Vol. 16 No. 3 - Fall 1988

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Mint Juleps, Wisteria, and Queers

• Dateline: The South

  Compiled by Jacob Cooley

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• Southern News Roundup

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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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• Mint Juleps, Wisteria, & Queers

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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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• One Big Community

  Gay Life in Richmond After 1944

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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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• Little Codes

  The New Orleans Bar Scene in the ’50s and ’60s

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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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• Almost Broke, West Virginia

  Is the Mountain State budget a casualty of Reagan's New Federalism?

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• The Bayou Budget Battle

  Will Buddy Roemer cut political sleaze or populist services?

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• The Last Word

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