A biography of Stewart Butler, New Orleans LGBTQ+ activist and Up Stairs Lounge survivor, tracing his life from Depression-era childhood to decades of queer liberation advocacy.
Frank Perez draws on Butler's personal papers and dozens of interviews to chronicle an improbable life — from his closeted army years and 1960s counterculture to a transformative love affair that funded his activism. Butler was a founding member of Louisiana’s first statewide lesbian and gay rights organization and played a key role in persuading PFLAG to include transgender people in its mission statement.
- Frank Perez, Author
- Published in 2022
- Paperback; 320 pages
- Published by University Press of Mississippi
- ISBN: 9781496841292
A biography of Stewart Butler, New Orleans LGBTQ+ activist and Up Stairs Lounge survivor, tracing his life from Depression-era childhood to decades of queer liberation advocacy.
Frank Perez draws on Butler's personal papers and dozens of interviews to chronicle an improbable life — from his closeted army years and 1960s counterculture to a transformative love affair that funded his activism. Butler was a founding member of Louisiana’s first statewide lesbian and gay rights organization and played a key role in persuading PFLAG to include transgender people in its mission statement.
- Frank Perez, Author
- Published in 2022
- Paperback; 320 pages
- Published by University Press of Mississippi
- ISBN: 9781496841292