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The College Arts & Humanities Institute invites you to a presentation by:
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Mary L. Gray
Out in the Country
Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America
5 p.m., Wednesday January 20, 2010
Mary L. Gray maps out the experiences of young people living in small towns across rural Kentucky and along its desolate Appalachian borders, providing a fascinating and often surprising look at the contours of gay life beyond the big city. Gray illustrates that, against a backdrop of an increasingly impoverished and privatized rural America, LGBT youth and their allies visibly—and often vibrantly—work the boundaries of the public spaces available to them, whether in their high schools, public libraries, town hall meetings, churches, or through websites. read more »
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