Currently watching The Hunting Wives and while it's absolute trash, it's making me interested in other explorations of what being queer in that environment and culture can be like. As a European I've always associated the South with more traditional, conservative values, and it's intriguing to see other experiences, especially if the characters still take part in the culture and aren't complete outsiders, closeted or not.
I'd prefer contemporary settings and female characters, but anything else is fair game — I'm fine with romance, no romance, fiction, memoirs, graphic novels, whatever. 🙂
by zyooble
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Author John Framm if you like horror !
Red Clay Suzie is fiction but very much based on the author’s childhood, as I remember.
Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature by Dorothy Allison.
Since I Laid My Burden Down by Brontez Purnell (fiction)
Trash by Dorothy Allison and all of her books
[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91872.Trash?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=kNrTUNxMYc&rank=7](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91872.Trash?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=kNrTUNxMYc&rank=7)
Pew by Catherine Lacey
Maybe a little departure from your prompt, but a great, thoughtful, tight read
Not current contemporary but Fannie Flagg’s Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a classic about female identity, race, and a queer relationship in the Deep South. It’s a great depiction of the American South at that time and jumps from 30s to 80s.
The Color Purple by Alice WalkerÂ
Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy is set in a post-hurricane Katrina Louisiana and I remember enjoying it a lot because it touched on race, identity and class as well as queer themes
ETA Fried Green Tomatoes by Fannie Flagg but be aware that this author uses a lot of racial slurs (yes it’s set in the South when people used that type of language but it was still quite a lot of the n-word and I didn’t feel like it was necessary)
Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo