{"product_id":"9781611178135","title":"Southern Perspectives on the Queer Movement: Committed to Home","description":"\u003cb\u003eA collection of essays by South Carolina activists on the development of the LGBTQ movement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSouthern Perspectives on the Queer Movement: Committed to Home,\u003c\/i\u003e Sheila R. Morris has collected essays by South Carolinians who explore their gay identities and activism from the emergence of the HIV-AIDS pandemic to the realization of marriage equality in the state thirty years later. Each of the volume's nineteen essays addresses an aspect of gay life, from hesitant coming-out acts in earlier decades to the creation of grassroots organizations. All the contributors have taken public roles in the gay rights movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe diverse voices include a banker, a drag queen from a family of prominent Spartanburg Democrats, a marching minister who grew up along the Edisto River, a former Catholic priest and his tugboat dispatcher husband from Long Island, the owner of a feminist bookstore, a Hispanic American who interned for Republican strategist Lee Atwater, a philanthropist politician from Faith, North Carolina, and a straight attorney recognized as the \"Mother of Pride\" who became active in 1980, when she learned her son was gay.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eSouthern Perspectives on the Queer Movement \u003c\/i\u003echallenges the conventional understanding of the LGBTQ movement in the United States in both place and time. Typically associated with pride marches and anti-AIDS activism on both the east and west coasts and rooted in the counterculture of the 1960s and \"Stonewall Rebellion\" in New York City, Southern variants of the queer liberation movement have found little room in public or scholarly memory. Confronting an aggressively hostile environment in the South, queer political organization was a late-comer to the region. But it was the very unfriendliness of Southern political soil that allowed a unique and, at times, progressive LGBTQ political community to form in South Carolina. The compelling Southern voices collected here for the first time add a missing piece to the complex puzzle of postwar queer activism in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarlan Greene, author of the novels \u003ci\u003eWhy We Never Danced the Charleston, What the Dead Remember\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe German Officer's Boy\u003c\/i\u003e, provides a foreword.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors: \u003cbr\u003eJim Blanton\u003cbr\u003eCandace Chellew-Hodge\u003cbr\u003eMatt Chisling\u003cbr\u003eMichael Haigler\u003cbr\u003eHarriet Hancock\u003cbr\u003eDeborah Hawkins\u003cbr\u003eDick Hubbard\u003cbr\u003eLinda Ketner\u003cbr\u003eEd Madden and Bert Easter\u003cbr\u003eAlvin McEwen\u003cbr\u003eSheila Morris\u003cbr\u003ePat Patterson\u003cbr\u003eJim and Warren Redman-Gress\u003cbr\u003eNekki Shutt\u003cbr\u003eTony Snell-Rodriquez\u003cbr\u003eCarole Stoneking\u003cbr\u003eThomas A. Summers\u003cbr\u003eMatt Tischler\u003cbr\u003eTeresa Williams\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of South Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47031520002288,"sku":"9781611178135","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781611178135_p0.jpg?v=1763841498","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781611178135","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}