Lonely Hunters
An Oral History Of Lesbian And Gay Southern Life, 1948-1968
1st Edition
Published on 18. April 2019
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-0-367-00994-6 (ISBN)
Description
As in his highly acclaimed Growing Up Gay in the South, James Sears masterfully blends a symphony of Southern voices to chronicle the era from the baby boom to the dawn of gay rights and the Stonewall riot. Sears weaves a rich historical tapestry through the use of personal reminiscences, private letters, subpoenaed testimony and previously
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 140 mm
Weight
780 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-00994-6 (9780367009946)
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Person
James T. Sears is a professor at the University of South Carolina, where a course he taught on Christian fundamentalism attracted national attention and the ire of Pat Robertson, who dubbed Sears "Satan in the university." Sears resides on the sea islands near Charleston and in cyberspace at http://www.jtsears.com.
Content
Foreword -- Introduction -- Purging Perverts in Paradise -- Dark Nights of the Soul -- Ferreting Out the Lesbian Menace -- The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost -- Dawn Arises in Aristocratic Charleston -- The Blue Fairy and the Making of a New Activist Generation -- The Mississippi of the Homosexual and the Politics of Dialectics -- Afterword: A Conversation with Barbara Gittings