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Baby, You are My Religion - Women, Gay Bars, and Theology Before Stonewall (Hardcover, New)
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Baby, You are My Religion - Women, Gay Bars, and Theology Before Stonewall (Hardcover, New)
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Baby You Are My Religion argues that American butch-femme bar
culture of the mid-20th Century should be interpreted as a sacred
space for its community. Before Stonewall when homosexuals were
still deemed mentally ill, these bars were the only place where
many could have any community at all. Baby You Are My Religion
explores this community as a site of a lived corporeal theology and
political space. It reveals that religious institutions such as the
Metropolitan Community Church were founded in such bars, that
traditional and non-traditional religious activities took place
there, and that religious ceremonies such as marriage were often
conducted within the bars by staff. Baby You Are My Religion
examines how these bars became not only ecclesiastical sites but
also provided the fertile ground for the birth of the struggle for
gay and lesbian civil rights. Based on over 100 new primary
interviews.
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