Real Queer America: LGBT Stories From Red States

"Many of my New York City friends raised their eyebrows when I announced that I was moving to Nebraska for graduate school, and, I admit, I was skeptical as well. I was worried that my queerness would be unwelcome in the conservative state. If only I’d had Daily Beast journalist Samantha Allen’s Real Queer America back then! In this mix of reportage, memoir and travelogue, Allen, who came into her own gender while attending Brigham Young University in Utah, travels through Middle America and finds the LGBTQ+ community that exists here – and everywhere – and celebrates its vitality, resilience and resistance."