Dugan's Bistro and the Legend of the Bearded Lady

Writer and historian Owen Keehnen is the author of fiction and non-fiction books including, Night Visitors, Dugan's Bistro and The Legend of the Bearded Lady, and Voices in Isolation: 4 LGBTQ Plays at a Social Distance. He also recently published Sex Tour in a Hearse: the Selected Queer Poetry of Owen Keehnen.Keehnen has collaborated with St Sukie de la Croix on three volumes of Tell Me About It-a queer studies series from Rattling Good Yarns Press in which an array of LGBTQ folks answer specific questions.For several years, Keehnen has been committed to preserving the rich LGBTQ history of the Belmont Rocks-an organic queerspace from the early 1960s through the 2003 demolition of the site. In June 2022, the area was reopened as AIDS Garden Chicago.Keehnen was inducted into the Chicago LGBTQ Hall of Fame in 2011 and lives in Chicago with his husband Carl and their dogs, Vince and Daisy.Instagram: Owen Keehnen