{"id":776131,"date":"2009-08-01T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-blog-post&#038;p=776131"},"modified":"2021-09-17T14:31:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T21:31:35","slug":"out-in-the-country-youth-media-and-queer-visibility-in-rural-america","status":"publish","type":"msr-blog-post","link":"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/research\/articles\/out-in-the-country-youth-media-and-queer-visibility-in-rural-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/research\/people\/mlg\/\"><strong>Mary L. Gray<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-776140 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Book_Gray_Out-in-the-Country_cover-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"Book cover: Out in the Country\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Book_Gray_Out-in-the-Country_cover-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Book_Gray_Out-in-the-Country_cover-122x180.jpg 122w, https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Book_Gray_Out-in-the-Country_cover.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/>An unprecedented contemporary account of the online and offline lives of rural LGBT youth.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From Wal-Mart drag parties to renegade Homemaker\u2019s Clubs, <strong><em>Out in the Country<\/em><\/strong> offers an unprecedented contemporary account of the lives of today\u2019s rural queer youth. Mary L. Gray maps out the experiences of young people living in small towns across rural Kentucky and along its desolate Appalachian borders, providing a fascinating and often surprising look at the contours of gay life beyond the big city. Gray illustrates that, against a backdrop of an increasingly impoverished and privatized rural America, LGBT youth and their allies visibly\u2014and often vibrantly\u2014work the boundaries of the public spaces available to them, whether in their high schools, public libraries, town hall meetings, churches, or through websites. This important book shows that, in addition to the spaces of Main Street, rural LGBT youth explore and carve out online spaces to fashion their emerging queer identities. Their triumphs and travails defy clear distinctions often drawn between online and offline experiences of identity, fundamentally redefining our understanding of the term \u2018queer visibility\u2019 and its political stakes. Gray combines ethnographic insight with incisive cultural critique, engaging with some of the biggest issues facing both queer studies and media scholarship. <em>Out in the Country<\/em> is a timely and groundbreaking study of sexuality and gender, new media, youth culture, and the meaning of identity and social movements in a digital age.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/nyupress.org\/9780814731932\/out-in-the-country\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">See news, reviews and how to get it ><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Wal-Mart drag parties to renegade Homemaker\u2019s Clubs, Out in the Country offers an unprecedented contemporary account of the lives of today\u2019s rural queer youth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40306,"featured_media":776143,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","msr-content-parent":332906,"msr_hide_image_in_river":0,"footnotes":""},"research-area":[],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-post-option":[],"class_list":["post-776131","msr-blog-post","type-msr-blog-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","msr-locale-en_us"],"msr_assoc_parent":{"id":332906,"type":"group"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-blog-post\/776131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-blog-post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/msr-blog-post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-blog-post\/776131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":776146,"href":"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-blog-post\/776131\/revisions\/776146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"msr-research-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-area?post=776131"},{"taxonomy":"msr-locale","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-locale?post=776131"},{"taxonomy":"msr-post-option","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-post-option?post=776131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}