
Queering Spirituality and Community in the Deep South
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Through the chapters in this text, the peculiarities of spirituality and community life for LGBTQ people in the Deep South are explored. However, this volume also points to trends, themes, and dynamics at work in the Deep South that are also implicated in the queer experience in other parts of the U.S. The authors of this text push readers to think deeply about these issues, probe the limits of queer potentialities in Southern religious and community contexts, and clearly point to the interweaving of Christian religiousness, communities of practice, the operation of white supremacist heteropatriarchy in oppression of LGBTQ people, and the possibilities of affirming spiritual and community praxis.
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- Cover
- Introduction: Queering Spirituality and Community in the Deep South
- Queering Spirituality and Community in the Deep South
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Introduction: Queering Spirituality and Community in the Deep South
- 1: QUEER SPIRITUALITIES
- 1: Spiritual Practices in the Deep South: Queer Theory and the African Diaspora
- THE AFRICAN DIASPORA AS A FRAME OF REFERENCE
- RECASTING CHRISTIANITY IN THE DEEP SOUTH
- QUEER THEORY AND LIVED EXPERIENCE IN THE DEEP SOUTH
- CREATING FUTURE POSSIBILITIES AND THEORETICAL ALLIANCES
- REFERENCES
- 2: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Queer Spirituality in the South: Intersectionality as a Means from the Micro to the Macro
- INTERSECTIONALITY
- Key Concepts and Principles
- QUEER THEORY
- CONTEXTUAL PERSPECTIVES FROM THE DEEP SOUTH
- QUEER SPIRITUALITY
- Spirituality among LGBTQ+ Communities
- MUTUALLY CONSTITUTIVE CATEGORIES OF SPIRITUALITY WITH SEXUAL, GENDER, AND AFFECTIONAL IDENTITIES
- TRANSGENDER RELIGIOUS/SPIRITUAL IDENTITY
- THE DEEP SOUTH: HEGEMONIC CLAIMS IN CULTURE
- Microsystem
- Mesosystem
- Exosystem
- Macrosystem
- CONCLUDING THOUGHTS ON IMPLEMENTING AN INTERSECTIONAL ANALYSIS
- REFERENCES
- 3: At a Crossroads: Growing Up Christian and Queer in the South
- LGBTQ VOICES
- Family Relationships
- Friends
- Community Resources
- MOVING FORWARD
- REFERENCES
- 2: QUEER ANALYSIS OF THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT AND ANITA BRYANT
- 4: "We've Had It with Anita's Brand": Southern Lesbian Feminists' Response to the 1977 Save Our Children Crusade
- ANITA'S CONCENTRATE
- Linking Black Power to Southern Lesbian Feminism
- GROWTH OF WOMEN'S MEDIA AND LESBIAN FEMINIST CULTURE IN THE SOUTH
- Southern Writers
- Womyn's Music in Southern Lesbian-Feminist Communities
- LESBIAN-FEMINIST MUSIC IN THE SOUTH
- The Revolutionary Politics of Southern Lesbian Feminist Music
- OLIVIA RECORDS
- AFTER ANITA
- REFERENCES
- 5: From Orange Juice to the Ballot Box: Media Coverage of Anita Bryant's Rise and Fall in the Early Religious-Right Movement
- ENTER ANITA BRYANT
- THE REFERENDUM AND THE MEDIA
- ANITA BRYANT'S FIRST STAND
- RISE OF THE NEW RELIGIOUS RIGHT
- FIGHT IN MIAMI
- BRAND IDENTITY
- THOUSANDS OF OTHERS
- FACE OF ORANGE JUICE
- AGAINST OUTSIDE FORCES
- PERSECUTION OF ANITA
- BACKLASH
- FALL FROM GRACE
- CONCLUSIONS
- REFERENCES
- 3: QUEER COMMUNITIES: DEVELOPMENT AND LIVED EXPERIENCES
- 6: Gay Liberation Has Arrived: Identity and Community in Lafayette, Louisiana, 1968-1981
- POSTWAR SAME-SEX DESIRE AND EARLY GAY CULTURE IN LAFAYETTE
- NEGOTIATING GAY BAR CULTURE'S GROWTH AND VISIBILITY IN THE SEVENTIES
- TAKING GAY LIBERATION BEYOND THE BAR
- Alterum: Gay Liberation at the University of Southwestern Louisiana
- The Mystic Krewe of Apollo: Gay Liberation and Mardi Gras
- The MCC and Dignity: Gay Liberation and Religion
- CONCLUSION: GAY FEST AND THE LEGACIES OF GAY LIBERATION
- REFERENCES
- 7: Welcome to Pensacola, USA's Gay Riviera: Beach Parties, Moral Panics, and the Making of a Queer Capital
- SELLING "THE SUNSHINE STATE"
- THE NOT-SO-DISCREET LOVERS OF EMMA JONES
- FROM BEACH PARTY TO PRIVATE CONVENTION
- KILLING EMMA JONES
- FROM HOLIDAY WEEKEND TO GAY GULF COAST
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- 8: From James Booker to Big Freedia and Back Again: Black Queer Expression, Agency and Potentiality
- THE CULTURAL BACKDROP FOR MUSIC IN NEW ORLEANS
- THE LIFE AND GENIUS OF JAMES BOOKER
- A Critical Exploration of Booker's Performative Bent
- The Unpredictability of a Man Unfractured
- Big Freedia, Bounce, and the Power of the Performative
- Performing Gender and Sexuality
- Performing as a Bounce Artist
- A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF BLACK SOUTHERN QUEERS AS THE WALKING DEAD
- THE SOCIAL DEATH AND AFTERLIFE OF BLACK QUEER LIFE
- The Destructive Exploitation of Black Queer Talent and Its Future
- Building a Future for Black Queer Expression Anew
- REFERENCES
- 9: Intersecting Identities: Life Histories of Black Gay Males Growing Up in the South, in the "Black Gay Mecca"
- BLACK AND GAY
- ATLANTA: THE BLACK GAY MECCA
- METHODOLOGY
- Participants
- FINDINGS
- Charlie
- Slick Rick
- Theodore
- CONCLUSION
- NOTE
- REFERENCES
- 10: It's Hard, but It's Home: On Living in the Deep South
- INTERSECTIONALITY, SEXUAL IDENTITY, AND RURAL LIVING
- Life in the South
- Religion and Sexual Orientation
- Systemic Oppression and the Current Sociopolitical Landscape
- METHOD
- Subjectivities Statement
- Participants and Interview
- Data Analysis
- RESULTS
- Discrimination
- Threats Against Safety of the LGBTQIA Community
- MENTAL HEALTH
- Intersection of Southern Culture and LGBTQIA Identity
- Threats Against Other Intersecting Marginalized Identities
- Workplace Sexual Identity Management
- Desire to Leave the South
- Religion
- Social Support
- Reasons to Stay
- DISCUSSION
- RECOMMENDATIONS
- Strengths and Limitations
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- 11: Conclusion
- Author Biographies
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