Gay panic in the Ozarks /

"Wounds and prejudices stemming from the Civil War and the Great Depression run deep in the Ozark hill country. These frailties, like the scab of a putrid wound, will from time to time reopen and ooze pus. In the tumultuous year of 1968, a farmer stumbles onto the gruesome scene of a hate crime...

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Main Author: Bethune, Ed (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: North Charleston, South Carolina : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, [2014]
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Summary:"Wounds and prejudices stemming from the Civil War and the Great Depression run deep in the Ozark hill country. These frailties, like the scab of a putrid wound, will from time to time reopen and ooze pus. In the tumultuous year of 1968, a farmer stumbles onto the gruesome scene of a hate crime: the lynching of a young gay man whose mangled body has been left hanging from a tree. Clues abound, but the investigation withers and dies. Thirty-eight years later, Aubrey Hatfield and the citizens of Campbell County get a second chance to grapple with man's greatest vice - the refusal to see wrong and do something about it. 'Gay Panic in the Ozarks' is a disturbing story of the culture war that society is waging on itself."--Page 4 of cover.
Item Description:The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture.
Physical Description:vi, 344 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:9781497512535
1497512530