queer south

"We arenā€™t 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 couldnā€™t eat at, some physicians who wouldnā€™t treat us, some places we werenā€™t safe going."
"Being trans, being gay, being lesbian, is not black or white, but thatā€™s 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."