Vanhorn, Rufus

Authors

Rufus Vanhorn
Maddie Shappley, University of Mississippi

Document Type

Audio

Publication Date

11-9-2019

City

Tupelo (Miss.)

Abstract

In this interview, Rufus VanHorn discusses his life as a gay man in the Episcopal church in Mississippi. He also talks about his childhood in Vardaman, Mississippi and the hardships his family faced with addiction and loss of a child. He later discusses his experiences as a foreign exchange student in South Africa, his experience at a Monastery located in Massachusetts, and his later move to Tupelo, Mississippi. This interview was conducted as a part of the Queer Mississippi Oral History Project through a grant from the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies at the University of Mississippi, in partnership with the Invisible Histories Project, in 2019.

Relational Format

audio recording

Extent

1:34:16

Comments

Additional files include: abstract, data sheet, field notes, photo, audio file. Transcript is available on request.

Rights

In copyright. For permission to duplicate, repost, or otherwise re-use these images, please contact the Invisible Histories Project: Mississippi.

Recommended Citation

Vanhorn, Rufus and Shappley, Maddie, "Vanhorn, Rufus" (2019). Queer Mississippi (Complete Collection). 3.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/queerms/3