Vol. 16 No. 3 - Fall 1988
Mint Juleps, Wisteria, and Queers
Dateline: The South
Compiled by Jacob Cooley
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Southern Highways, Nuclear Byways
The feds want to truck radioactive waste across the South. Is it too late to stop them? By Wells Eddleman
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Censored
The Supreme Court says principals can censor school papers, but Southern students fight for a free press. By Jacob Cooley
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The Myrtle Beach Bitch
A gay paper in the wartime South. By Allan Berube
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We're Looking for a Few Good Women
Two Southern lesbians who battled the U.S. Marines. By Deirdre Lutz
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Off Base, Home Free
Brandy Alexander runs the only bar in the country that's off-limits to soldiers. By Don King
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Boys Will Be Girls
A Southern tradition of playing dress-up has made drag shows more popular in Nashville than New York. By Jere Real
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Faerie Culture
Pagan ritual, country living, and a little magic. By Barry Yeoman
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Lesbian Land
Women-only communities are spreading across the South. By Janelle Lavelle
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Rabbit
Family, sex, and race—on ancestral ground. Interview by Allan Troxler
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No More Back Seat
Civil rights activist Bayard Rustin refused to move gay pride to the back of the bus. By Peg Byron
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Who the Enemy Isn't
From Afghan Hounds to equal rights. By Gary Kaupman
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"We Will Do the Hokey-Pokey"
Building a new Southern Freedom Movement. By Mab Segrest
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Fiction: A River of Names
By Dorothy Allison
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Can't Budget
A special section on West Virginia and Louisiana, the two states hardest hit by hard times.
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