Baby, You are My Religion : Women, Gay Bars, and Theology Before Stonewall
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1844658945
ISBN-13
9781844658947
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Acumen Publishing Ltd
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 29th, 2013
Print length
270 Pages
Weight
396 grams
Dimensions
16.70 x 24.90 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
Religious aspects of sexuality, gender & relationships Gay & Lesbian studies
Ksh 7,550.00
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The Stonewall Inn was the location of a rebellion that ultimately led to the gay liberation movement. This book offers a fresh perspective on the role of gay bars in 1950s America as sacred space for the community.
Baby, You Are My Religion argues that American butch-femme bar culture of the mid-20th Century should be interpreted as a sacred space for its community. Before Stonewall—when homosexuals were still deemed mentally ill—these bars were the only place where many could have any community at all. Baby, You are My Religion explores this community as a site of a lived corporeal theology and political space. It reveals that religious institutions such as the Metropolitan Community Church were founded in such bars, that traditional and non-traditional religious activities took place there, and that religious ceremonies such as marriage were often conducted within the bars by staff. Baby, You are My Religion examines how these bars became not only ecclesiastical sites but also provided the fertile ground for the birth of the struggle for gay and lesbian civil rights before Stonewall.
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