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Notes Notes to the Introduction 1. For a detailed account of this phenomenon, see the very readable Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000) by Beth Loffreda. More recently, this “aftermath” has been the subject of a very sentimental made-for-NBC movie starring Stockard Channing called The Matthew Shepard Story (dir. Roger Spottiswoode), which originally aired on 16 March 2002, and the 2002 HBO filmic adaptation of The Laramie Project (dir. Moises Kaufman). 2. Thanks to Janet Jakobsen for reminding me of this event’s activist impact. See Loffreda, Losing Matt Shepard, 92. 3. Rocky Mountain Collegian, 16 January 2001; found on http://www.lambda.10 .org/antigay_protests.htm, accessed 10 May 2002. 4. www.godhatesfags.com/memorial.html, accessed 24 April 2002. A companion memorial has been set up for Dianne Whipple, the “filthy dyke” who was mauled and killed by dogs ten days after Westboro’s protest. 5. In her book Between Jesus and the Market: The Emotions That Matter in Right-Wing America, Linda Kintz persuasively demonstrates the persistent connections between religious and right-wing conservative movements in the contemporary United States. Kintz argues that “the tenets familiar from religious conservativism help shape market fundamentalism by sacrificing certain groups to the purity of the market while displacing attacks on workers, people of color, gays, and lesbians into the abstractions of economic theory” (Linda Kintz, Between Jesus and the Market : The Emotions That Matter in Right-Wing America [Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997], 4). This market focus is very important to keep in mind. My study is more involved in detailing the ferocity of the rhetoric of Jesus and should be read as a companion piece to Kintz’s work. 6. For an excellent discussion of the limits of tolerance when Christian conservatives advocate the “love the sinner, hate the sin” position, see Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini, Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance (New York: New York University Press, 2003), 45–72. 185 7. http://www.family.org/welcome/aboutfof/a0000078.html, accessed 24 June 2002. 8. This list came from “Q&A: Amendment 2,” a pamphlet distributed by the ACLU of Colorado in March 1993. On file with the author. 9. Ibid. Emphasis in the original. 10. In the Gazette Telegraph, then CFV chairman Will Perkins insisted that the outrageous reaction of gays and lesbians was producing this boycott: “Gay activists have spread the word nationwide that Colorado just suspended civil rights for homosexuals. And that’s nonsense” (Ray Fleck, “Perkins Rips Growing Boycott,” Section B, 10 December 1992). 11. John Gallagher, “Colorado Goes Straight to Hell,” The Advocate, 23 February 1993, 34. 12. Thanks to Ann Pellegrini for reminding me about the “Persecuted Church” phenomenon, and for pointing out that such feelings are indeed at the roots of Christianity. 13. For a brief and excellent account of the dynamics of Colorado Springs’ history, with a notable mention of the influx of family-minded evangelicals such as Focus, see the New York Times’ bestseller, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001). 14. Tolerance/Intolerance: Sexual Orientation Issues (Colorado Springs: Pikes Peak Library District, 1993), videotape of panel. 15. Gallagher, “Colorado,” 34. 16. Perry Miller, The New England Mind: From Colony to Province (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1953), 39. 17. On the rise and limits of this kind of “homoerotic” inclusion in the public sphere, see Eric Clarke, Virtuous Vice: Homoeroticism and the Public Sphere (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000). 18. Judith Butler, Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative (New York: Routledge , 1997), 19. 19. Indeed, Westboro Baptist Church has picked up on the way people have called their version of queer bashing “hate speech” by featuring a weekly quotation from the Bible on its Web site called, “This Week’s ‘Hate’ Speech.” 20. Butler, Excitable Speech, 41. 21. For this type of work which I’m definitely not pursuing in this book, see, for select examples, Gary Comstock, Gay Theology without Apology (Cleveland: Pilgrim NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION 186 [3.218.247.159] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 08:53 GMT) Press, 1993); Robert Gross, Jesus Acted Up: A Gay and Lesbian Manifesto (San Francisco : Harper, 1993). 22. Raymond Williams, Marxism and Literature (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1977), 131. 23. Just a quick note...