Queer nightlife / edited by Kemi Adeyemi, Kareem Khubchandani, Ramón H. Rivera-Servera.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adeyemi, Kemi.

Contributor:

Khubchandani, Kareem.

Rivera-Servera, Ramon.

Series:

Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

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?).

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction | Kemi Adeyemi, Kareem Khubchandani, and Ramón H. Rivera-Servera

Before

That Magical Touch: Migrant Nocturnal Stories in Queer Jackson Heights | Martin F. Manalansan IV

Jockstraps and Crop Tops: Fat Queer Femmes Dressing for the Night | Caleb Luna

...waiting... | Emily R. Bock

The Police and the Policed: Queer Crossings in a Mumbai Bathroom | Brian A. Horton

Relational Generativity in South African Queer Nightlife | AB Brown

"Dance with Me in the Disco Heat": Nowhere Bar's Temporal Shifts | Karen Jaime

"people bring their histories to the club": An Interview with DJ Rekha | Kareem Khubchandani

Inside

Pedagogies of the Dark: Making Sense of Queer Nightlife | Eddie Gamboa

Queering Dancehall in the Diaspora | Sabia McCoy-Torres

"I Came Here to Work": Transgender Latinas' Labors in the Club | Andrea Bolivar

La Gozadera: Lesbian Transfeminist Worldmaking in Mexico City | Jennifer Tyburczy

Ecstatic Resilience | Sable Elyse Smith

After Closing Time: Ambivalence in Remembering a Small-City Lesbian Bar | Clare Forstie

Ms. Briq House in Her Own Words | Kemi Adeyemi

Show

Dancing on the Edge, in the Silence: Trajal Harrell's Antigone Sr. / Twenty Looks or Paris Is Burning at the Judson Church (L) | Clare Croft

Una Peña en Párraga: Drag Kings and Cuba's Sexual Revolution

Muxes Have Crossed the Border: Altivas, Celebration, and Walls That Bleed | Noé López

From the Club to the Fiesta: Drag and Folklore in La Familia Galán | Enzo E. Vasquez Toral

From Streetwalking to the Catwalk: Red-Light Nightlife and the Girls of Daspu | Gregory Mitchell

We Are Not Special, We Are Just Here: An Interview with Alexandre Paulikevitch | Meiver De la Cruz

After.

Public Notice from the Fucked Peepo: Xandra Ibarra's "The Hookup/Displacement/Barhopping/Drama Tour" | Juana María Rodríguez

Remember the Time: Black Queer Nightlife in the South | E. Patrick Johnson

Keeping It on the Download: The Viral Afterlives of Paris Is Burning | Jih-Fei Cheng

After the Eighties... A Queer Afterlife: An Interview with Eduardo Alegría | José Álvarez-Colón and Ramón H. Rivera-Servera

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-282) and index.

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ISBN:

9780472128587

0472128582

OCLC:

1237713553