COMMENTARY

A Gay Scholar Confronts the Harshness of the Heartland

By PETER S. CAHN

Choosing career over lifestyle, I packed my Honda on the blue shores of the Pacific and pointed it to the red heart of America. Before then Oklahoma had entered my consciousness as a concrete place only twice: when I read The Grapes of Wrath in high school, and in the wake of the 1995 bombing in Oklahoma...

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