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Out in the Open is honored and excited to host our friend Rae Garringer for two book talks in November to celebrate the release of their new book, Country Queers: A Love Letter. Part photo book, part memoir, part oral history project, this volume paints a vivid portrait of queer and trans experiences in rural areas and small towns across the US.Books will be available to buy at each event, and both events are free and open to the public! Masking is encouraged, and mask will be provided.
In Western Wabanaki territory/Vermont: Join us in Brattleboro on Saturday November 23 at 2pm, downtown at 118 Elliot.
In 2013, Rae Garringer embarked on the Country Queers oral history project with a borrowed audio recorder, a flip phone, and a paper atlas in a Subaru Forester with over 160,000 miles on it. Raised on a sheep farm in southeastern West Virginia, they were motivated by an intense frustration with the lack of rural queer stories and the isolation that comes with that absence. “Queers, in all our forms, have always existed,” Garringer writes, “all across this continent since before it was colonized.
After years as a DIY, minimally funded, community-based oral history project, the work now takes a new form in Country Queers: A Love Letter—a book of full-color photos and interviews with rural folks from Mississippi to New Mexico and beyond, with Garringer’s account as traveler and interviewer woven through the pages.”
OITO and CQ have also been long time collaborators! In 2018, Rae hosted a community oral history field trip at our Out in the Open Summit. In 2021 we co-created the second CQ podcast season. In 2023 we co-created and -facilitated the first VT Trans Audio Retreat. And this Fall in addition to the book events, we're co-facilitating our second Audio Retreat, this time in Eastern Maine.
Learn more and find the podcast archive at www.CountryQueers.com.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
118 Elliot, 118 Elliot St, Brattleboro, VT 05301-3275, United States,Brattleboro, Vermont
