%0 Journal Article
%T Queer Exposures: Anti-Gay Violence and the Landscapes of Wyoming
%A Derritt Mason
%J The Brock Review
%D 2011
%I 
%X Given Beth Loffreda¡¯s provocative suggestion that Wyoming is a site of struggle between Old West myth and queer permutations of its traditional regional identity, I draw on New West fiction and landscape theory to argue that through this struggle Wyoming¡¯s landscape communicates the potential deadliness of exposure: to Wyoming¡¯s harsh climate and topography, and the dangerous homophobic gaze. Figured paradoxically as an appealing bucolic refuge haunted by anti-gay murder, Wyoming¡¯s landscape cultivates violent resistance to sexual diversity and attempts to foster sustainable communities, but it is also an effective site to examine the conditions that enable such violence.
%K Wyoming
%K New West
%K Landscape Theory
%K Queer
%K Matthew Shepard
%K Laramie
%K Beth Loffreda
%K Annie Proulx
%K Percival Everett
%U http://www.brocku.ca/brockreview/index.php/brockreview/article/view/303