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Queer Appalachia
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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…
Too Explicit to Name: An Excerpt from Storytelling in Queer Appalachia
One of the first collections of scholarship at the intersection of LGBTQ studies and Appalachian studies, Storytelling in Queer…
‘We’re Going To Do It No Matter What’: Appalachian Queer Film Festival Is Back, With Plans To Stay
When civil rights attorney-turned-filmmaker Jon Matthews agreed to start a film festival with his friend Tim Ward, Matthews…
Collecting Stories in the South, This LGBTQ Archive Shows a Thriving, Although Hidden, History
As a home-schooled child raised in Philadelphia, Mississippi, Mackenzie Gray didn’t have access to information about transgender people.…