...Martin F. Manalansan, IV; Chantal Nadeau; Richard T. Rodríguez; Siobhan B. Somerville When imagined in relation to other regions in the United States, the Midwest is often positioned as the “norm,” the uncontested site of middle-class white American heteronormativity. This characterization...

...Nicholas L. Syrett This article explores how letters written by white men living in the Midwest reveal the relation between their location and their strategies to realize queer social and sexual lives from the 1930s through the 1950s. In particular I demonstrate how their relative isolation...

...Lourdes Torres Since the scholarship that exists on lesbian organizing in the Midwest neglects to engage with the history of Latina lesbian organizing, this project focuses on Latina lesbians as agents of change and active subjects of a multiracial history of grass-roots organizing. I explore...

... at regional drive-ins across the US Midwest. I next analyze one paradigmatic film — Bloody Mama (1970) — to substantiate its cultural operations for a largely white, working-class viewership, and then consider what hixploitation tells us about the intimate relationships between nascent conservative...

..., sexuality; and tomboy masculinities and manhoods in his/her stories. By critically reading Rodriguez's stories, in this essay, I also theorize how the Great Lakes or Great Lakes region functions as a transnational water-based border zone or crosscurrents space in the “(Upper) Midwest” that links Filipino...

..., which she wrote as an excoriating critique of assimilationist Indian boarding schools, are consumed by the settler writer and made to nourish Wilder's famously blank and generic Midwest. Zitkala-Ša's time and place—the bloodily contested land of South Dakota of the 1880s—can be found incorporated...

... of the rural Midwest. This is perhaps unsurprising, as Wescott himself had a hard time separating his experience of big cities from his upbringing in Wisconsin. Indeed, he thought of Villefranche as a “suburb of Nice,” and the reason he liked New York so much was that it was “the only great city with all...

.../Midwest Among scholars of sexuality, both Latinidad and the queer Midwest have often been treated as marginal topics. With respect to Latinidad, it still seems neces- sary to interrogate dominant notions of queerness, which are presented as being theoretically universal, despite their embeddedness...

..., Nicholas L. Queer New Right  95 – 114 Mobility, Circulation, and Holland, Sharon P., Marcia Ochoa, and Kyla Correspondence: Queer White Men in Wazana Tompkins the Midcentury Midwest  75 – 95 Introduction: On the Visceral  391 – 406 Takemoto, Tina...

... the intersection, the overlap, and interstice of eth- nicity and sexuality. Suddenly the house begins to shake; two trains approach from opposite directions, one heading to Buffalo and points east and one to Chicago and the wide Midwest. The sound is deafening for seemingly endless minutes, blocking out all...

... focuses on race, gender, sexuality, and culture in the United States with a focus on the American Midwest. Their writing has recently appeared in WSQ, Surveillance and Society , and American Quarterly . David Andrew Griffiths is currently a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University...

... by Duke University Press GLQ 7.1-07 Retzloff 1/12/01 11:37 AM Page 154 154 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES Constructing an LGBT Exhibit Taking this regional exploration to the Midwest is the historical exhibition “Arti...

... Werner Fassbinder fi lm series, managed the international tour of the series Mag- netic North at seventeen sites, and coordinated the residencies of Arthur Dong, Cheryl Dunye, Christian Marclay, and Craig Baldwin. He served as president of the board of the Midwest Media Artists’ Access Center in St...

... experience even higher than average rates of victimization and discrimination compared with White students. Statistics also show that students from rural and small town schools faced more hostile school climates than students in urban and suburban schools, as did those from the South and Midwest. Due...

...-­American urban history by such authors as George Chauncey and, in monographs from the University of Chicago Press, Mark Stein, David K. Johnson, and Matt Houlbrook; in analyses of diasporic New York from the anthropologist Martin Manalansan; and, recently, in an account of the rural Midwest, from...

... Student Groups” stands out as a valuable qualitative snapshot of the ways that LGBTQ BOOKS IN BRIEF 415 young adults negotiate their sexual identities. Based on focus groups at an urban, public university in the Midwest, Meek’s analysis...

... Groups” stands out as a valuable qualitative snapshot of the ways that LGBTQ BOOKS IN BRIEF 415 young adults negotiate their sexual identities. Based on focus groups at an urban, public university in the Midwest, Meek’s analysis highlights...

... Groups” stands out as a valuable qualitative snapshot of the ways that LGBTQ BOOKS IN BRIEF 415 young adults negotiate their sexual identities. Based on focus groups at an urban, public university in the Midwest, Meek’s analysis highlights...

... Groups” stands out as a valuable qualitative snapshot of the ways that LGBTQ BOOKS IN BRIEF 415 young adults negotiate their sexual identities. Based on focus groups at an urban, public university in the Midwest, Meek’s analysis highlights...

.... After finishing college in the Midwest, my girlfriend and I piled all our worldly possessions into a drive- away car to head for the gay metropolis on the coast.’ The incongruities of age and class in this scenario were apparent to the first patrolman who chanced to observe my raggedy T-shirt...