This history of queer life in the South seeks to debunk the myth that same-sex desires can't find expression outside the big city. It shows that the nominally conservative institutions of small-town life - home, church, school and workplace - were the very sites where queer sexuality flourished.

"(O)ne of the most important books yet written about gay life in the U.S."-"Choice" This unparalleled history of queer life in the South persuasively challenges the commonly accepted idea that same-sex desire cannot find expression outside the big city. Spanning four decades, "Men Like That" recounts the life stories of both the ordinary and the famous-often in their own words-and traces queer sexuality throughout its rural landscape.