“Being On the Fringe of American Culture as a Queer Person,” Dr. Eric Solomon and Martin Padgett Discuss LGBTQ+ Life in the South

Ivory Tower Boiler Room · Apr 24, 2023 · 1h 16m

Andrew reunites with fellow queer male intellects Marty Padgett and Dr. Eric Solomon after having met them at the Queer History Conference in San Francisco! They discuss Marty and Eric’s lives living in the South as members of the LGBTQ+ community and how that has affected them. Marty discusses his childhood, where he lived across tobacco farms, and coming from a very Southern family. Eric grew up in Mississippi and discusses the pressure of playing football to fit the narrative of “what it is all men do.”

Marty has an MFA from the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism & Mass…