Reveals the untold stories about New Mexico's queer past Throughout the twentieth century, New Mexico's LGBTQ+ residents inhabited a wide spectrum of spaces, from Santa Fe's nascent bohemian art scene to the secretive military developments at Los Alamos.

"In Wide-Open Desert, Jordan Biro Walters explores the experiences of Pueblo, Navajo, Nuevomexicanx, and white LGBTQ people in New Mexico-many of whom were artists and writers-to examine how their ideas and beliefs about self-expression, political engagement, and race relations transformed American notions of political identity over the course of the twentieth century"--