No Place Like Home: Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas,Used

No Place Like Home: Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas,Used

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Finalist: Lambda Literary Award for LBGTQ NonfictionWinner: Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book PrizeA Kansas Notable BookFar from the coastal centers of culture and politics, Kansas stands at the very center of American stereotypes about red states. In the American imagination, it is a place LGBT people leave. No Place Like Home is about why they stay. The book tells the epic story of how a few disorganized and politically nave Kansans, realizing they were unfairly under attack, rolled up their sleeves, went looking for fights, and ended up making friends in one of the countrys most hostile states.The LGBT civil rights movements history in California and in big cities such as New York and Washington, DC, has been well documented. But what is it like for LGBT activists in a place like Kansas, where they face much stiffer headwinds? How do they win hearts and minds in the shadow of the Westboro Baptist Church (?Christian motto: God Hates Fags)? Traveling the state in search of answersfrom city to suburb to farmjournalist C. J. Janovy encounters LGBT activists who have fought, in ways big and small, for the acceptance and respect of their neighbors, their communities, and their government. Her book tells the story of these twentyfirstcentury citizen activiststhe issues that unite them, the actions they take, and the personal and larger consequences of their efforts, however successful they might be.With its closeup view of the lives and work behind LGBT activism in Kansas, No Place Like Home fills a prairiesized gap in the narrative of civil rights in America. The book also looks forward, as an inspiring guide for progressives concerned about the future of any vilified minority in an increasingly polarized nation.

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