"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...New York Times, March 7, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/07/theater/the-view-upstairs-review.html. The View UpStairs animates the real life Up Stairs Lounge gay bar environment on the eve of an arson attack on June 24,...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...to buy homes, find jobs, raise families and enjoy weather and an overall pace that makes them feel closer to home.33Sean Holton, "Many Seek A New Life In Orlando," Orlando...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...what to do.34Weathers, Shitkickers, 44. This shared emotional response builds upon the story's central engagement with the day-to-day struggles of gay men and women and disenchantment that the story increasingly...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...Barton spoke for many when he commented, "That first day and for many thereafter, we did not understand what the mark meant. In fact, I am not sure that I...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...1960 and 1980, archival evidence shows that cruising narratives played a powerful role in that identification. At the same time, these narratives also show that queer territorialization in Houston was...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...Gay and Lesbian Review editor Richard Schneider commented on this range of use-value that we are still debating: Cruising today is more likely to be carried out on smartphone apps...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...also attacked our memories. In all of the continuing coverage of the tragedy in Orlando, it is important to remember that Pulse Nightclub was more than just a sacred space...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...I made a book alongside that blood that had the FDA questionnaire that excluded gay men from donating. From there, I shifted to blood prints and blood slides in Biohazard...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...England called The Dirty South advertises "moonshine-laced southern rock" and features imagery and language that engage facile southern stereotypes (rebel flags, cowboy hats, "geetar," "hollerin'") in a manner somewhat comparable...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...Atlanta. From Preface Today, American lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender people, and queers can get married. We can find short-term special friends or life partners on our smartphones. We can venture...