queer south
"We arenât just fighting religious ignorance down here, we are fighting ignorance thrown at us from other parts of the country."
"We were so used to living as a discriminated against class that we just accepted that there were some restaurants we couldnât eat at, some physicians who wouldnât treat us, some places we werenât safe going."
"Being trans, being gay, being lesbian, is not black or white, but thatâs how the people in the Delta perceive it."
"I often wonder how many of them have read the Bible, on their own, without someone standing over their shoulder telling them it says something else."