The Un-Natural State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Un-Natural State write by Brock Thompson. This book was released on 2010-10-01. The Un-Natural State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a study of gay and lesbian life in Arkansas in the twentieth century, a deft weaving together of Arkansas history, dozens of oral histories, and Brock Thompson's own story.
Queering the Southern States
Queering the Southern States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Queering the Southern States write by Shannon Palmer. This book was released on 2020-06-25. Queering the Southern States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Queering the Southern States examines the daily lives of those who live as openly queer in the American Deep South and the role their surroundings play in their experiences. By photographing members of the LGBT community in their personal spaces--bedrooms, kitchens, bathrooms--I explore the intimacy of place in the Bible Belt.
Real Queer America
Real Queer America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Real Queer America write by Samantha Allen. This book was released on 2019-03-05. Real Queer America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST A transgender reporter's "powerful, profoundly moving" narrative tour through the surprisingly vibrant queer communities sprouting up in red states (New York Times Book Review), offering a vision of a stronger, more humane America. Ten years ago, Samantha Allen was a suit-and-tie-wearing Mormon missionary. Now she's a GLAAD Award-winning journalist happily married to another woman. A lot in her life has changed, but what hasn't changed is her deep love of Red State America, and of queer people who stay in so-called "flyover country" rather than moving to the liberal coasts. In Real Queer America, Allen takes us on a cross-country road-trip stretching all the way from Provo, Utah to the Rio Grande Valley to the Bible Belt to the Deep South. Her motto for the trip: "Something gay every day." Making pit stops at drag shows, political rallies, and hubs of queer life across the heartland, she introduces us to scores of extraordinary LGBT people working for change, from the first openly transgender mayor in Texas history to the manager of the only queer night club in Bloomington, Indiana, and many more. Capturing profound cultural shifts underway in unexpected places and revealing a national network of chosen family fighting for a better world, Real Queer America is a treasure trove of uplifting stories and a much-needed source of hope and inspiration in these divided times.
Queering the Redneck Riviera
Queering the Redneck Riviera - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Queering the Redneck Riviera write by Jerry T. Watkins III. This book was released on 2021-07-29. Queering the Redneck Riviera available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Queering the Redneck Riviera recovers the forgotten and erased history of gay men and lesbians in North Florida, a region often overlooked in the story of the LGBTQ experience in the United States. Jerry Watkins reveals both the challenges these men and women faced in the years following World War II and the essential role they played in making the Emerald Coast a major tourist destination. In a state dedicated to selling an image of itself as a “family-friendly” tropical paradise and in an era of increasing moral panic and repression, queer people were forced to negotiate their identities and their places in society. Watkins re-creates queer life during this period, drawing from sources including newspaper articles, advertising and public relations campaigns, oral history accounts, government documents, and interrogation transcripts from the state’s Johns Committee. He discovers that postwar improvements in transportation infrastructure made it easier for queer people to reach safe spaces to socialize. He uncovers stories of gay and lesbian beach parties, bars, and friendship networks that spanned the South. The book also includes rare photos from the Emma Jones Society, a Pensacola-based group that boldly hosted gatherings and conventions in public places. Illuminating a community that boosted Florida’s emerging tourist economy and helped establish a visible LGBTQ presence in the Sunshine State, Watkins offers new insights about the relationships between sexuality, capitalism, and conservative morality in the second half of the twentieth century.
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
Black. Queer. Southern. Women. - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black. Queer. Southern. Women. write by E. Patrick Johnson. This book was released on 2018-10-22. Black. Queer. Southern. Women. available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawn from the life narratives of more than seventy African American queer women who were born, raised, and continue to reside in the American South, this book powerfully reveals the way these women experience and express racial, sexual, gender, and class identities--all linked by a place where such identities have generally placed them on the margins of society. Using methods of oral history and performance ethnography, E. Patrick Johnson's work vividly enriches the historical record of racialized sexual minorities in the South and brings to light the realities of the region's thriving black lesbian communities. At once transcendent and grounded in place and time, these narratives raise important questions about queer identity formation, community building, and power relations as they are negotiated within the context of southern history. Johnson uses individual stories to reveal the embedded political and cultural ideologies of the self but also of the listener and society as a whole. These breathtakingly rich life histories show afresh how black female sexuality is and always has been an integral part of the patchwork quilt that is southern culture.
