Men Like That
Subtitle: A Southern Queer History
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: November 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9780226354712
Subjects: American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Gay studies (Gay men); Rural communities; Homosexuality; U.S. Local History - Southern States; Social Science; Sociology; Gay/Lesbian Nonfiction; Gay; Gay Studies; Men's Studies - Masculinity; Social Science / Gay Studies; 20th century; African American gays; Gay men; History; Mississippi; Rural gay men
Description: "We don't usually associate thriving queer culture with rural America, but John Howard's unparalleled history of queer life in the South persuasively debunks the myth that same-sex desires can't find expression outside the big city. In fact, this book shows that the nominally conservative institutions of small-town life - home, church, school, and workplace - were the very sites where queer sexuality flourished.

As Howard recounts the life stories of the ordinary and the famous, often in their own words, he also locates the material traces of queer sexuality in the landscape: from the farmhouse to the church social, from sports facilities to roadside rest areas."--BOOK JACKET.