Queer Virginia

<b>A new definitive queer history of the Commonwealth</b> <p/><i>Queer Virginia</i> is a long-needed record of the courageous and creative ways that LGBTQ+ people across the commonwealth have persevered and fought for their rights. The history recovered here is remarkable and illuminating including the life of Hannah Nokes a Black transgender woman who overcame severe discrimination in Loudoun County during the 1930s; the story of the Hershee Bar a historic lesbian bar in Norfolk and longtime community focal point; efforts to gather oral histories and produce a queer digital archive in the old capital of the Confederacy and much more. Full of poignant and telling glimpses of LGBTQ+ life through the decades this volume reveals generations of widespread prejudice and oppressive laws and the inspiring resilience that queer Virginians brought to this struggle.