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<p>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.</p><p>Spanning four decades, <i>Men Like That</i> complicates traditional notions of a post-WWII conformist wave in America. Howard argues that the 1950s, for example, were a period of vibrant queer networking in Mississippi, while during the so-called free love 1960s homosexuals faced aggressive oppression. When queer sex was linked to racial agitation and when key civil rights leaders were implicated in homosexual acts, authorities cracked down and literally ran the accused out of town.</p><p>In addition to firsthand accoun

Author

John Howard; Todd A. Herring Collection (Mississippi State University. Libraries)

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226354712

Subjects

Gender Studies, Sociology, History

Rating

4.03 / 5 (55 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14