• ISBN13: 9780304335503
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Politics and Current Affairs
• Publisher: Continuum
• Publisher Imprint: Continuum
• Publication Date: January 1, 1999
• Pages: 184
• Original Price: GBP 74.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 282 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies, Fundamentalism, and Sociology / Rural

Alternative lifestyles are anathema to the inhabitants of rural areas of the Bible Belt. Even gays and lesbians themselves resist the notions of community and self-identification espoused by city queers. As Wilson demonstrates, it is the combination of internalized self-hatred, the influence of the right-wing Republicans and religious fervor, together with the hatred, fear, and suspicion aroused by the intervention of gay and lesbian activists from urban areas, that determine the tenor of gay life in the American rural South. A series of shocking interviews with local religious leaders and medical experts whose opinions shape local discourse in sexuality, abortion, feminiosm, and AIDS are the foundation for this revelatory study.

Angelia Wilson is the daughter of a Texas preacher and lectures in Political Theory at the University of Manchester. She edited A Simple Matter of Justice.