... discourses about queer political rights. Struck by the media salience of The L Word and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and eager for more serious consideration of the mainstreaming of queer style than has been available in the Advocate, we solicited short essays from several scholars in a range of disci...

... developments in queer television in this moment of rapidly proliferating discourses about queer political rights. Struck by the media salience of The L Word and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and eager for more serious consideration of the mainstreaming of queer style than has been available...

... . CREATING A QUEER ARCHIVE IN THE PUBLIC EYE The Case of Res¸ad Ekrem Koçu Joseph Allen Boone Sometimes the pathways that lead us to our archives are as surprising as the queer materials that we discover in them. When I landed at Istanbul’s Ataturk International Airport for a monthlong stay...

...Peggy Phelan Because I cannot now love you body to body I will try to love you in words. Hand to eye, my fingers playing lightly across your closed eyes, tongue to ear. Can you still hear my voice there? Sliding across the screens we dreamt we'd make our different dreams live on, I pause and feel...

... the coarticulation of discretion and theatricality in Binyavanga Wainaina’s 2011 play Shine Your Eye , which features a queer Ogoni hacker in Lagos. The play borrows from Afrofuturism to articulate a queer African identity that is both enigmatic and spectacular. I then shift focus to Wainaina’s viral “coming out...

... a lecture he had delivered on hysteria and the perversions earlier that evening, to the laudatory comments heaped upon him by a member of his audience: “He began to flatter me: telling me how much he had learnt from me, how he looked at everything now with fresh eyes, how I had cleansed the Augean...

... traditional review articles with alternative formats, and we invite submissions for both. We begin with a dossier on contemporary developments in queer television in this moment of rapidly proliferating discourses about queer political rights. Struck by the media salience of The L Word and Queer Eye...

... proliferating discourses about queer political rights. Struck by the media salience of The L Word and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and eager for more serious consideration of the mainstreaming of queer style than has been available in the Advocate, we solicited short essays from several scholars...

... political rights. Struck by the media salience of The L Word and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and eager for more serious consideration of the mainstreaming of queer style than has been available in the Advocate, we solicited short essays from several scholars in a range of disci- plines...

... queer political rights. Struck by the media salience of The L Word and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and eager for more serious consideration of the mainstreaming of queer style than has been available in the Advocate, we solicited short essays from several scholars in a range of disci- plines...

... queer political rights. Struck by the media salience of The L Word and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and eager for more serious consideration of the mainstreaming of queer style than has been available in the Advocate, we solicited short essays from several scholars in a range of disci- plines...

... queer political rights. Struck by the media salience of The L Word and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and eager for more serious consideration of the mainstreaming of queer style than has been available in the Advocate, we solicited short essays from several scholars in a range of disci- plines...

...Figure 1. Tracy Heather Strain. Sighted Eyes | Feeling Heart , 2017, film still. Hansberry posing by convertible with door open. ...