Living in the Catacombs: John Howard's Men Like That, part one

(Yeah yeah yeah, I know I know: Dogpatch was in Kentucky, not Mississippi. So sue me.)I've had this long piece sitting around for some years now; I figure it might as well go here.John Howard. Men like that: a Southern queer history. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 1999.1.Depending on whom you believe, either an Evil Essentialist Empire has seized hegemonic power over American