cultural assimilation of LGBTQ people? What are the best and worst parts of going out to the bars/clubs? When was the first time you realized you were different? Tell us about the one that got away? Do you experience prejudice in your day-to-day life and if so, what form does it take? What movies or TV shows best capture your funny as well as your serious side? Did you have a religious upbringing and how did (or does) that affect your life as an LGBTQ person? Were you bullied in school and if so, what form did it take? Have you ever lived with an LGBTQ lover/partner/spouse? If so,what advice would you give to someone about making a live-in relationship work? How did your parents react when you came out to them? Did you have a famous LGBTQ role model who inspired you to come out? When did you first hear about AIDS? Have you attended a school reunion as an out LGBTQ person and if so, describe the evening? What famous person fanned your desire as a young LGBTQ person and why? As a youth or young adult, was there a place, other than a bar, where you congregated with fellow LGBTQ people? Name three things that are on your LGBTQ bucket list? We all have stories — sometimes poignant, sometimes entertaining, and usually quite interesting. As historians of LGBTQ life, St Sukie de la Croix and Owen Keehnen, have been recording and collecting the memories, personal experiences, and anecdotes of queer folks for decades. The Tell Me About It series is an extension of their ongoing work. The Tell Me About It series collects personal anecdotes in response to a series of questions. Like its two predecessors, Tell Me About It 3 is full of moving, horrendous, hilarious, and thought-provoking answers by LGBTQ people from across the country and around the globe, capturing a variety of experiences, often revealing more profound similarities. Tell Me About It 3 offers glimpses of what makes us different, who we are, what we share, and where we fit in.
St Sukie de la Croix
For three decades, St Sukie de la Croix, 70, has been a social commentator and researcher on Chicago’s LGBT history. He has published oral-history interviews; lectured; conducted historical tours; documented LGBT life through columns, photographs, humor features, and fiction; and written the book Chicago Whispers (U. of Wisconsin Press, 2012) on local LGBT history. St Sukie de la Croix, the man the Chicago Sun-Times described as “the gay Studs Terkel,” came to Chicago from his native Bath, England, in 1991. His columns appeared in news and entertainment sources such as Chicago Free Press, Gay Chicago, Nightlines/Nightspots, Outlines, Blacklines, Windy City Times, and GoPride.com, and publications around the country. In 2008 he was a historical consultant and appeared in the WTTW television documentary Out & Proud in Chicago. His crowning achievement came in 2012 when the University of Wisconsin published his in-depth, vibrant record of LGBT Chicagoans, Chicago Whispers: A History of LGBT Chicago Before Stonewall. The book received glowing reviews and cemented de la Croix’s deserved position as a top-ranking historian and leader. In 2012 de la Croix was inducted into the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame. In 2017 he published The Blue Spong and the Flight from Mediocrity, a novel set in 1924 Chicago, followed by The Orange Spong and Storytelling at the Vamp Art Café in 2020. In 2018 he published The Memoir of a Groucho Marxist, a work about growing up Gay in Great Britain, and in 2019, Out of the Underground: Homosexuals, the Radical Press and the Rise and Fall of the Gay Liberation Front. In 2019, St Sukie de la Croix and Owen Keehnen launched their Tell Me About It Project, which led to the 2019 publication of Tell Me About It. Two more volumes followed. In 2020, he published, The Orange Spong and Storytelling at the Vamp-Arts Café, the second book in the popular Spong Series. St Sukie continued his LGBTQ Chicago history series in 2021 with the publication of Chicago After Stonewall: A History of LGBTQ Chicago from Gay Lib to Gay Life, continuing the narrative of the Chicago LGBTQ rights movement from where Chicago Whispers, left off. His newest book, Twilight Manors in Palm Springs, God’s Waiting Room, is his fourth novel.
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