Description
The importance of citywide festivals like Mardi Gras and Fiesta for the LGBTQ community
Festivals like Mardi Gras and Fiesta have come to be annual events in which entire cities participate, and LGBTQ people are a visible part of these celebrations. In other words, the party is on, the party is queer, and everyone is invited. In Queer Carnival, Amy Stone takes us inside these colorful, eye-catching, and often raucous events, highlighting their importance to queer life in America's urban South and Southwest. Drawing on five years of research, and over a hundred days at LGBTQ events in cities such as San Antonio, Santa Fe, Baton Rouge, and Mobile, Stone gives readers a front-row seat to festivals, carnivals, and Mardi Gras celebrations, vividly bringing these queer cultural spaces and the people that create and participate in them to life. Stone shows how these events serve a larger fundamental purpose, helping LGBTQ people to cultivate a sense of belonging in cities that may be otherwise hostile. Queer Carnival provides an important new perspective on queer life in the South and Southwest, showing us the ways that LGBTQ communities not only survive, but thrive, even in the most unexpected places.Author: Amy L. Stone
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 04/12/2022
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.10w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781479801985
ISBN10: 1479801984
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | LGBTQ+ Studies | General
- Social Science | Gender Studies
- Social Science | Sociology | Urban
About the Author
Amy L. Stone is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. They are the author of many books, including Cornyation: San Antonio's Outrageous Fiesta Tradition and Queer Carnival: Festivals and Mardi Gras in the South (forthcoming, NYU Press 2022).