QueerCarnival

2022 Book from @nyupress. Author @amylstone1. Glitter, belonging, drag, festivals, and the city in the South and Southwest. Mardi Gras and Fiesta.

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Coming to a bookstore near you in April 2022, the @nyupress book Queer Carnival: Festivals and Mardi Gras in the South. Throughout the Carnival and Fiesta season I'll be posting fun facts about Mardi Gras and other city festivals.

https://t.co/LG3zaJkiY7

[GLAAD @glaad]

Marsha P. Johnson was born on this day in 1945. 💖

[Bailey Otter @sociottergy]

I’m filled with JOY to share that my first sole-authored paper, “Joy Beyond the Gender Binary: Experiences, Constructions, and Barriers of Joy in Nonbinary Lives” has officially been published in @socquarterly! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #sociology #queerjoy #transjoy

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Order of Osiris is an all-inclusive group that is run by the LGBTQ community. The royalty can be a queen or king, regardless of what gender they identify as. They have a grand entrance and also parade around the convention center in a long train.

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One of my favorite parts of Mardi Gras are the private balls held by the krewes or mystic societies. Each krewe crowns royalty, long-time members of the organization who have their moment to be celebrated. This elaborate royalty pair is from the Order of Osiris in Mobile.

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LGBTQ involvement in Mardi Gras happens all over the Gulf South, from Galveston (TX) to Pensacola (FL). Here’s an excellent piece on a gay men’s Mardi Gras event in Lafayette (LA).

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Check out this great timeline of the history of gay Mardi Gras in the U.S. South.

https://t.co/2RemE8QhKm

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Today is the first day of Carnival season!!!

[Amy L Stone @AmyLStone1]

Want to read all the exciting new @NYUpress books on LGBTQ life? Come to the BOOK SALON on 9/13 at 11:30EST, for
@KatieLAcosta's Queer Stepfamilies,
@RinReczek & Emma Bosley-Smith's Families We Keep,
@paisleycurrah's Sex Is as Sex Does, and
@AmyLStone1 Queer Carnival 🧵

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How exciting to see this exhibit that honors the importance of the lgbtq community during Carnival season!

https://t.co/JQxis7iKHP

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How exciting that @MobileMardiGras Carnival Museum has its first exhibit on the history of #lgbt krewes in Mobile, just in time for #PrideMonth!!!!

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This ships from Amazon and online bookstores next week!!!
@AmyLStone1

[QueerCarnival @queer_carnival]

Coming to a bookstore near you in April 2022, the @nyupress book Queer Carnival: Festivals and Mardi Gras in the South. Throughout the Carnival and Fiesta season I'll be posting fun facts about Mardi Gras and other city festivals.

https://t.co/LG3zaJkiY7

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and I wondered. What?!? How?!? How does this feel for LGBTQ people in this city to be so visible and so supported in a way that embraces queer culture?

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Some pictures from the book. This whole thing started when I took a break from writing a book on anti-gay ballot measures to attend a show of @Cornyation in San Antonio's annual Fiesta. Opening act was city manager dressed up in skintight body suit, raising $$ for AIDS orgs.

[QueerCarnival @queer_carnival]

Queer Carnival provides an important new perspective of queer life in the South and Southwest, showing us the ways that LGBTQ communities not only survive, but thrive, even in the most unexpected places.

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From the backcover: Festivals like Mardi Gras and Fiesta have come to be annual events in which entire cities participate, and LGBTQ people are a visible part of these celebrations. In other words, the party is on, the party is queer, and everyone is invited. 1/

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vividly bringing these queer cultural spaces and the people that create and participate in them to life. They show how these events serve a larger fundamental purpose, helping LGBTQ people to cultivate a sense of belonging and citizenship in cities that may be otherwise hostile.