Queer Nightlife (Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance)

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 6 Introduction | Kemi Adeyemi, Kareem Khubchandani, and Ramón H. Rivera-Servera 10 Before 26 That Magical Touch: Migrant Nocturnal Stories in Queer Jackson Heights | Martin F. Manalansan IV 28 Jockstraps and Crop Tops: Fat Queer Femmes Dressing for the Night | Caleb Luna 40 ...waiting... | Emily R. Bock 51 The Police and the Policed: Queer Crossings in a Mumbai Bathroom | Brian A. Horton 62 Relational Generativity in South African Queer Nightlife | AB Brown 74 “Dance with Me in the Disco Heat”: Nowhere Bar’s Temporal Shifts | Karen Jaime 85 “people bring their histories to the club”: An Interview with DJ Rekha | Kareem Khubchandani 92 Inside 98 Pedagogies of the Dark: Making Sense of Queer Nightlife | Eddie Gamboa 100 Queering Dancehall in the Diaspora | Sabia McCoy-Torres 110 “I Came Here to Work”: Transgender Latinas’ Labors in the Club | Andrea Bolivar 122 La Gozadera: Lesbian Transfeminist Worldmaking in Mexico City | Jennifer Tyburczy 129 Ecstatic Resilience | Sable Elyse Smith 135 After Closing Time: Ambivalence in Remembering a Small-City Lesbian Bar | Clare Forstie 139 Ms. Briq House in Her Own Words | Kemi Adeyemi 152 Show 158 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 160 Una Peña en Párraga: Drag Kings and Cuba’s Sexual Revolution 168 Muxes Have Crossed the Border: Altivas, Celebration, and Walls That Bleed | Noé López 180 From the Club to the Fiesta: Drag and Folklore in La Familia Galán | Enzo E. Vasquez Toral 189 From Streetwalking to the Catwalk: Red-Light Nightlife and the Girls of Daspu | Gregory Mitchell 200 We Are Not Special, We Are Just Here: An Interview with Alexandre Paulikevitch | Meiver De la Cruz 212 After 218 Public Notice from the Fucked Peepo: Xandra Ibarra’s “The Hookup/Displacement/Barhopping/Drama Tour” | Juana María Rodríguez 220 Remember the Time: Black Queer Nightlife in the South | E. Patrick Johnson 231 Keeping It on the Download: The Viral Afterlives of Paris Is Burning | Jih-Fei Cheng 244 After the Eighties... A Queer Afterlife: An Interview with Eduardo Alegría | José Álvarez-Colón and Ramón H. Rivera-Servera 264 Bibliography 272 Notes on Contributors 292 Index 300 "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?)"-- Provided by publisher 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 colonisation, violence, and negation. Queer Nightlife joins this conversation by centering queer and trans people of colour 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?) Focuses on queer and trans people of colour 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.