Lonely Hunters - 9780367009946

Taylor & Francis

As in his highly acclaimed Growing Up Gay in the South, James Sears masterfully blends a symphony of Southern voices to chronicle the era from the baby boom to the dawn of gay rights and the Stonewall riot. Sears weaves a rich historical tapestry through the use of personal reminiscences, private letters, subpoenaed testimony and previously\n > Foreword -- Introduction -- Purging Perverts in Paradise -- Dark Nights of the Soul -- Ferreting Out the Lesbian Menace -- The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost -- Dawn Arises in Aristocratic Charleston -- The Blue Fairy and the Making of a New Activist Generation -- The Mississippi of the Homosexual and the Politics of Dialectics -- Afterword: A Conversation with Barbara Gittings > \nJames T. Sears is a professor at the University of South Carolina, where a course he taught on Christian fundamentalism attracted national attention and the ire of Pat Robertson, who dubbed Sears \""Satan in the university.\"" Sears resides on the sea islands near .