Don't tell me I haven't, squiggly red line. I hope everyone featured in this book keeps writing unapologetically (that is a word, and I have indeed spelled it correctly. I wrote some of the contributors' names down because I want to read more of their work. I imagine that people who are newly out, or lonely for company, even through books, or just curious, or whatever, picked up this book and it filled something for them. It's so important that books like these are written. My own self-centeredness aside, I am so glad this book is out and so widely circulated. I am pouting, because whatever I expected to find, I did not really. I shall seek out sensitivity readers when I finish the work.) So, because I was using this book as a research point, I was reading it in a very different way than I ordinarily would read a book. I thought this book would help shape her character better, and it helped me understand her background better. I read this book solely because I'm writing a character that grew up in Savannah, GA and goes back home to take care of a beloved family member. It was easily half the book, so I skipped over a lot. It's because there was so much poetry and prose in this, and somehow, despite it being clearly pointed out in the introduction, I thought this would be an anthology of essays with occasional poetry and prose. Please count my three-star rating as petty. Whitley, Scott Wiggerman, Cristan Williams, and L. Peterson, Kenneth Pobo, Brad Richard, Hannah Riddle, Laurence Ross, Liana Roux, Kevin Sessums, Del Shores, Erin Elizabeth Smith, Will Stockton, Dan Stone, Christine Stroud, Billie Tadros, TC Tolbert, Dan Vera, Annie Virginia, Valerie Wetlaufer, C.T. Mills, Cameron Mitchell, Foster Noone, Joseph Osmundson, Eddie Outlaw, Seth Pennington, Evan J. Mack, Ed Madden, Jeff Mann, Randall Mann, Mary Meriam, Stephen S.

Gilson, Ellen Goldstein, Miriam Bird Greenberg, Elizabeth Gross, Johnathan Harper, Scott Hightower, Matthew Hittinger, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Rex Leonowicz, Sassafras Lowrey, Tyler Lynn, Bo McGuire, Rangi McNeil, Kelly McQuain, M. Daniels, Nick Dephtereos, David Eye, Jason K. Included are Dorothy Allison, Shane Allison, John Andrews, Derrick Austin, Jeffery Berg, Richard Blanco, Perry Brass, Dustin Brookshire, Jericho Brown, Joey Connelly, William Cordeiro, C.

From hilarious to heartbreaking, anxious to angry, religious to reluctant, contemplative to celebratory, this anthology expands our ideas of what it means to be queer and what it means to represent the land south of the Mason-Dixon. In The Queer South, Douglas Ray has assembled over 60 queer-identified voices exploring their experiences of the American South in nonfiction and poetry.

The Queer South by Douglas Ray