Wide open gay

By Jordan Biro Walters. Shifting focus away from the urban gay meccas that many out queer people called home, Wide-Open Desert brings to life a vibrant milieu of two-spirit, Chicana lesbian, and white queer cultural producers in the heart of the US Southwest. Biro Walters explores how land communes, art circles, and university classrooms helped create communities that supported queer cultural expression and launched gay civil rights activism in New Mexico.

However, even though all of the state's residents endured the same governmental policies, Biro Walters elegantly demonstrates how queer New Mexicans' lived experiences varied due to different social expectations and allowances. Overall, this is a great work that makes a wonderful contribution to the historiography of sexuality in the American Southwest.

Incorporating rural landscapes, communes, urban centers, and Indigenous communities, it captures the unpredictability and joyfulness of queer mobility and aesthetics. Skip to content. Format: Paperback Hardcover.

Eyes Wide Open (2009)

Jordan Biro Walters is associate professor of history at the College of Wooster. Advance Praise. Winner of the Robert G. Waves of Belonging. India's Mithila Painting. Caring for Caregivers. Refusing Settler Domesticity. Good Wife, Wise Mother. Queering the Hmong Diaspora. From Forest Farm to Sawmill.

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