"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
...in Central Florida Speak Spanish?"50Luis Martinez-Fernandez, "Orlando Develops Hispanic Accent," Orlando Sentinel, July 26, 2005; Victor Manuel Ramos, "Latinos at the Helm of Orlando's Public Broadcasting," Orlando Sentinel, December 11,...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...Cornyation (a mock debutante pageant organized and performed by gay men during Fiesta from 1951 to 1964) reveals, spaces and events associated with Fiesta often allowed for gay visibility within...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
..."Review: 'Cruising' maps the cultural history of L.A.'s hookup spots," Los Angeles Times, July 3, 2019, https://www.latimes.com/books/la-ca-jc-review-cruising-alex-espinoza-gay-history-20190703-story.htm. In short, cruising persists as a culturally relevant practice in the United States...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/06/13/more-than-just-another-gay-club-pulse-was-founded-in-her-brothers-memory-and-named-for-his-beating-heart/; Anna Codrea-Rado, "The Little Known Story of Pulse, an Orlando Nightclub Founded on Love," Thump, June 13, 2016, https://thump.vice.com/en_us/article/pulse-orlando-nightclub-history-feature. Pulse, then, has always served to connect queer communities across...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...(2020)—directly references the "square spaces" of mobile gay social networking. Indeed the "phone app" of Smith's poem, "a note on the phone app that tells me how far i am...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...We end our conversation remembering and honoring the forty-nine lives lost at the Pulse nightclub shooting in central Florida. Convoluted Beginnings: Heterize, Placebo, "Closeted" Convoluted #2, Orlando, Florida, 2016. Photograph...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
..."Laffy Taffy"'s perceived lack of sophistication and overly popular appeal. While similar minimalist approaches to rap continue to enjoy popularity among artists, producers, and audiences, the particularities that defined snap...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...in those cities, gay bars were dangerous and illicit places—but they were also the birthplace of the emerging gay rights movement. Queer communities formed, and they demanded equality. It was...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...railroads had a single ticket booth with segregated ticket windows was less innocuous than it might seem.11A Florida statute passed in 1907 required "Separate Waiting Rooms and Ticket Windows," The...