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Comments on: The Sissy Resurfaces http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2008/03/08/the-sissy-resurfaces/ Author of Mississippi Sissy Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:13:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Karen http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2008/03/08/the-sissy-resurfaces/#comment-7597 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:06:01 +0000 http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2008/03/08/the-sissy-resurfaces/#comment-7597 The paperback called to me in a way I havent felt in a long time. I'm too cheap to be called to by hardback covers. I"m a Mississippi faghag just a few years younger than you, from the northern part of the state. My senses were awakened to a simpler more complex time that haunts and soothes. Thank you I enjoyed it and I treasure it. Looking forward to the sequel. Hope to see you on tour!!! I hate I missed the Hattiesburg. I missed Joe Namath's book tour in Tuscaloosa too! The paperback called to me in a way I havent felt in a long time. I’m too cheap to be called to by hardback covers. I”m a Mississippi faghag just a few years younger than you, from the northern part of the state. My senses were awakened to a simpler more complex time that haunts and soothes. Thank you I enjoyed it and I treasure it. Looking forward to the sequel. Hope to see you on tour!!! I hate I missed the Hattiesburg. I missed Joe Namath’s book tour in Tuscaloosa too!

]]> by: vicki http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2008/03/08/the-sissy-resurfaces/#comment-7174 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:07:33 +0000 http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2008/03/08/the-sissy-resurfaces/#comment-7174 3 siblings...the best there is & was 3 siblings…the best there is & was

]]> by: Carolyn Greenfield http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2008/03/08/the-sissy-resurfaces/#comment-7147 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:33:18 +0000 http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2008/03/08/the-sissy-resurfaces/#comment-7147 Kevin-- I'm a 73 year-old heterosexual widow from Arlington, VA, and I'm writing to thank you for your book. To the best of my knowledge I have no family members who are gay but have always felt profound compassion for boys and girls who, through no fault of their own, are humiliated and ostracized and shamed by their classmates and neighbors and often their families as well. I came across "Mississippi Sissy" at Barnes and Noble last week and wasn't able to put it down until the last page. Your skills as a writer are obvious but it would please me to think that I might one day see you on the stage. --Carolyn P.S. I truly envy you your acquaintance with Eudora Welty. I have admired her for years! Kevin– I’m a 73 year-old heterosexual widow from Arlington, VA, and I’m writing to thank you for your book. To the best of my knowledge I have no family members who are gay but have always felt profound compassion for boys and girls who, through no fault of their own, are humiliated and ostracized and shamed by their classmates and neighbors and often their families as well.

I came across “Mississippi Sissy” at Barnes and Noble last week and wasn’t able to put it down until the last page. Your skills as a writer are obvious but it would please me to think that I might one day see you on the stage. –Carolyn

P.S. I truly envy you your acquaintance with Eudora Welty. I have admired her for years!

]]> by: Scott http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2008/03/08/the-sissy-resurfaces/#comment-6658 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:52:11 +0000 http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2008/03/08/the-sissy-resurfaces/#comment-6658 Kevin, I'm almost finished with your book. Your story reminds me of my own life in Mississippi. In fact, we knew some of the same people and had similar life experiences. My most vivid memory of life in Monticello, which is only 21 miles from Brookhaven, is the night I was chased and shot at by a bunch of redneck boys in a high speed car chase along old country roads. I told my Daddy what happened. I'll never forget my father that night, who in a rage, picked up a baseball bat and jumped into his car to go hunt them down and kill them. Because of his reaction that night I silently endured many other experiences in that small town. It was hard and painful emotionally to be me so I stayed to myself and hide myself from the world with my dog Cally on the beautiful creeks and woods around my home spending counting hours in my Thinking Tree that stretched over one of the creeks near my home..There were several summers I never spoke to anyone outside of my family and I was totally happy. I guess I did a good job of hiding because I didn't know there was a word for people like me until I was almost twenty. Joe Rex was a very good friend of mine. I wish I knew what happened to him or even if he is still alive. I always worried about him. Your book brought back fond memories of Mae's Cabaret and I even remembered some of the old drag queens you mentioned in your book and all the good times I had there. I don't know if I should cry or smile. I noticed on your blog that you were in Atlanta yesterday. Had I known, I would have come to meet you. Right now, I live in Atlanta with Steve, my partner of almost 24 years. If you are ever in Atlanta, it would "do my heart good" to meet and talk with you because your book reminds me so much of my own life and the pain I endured along the way. In fact a few months ago I thought I should write a book about my life as a "queer" and actually started but soon stopped because I don't have your gift of expression or writing. It will be a shocker if I ever write it. Good luck to you and hopefully, one day, we'll have a chance to meet. Please let me know if there will be another book signing in Atlanta. PS The photo cover of your book is priceless. Every time I look at it I smile and laugh because it reminds me so much of me. What a life, huh? Kevin,

I’m almost finished with your book. Your story reminds me of my own life in Mississippi. In fact, we knew some of the same people and had similar life experiences. My most vivid memory of life in Monticello, which is only 21 miles from Brookhaven, is the night I was chased and shot at by a bunch of redneck boys in a high speed car chase along old country roads. I told my Daddy what happened. I’ll never forget my father that night, who in a rage, picked up a baseball bat and jumped into his car to go hunt them down and kill them. Because of his reaction that night I silently endured many other experiences in that small town. It was hard and painful emotionally to be me so I stayed to myself and hide myself from the world with my dog Cally on the beautiful creeks and woods around my home spending counting hours in my Thinking Tree that stretched over one of the creeks near my home..There were several summers I never spoke to anyone outside of my family and I was totally happy. I guess I did a good job of hiding because I didn’t know there was a word for people like me until I was almost twenty.

Joe Rex was a very good friend of mine. I wish I knew what happened to him or even if he is still alive. I always worried about him. Your book brought back fond memories of Mae’s Cabaret and I even remembered some of the old drag queens you mentioned in your book and all the good times I had there. I don’t know if I should cry or smile.

I noticed on your blog that you were in Atlanta yesterday. Had I known, I would have come to meet you. Right now, I live in Atlanta with Steve, my partner of almost 24 years.

If you are ever in Atlanta, it would “do my heart good” to meet and talk with you because your book reminds me so much of my own life and the pain I endured along the way. In fact a few months ago I thought I should write a book about my life as a “queer” and actually started but soon stopped because I don’t have your gift of expression or writing. It will be a shocker if I ever write it.

Good luck to you and hopefully, one day, we’ll have a chance to meet. Please let me know if there will be another book signing in Atlanta.

PS The photo cover of your book is priceless. Every time I look at it I smile and laugh because it reminds me so much of me. What a life, huh?

]]> by: Erik Powell, Sr. http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2008/03/08/the-sissy-resurfaces/#comment-6625 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:48:54 +0000 http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2008/03/08/the-sissy-resurfaces/#comment-6625 Kevin, I just now completed reading "Mississippi Sissy, a copy of which has been circulating throughout out Manhattan office.' I marvel that you and I have so much in common! , too, hail from a close, church-glued (Independent Baptist) family in Greenville, SC, full of preachers and missionaries, and I got saved early and "held on" past a hetero marriage and two children before being forced to come out myself as gay. I survived the wholescale family grief, but my faith in Christ never wavered.....Getting back to your book, I was unable to put it down: the passage about your salvation experience was so moving, but I read horrified anticipating the seduction by Dr. Gallman, and I feared that it would undermine your faith; I cried, in fact, you were so sweet!....I detail in a novel I recently published, Chicago Love Tapestry, what we Bible Belt gays experience coming out: "....he came out of the closet in a Baptist household....," I write. Thus, I hope you will give faith another chance if you haven't already: please have lunch with Neal and me sometime (Neal Boulton, my love and my Editor-In-Chief, Genre Magazine). I start media interviews next month to publicize my novel; maybe we'll meet. Sincerely, Erik Powell, Sr., Author of Chicago Love Tapestry and Contributing Editor of Genre Magazine, 248 West 35th St., 8th floor, NYC 10001. Kevin, I just now completed reading “Mississippi Sissy, a copy of which has been circulating throughout out Manhattan office.’ I marvel that you and I have so much in common! , too, hail from a close, church-glued (Independent Baptist) family in Greenville, SC, full of preachers and missionaries, and I got saved early and “held on” past a hetero marriage and two children before being forced to come out myself as gay. I survived the wholescale family grief, but my faith in Christ never wavered…..Getting back to your book, I was unable to put it down: the passage about your salvation experience was so moving, but I read horrified anticipating the seduction by Dr. Gallman, and I feared that it would undermine your faith; I cried, in fact, you were so sweet!….I detail in a novel I recently published, Chicago Love Tapestry, what we Bible Belt gays experience coming out: “….he came out of the closet in a Baptist household….,” I write. Thus, I hope you will give faith another chance if you haven’t already: please have lunch with Neal and me sometime (Neal Boulton, my love and my Editor-In-Chief, Genre Magazine). I start media interviews next month to publicize my novel; maybe we’ll meet. Sincerely, Erik Powell, Sr., Author of Chicago Love Tapestry and Contributing Editor of Genre Magazine, 248 West 35th St., 8th floor, NYC 10001.

]]> by: Matt http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2008/03/08/the-sissy-resurfaces/#comment-6601 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 02:27:59 +0000 http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2008/03/08/the-sissy-resurfaces/#comment-6601 It was great meeting you Kevin. Next time you ll have to bring something to this sexy framer to get framed. lol. I got a text from Kim immediately telling me to "go check the blog." Best of luck with the tour. It was great meeting you Kevin. Next time you ll have to bring something to this sexy framer to get framed. lol. I got a text from Kim immediately telling me to “go check the blog.” Best of luck with the tour.

]]> by: Mike Dobrosky http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2008/03/08/the-sissy-resurfaces/#comment-6461 Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:59:37 +0000 http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2008/03/08/the-sissy-resurfaces/#comment-6461 Kevin: I came to read about your book from my many pastoral visits to Aunt Gladys before she died. Sorry she didn't like it but I found it a great read! Sorry I missed the art show mainly because my good friends son was in one of the ones from Katrina on the MS gulf coast. I'm a retired Episcopal priest who hangs out at the Church of the Creator in Clinton and hope that the next time you get to Mississippi, I'll get to meet you. Mike Kevin:

I came to read about your book from my many pastoral visits to Aunt Gladys before she died. Sorry she didn’t like it but I found it a great read!
Sorry I missed the art show mainly because my good friends son was in one of the ones from Katrina on the MS gulf coast.

I’m a retired Episcopal priest who hangs out at the Church of the Creator
in Clinton and hope that the next time you get to Mississippi, I’ll get to meet you.

Mike

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