Queer Carnival

Amy L. Stone is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. They are the author of Queer Carnival: Festivals and Mardi Gras in the South, Gay Rights at the Ballot Box, and Cornyation: San Antonio's Outrageous Fiesta Tradition. They are also the co-editor of Out of the Closet, Into the Archives: Researching Sexual Histories.

In this fascinating and ground-breaking book, Amy L. Stone takes readers on a journey through the possibilities of festivals in places that are usually overlooked in discussions of LGBTQ lives, loves, and celebrations. Exploring the importance and complexities of the carnivalesque for LGBTQ urban and broader cultures, they augment our current thinking about citizenship in accessible and engaging ways. This book is recommended reading for all interested in LGBTQ studies, festivals, cities, communities, and citizenship. * Kath Browne, co-author of Heteroactivism: Resisting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Rights and Equalities * Queer Carnival sparkles with extraordinary observations about overlooked parts of the country that receive too little attention but in which most queer people live-and where presidential elections are often decided. Stone convincingly shows that there is indeed 'something reconciliatory about being desired for one's difference,' whether this comes from the mayor attending your raunchy drag number or having a nephew escort his butch lesbian aunt to the stage * Greggor Mattson, author of The Cultural Politics of European Prostitution Reform: Governing Loose Women *