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TexasTowelie

(111,300 posts)
Tue Sep 11, 2018, 08:42 AM Sep 2018

Project documents hidden history of LGBTQ life in the South

A new project is documenting a once-hidden history of LGBTQ people in the Deep South, with donors providing troves of information and items on gay life, systemic oppression and activism.

Historian and archivist Joshua Burford said the goal of the Invisible Histories Project is to create a uniquely Southern collection that will "give Southern history back to queer Southerners."

While the stereotypical LGBTQ person might live openly in an urban center and have plenty of money, he said, plenty of Southern gays live both in cities and in rural areas where they hold working-class jobs.

"If the model is always the West Village or Boy's Town or Fire Island, then the South can never be the same as that. So we have to stop pretending like we want to be," said Burford, engagement director of the group. "What we are is very queer and very Southern, and those two things are always overlapping."

Read more: https://www.wisconsingazette.com/news/project-documents-hidden-history-of-lgbtq-life-in-the-south/article_e88c4992-a574-11e8-a95f-db91a38b196e.html

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Project documents hidden history of LGBTQ life in the South (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2018 OP
I love my extended southern LGBTQ family lambchopp59 Sep 2018 #1
I'm a B-52s fan myself (they got rid of the apostrophe). TexasTowelie Sep 2018 #2
It's been years now, I was re-californicated by work contract in 2004. lambchopp59 Sep 2018 #3

lambchopp59

(2,809 posts)
1. I love my extended southern LGBTQ family
Tue Sep 18, 2018, 11:10 AM
Sep 2018

Just for fun, here are a few of the heros breaking down the barriers of bigotry...
Playing some of the funnest music ever created while they were at it,
All from California to Brazil still rocking out equanimity for all!
Just a garage band from Atlanta, if I have my B52's history right.
Just sayin'
And a shout out to all my LGBT's who've known lambchopp in Dallas, Corpus Christi, and even good old Sulphur Springs!

TexasTowelie

(111,300 posts)
2. I'm a B-52s fan myself (they got rid of the apostrophe).
Tue Sep 18, 2018, 11:25 AM
Sep 2018

I was born in Corpus Christi and lived in the Metroplex, but I've only ridden out to Sulphur Springs once. Maybe we crossed paths somewhere along the way.

lambchopp59

(2,809 posts)
3. It's been years now, I was re-californicated by work contract in 2004.
Tue Sep 18, 2018, 11:54 AM
Sep 2018

Freshly sickened by the election of Goofball George the 2nd, and lucky to have vacated as the job market for my profession bottomed out shortly thereafter. Nearly edged out of a Dallas job, better money in travel work again anyway.
Myself and good friends frequented the Cedar Springs thai restaurant, corner coffee joint and dance club quite often on Urban trips. My cousins still own my old place in Ridgeway Tx, (population fluctuates between 50 and 100 or so...lol) whoo-hoo. I was spotted with my boisterously athletic pup Bubba quite often, pics only on old fashioned photo paper in albums somewhere, or riding my old Yamaha 650 to a night out at the boot-scootin' place. I forget the names which may have changed by now anyhow.
I got that pup in Corpus, some probably would remember the lab/cattle dog puppy more than myself, as he was capable of fetching a frisbee from the trees regardless how high it was stuck... surrounding the Hidden Door patio circa 1997/8 work contract there.
Wasn't a born Texan but 1960's elementary through 5th grade not far from... have a chuckle at this... a little town called Plano. (north edge of Richardson)

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