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- Title
"Returning Forest Darlings": Gay Liberationist Sanctuary in the Southeastern Network, 1973-80.
- Authors
Ezell, Jason
- Abstract
This essay describes how, in the late 1970s, gay liberationists in the Southeast developed a rural sanctuary practice out of their intersections with back-to-the-land movements, leading to the formation of Short Mountain Sanctuary in 1980. It draws on writings in the gay serial RFD, as well as on oral histories and event documentation, to trace how members mobilized regional collectivism, rustic print practices, and spiritual affect to imagine a rural underground at the edges of the state’s reach. This account serves as an alternate case study to US sanctuary movement histories, which heavily feature city and church.
- Subjects
SOUTHERN States; GAY rights movement; LGBTQ+ history; SANCTUARY movement; BACK to the land movements
- Publication
Radical History Review, 2019, Vol 2019, Issue 135, p71
- ISSN
0163-6545
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1215/01636545-7607833