The Queer South: LGBTQ writers on the American South

This is our world / Dorothy Allison

Predominately black high school / Shane Allison

Things come back ; To hell with love ; The heart is a shotgun house ; The boy becomes a stag / John Andrews

Vigil ; After Fat Tuesday ; Canaan ; Breakwater / Derrick Austin

Monument Avenue ; Azalea pink / Jeffery Berg

Making a man out of me ; Abuelo in a Western ; Love as if love ; Maybe ; Thicker than country / Richard Blanco

An indelible mask / Perry Brass

Signs / Dustin Brookshire

Big, fine ; Fairy tale ; The ten commandments ; On Daniel Minter's High John the Conqueror ; Another angel / Jericho Brown

Debris / Joey Connelly

Lullaby ; Wing night ; Ocean City / William Cordeiro

Mecca / C. Cleo Creech

Lord, I am not worthy ; Camp Revelation / James Croteau

Street, streak ; As the prodigal daughter ; What have you gone and done? / J.K. Daniels

Gay sex slaves in Savannah / Nick Dephtereos

Second baptism / David Eye

First love, or Sex and the city / Jason K. Friedman

Riding in cars with brothers / D. Gilson

After the wedding ; Estates / Ellen Goldstein

Elegy / Mirian Bird Greenburg

Staring contest ; Talking in the dark / Elizabeth Gross

Southern Gothic / Johnathan Harper

Alexandra's ragtime band ; Boys gym ; Rural discipline / Scott Hightower

The light, the idea of light, repeats itself at South Beach / Matthew Hittinger

Tú ; Baptism / Darrel Alejandro Holnes

tributaries / Rex Leonowicz

Jacksonville / Sassafras Lowrey

Boxes / Tyler Lynn

Evelyn and Willis ; Evelyn and Dot ; Evelyn and me ; Dot eating greens at Top O' the River / Bo McGuire

Paterfamilias ; Family reunion ; Samson ; What I tell myself (concerning death) when next I have my full attention / Rangi McNeil

Brave ; Spirit animal chant / Kelly McQuain

Havelock spots inverts at the county fair (their genders are classified as other) ; Later, at the county fair / M. Mack

Among men ; Wrestling/fable with shag carpet and bean bag chairs ; Heaven / Ed Madden

Blue Ridge Heating and Air ; Dear Pastor Dickweed, / Jeff Mann

Complaint, poolside ; The shortened history of Florida ; South ; Social life ; The end of last summer / Randall Mann

The sum of fall / Mary Meriam

Even drag queens are Christians in the South / Stephen S. Mills

Pornography for the gods / Cameron Mitchell

Fostering / Foster Noone

This is not my story to tell / Joseph Osmundson

Coming out to Jimmy Swaggart in a pantsuit / Eddie Outlaw

Death-raised / Seth Pennington

Heck house / Evan J. Peterson

Deep into Georgia ; This guy I'm married to ; The Factory, Knoxville / Kenneth Pobo

Carl ; Alex (Flamingo's Café, New Orleans, 1983) / Brad Richard

Georgetta, Alabama / Hannah Riddle

A partial guide to camp: how to get dry again / Laurence Ross

Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina / Liana Roux

Skeeter Davis, Noël Coward, and Eudora Welty / Kevin Sessums

The story teller : from Del Shores : my sordid life / Del Shores

Singing blue ; Considering the variants / Erin Elizabeth Smith

Pat Conroy, godlike ; Revolution ; Best little boy in the world / Will Stockton

Emancipation / Dan Stone

Accidental passing ; Farmville High / Christine Stroud

interstate: ; intercourse: ; interact: ; interstices: / Billie Tadros

Speaking in tongues: how we cannot see the fire by which we've been touched / TC Tolbert

Balinesia in Virginia ; Gay mythology : how the rivers first flowed ; Lucifer / Dan Vera

At DOMA's deathbed / Annie Virginia

Southern comfort / Valerie Wetlaufer

Finding my Southern roots / C.T. Whitley

Postcard from West Texas / Scott Wiggerman

Alpha male / Cristan Williams

Times like these: Marianna, Florida ; Resurrection Sunday ; Substantia nigra / L. Lamar Wilson.