Men Like That: A Southern Queer History,New
Men Like That: A Southern Queer History,New
Men Like That: A Southern Queer History,New

Men Like That: A Southern Queer History,New

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Brand: University of Chicago Press
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We don't usually associate thriving queer culture with rural America, but John Howard's unparalleled history of queer life in the South persuasively debunks the myth that samesex desires can't find expression outside the big city. In fact, this book shows that the nominally conservative institutions of smalltown lifehome, church, school, and workplacewere the very sites where queer sexuality flourished. As Howard recounts the life stories of the ordinary and the famous, often in their own words, he also locates the material traces of queer sexuality in the landscape: from the farmhouse to the church social, from sports facilities to roadside rest areas.Spanning four decades, Men Like That complicates traditional notions of a postWWII conformist wave in America. Howard argues that the 1950s, for example, were a period of vibrant queer networking in Mississippi, while during the socalled 'free love' 1960s homosexuals faced aggressive oppression. When queer sex was linked to racial agitation and when key civil rights leaders were implicated in homosexual acts, authorities cracked down and literally ran the accused out of town.In addition to firsthand accounts, Men Like That finds representations of homosexuality in regional pulp fiction and artwork, as well as in the number one pop song about a suicidal youth who jumps off the Tallahatchie Bridge. And Howard offers frank, unprecedented assessments of outrageous public scandals: a conservative U.S. congressman caught in the act in Washington, and a white candidate for governor accused of patronizing black transgender sex workers.The first booklength history of the queer South, Men Like That completely reorients our presuppositions about gay identity and about the dynamics of country life.

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