Living Queer History – Remembrance and Belonging in a Southern City Rosenthal

Living Queer HistoryRemembrance and Belonging in a Southern City\nAuthor(s): Gregory Samantha Rosenthal\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of North Carolina Press, United States\nImprint: The University of North Carolina Press\nISBN-13: 9781469665801, 978-1469665801\nSynopsis\nQueer history is a living practice. Talk to any group of LGBTQ people today,and they will not agree on what story should be told. Many people desire to celebrate the past by erecting plaques and painting rainbow crosswalks, but queer and trans people in the twenty-first century need more than just symbolsthey need access to power, justice for marginalized people, spaces of belonging. Approaching the past through a lens of queer and trans survival and world-building transforms history itself into a tool for imagining and realizing a better future.\n\nLiving Queer History tells the story of an LGBTQ community in Roanoke, Virginia, a small city on the edge of Appalachia. Interweaving historical analysis.