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This 3 page paper discusses the book by Arlene Stein The Stranger Next Door and issues relating, specifically, to Chapter 7: We are all queer. Quotes cited from text. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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areas, these small towns often hold strong ideas about issues which have long ceased to cause friction in larger cities. As such, Timbertown serves as a human sociological laboratory for
Arlene Stein. She moves to Timbertown from a large city and is astounded at the dark undercurrent that swirl beneath the calm surfaces of this Norman Rockwellesque town. This current
included strict ideas about sex, religion, and tradition. Chapter Seven of Arlene Steins book, The Stranger Next Door, underscores the sentiments of a
small towns ambivalence toward the homosexual community in their township. While this focuses on Timbertown, it, in essence, could be anywhere in the United States. Most of the people in
Timbertown are more or less wiling to admit gays into their communities as long as they are good gays, Stein writes. What they are least tolerant of, though, are those
homosexuals who express outwardly their orientation. The people of Timbertown, though they might not have known why they were doing it, were
fulfilling the idea of the functionalists, in that certain rules and regulations must be kept in strict accordance so that their society can meet its basic functioning needs. As many
of them would state, it was their fear that if they accepted homosexuality into their community that the social and moral fiber of their community would unravel. And, since the
logging industry had left the small town, their way of life and traditions had shifted and changed. They needed a scapegoat, someone to pin the blame on for their suffering
and struggles. When the lesbian couples were discovered, they fulfilled the function of the scapegoat, allowing the community to find, once more, something to add cohesion to the group.
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