"This assortment of touching, hilarious, and very smart essays
moves lesbian and gay history to a new place, geographically and
analytically. Ranging widely from deep South to upper South, from
rural areas to urban centers, across differences of race class and
gender, the authors explore the intersecting meanings of
southernness and sexuality with attention to the widest angles of
vision, and to the telling details of daily experience."
--Lisa Duggan
coauthor with Nan D. Hunter of "Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and
Political Culture"
To date, lesbian and gay history has focused largely on the East
and West coasts, and on urban settings such as New York and San
Francisco. The American South, on the other hand, identified with
religion, traditional gender roles, and cultural conservatism, has
escaped attention. Southerners celebrate their past; lesbians and
gays celebrate their new-found visibility; historians celebrate the
South--yet rarely have the three crossed paths.
John Howard's groundbreaking anthology casts its net widely,
examining lesbian and gay experiences in Mississippi, South
Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, and Tennessee. James Schnur,
by virtue of a Freedom of Information Act query, sheds light on the
sinister machinations of the Johns Committee, whose clandestine
duty it was to ferret out suspected homosexuals during the McCarthy
years. In his essay on the great Southern writer William Alexander
Percy, William Armstrong Percy provides tangible evidence that
Southern citizens, historians, and archivists have long sought to
repress or obscure certain individuals within what C. Vann Woodward
described as the perverse section. Moving chronologically
throughAmerica's past, from the antebellum and postbellum periods,
through the Jim Crow era and the Cold War, to the present, this
volume introduces an important new framework to the field of
lesbian and gay history--that of regional history.
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