Riley Clare Valentine, Ph.D. is a political theorist. They obtained their Ph.D. from Louisiana State University. Their books include Progressive Liberalism and Neoliberalism in American Politics: The Heterodoxical Imperative (Palgrave, 2024) and Be Gay, Do Crime: Everyday Acts of Radical Queer History (2025).Zane McNeill, M.A, is the co-editor of Deviant Hollers: Queering Appalachian Ecologies for a Sustainable Future (2024) and Politics as Public Art: The Aesthetics of Political Organizing and Social Movements (2023) and the editor of Building Multispecies Resistance Against Exploitation: Stories from the Frontlines of Labor and Animal Rights (2024).

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Disability, Valentine’s Narrative and the Law.- Chapter 3. Discipline and Disgust: Book Bans and “Don’t Say Gay” Laws.- Chapter 4. Reproductive Rights and the Revival of the Comstock Act.- Chapter 5. Punishing Queerness: Bar Raids, Anti-Sodomy Laws, and Gender-Affirming Care Bans.- Chapter 6. Epilogue: The Body and the Sacred.

Riley Clare Valentine, Ph.D. is a political theorist. They obtained their Ph.D. from Louisiana State University. Their books include Progressive Liberalism and Neoliberalism in American Politics: The Heterodoxical Imperative (Palgrave, 2024) and Be Gay, Do Crime: Everyday Acts of Radical Queer History (2025).Zane McNeill, M.A, is the co-editor of Deviant Hollers: Queering Appalachian Ecologies for a Sustainable Future (2024) and Politics as Public Art: The Aesthetics of Political Organizing and Social Movements (2023) and the editor of Building Multispecies Resistance Against Exploitation: Stories from the Frontlines of Labor and Animal Rights (2024).

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Disability, Valentine’s Narrative and the Law.- Chapter 3. Discipline and Disgust: Book Bans and “Don’t Say Gay” Laws.- Chapter 4. Reproductive Rights and the Revival of the Comstock Act.- Chapter 5. Punishing Queerness: Bar Raids, Anti-Sodomy Laws, and Gender-Affirming Care Bans.- Chapter 6. Epilogue: The Body and the Sacred.

Riley Clare Valentine, Ph.D. is a political theorist. They obtained their Ph.D. from Louisiana State University. Their books include Progressive Liberalism and Neoliberalism in American Politics: The Heterodoxical Imperative (Palgrave, 2024) and Be Gay, Do Crime: Everyday Acts of Radical Queer History (2025).Zane McNeill, M.A, is the co-editor of Deviant Hollers: Queering Appalachian Ecologies for a Sustainable Future (2024) and Politics as Public Art: The Aesthetics of Political Organizing and Social Movements (2023) and the editor of Building Multispecies Resistance Against Exploitation: Stories from the Frontlines of Labor and Animal Rights (2024).

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Disability, Valentine’s Narrative and the Law.- Chapter 3. Discipline and Disgust: Book Bans and “Don’t Say Gay” Laws.- Chapter 4. Reproductive Rights and the Revival of the Comstock Act.- Chapter 5. Punishing Queerness: Bar Raids, Anti-Sodomy Laws, and Gender-Affirming Care Bans.- Chapter 6. Epilogue: The Body and the Sacred.