This week, we're revisiting a story from 2022 that answers a question about the history of lesbian parties in Chicago.
A collection of Executive Sweet party flyers from the 1980s and ‘90s. Photo, from back left: Pat McCombs, Pam Terrell, Sheron Webb and Vera Washington (front center), the past and present organizers of Executive Sweet. All flyers and photo courtesy Vera Washington.
Layout by Maggie Sivit
Traveling parties are part of a queer Chicago culture of partying as resistance
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