Queer Virginia (eBook)

New Stories in the Old Dominion

Charles H. Ford, Jeffrey L. Littlejohn (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
216 Seiten
University of Virginia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8139-5328-1 (ISBN)

Infos

A new, definitive queer history of the CommonwealthQueer Virginia is a long-needed record of the courageous and creative ways that LGBTQ+ people across the commonwealth have persevered and fought for their rights. The history recovered here is remarkable and illuminating, including the life of Hannah Nokes, a Black transgender woman who overcame severe discrimination in Loudoun County during the 1930s; the story of the Hershee Bar, a historic lesbian bar in Norfolk and longtime community focal point; efforts to gather oral histories and produce a queer digital archive in the old capital of the Confederacy, and much more. Full of poignant and telling glimpses of LGBTQ+ life through the decades, this volume reveals generations of widespread prejudice and oppressive laws and the inspiring resilience that queer Virginians brought to this struggle.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.6.2025
• Zusatzinfo: 15 b&w illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: ABC laws • AIDS • Charlottesville • Dignity Richmond • Discrimination • gay marriage • LGBTQ • Norfolk • pride celebrations • Queer • Richmond • Tidewater
• ISBN-10: 0-8139-5328-6 / 0813953286
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8139-5328-1 / 9780813953281