Rae Garringer

Biography

Rae Garringer is a writer, oral historian, and audio producer living in southern West Virginia where they were raised. They are the founder of Country Queers, a multimedia oral history project documenting rural and small town LGBTQIA2S+ experiences since 2013. Garringer is currently editing a collection of personal essays by queer and trans Appalachian writers and working on a manuscript about ten years of Country Queers.

See Work

PHOTOGRAPHY / Spring/Summer 2023

The Queens of Queen City

Photography by Michael O. Snyder ,  Essay by Rae Garringer

What Drag Culture Means for the Legacy (and Future) of the LGBTQ+ Community in an Appalachian Town

Iva Phetish backstage at the Embassy Theatre. Cumberland, MD, 2018.