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Title: Southwestern New Mexico - A Probable History Before Stonewall
Post by: Shana A on October 17, 2008, 03:45:24 PM
Post by: Shana A on October 17, 2008, 03:45:24 PM
Southwestern New Mexico - A Probable History Before Stonewall
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October 17, 2008 11:00 AM
http://www.bilerico.com/2008/10/southwestern_new_mexico_-_a_probable_his.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2008/10/southwestern_new_mexico_-_a_probable_his.php)
Editors' Note: Guest blogger Ronald L. Donaghe, winner of the Jim Duggins "Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist" Award for 2008, has been actively writing fiction since 1986. His first novel, Common Sons, was first published by a small, independent press out of Austin, Texas, in 1989. It has since been published in four editions. He lives in Las Cruces, New Mexico, with his mate of many years, in a 100 year-old adobe. He is a freelance editor and will retire from his university-based technical writing job in December 2008.
RonPhoto1.jpgIn 1999, a New York City editor for one of the big publishing houses declined consideration of my first novel by saying, "Southwestern New Mexico is an unlikely setting for a gay story." And it follows that southwestern New Mexico is also an unlikely setting for a LGBT history prior to Stonewall. And yet...
The distinction I need to make is that a history of gay people before Stonewall in the middle of nowhere would have been obscure, hidden, secretive, little known, and recognition of fellow gays would have been tentative.
Filed by: Guest Blogger
October 17, 2008 11:00 AM
http://www.bilerico.com/2008/10/southwestern_new_mexico_-_a_probable_his.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2008/10/southwestern_new_mexico_-_a_probable_his.php)
Editors' Note: Guest blogger Ronald L. Donaghe, winner of the Jim Duggins "Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist" Award for 2008, has been actively writing fiction since 1986. His first novel, Common Sons, was first published by a small, independent press out of Austin, Texas, in 1989. It has since been published in four editions. He lives in Las Cruces, New Mexico, with his mate of many years, in a 100 year-old adobe. He is a freelance editor and will retire from his university-based technical writing job in December 2008.
RonPhoto1.jpgIn 1999, a New York City editor for one of the big publishing houses declined consideration of my first novel by saying, "Southwestern New Mexico is an unlikely setting for a gay story." And it follows that southwestern New Mexico is also an unlikely setting for a LGBT history prior to Stonewall. And yet...
The distinction I need to make is that a history of gay people before Stonewall in the middle of nowhere would have been obscure, hidden, secretive, little known, and recognition of fellow gays would have been tentative.