- Additional Authors
- Gene Berry and Jeffrey Campbell Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
- Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 247 p.) : ill.
- Summary
- This is a study of gay and lesbian life in Arkansas in the twentieth century, a deft weaving together of Arkansas history, dozens of oral histories, and Brock Thompson's own story.
- Uniform Title
- Un-natural state (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Un-natural state (Online)
- Unnatural state
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Provenance (note)
- Berry-Campbell copy: Thompson is a Library of Congress employee. Inscribed by author: "For Tula's landlords - Brock Thompson Dec 2010 Library of Congress." Tula, aka Andre Hopfer, is a well known Washington DC female impersonator.
- Contents
- Powder-puff -- Drag and the politics of performance -- Drag in the daylight -- Rags to drag riches -- The current reigning symbol of excellence -- A crime unfit to be named -- The ingredients of offense -- Race, sex, and queer renegotiated -- Redefinition -- Public and private prejudice -- Constructing a gay life -- Creating space, separating the self -- Losing space, separating identities -- Mansion on the hill -- Economic opportunity and the queer community -- And then she came -- Epilogue: queer comes home.
- LCCN
- 2010022422
- OCLC
- ssj0000575421
- Author
Thompson, Brock, 1977-
- Title
The un-natural state [electronic resource] : Arkansas and the queer South / Brock Thompson.
- Imprint
Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2010.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Provenance
Berry-Campbell copy: Thompson is a Library of Congress employee. Inscribed by author: "For Tula's landlords - Brock Thompson Dec 2010 Library of Congress." Tula, aka Andre Hopfer, is a well known Washington DC female impersonator. DLC
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- Added Author
Gene Berry and Jeffrey Campbell Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
- Sudoc No.
HI.F 3/178-8:U 56/2010 ardocs