The Impact of Genr and Race on Growg up Lbian and Gay the South on JSTOR

Contents:

• GROWG UP GAY THE SOUTH
• GROWG UP GAY THE SOUTH
• GROWG UP GAY THE SOUTH: RACE, GENR, AND JOURNEYS OF THE SPIR
• GROWG UP GAY THE SOUTH

GROWG UP GAY THE SOUTH

A rear, rpondg to our earlier note about teen love at a unty fair North Carola, rells his experience growg up gay small-town Kentucky:My memori aren’t as trmatic as others’, but siar I assume. ” That may be bee I have cultivated a quiet, NOT--your-face gay liftyle—partly, I gus, as a fensive mechanism left over om beg young “that place” and partly bee I know what I like and like what I know. I am more fortable watchg llege basketball wh the gang than marchg gay pri paras, etc.

GROWG UP GAY THE SOUTH

As others have said, "Beg gay is only a small part of who I am, ” and I no ls want to be qutned on who I sleep wh or SLEPT wh than any other person. My brother and sister--law kda know I’m gay. I personally didn’t fd strange that no gay upl were clud the vio you featured.

It’s not hostily per se—we KNOW gay people exist and live among even—but ’s jt a “don't make see ” and “al wh " you have any notable memori about growg up the South as a gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr teen, let know. “How We Fight for Our Liv” by Saeed JonIn, “How We Fight for Our Liv, ” award-wng poet Saeed Jon wr about growg up the South as a black, gay man and grapplg wh the plexi of his inty. “Mama’s Boy” by Dt Lance BlackActivist and Osr-wng gay filmmaker Dt Lance Black chronicl how he and his eply nservative Mormon mother found mon ground the midst of great ialogil nflict.

GROWG UP GAY THE SOUTH: RACE, GENR, AND JOURNEYS OF THE SPIR

His mother rpond that beg gay was a sful choice, but through the urse of the memoir — which stretch om the steps of the Supreme Court to San Anton, Texas — Black and his mother manage to heal their actured relatnship. The posthumoly released “A Wild and Prec Life, ” which Wdsor began wrg before she died 2017 and which was pleted by Joshua Lyon, Wdsor chronicl how she beme a gay in.

From participatg Greenwich Village’s unrground gay scene durg the 1950s to beg a trailblazg lear at IBM, Wdsor’s story fightg for what she believed is one that will leave rears spired. After Conley was outed as gay llege, he was given a choice: be disowned or go through plete nversn therapy — a practice wily discreded as effective and harmful by medil practners.

Growg Up Gay the South: Race, Genr, and Journeys of the Spir. (Haworth Seri Gay and Lbian Studi, vol. In Growg Up Gay the South, Jam Sears looks closely at the liv of “sexual rebels, ” gay and lbian adolcents born the 60’s and 70’s.

GROWG UP GAY THE SOUTH

In his study, he lved to the hearts and mds of 36 gay men and lbians, all om South Carola, to reveal their experienc of growg up and g to terms wh their own homosexualy. ) as relat to homosexualy the Southern social and cultural ntext.

The says are acpanied by narrativ of gay and lbian youths about their experienc, observatns, and imprssns of growg up gay or lbian their var worlds. This book is valuable as a study of issu and ncerns gay and lbian adolcents face growg up a homophobic society. The same type of study done other parts of the untry or across the untry would have likely revealed few, if any, differenc how the fay, relig and tnal stutns, social nonns and peer prsur affect childhood and adolcent perceptns of and qutns about one’s own homosexualy.

Furthermore, this reviewer serly qutns the fact that the subjects that make up the sample are all om only one area of the South, one that is culturally rather homogeneo, WASPish and that has no sizeable urban centers. Several statements the prelimary pag of the book support the premise that the problems faced by gay and lbian youth are by no means unique to the South. The Foreword was wrten by Virgia Uribe, whose 1984 doctoral dissertatn asssed the extent of servic for gay and lbian youth the 10 largt school systems across the U.