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Queer Appalachia
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This Pride, ‘I Love My Hometown Whether it Loves Me Back or Not’
1993: Our pastor swayed slowly under the cover of a park pavilion — the kind rented out for…
Protestant Leaders Balance Cultural Divides as LGBTQ Issues Split Appalachian Statehouses
On a cloudy March evening, Roxy von Teddy stands in front of what used to be the altar…
Review: ‘Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place’
Neema Avashia’s book points to contradictions resulting from a sense of belonging and identity informed by place as…
Commentary: My Years of Growing Up Queer in Appalachia
Seven years before my dad was born and six years before my mom, the Stonewall Riot took place…
Commentary: For This Queer Foster Parent, Love is Homemade, No Matter What My Lawmakers Say
“Happiness is Homemade,” the dangling sign to the bakery reads in bold, bright letters as I walk down…
Author Matthew Thomas-Reid and the Difference Between ‘Queer’ and ‘Quar’ in Appalachia
As Matthew Thomas-Reid grew up in the shadows of the Appalachian mountains in North Carolina, the difference between…