Reclaiming Queer: Activist and Academic Rhetorics of Resistance

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notes Introduction 1. Lauren Berlant and Elizabeth Freeman, “Queer Nationality,” in Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory, ed. Michael Warner (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993), 200. Though first distributed by hand at the New York City and Chicago Gay Pride parades, the flyer was quickly reprinted and circulated within the year through much of the queer community nationwide. The document includes twelve sections, but two of them—the first section, sometimes untitled and sometimes called “Queers Read This,” and the final section, “I Hate Straights”—are the most frequently cited. 2. “Queers Read This,” flyer distributed in New York City, 1990. Text available at http://www.actupny.org/documents/documents.html. 3. Mary L. Gray, “‘Queer Nation Is Dead/Long Live Queer Nation’: The Politics and Poetics of Social Movement and Media Representation,” Critical Studies in Media Communication 26, no. 3 (2009): 214. 4. Guy Trebay, “In Your Face!,” Village Voice, 14 August 1990, 35. 5. Esther Kaplan, “A Queer Manifesto,” Village Voice, 14 August 1990, 36; Robin Podolsky, “Birth of a Queer Nation,” Advocate, 25 September 1990, 53. 6. Arthur D. Kahn, The Many Faces of Gay: Activists Who Are Changing the Nation (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997), 230–32. 7. Ibid., 230. 8. Annamarie Jagose, Queer Theory: An Introduction (New York: New York University Press, 1996), 75. 9. Karen E. Lovaas, John P. Elia, and Gust A. Yep, eds., LGBT Studies and Queer Theory: New Conflicts, Collaborations, and Contested Terrain (New York: Harrington Park Press, 2006), 4. 10. Cathy J. Cohen, “Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics?,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 3 (1997): 439–40. 11. Lisa Duggan, “Making It Perfectly Queer,” Socialist Review 22, no. 1 (1992): 11. 12. William B. Turner, A Genealogy of Queer Theory (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000), 107, 146. 13. R. Anthony Slagle, “In Defense of Queer Nation: From Identity Politics to a Politics of Difference,” Western Journal of Communication 59, no. 2 (1995): 86–88, 94. 14. Allan Bérubé and Jeffrey Escoffier, “Queer/Nation,” Out/Look 11 (1991): 12. 15. Duggan, “Making It Perfectly Queer,” 23, 20–21. 172 notes to Pages 5–9 16. After the first Queer Nation group began in New York City in 1990, chapters quickly sprang up in cities around the country within the next year. Because Queer Nation did not keep extensive records, it is difficult to determine the exact dates during which various chapters were active. However, Seattle’s chapter is generally said to have lasted the longest; they decided to disband officially in 1995 after being inactive since the spring of 1994. Richard Isaac, “Press Release,” 5 February 1995, http:// www.qrd.org/qrd/orgs/QN/qn.seattle.disbands-02.05.95. 17. See, for instance: David M. Halperin, “The Normalization of Queer Theory,” in Queer Theory and Communication: From Disciplining Queers to Queering the Discipline (s), ed. Gust A. Yep, Karen E. Lovaas, and John P. Elia (Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 2003); Jagose, Queer Theory; Nikki Sullivan, A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory (New York: New York University Press, 2003); Turner, A Genealogy of Queer Theory; Riki Wilchins, Queer Theory, Gender Theory: An Instant Primer (Los Angeles: Alyson Books, 2004). 18. See, for instance: Barry D. Adam, Jan Willem Duyvendak, and André Krouwel , eds., The Global Emergence of Gay and Lesbian Politics: National Imprints of a Worldwide Movement (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999); Douglas Crimp and Adam Rolston, AIDS Demo Graphics (Seattle: Bay Press, 1990); Kevin Michael DeLuca, “Unruly Arguments: The Body Rhetoric of Earth First!, ACT UP, and Queer Nation,” Argumentation and Advocacy 36, no. 1 (1999): 9–22; Deborah Gould, Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP’s Fight against AIDS (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009); Benjamin Shepard and Ronald Hayduk, eds., From ACT UP to the WTO: Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era of Globalization (New York: Verso, 2002); Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, ed., That’s Revolting: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation (Brooklyn: Soft Skull Press, 2004). 19. Rebecca Jones, “Activism in the Ivory Tower: Finding Hope for Academic Prose,” in Activism and Rhetoric: Theories and Contexts for Political Engagement, ed. Seth Kahn and JongHwa Lee (New York: Routledge, 2011), 183. 20. Anne Meade Stockdell-Giesler, ed., Agency in the Margins: Stories of Outsider Rhetoric (Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2010), 9–10. 21. Stephen Valocchi, Social Movements and Activism in the USA (New York: Routledge, 2010), 2, 164, 167. 22. Paige P. Edley...