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title: "Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States"
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# Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States

**Brand:** samantha allen
**Price:** ¥5519
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- **What is this?** Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States by samantha allen
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Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States

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## Customer Reviews

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    Queer Communities in Middle America
  

*by T***I on Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2021*

Fabulously resonant book reminding us that red states aren’t entirely right wing, bigots seeking to implement bathroom bills. I think we all know that, but especially in light of this week’s events, need to be reminded of it. Allen does a wonderful job in taking us through the places of importance to her and her transition.From Provo to Austin, Bloomington, East Tennessee and beyond. While the book includes sweet moments such as the elevator where she met her now wife, the book is far more about the people who remain in those communities doing the heavy lifting, something Allen admits she isn’t able to do herself. The advisors at Encircle, the owners of cafes and LGBT bars, the mayors, the activists are the real people who shine through in Allen’s writing.An excellent read at any time, and while I appreciate the closure in her epilogue on some issues, I also hope Allen revisits some of these themes in additional writing, especially the gentrification issues. With all the chaos of the Trump administration it’s amazing how distant the Indiana legislation seems

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    This book made me happy....and hopeful.
  

*by J***E on Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2021*

Real Queer America – Samantha AllenI thought this book amazing, and it made me happy…and hopeful. Now, how often can you say that about a book?It chronicles a journey of a transgender reporter and journalist as she revisits the small town communities that had important parts of her life, before and after transition.So, that means taking her back to Brigham Young University in 2007, and resigning from the church the next year. It goes on to Bloomington, Indiana, where she met her future wife in an elevator of the Kinsey Institute, a great story. More time, and some activism, was spent in Texas, Tennessee and Mississippi, each time marveling at pockets of outright acceptance, glossed over by being in red states. Her writing style is warm and inviting, full of vulnerability and perspective, and I would welcome reading about her future journeys.

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    A compelling quarantine contemplation
  

*by E***A on Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2020*

The minute this book landed on my doorstep, I dove right in and didn’t come up for air until I had finished the chapter on Johnson City. Reading through Samantha’s queer roadtrip across America, I let the locales and characters wash over me. The political and social asides sprinkled throughout were never surprising to me, but always relevant to the passage at hand. They add historical depth and context for the familiar and unfamiliar alike. The story invites you in like a warm bath and tries to leave you with a gentle scrubbing of your biases and preconceived notions. It promises not to scald you with cries of “Transphobe!” and “Ignorant!” if the stories and humans within its pages don’t conform to your previous notions of queer life in red states. It gently leads you down the same road the author takes: heartbreaks, joys, and mundane inbetweens. I feel so represented in these pages as a member of the LGBT community, but it also gave me plenty to learn from and chew on. Your take-aways from this book are not prescribed like a lecture. But there’s hope that you might change your thinking in some way to be kinder, more gentle to the souls depicted therein. This book is well-written enough for either single-sitting bingeing or multiple-day digestion. I promise you’ll find the sense of joy and camaraderie everyone needs more of these days, regardless of your feelings on the topic at hand, with the same sense of nostalgia as though you had taken the road trip yourself. If you feel any desire to crack this one open, I promise you’ll enjoy it cover to cover.

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