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Trash, Allison's landmark collection, laid the groundwork for her critically acclaimed Bastard Out of Carolina, the National Book Award finalist that was hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "simply stunning...a wonderful work of fiction by a major talent." In addition to Allison's classic stories, this new edition of Trash features "Stubborn Girls and Mean Stories," an introduction in which Allison discusses the...
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"Over one hundred years ago, women organized to fight for a federal suffrage amendment. But many suffragists were fighting for much more than the vote. The suffrage movement included individuals who represented a wide range of genders and sexualities. It also included a variety of queer relationships. But, suffrage leaders concerned with presenting a respectable public image concealed the queerness of the suffrage movement. This resulted in greater...
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Scope and content: Oral history interviews with approximately 25 individuals from Middle Tennessee who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or trangender, conducted between 2009 and 2014 by members of the Brooks Fund History Project steering committee. Specifically concentrating on older members of the LGBT community, whose average age was in their early 70s, the project focuses on life in Middle Tennessee prior to the nationally-significant events...
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Abstract: The Larry Romans Papers reveal a wealth of information about the 1990s in relation to LGBTQ culture, activism, acceptance, and politics, on a national scale and, especially, in Nashville, Tenn. They allude to the hardships faced in political organization and mobilization, and they starkly illustrate how different that process has become in the early 21st century.
Scope and content: Administrative records of the Nashville, Tenn. organization,...
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