Carryin' on in the lesbian and gay South / edited by John Howard.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : carryin' on the lesbian and gay South / John Howard -- "Writhing bedfellows" in Antebellum South Carolina : historical interpretation and the politics of evidence / Martin Duberman -- "Only a woman like yourself" : Rebecca Alice Baldy : dutiful daughter, stalwart sister, and lesbian lover of nineteenth-century Georgia / Elizabeth W. Knowlton -- Sex, smashing, and storyville in turn-of-the-century New Orleans : reexamining the continuum of lesbian sexuality / Katy Coyle and Nadiene Van Dyke -- William Alexander Percy (1885-1942) : his homosexuality and why it matters / William Armstrong Percy III -- Personalizing the political, politicizing the personal : reflections on editing the letters of Lillian Smith / Margaret Rose Gladney -- The library, the park, and the pervert : public space and homosexual encounter in post-World War II Atlanta / John Howard -- Closet crusaders : the Johns Committee and homophobia, 1956-1965 / James A. Schnur -- Race, class, gender, and sexuality in pre-Stonewall Charleston : perspectives on the Gordon Langley Hall affair / James T. Sears -- Softball and alcohol : the limits of lesbian community in Memphis from the 1940s through the 1960s / Daneel Buring -- Louisville's lesbian feminist union : a study in community building / Kathie D. Williams -- "Women ran it" : Charis Books and more and Atlanta's lesbian-feminist community, 1971-1981 / Saralyn Chesnut and Amanda C. Gable -- Post-lesbian-feminism : documenting "those cruddy old dykes of yore" / 'Becca Cragin -- Dateline Atlanta : place and the social construction of AIDS / Meredith Raimondo -- Queering the South : constructions of Southern/queer identity / Donna Jo Smith.