Baby, You Are My Religion: Women, Gay Bars, and Theology Before Stonewall by Marie Cartier

Baby, You Are My Religion: Women, Gay Bars, and Theology Before Stonewall

Gender, Theology and Spirituality

Marie Cartier

224 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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Baby You Are My Religion 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 onl...

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