TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thompson,Brock
TI  - The un-natural state: Arkansas and the queer South 
SN  - 1557289433 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - HQ76.3.U52 A885 2010
U1  - 306.76/609767 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Fayetteville
PB  - University of Arkansas Press
KW  - Gay community
KW  - Arkansas
KW  - History
KW  - Gay culture
KW  - Gays
KW  - Identity
KW  - Social life and customs
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -