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Thompson, Brock, 1977-

The un-natural state : Arkansas and the queer South / Unnatural state Brock Thompson. - Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2010. - xi, 247 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.

ISBN: 1557289433 (cloth : alk. paper) 9781557289438 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2010022422

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Gay community--History.--Arkansas
Gay culture--History.--Arkansas
Gays--Identity.
Gays--History.--Arkansas

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Arkansas--Social life and customs.

LC Class. No.: HQ76.3.U52 / A885 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 306.76/609767

Gov. Doc. Class. No.: HI.F 3/178-8:U 56/2010