| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 243 pages) |
| Contents |
Part I : claiming queer space in a hostile place. Emmett's story : Russell County, Alabama / Joseph Beam -- Out in the mountains : exploring lesbian and gay lives / Kate Black and Marc A. Rhorer -- Claiming space in the South : a conversation among members of Asian/Pacific Islander Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered Network of Atlanta / Patti Duncan -- Women's festivals on the front lines / Bonnie J. Morris -- Race and gay community in Southern Town / David Knapp Whittier. Part II : striking out/striking back. Leaving the Confederate closet / Bonnie R. Strickland -- Black gay men and white gay men : a less than perfect union / Charles I. Nero -- Same difference : my southern queer stories / Donna Smith -- Tennessee Williams doesn't live here anymore : hypocrisy, paradox, and homosexual panic in the New/Old South / James R. Keller. Part III : representing queer lives in public space. Greetings from out here : southern lesbians and gays bear witness to the public secret / R. Bruce Brasell -- Looking for a city : the ritual and politics of ethnography / Edward R. Gray -- From Southern Baptist belle to butch (and beyond) / Laura Milner -- "Lines I dare" : southern lesbian writing / Mab Segrest -- Myth and reality : the story of gay people in the South / Jim Grimsley -- Afterword / Carlos L. Dews |
| Summary |
An absorbing collection of writings about gay and lesbian life in the South |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Gay people -- Southern States
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Gay men -- Southern States
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Lesbians -- Southern States
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Homosexuality -- Southern States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gay Studies.
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Gay men
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Gay people
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Homosexuality
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Lesbians
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Southern States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dews, C. L. Barney (Carlos Lee Barney), 1963-
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Law, Carolyn Leste, 1961-
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| ISBN |
9781439901137 |
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1439901139 |
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9781566398145 |
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1566398142 |
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