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Queer nightlife / edited by Kemi Adeyemi, Kareem Khubchandani, Ramón H. Rivera-Servera.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gay and lesbian dance parties.
- Gay culture.
- Sexual minorities--Social conditions.
- Sexual minorities.
- Minority gay people--Social conditions.
- Minority gay people.
- Minority lesbians--Social conditions.
- Minority lesbians.
- Minority trans women--Social conditions.
- Minority trans women.
- Gay people--Social conditions.
- Gay people.
- Lesbians--Social conditions.
- Lesbians.
- Trans people--Social conditions.
- Trans people.
- LGBTQ+ people.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 289 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- The mass shooting at a queer Latin Night in Orlando in July 2016 sparked a public conversation about access to pleasure and selfhood within conditions of colonization, violence, and negation. Queer Nightlife joins this conversation by centering queer and trans people of color who apprehend the risky medium of the night to explore, know, and stage their bodies, genders, and sexualities in the face of systemic and social negation. The book focuses on house parties, nightclubs, and bars that offer improvisatory conditions and possibilities for "stranger intimacies," and that privilege music, dance, and sexual/gender expressions. Queer Nightlife extends the breadth of research on "everynight life" through twenty-five essays and interviews by leading scholars and artists. The book's four sections move temporally from preparing for the night (how do DJs source their sounds, what does it take to travel there, who promotes nightlife, what do people wear?); to the socialities of nightclubs (how are social dance practices introduced and taught, how is the price for sex negotiated, what styles do people adopt to feel and present as desirable?); to the staging and spectacle of the night (how do drag artists confound and celebrate gender, how are spaces designed to create the sensation of spectacularity, whose bodies become a spectacle already?); and finally, how the night continues beyond the club and after sunrise (what kinds of intimacies and gestures remain, how do we go back to the club after Orlando?).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-282) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472128587
- 0472128582
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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