Queering Spirituality and Community in the Deep South

Kamden K. Strunk, Auburn University

• Introduction: Queering Spirituality and Community in the Deep South; Kamden K. Strunk.Section 1. Queer Spiritualities.Chapter 1. Spiritual Practices in the Deep South: Queer Theory and the African Diaspora; Jacob W. Glazier.Chapter 2. Deconstructing and Reconstructing Queer Spirituality in the South: Intersectionality as a Means from the Micro to the Macro; Christian D. Chan and Philip F. Daniels.Chapter 3. At a Crossroads: Growing Up Christian and Queer in the South; Denise L. Levy.Section 2. Queer Analysis Of The Religious Right And Anita Bryant.Chapter 4. We've Had It with Anita's Brand: Southern Lesbian Feminists' Response to the 1977 Save Our Children Crusade; Hillary R. Anderson.Chapter 5. From Orange Juice to the Ballot Box: Media Coverage of Anita Bryant's Rise and Fall in the Early Religious-Right Movement; Robert D. Byrd Jr., Melissa Janoske, and Audrey Chaney.Section 3. Queer Communities: Development And Lived Experiences.Chapter 6. Gay Liberation Has Arrived: Identity and Community in Lafayette, Louisiana, 1968-1981; Daniel Manuel.Chapter 7. Welcome to Pensacola, USA's Gay Riviera: Beach Parties, Moral Panics, and the Making of a Queer Capital; Jerry Watkins.Chapter 8. From James Booker to Big Freedia and Back Again: Black Queer Expression, Agency and Potentiality; Elyse Ambrose and Benae Beamon.Chapter 9. Intersecting Identities: Life Histories of Black Gay Males Growing Up in the South, in the Black Gay Mecca; Michael D. Bartone.Chapter 10. It's Hard, but It's Home: On Living in the Deep South; Melanie M. Lantz, Sarah A. McConnell, Brittan L. Davis, and Emily Burish.Chapter 11. Conclusion; Kamden K. Strunk.Author Biographies.