| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 286 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: Land of enchantment -- "Going Santa Fe" : the making and unmaking of queer cultures -- Decency debate : the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, 1930 -- Land of entrapment : the formation and consequences of the security state, 1945-1960s -- "What to do about homosexuals?" : open secrets and sodomy law, 1953-1963 -- Land of entwinement : rural and urban queer lives -- Offending moral decency : the 1969 "Love-Lust" controversy and gay liberation -- Conclusion: "We never go away." |
| Summary |
"In Wide-Open Desert, Jordan Biro Walters explores the experiences of Pueblo, Navajo, Nuevomexicanx, and white LGBTQ people in New Mexico-many of whom were artists and writers-to examine how their ideas and beliefs about self-expression, political engagement, and race relations transformed American notions of political identity over the course of the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Sexual minorities -- New Mexico -- History -- 20th century
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Sexual minorities -- Identity.
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Gay liberation movement -- New Mexico -- History -- 20th century
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HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
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Gay liberation movement.
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Sexual minorities.
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Sexual minorities -- Identity.
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| SUBJECT |
New Mexico -- History -- 20th century
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| Subject |
New Mexico.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780295751030 |
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0295751037 |
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