Southern Perspectives on the Queer Movement: Committed to Home

In Southern Perspectives on the Queer Movement: Committed to Home, Sheila R. Confronting an aggressively hostile environment in the South, queer political organization was a late-comer to the region. Typically associated with pride marches and anti-AIDS activism on both the east and west coasts and rooted in the counterculture of the 1960s and “Stonewall Rebellion” in New York City, Southern variants of the queer liberation movement have found little room in public or scholarly memory. The compelling Southern voices collected here for the first time add a missing piece to the complex puzzle of postwar queer activism in the United States.Harlan Greene, author of the novels Why We Never Danced the Charleston, What the Dead Remember, and The German Officer’s Boy, provides a foreword.. Southern Perspectives on the Queer Movement challenges the conventional understanding of the LGBTQ movement in the United States in both place and time.

About the Author Sheila R. Morris is the author of four nonfiction books and several short stories, and she has an international following of her blog “I’ll Call It Like I See It.” She is the recipient of the Human Rights Campaign Equality Award for her leadership and service to the South Carolina LGBTQ community and has won numerous awards for her writing and activism. She lives in Columbia with her wife, Teresa Williams, and their two dogs.Harlan Greene is the author of the novels Why We Never Danced the Charleston, What the Dead Remember, and The German Officer’s Boy,

Morris is the author of four nonfiction books and several short stories, and she has an international following of her blog “I’ll Call It Like I See It.” She is the recipient of the Human Rights Campaign Equality Award for her leadership and service to the South Carolina LGBTQ community and has won numerous awards for her writing and activism. She lives in Columbia with her wife, Teresa Williams, and their two dogs.Harlan Greene is the author of the no