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This book argues that American butch-femme bar culture of the mid-20th century should be interpreted as a sacred space for its community. Before Stonewall when homosexuals were still deemed mentally ill, these bars were the only place where many could have any community at all. This book explores this community as a site of a lived corporeal theology and political space. It reveals that religious institutions such as the Metropolitan Community Church were founded in such bars, that traditional and non-traditional religious activities took place there, and that religious ceremonies such as marriage were often conducted within the bars by staff. It examines how these bars became not only ecclesiastical sites but also provided the fertile ground for the birth of the struggle for gay and lesbian civil rights before Stonewall.
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Family and Relationships, Religious aspects, Religion, Homosexuality, Religieuze aspecten, Gay/Lesbian Interest, Homobeweging, Gay bars, Homosexualität, History, Theology, doctrinal, Christianity, Gay liberation movement, Lesbianism, Bars (drinking establishments), New york (n.y.), history, Homosexualité, Histoire, Aspect religieux, Bars pour homosexuels, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Public Policy, Cultural Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Anthropology, Cultural, Popular Culture, LGBTQ sociology, LGBTQ religion & spirituality, LGBTQ spaces and placesPlaces
United States, Verenigde StatenTimes
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Baby, You Are My Religion: Women, Gay Bars, and Theology Before Stonewall
2014, Taylor & Francis Group
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Baby, You Are My Religion: Women, Gay Bars, and Theology Before Stonewall
2014, Taylor & Francis Group
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1317544714 9781317544715
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Baby, You Are My Religion: Women, Gay Bars, and Theology Before Stonewall
2014, Taylor & Francis Group
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1315729032 9781315729039
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Baby, You Are My Religion: Women, Gay Bars, and Theology Before Stonewall
2014, Taylor & Francis Group
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1317544706 9781317544708
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Baby, You Are My Religion: Women, Gay Bars, and Theology Before Stonewall
2013, Equinox Publishing Limited
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1845531264 9781845531263
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Baby, You Are My Religion: Theory, Praxis and Possible Theology of Mid-20th Century Urban Butch Femme Community
2013, Equinox Publishing Limited
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1845531256 9781845531256
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Baby, you are my religion: women, gay bars, and theology before Stonewall
2013, Acumen
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1844656497 9781844656493
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