[Albion Wilde]

a good friend of my wife is “lesbian” and lives in Mississippi. For what it’s worth, she has never said anything about a negative social climate, or difficulties in being gay in the deep south.

Especially in the big cities, but even in the small towns, there is always one or more flamboyantly gay characters in most communities who are just part of the drama of southernism. Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Tallulah Bankhead spring to mind. Gay folks love to exaggerate the southern drawl, and cherish nostalgia for the glorious days of hoop skirts and mint juleps...

[x1stcav]

Tallulah Bankhead? Say it wasn’t so!

[Steely Tom]

Gay folks love to exaggerate the southern drawl, and cherish nostalgia for the glorious days of hoop skirts and mint juleps...

... and for certain things that happened back of the slave quarters.