Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America

by Colin R. Johnson

Most studies of lesbian and gay history focus on urban environments. Yet gender and sexual diversity were anything but rare in nonmetropolitan areas in the first half of the twentieth century. Just Queer Folks explores the seldom-discussed history of same-sex intimacy and gender nonconformity in rural and small-town America during a period when the now familiar concepts of heterosexuality and homosexuality were just beginning to take shape...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439909989
• ISBN13: 9781439909980
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"