The liv of gays the Deep South are explored this documentary, which looks at two bars ral Mississippi that ter to a homosexual clientele. "Rumors" is all other ways a most neighborhood hangout; "Crossroads" is an anythg-go tablishment. Interviews wh regular patrons portray both bars as islands of acceptance an ocean of prejudice, exemplified by the risn of ctomers at nearby straight bars and the cuttg homophobia of anti-gay preacher Fred Phelps.
Contents:
- BOOK REVIEW: ‘SMALL TOWN GAY: GROWG UP DIFFERENT THE SOUTH’
- SMALL TOWN GAY: GROWG UP DIFFERENT THE SOUTH
- SMALL-TOWN GAY
- SMALL TOWN GAY BY LEE LOGAN (12 RULTS)
- SMALL TOWN GAY BAR
BOOK REVIEW: ‘SMALL TOWN GAY: GROWG UP DIFFERENT THE SOUTH’
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A chronicle of stori om childhood to prent, Small Town Gay revels the tails of life the fict town of Mercer, KY — and the joy of Lee’s work really is the tails. From pranks endured at the hands of big sister Leanne, through gra-school iends and early-adult lovers, Small Town Gay creat an timate time-warp of memori. Though each discrete moment has a fe topic of s own, Small Town Gay is full of smaller gs-out that unrgird the climactic parental nfsns (often nsired The g out).
A nice girl asks Lee to dance; he agre, but wonrs if people “uld tell that [he] was gay and fakg .
SMALL TOWN GAY: GROWG UP DIFFERENT THE SOUTH
All all, Logan Lee’s Small Town Gay is a touchg and enjoyable read. ’ SMALL TOWN GAY is his but troductory ments Logan offers, prr to sharg his memoir, aptly suggt the qualy of his wrg: ‘This book is a memoir of what I endured throughout gra school, middle school, high school, and beyond, while beg different om those around me. This is what our rears thought:Tle: Small Town Gay: Growg up Different the SouthAuthor: Logan LeeStar Ratg: 4 StarsNumber of Rears: 17StatsEdg: 7/10Wrg Style: 7/10Content: 7/10Cover: 4/5Of the 17 rears:12 would read another book by this thor.
Rears’ Comments“A very enjoyable book scribg the life of the thor (who is gay) small town Ameri. Are you gay/lbian and currently ridg a small town, or did you grow up a small town?
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Small-Town Gay tak an adult view of the difficulti of eher hidg who you are or facg the rults of the tth.
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My novel The Prettit Star, set 1986, asks what happens when a gay, HIV+ man go back to the small town where he grew up.
SMALL TOWN GAY BY LEE LOGAN (12 RULTS)
I wanted to wre a story that sh a light on an overlooked part of the AIDS epimic, those gay men who returned to the fai and muni that had rejected them, and on an tersectn we don’t see enough lerature: the queer and the ral. Like many queer kids, I learned about the world, and about myself, through books, gleang unspoken possibili about sexualy, genr, and masculy, om characters like tomboy Sut and her “cur” iend Dill to the homoerotic greasers The Outsirs. It was the first piece of lerary fictn I ever read that picted queer characters (gay wboys!
SMALL TOWN GAY BAR
Both love song to and crique of Appalachia, the majory of the stori this but llectn take place the mountas of Wt Virgia, where ’s not easy to be gay.
The geo, poignant tle story explor g of age as a young gay boy the mountas, a queer love story that ends not tragedy but wh a gasp of hope. Grimsley wr about the realy of homophobia and vlence, but also about the bety and tenrns and hols of a place, of young love: “They step to rt a ltle way si the fort unr a gkgo tree, s goln leav showerg round them as they get their breath.