Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword

• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Peering Through Prisms of Sexual Rebels
• Vantage Point I: Homosexuality and the Religious South
• Chapter 2: White Churches: The Southern Baptists and the Fundamentalists
• Vince and the True Tones
• Chapter 3: Black Churches and Sects: The African Methodists and the Jehovah’s Witnesses
• Malcolm and the Young Pioneers
• Vantage Point II: Homosexuality and Southern Communities
• Chapter 4: “White Trash” and Female in a Southern Community
• Norma Jean, ROTC, and the Live Oak Tree
• Chapter 5: A Gentle-man in a Southern Community
• Royce and the Rockview Country Club
• Chapter 6: Black or Gay in a Southern Community
• Jacob and the Bus Boycott
• Vantage Point III: Homosexuality and Southern Families
• Chapter 7: Questioning Authority in a Southern Black Family
• Obie and the Breaking of Ties
• Chapter 8: Honoring and Carrying on the Family Name
• Terry and the Two Tux Prom
• Vantage Point IV: Gender and Sexuality: Being and Behaving Queer in the South
• Chapter 9: The Kids
• Cory and the Little Redneck Hell-Raisers
• Chapter 10: The Outcasts
• Alston and the Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Chapter 11: The Tomboys
• Everetta and the Cinderella Complex
• Vantage Point V: Sexuality and Adolescence: Peers, Queers, and Fears
• Chapter 12: Relationships
• Olivia and the Silenced Relationships
• Chapter 13: Peers
• Phillip, Edith, and the Three Musketeers
• Chapter 14: Educators
• Brett and the Baseball Bat
• Chapter 15: On Homosexual Communities, Identities, and Culture: Journeys of the Spirit
• Appendix: Research Methods, Methodological Issues, and Participant Data

About the Author

James Sears