In The Bitter Southerner, Silas House nails the strange fate of being a progressive Southerner (we’ll not quibble over whether Kentucky is the “real” south), where people love you but not people like you., where the people who taught you to love can be less than loving, and where it takes disaster for us to live up to our best ideals.
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The culture of my […]
When Moms for Suppression goes after Anne Frank, the world doesn’t just tilt, it flips and for many of us, it will never be set right again.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/kids-should-be-free-to-read-books-with-gay-characters-c411df7ff12f?sk=e18aeb8a31fdc37f5651d10c07a222c6
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"Why Tyler Childers Put a Gay Love Story in His New Video"
Rolling Stone:
Tyler Childers’ ‘In Your Love’ Video Cast on Risks of Gay Love Story
"The cast and creative director of Tyler Childers' 'In Your Love' video talk about the risk, representation and reaction to the gay love story."
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/tyler-childers-in-your-love-video-gay-cast-colton-haynes-1234798414/
#Kentucky #novelist #SilasHouse on #LGBTQ+ #activists facing #threats.
Last week, an #LGBTQ+ #Pride #event in #Corbin, #Kentucky was temporarily #attacked by members of the #Hategroup #KuKluxKlan (#KKK) wielding #firearms
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Activists in Corbin were met with slurs and violent threats by Ku Klux Klan members at an LGBTQ+ pride event. Novelist Silas House discussed the incident and how it’s a backlash to progress LGBTQ+ activists have made in rural Kentucky.
Want a reading adventure? Lark Ascending by Silas House
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"Never knew her daddy, never gave a damn either, she’d say, drawing hard on her cigarette, the ember sizzling, brightening.
Did, though. Did. When she was big with her first child, word came to her that he was nigh death. She knew where he lived. Always had.”
— Only Thing He Ever Gave Her by Silas House
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