Unqueering America : an introduction -- Sally Kern : the queer terrorist in Middle America -- Anita Bryant : Oklahoma roots and national fruits -- Billy James Hargis : sinister, Satanic sex -- Bruce Goff : how to stop enjoying and learn to fear queer art -- Queer times in Wal-Mart country : a meandering conclusion
Summary
"By exploring the scandal-filled lives of four Oklahomans, this book demonstrates how unqueering operates in a conservative American context. Carol Mason weaves a story about how homogenizing, antigay ideas evolve from generation to generation so that they achieve particular economic, imperial, racial, and gendered goals. Using engaging and accessible commentary on antigay crusaders (Sally Kern and Anita Bryant) and two queer teachers dismissed from their positions (Billy James Hargis and Bruce Goff), Mason illustrates how the lives of these figures represent paradigmatic moments in conservative confrontations with queers and help us to understand the conflation of terrorism with homosexuality, which dates back to the McCarthy era"--Provided by publisher
