Baby, You are My Religion: Women, Gay Bars, and Theology Before Stonewall

by Marie Cartier

Book Overview

Baby, You Are My Religion argues that American butch-femme bar culture of the mid-20th Century should be interpreted as a sacred space for its community. Before Stonewall-when homosexuals were still deemed mentally ill-these bars were the only place where many could have any community at all. Baby, You are My Religion explores this community as a site of a lived corporeal theology and political space. It reveals that religious institutions such as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844658945
• ISBN13: 9781844658947
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"