AAPF. See African American Policy Forum
Aberrations in Black (Ferguson), 149
Abramovic, Marina, 224
academia: empiricism, 193; with “scholar,” meaning of, 199–200; whiteness and, 244
academic freedom, 191
ACT UP. See AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power
Adam4Adam, 233
addiction, drugs, 63
administration, queering leadership and, 197–201
African American Policy Forum (AAPF), 182–83
African American studies, 33–34
African American women in the South. See Black. Queer. Southern. Women.—An Oral History
After Method (Law), 28
Agnes Martin (Princenthal), 296
Ahmed, Sara, 13, 224, 252, 285, 291
AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), 3, 169, 281
AIDS/HIV. See HIV/AIDS
Ainsworth, Claire, 135
Alaskan women, in PAR workshops, 68
Albuquerque, 112
Alexander, Bryant Keith, 51
All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave (Hull, Bell-Scott, and Smith), 19, 160n1
Alyson Publications, 159
American Association of Newspaper Editors, 244
American Indian women, in PAR workshops, 68
American Psychiatric Association, 125, 198
American Psychological Association, 138n1
Andrus Family Fund, 199
Annual Review of Sociology, 166
anti-identitarianism, 282–83
“apparent incommensurability,” 5, 29
An Archive of Feelings (Cvetkovich), 224
archives, 150, 151, 216; EqualityArchive.com, 248–55; of queer chocolate cities, 177–83
Archives of Flesh (Reid-Pharr), 150, 151
Arcus Foundation, 199
armed forces, U.S., 89
Arondekar, Anjali, 40n4, 289, 292n10
Arseneau, Julie, 89
Asian/Pacific Islander women, 68
Atlanta, 103
attachment genealogy, as method, 288–91
“axiom of additivity,” 9
Bachmann, Marcus, 265
Bachmann, Michelle, 265
Badu, Erykah, 174
Bailey, Marlon, 14
Baker, Josephine, 212
Baldwin, James, 143, 144, 173, 201, 222–23, 242
ballroom culture, in Detroit, 14
Bankhead, Tallulah, 217–20
BarebackRT, 233
bathrooms, gendered, 121, 124, 137
BBC Radio 4, 221–22
BDSM, 196
Beam, Joseph, 159–60
Beck, Ulrich, 17
behaviors: Massachusetts Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey, 132–33; patterns and queer methods, 262
beliefs: domains, 90–91; sexual orientation, 91; SOBS, 85, 89–92, 95–97
Bell-Scott, Patricia, 19, 160n1
Bem, Sandra, 136–37
Benjamin, Walter, 278
Berlant, Lauren, 33
Big Mama Thornton, 212
biological essentialism, 85–86, 266
biology, homosexuality and antecedent in, 11
biomedicalization theory, feminist, 98
Bishopsgate Institute, 226n1
Bismarck, 112
Blackburn, Julia, 217–18
Black Citymakers (Hunter), 167
black gay men, in Harlem, 177–78
black human being, knowledge production and, 150–51
Black Lives Matter, 163, 168, 169, 182, 183, 213
blackout poetry, 216
black queer human being, 150–53
black queer justice, in chocolate city, 183–84
black queer life: chocolate city and, 173; deficit perspective of, 172–73; heteronormative view of, 173–74; social scientific methods gaps with, 172–76; in the South, 180–81
black queer reader. See Counternarratives
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.—An Oral History (BQSW) (Johnson): beginnings, 47–50; in context, 45–47; as feminist ethnography, partial, 55; interviews for, 60n5; methods, 55–59; “outsider within” and positionality, 50–55; “outsider within” and quaring positionality, 53–54; sexual identity and, 48; testimony via, 57–58
Black Queer Studies (Johnson and Henderson), 31–32, 171–72
Black Youth Project (BYP), 182
blockchain technology, 254–55
“Blues” (Keene), 152–53
“blues epistemology,” 175–76
blues-lines, 213–14
blues music, 209, 211, 213, 222–23, 224
blues women, 212; civil rights and, 213; drugs and, 217; prison and, 217
Bondi, Liz, 128
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold (Kennedy and Davis), 45
Bornstein, Kate, 128–29
“born this way,” 90, 96–98, 259, 269, 272
Bowles, Jane, 299
Boyd, Nan Alamilla, 45, 46, 294
BQSW. See Black. Queer. Southern. Women.—An Oral History
Braidotti, Rosi, 224
bricolage, 41n12
Brim, Matt, 29, 36, 115, 198, 249
Brother to Brother (Beam and Hemphill), 159–60
Brown, Anna Olga Albertine (“Miss La La”), 145, 159
Brown, Michael, 123
Browne, Kath, 4, 29, 30, 115, 122
Bullough, Vern L., 126–27, 134
Butler, Judith, 7, 122, 133, 192, 273; on feminist identity, 184n2; intersectionality and, 165; on “queer” as term, 279–80; queer theory and, 193–94
BYP. See Black Youth Project
California, 3, 4, 177; Los Angeles, 103, 176; same-sex marriage legalized in, 203; San Francisco, 65, 103, 105, 109
California HIV Research Program, 63
Callen, Michael, 161n15
Capshaw, Katharine, 160n7
Cary, Mary Shadd, 175
Castiglia, Christopher, 292n9
castrations, 198
Castro, San Francisco, 103, 109
“catfishing,” 234
Catholic Church, 156
celibacy, 41n10
Census, U.S.: conventions, gayborhood studies, 104–6; same-sex households and, 103, 116n1
Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS): with race and identity, 204; role of, 191–92, 198, 201, 205; visions for queer studies and, 201–4
Chauncey, George, 12, 45, 292n10
Cherksov, Bernard, 113
Cherry Grove, Fire Island (Newton), 45
Chicago, 107, 110, 113–14, 176, 179
chocolate cities: approach, 175; black queer justice in, 183–84; black queer life and, 173; popularization of, 184n1; social scientific methods and archive of queer, 177–83; visibility in, 179–80
Chocolate Cities (Hunter and Robinson), 166–67
Chocolate City (album), 184n1
Chronicle of Higher Education (Krebs), 21–22
Chryssa, 298
citation-as-poetry, with essay-as-performance, 224
cities: chocolate, 173, 175, 177–84, 184n1; latte, 163; sexuality and, 112; space and racism, 179. See also gayborhood studies; specific cities
City and Community (urban journal), 179–80
City University of New York: CSI, 144; Graduate Center, 191–92; John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 199; SEEK Program, 248
civil rights, 168–69, 211, 213, 278, 281
Cixous, Hélène, 215
CLAGS. See Center for LGBTQ Studies
Clarke, Kevin, 5
Cleaver, Diane, 298
Cole, Robert, 145
College of Staten Island (CSI), 144
Collins, Patricia Hill, 51
Columbia University, 177
Combahee River Collective, 195
“Come Back to the Raft Ag’in, Huck Honey!” (Fiedler), 161n9
Coming Out under Fire (Bérubé), 45
compulsory heterosexuality, 37, 121, 136, 216, 252
“Compulsory Heterosexuality and [Queer-Quare] [in] Existence” (Rich), 216
“concert of voices,” 224
Conron, Kerith, 132
Consumer Affairs (magazine), 103
Cooper, Anna Julia, 168
Corber, Robert J., 123
The Cosmopolitans (Schulman), 298–99
counternarratives: black queer human being and, 150–53; whiteness and, 147–48, 161n8
Counternarratives (Keene), 36; black queer illiteracies, 143–47; “Blues,” 152–53; “Counterreformation,” 155–56; “Mannahatta,” 154–55; “Our Lady of the Sorrows,” 151–52, 160n5; pedagogies of queer black literacy, 157–60, 160n2; “Persons and Places,” 152–53; reading for queer blackness, 147–50; “Rivers,” 147–49; secret pedagogies and inverted worlds, 153–57; sex in, 158–59
“Counterreformation” (Keene), 155–56
counting, gender-flux category, 133–35. See also medical model, for counting transgender population
Coviello, Peter, 6
Crenshaw, Kimberlé, 168, 169, 182–83, 195
“critical approaches and frameworks,” 6
“Critically Queer” (Butler), 279–80
critical race theory (CRT), 195–96
cross-dressers, 126–27, 128, 133–34, 135, 138n1
Crouch, Andrae, 244
CRT. See critical race theory
Cruising Utopia (Muñoz), 286–87
CSI. See College of Staten Island
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, 224
Cullors, Patrisse, 169
cultural archipelagos, 112, 116
The Cultural Politics of Emotion (Ahmed), 285
culture: ballroom, 14; heterosexuality and sex, 10; meaning, gayborhood studies, 111–12
Cunningham, Michael, 239
“curator’s exhibitionism,” 55
Currah, Paisley, 13
“custodian’s rip-off,” 55
Cvetkovich, Ann, 224
Dallas, 108
Davidson, Cathy, 20
Davie Village gayborhood, 114
“Dazzle Camouflage,” 209–10
Dean, Tim, 292n8
deficit perspective, of black queer life, 172–73
Delany, Samuel, 239
de Lauretis, Teresa, 3
demographics: AIDS/HIV, 65, 69; gender and limitations with, 125; PAR workshops, 68; U.S. Census conventions, 104–6
desire: the erotic and, 70; in field notes with PAR, 71–73; same-sex, 60n4
Detroit, ballroom culture in, 14
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), 125, 198
Diamond, Lisa, 259
“The Discourse on Language” (Foucault), 88
“Discreteness,” SOBS, 91–92, 95–97
discrimination, 63, 129, 131, 134, 136
discursive hustling, queer of color interviewing and: act of, 242–45; in context, 230–31; elements for, 237; ethnography, queer time in Orlando, 238–42; geography, queer space in St. Louis, 232–38
“dissimilarity meanings measure,” 111
Disturbing Attachments (Amin), 292n11
diversity, gayborhood studies, 106–8
diviner, poet as, 215
Doan, Petra, 37–38
Dotson, Kristie, 87
double consciousness, 208–9
DSM. See Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
dualisms, queer methods and rejection of, 12
Duane, Anna Mae, 160n7
Duberman, Martin, 161n15, 191, 192
Du Bois, W.E.B., 37–38, 152, 166, 167, 175; double consciousness and, 208–9; as social scientist, 168; “visual color line” and, 212
Duggan, Lisa, 31, 40n4, 85–86, 192
Dunye, Cheryl, 167
Durkheim, Emile, 88–89
Dyke Marches, 113
dyke methods, urgency of, 273–74. See also queer studies, white gay men and
dyke subjectivity, 262
education, with socioeconomic inequality, 20–22
electroshock therapy, 198
empiricism, 15, 36, 88; academic, 193; ambivalence of, 40n7; challenges to meaning of, 192–93; essay-as-performance and embodied, 211; fictionality and, 35; social sciences and, 6–7. See also queer theory, empirical methods and
“enthusiast’s infatuation,” 55
“Entitativity,” SOBS, 91–92
“ephemera as evidence,” 15, 202, 224
“Ephemera as Evidence” (Muñoz), 224
ephemera material, 194
epistemology: “blues,” 175–76; with queer theory and intersectionality, 168–72
Epps, Brad, 292n7
Epstein, Steven, 39n4
“Equality, Inc.,” 86
EqualityArchive.com: with blockchain technology and web 3.0, 254–55; in context, 248–49; OER, 251; peer review and, 250–51; Reclaim Hosting, 250; role of, 251–53; web 2.0, 253, 255; Wikipedia and, 250, 253; WordPress and, 250, 252
Equality Illinois, 113
Equal Rights Amendment website, 249
the erotic: desire and, 70; made in, 76–78; queer methods and, 262; in transcription with PAR, 73–78; undone by, 73–76. See also participatory research, racialized erotics of
The Erotic Life of Racism (Holland), 78
escape, the South and, 180–81
Escoffier, Jeffrey, 39n4
Espeland, Wendy Nelson, 96
essay-as-performance: citation-as-poetry, 224; in context, 207–11; embodied empiricism, 211; ghost-document, 214–16; Holiday and Bankhead, 217–20; lecture-keepsake, 223–24, 226n6; performing of, 225n1; post-script, 224; with record rewritten, 220–23; redaction-as-revelation, 216–17; tuning in, 212–14
ethnographers, interviews and, 108–11
ethnography: feminist, 55; of Hurston, 174; queer time in Orlando, 238–42
Etter-Lewis, Gwendolyn, 56
experiential knowledge, 196
Facebook, 254
“factorial invariance,” 91–92
Faubourg Marigny neighborhood, 178
Fausto-Sterling, Ann, 127
Fear of a Queer Planet (Warner, M.), 279
federal funding, 203
Feldman, Allen, 46
female to male (FtM) identities, 130–33
feminism: identity, 184n2; opportunistic, 52; patriarchy and, 52–53
feminist methods, 41n14, 181, 261, 264
Feminist Press, 160n1
feminists: biomedicalization theory, 98; ethnography, 55; PAR methodology, 69–71; “profeminists,” 52. See also participatory research, racialized erotics of
Ferguson, Roderick, 31, 40n4, 149, 231
fictionality, empiricism and, 35
Fiedler, Leslie, 161n9
field notes, desire in, 71–73
Fields, Jessica, 36
Fitzgerald, Adam, 238
Florida, Richard, 105
Ford, Isela, 63–66
Foucault, Michel, 10, 85, 89; “governmentality” and, 121; on mathematics, 86–87; statistics and, 88
fractals, 9–10
Franco, James, 261
freedom: academic, 191; WLM, 213, 226n4
FtM identities. See female to male identities
fugitive narratives, 156–57
fugitive pedagogies, 154–55
Fund Black Futures, 182
funding, 182, 199; federal, 203; student researchers and grant, 67
Gagnon, John, 39n4
Gallo, Marcia, 294
Garbo, Greta, 298–99
Garza, Alicia, 169
Gates, Gary, 104–5
gayborhood studies: in context, 103–4; index of dissimilarity, 104, 111; intellectual movement, birth of, 115–16; interviews and ethnographers, 108–11; misalignments, mutability and diversity, 106–8; queer space indicators, 113–15; RDS and, 107; statistical silences and cultural meanings, 111–12; U.S. Census conventions, 104–6; World War II and, 112
gay male identity, politics and, 267–68
gay male misogyny, 272
Gay New York (Chauncey), 45
Geertz, Clifford, 40n5
gender: AIDS/HIV and, 52; asymmetry, 13; bathrooms and, 121, 124, 137; with demographic limitations, 125; drag queens and, 123; fluidity, 129, 135; identity and, 126; interviews and, 53–55; neutrality, 13; plurality, 13; race and, 73, 168–69; sexuality and, 50–51
Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program, 4
gender-flux category, counting, 133–35
gender not listed (GNL), 129–30, 134
genderqueer, 130, 134, 140, 142, 204, 269
Gender Trouble (Butler), 122, 184n2, 193
genitalia, ambiguous, 127
gentrification, New Orleans and gay, 178
geography: Chocolate Map, 174, 175; queer space in St. Louis, 232–38; with whiteness as norm, 174
Ghaziani, Amin, 8–9, 29, 35–36, 105, 198, 249
ghost-document: Bankhead and, 217; with essay-as-performance, 214–16
Gile, Krista, 107
GLQ (journal), 31, 279–80, 291n4
GNL. See gender not listed
“god trick,” 89
Gopinath, Gayatri, 192
Graduate Center, CUNY, 191–92
grant funds, for student researchers, 67
Gray, Allyse, 69
Greenblatt, Stephen, 40n5
Grindr baiting, 234
Grosz, Elizabeth, 122–23
“ground-level explication,” 6
Grzanka, Patrick, 41n13
The Guardian (newspaper), 239, 240, 260
Gumbs, Alexis Pauline, 161n11, 207–8
Halberstam, Jack, 8, 15, 239, 289–90; on masculinity, 12; on queer and now, 278–83; “scavenger methods” and, 14
“half and half,” 49
Hall, Stuart, 166
Halperin, David, 11–12, 115, 282
Haraway, Donna, 84, 89, 92, 99
Harding, Sandra, 85
Harlem, black gay men in, 177–78
Harlem Renaissance, 152
Hawkeswood, William, 177
Helm-Hernandez, Paulina, 241
Hemphill, Essex, 159–60, 161n15
Henderson, Mae G., 31–32, 171–72
Herek, Gregory, 203
“Herstory” (Garza), 169
heteronormative view: of black queer life, 173–74; victimology stereotypes and, 213
heterosexism, 172, 192, 200. See also queer survey research, heterosexism and
heterosexuality: compulsory, 37, 121, 136, 216, 252; as recent invention, 10–11; with rejection of unchanging categories, 10; sex cultures and, 10
Highsmith, Patricia, 299
Hilderbrand, Lucas, 286
Hines, Nico, 234
The History of Sexuality (Foucault), 88
HIV/AIDS, 52, 159, 161n15, 281; activism, 286; criminalization case, 231–38; demographics, 65, 69; epidemic, 237–39; incarceration and, 63, 67, 68; MSM and, 124; racism and, 177
Holiday, Billie, 211, 212; Bankhead and, 217–20; with “Strange Fruit,” 221, 222; with “Summertime,” 222
Holland, Sharon Patricia, 64, 78, 158
Hollingsworth v. Perry, 203
homonationalism, 13, 263, 287–88
homonormativity, critiques of, 13
homosexuality, 115; biological antecedent, 11; with measurement and language, 106; straight white men and, 259–60, 269; violence and, 198
“The Homosexual Role” (McIntosh), 40n4
Hoover, J. Edgar, 217
The Hours (Cunningham), 239
Houston Equal Rights Ordinance, 137
How to Be Gay (Halperin), 115
How to Do the History of Homosexuality (Halperin), 115
How to Read African American Literature (Levy-Hussen), 160n6
Huckleberry Finn (Twain), 148–49, 161n9
Huffington Post (news website), 110, 260
Hughes, Langston, 152
humanities: critique of, 40n8; queer studies and, 202; social sciences and, 35–36
Humphreys, Laud, 14
Hunter, Marcus Anthony, 32, 37, 166–67; humanities and, 40n8; “nightly round” and, 41n12, 179
Hurston, Zora Neale, 56, 166, 174
hustling, 41n12. See also discursive hustling, queer of color interviewing and
identity: anti-identitarianism, 282–83; categories, 294; CLAGS and, 204; feminist, 184n2; FtM, 130–33; gender and, 126; multiple, 195; politics, 12–13; politics and gay male, 267–68; sexual, 48; transgender, 122
ideology, CRT and dominant, 196
improvisation, scholarship and, 208
In a Queer Time and Place (Halberstam), 239
incarceration: AIDS/HIV and, 63, 67, 68; blues women and, 217; prison staff, 63, 236; with time and space, 236. See also participatory research, racialized erotics of
index of dissimilarity, 104, 111
Indianapolis, 103
inequality: equality and, 86, 113; knowledge production and, 35; socioeconomic, 20–22. See also EqualityArchive.com
Instagram, 261
intellectual movement, birth of, 115–16
interdisciplinarity, 3, 7, 259
interest group politics, queer methods and rejection of, 12–13
intersectionality: queer methods and, 261; with queer theory and epistemology, 168–72; role of, 165; social constructionism and, 263–66
intersex: estimates, transgender population, 127, 128, 139n4; expanding, 135; transgender and, 124
interviews: for BQSW, 60n5; ethnographers and, 108–11; gender and, 53–55; PAR workshops, 68, 73–78; payment for, 67, 68; whiteness and, 231. See also discursive hustling, queer of color interviewing and
invisibility: ghost-document and, 214–16; writing and, 215
Jackson, Michael, 244
Jagose, Annamarie, 122, 291n3, 292n6
Jean, Vonda, 180
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, 199
Johnson, Buffie, 299
Johnson, E. Patrick, 31–32, 38, 46, 171–72, 180; on performance, 181–82; quare and, 226n3, 284. See also Black. Queer. Southern. Women.—An Oral History
Johnson, Marsha P., 169
Johnson, Michael, 231–38
Johnston, Lisa, 107
Jones, Saeed, 238
Josephson, Barney, 222
journalism: scholarship and, 41n12, 230; whiteness and, 244. See also discursive hustling, queer of color interviewing and
Kahan, Benjamin, 41n10
Keene, John, 36, 143–44. See also Counternarratives
Kennedy, Elizabeth Lapovsky, 20, 45
Kertbeny, Karl Maria, 10
King, Katie, 22
Klein, Kate Monico, 69
Kleon, Austin, 216
knowability, queer reflexivity and, 16–17
knowledge, experiential, 196
knowledge production, 78, 79, 88–89, 252, 255; black human being and, 150–51; elite sites of, 19, 22; inequality and, 35; PAR and, 64, 69–70; as political struggle, scene of, 36, 69
Krebs, Paula, 21–22
Lady Gaga, 90
Lambda Literary Awards, 294
land acquisition, 182
Landscape for a Good Woman (Steedman), 41n14
Langellier, Kristin, 56
language, 88; learning process with action and, 248; mainstream connotations and, 106; neoliberal, 172–73; secret, 155–56
Latent Profile Analysis (LPA), 95–96, 98–99
“latte city,” 163
Laurence, Robin, 161n14
Lazenby, Mat, 221
leadership, queering administration and, 197–201
learning, inciting process of, 248
lecture-keepsake, with essay-as-performance, 223–24, 226n6
legal inclusion, critiques of, 13
legalization, of same-sex marriage, 203
Lesbian Avengers, 281
lesbian history, 294–99
lesbianification, of queer studies, 266–70
lesbians: National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, 124; patriarchy and, 270–72
LeVay, Simon, 11
Levy-Hussen, Aida, 160n6
LGBTQ studies, 191, 205, 225, 226n1; with CLAGS and queer studies, 201–4; with queering administration and leadership, 197–201; queering empirical methodologies and, 192–97
LGBT Scholars of Color Conference, 199–201
LGBT Scholars of Color Network, 199–201, 205
life, 78; Black Lives Matter, 163, 168, 169, 182, 183, 213; black queer, 172–76; M4BL, 163, 182. See also black queer life
Likert scale, 88
“Liquid Knowledge,” 224
literacy, defined, 160n2
lobotomies, 198
Longhurst, Robyn, 123
Lorde, Audre, 37, 39, 70, 157, 158; “concert of voices” and, 224; influence of, 201, 205; learning and, 248, 249
Louisville, 103
Love, Heather, 6–7, 40n5, 281, 291n1, 291n2
LPA. See Latent Profile Analysis
The L Word (television show), 122
Lucas, Julian, 152
Luhan, Mabel Dodge, 296
M4BL. See Movement for Black Lives
Magnetic Fields, 41n11
male to female (MtF), 130–33
Mandingoism, 235
Manhunt, 233
“Mannahatta” (Keene), 154–55
Mapplethorpe, Robert, 281
Ma Rainey. See Rainey, Ma
marginalization, 16, 32, 167, 172, 212, 216
Martin, Agnes, 295–98
Martin, Biddy, 282
Martinez, Ernesto, 160n4
Mason-Dixon Line, 174
Massachusetts Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey, 132–33
mathematics, Foucault on, 86–87
mathesis, queer survey research, 86–89
McCune, Jeff, 245
McDonald, James, 16–17
McHaney, Johnny “Shaw Man,” 48–49
McHaney, Marylee, 48–49
ME. See “Multidimensional Essentialism”
measurement: decentering, 167–70, 183–84; “dissimilarity meanings measure,” 111; relevance of, 106; theory with science, 8–9; tyranny of, 165. See also queering measurement, transgender community and
medical model, for counting transgender population: cross-dresser estimates, 126–27, 128, 133–34, 135; intersex estimates, 127, 128, 139n4; traditional estimates derived by, 127–30; transsexual estimates, 125–26
men: gay male identity and politics, 267–68; gay male misogyny, 272; Harlem and black gay, 177–78; homosexuality and straight white, 259–60, 269; MSM, 17–18, 124, 263–64, 270. See also queer studies, white gay men and
Men Like That (Howard), 45
men who have sex with men. See MSM
metaphor: Rich on, 214–15; within theatrical terms, 226n2
methodology, defined, 85
Meyer, Ilan, 203
Meyerowitz, Joanne, 125
Miami, 103
minoritarian research, 37
misogyny, 252, 261, 263, 265; gay male, 272; patriarchy and, 52; transmisogyny, 169
Mississippi Delta, 173, 175–76, 184
“The Modern Woman Explores the Male Gaze” (Laurence), 161n14
Mohr, John, 8–9
“The Molecularization of Sexuality” (Rosenberg), 291n5
“molles,” 12
Molloy, Jenni, 225n1
Money, John, 11
Moore, Lisa C., 159–60
Moore, Mignon, 173–74, 179–80, 184
Morrison, Melanie, 97
Morrison, Todd, 97
Morrison, Toni, 161n8
Mos Def, 175
Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), 163, 182
Moynihan Report (1965), 167, 177
MSM (men who have sex with men), 17–18, 270; HIV and, 124; social constructionism and intersectionality with, 263–64
MtF. See male to female
“Multidimensional Essentialism” (ME), 96–97, 97
multivoice dialogue, 208
Muñoz, José Estaban, 18, 33, 192, 236–37, 289–90; “ephemera as evidence” and, 15, 202, 224; essay-as-performance and, 224; on Holiday and Bankhead, 218–19; on queer and now, 278–83; queering empirical methodologies and, 194; on queerness, 286–87
Nardi, Peter M., 39n4
Nash, Catherine J., 4, 29, 30, 115
National Center for Educational Statistics, 244
National Center for Transgender Equality, 124
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, 124
National Transgender Discrimination Survey, 129, 131, 134, 136
“Naturalness-only” (NO), 96–97, 97
“Naturalness,” SOBS, 91–92, 95
nature/nurture debate, 11
neoliberal language, 172–73
Nepon, Ezra Berkley, 209–10
Netflix, 180
neutrality, gender, 13
Nevelson, Louise, 299
Newcastle City Council, 114
Newton, Esther, 45
New York City, 103, 110, 112, 176. See also City University of New York
New Yorker (magazine), 103
New York magazine, 260
New York Times (newspaper), 109–10
nightlife, as social space, 179
NO. See “Naturalness-only”
nonbinary, 133, 136, 137, 167, 184, 204
“nonce taxonomy,” 6
Norfolk, 103
North Carolina, 137
Not Gay (Ward), 259–61, 268–70, 272, 274
NPR, 243
Oates, Joyce Carol, 221
Obama, Barack, 222
OER. See Open Education Resources
“Of Our Spiritual Strivings” (Du Bois), 166
O’Keeffe, Georgia, 296–97, 299
Oliver, Melvin, 178
Olson, Karen, 54–55
Omi, Michael, 178
One of the Children (Hawkeswood), 177
“On Revival Day” (Smith, Bessie), 222
ontologies, quantifying, 89–92
Open Education Resources (OER), 251
open-source technology, 250. See also EqualityArchive.com
opportunistic feminism, 52
oppression: CRT and, 196; race and, 163; space and, 112
“Oppression Olympics,” 170
oral history, as quare performance. See Black. Queer. Southern. Women.—An Oral History
The Order of Things (Foucault), 86, 88
Orlando, queer time in, 238–42
Orne, Jason, 14
Osthoff, Simone, 216
Other, Please Specify: Queer Methods in Sociology (Compton, Meadow, and Schilt), 4
“Our Lady of the Sorrows” (Keene), 151–52, 160n5
OutHistory.org conference, 294
Oxford English Dictionary, 143
page rank system, Google, 253
Painter, Nell Irvin, 46
Palm Springs, 105
PAR. See participatory research, racialized erotics of
Parliament Funkadelic, 174, 184n1
participatory research (PAR), racialized erotics of: in context, 63–64; desire in field notes, 71–73; across differences, 64–69; erotic in transcription, 73–78; knowledge production and, 64, 69–70; methodological tensions sustained, 78–80; queer feminist methodology, 69–71; workshops, 66–68, 67
patriarchy: feminism and, 52–53; lesbians and, 270–72; racism and, 168–69
payment, for interviews, 67, 68
pedagogies: inverted world and secret, 153–57; of queer black literacy, 157–60, 160n2; queer methods and, 19–22
peer review, EqualityArchive.com and, 250–51
Pérez, Hiram, 282
performance, 58, 59n2, 181–82. See also Black. Queer. Southern. Women.—An Oral History; essay-as-performance
Performing the Archive (Osthoff), 216
person-centered approach, 86, 94–95, 97, 98
“Persons and Places” (Keene), 152–53
Peterson, Eric, 56
Philadelphia, 114
The Philadelphia Negro (Du Bois), 37–38
Phillips, Adam, 294
“physics envy,” 5
“Pink Triangle,” 114
Playing in the Dark (Morrison, Toni), 161n8
playscripts, 208
Plummer, Ken, 8, 10, 14–15, 39n4
plurality, gender, 13
poet, as diviner, 215
poetry: blackout, 216; citation-as-poetry, 224
populations: cross-dressers, 126–27, 128, 133–34, 135; HIV/AIDS and marginalized, 65; intersex, 127, 128, 139n4; migration and, 103; same-sex households and city, 103–5; sexual reassignment surgery, 126; transsexuals, 125–26, 128; U.S. Census, 103–6, 116n1. See also gayborhood studies; medical model, for counting transgender population
Portland, 105
Povinelli, Elizabeth, 292n10
praxis: CRT and, 196; essay-as-performance and, 209; queer methods as, 262
The Price of the Ticket (Baldwin), 143
Primo, David, 5
Princenthal, Nancy, 295–99
prison. See incarceration
“profeminists,” 52
progress narrative, 79
“Prove It on Me Blues” (Ma Rainey), 212, 223–24
Provincetown, 105
psychology, role of, 89
Puar, Jasbir, 282
qualitative methods, 203
quantification: Foucault and, 88; LPA, 95–96; of subject, 16
quare, 59n1, 284; connotations, 172; methods with oral history as performance, 55–59; role of, 226n3. Se also Black. Queer. Southern. Women.—An Oral History
“Queer and Now” (Sedgwick), 280
Queer as Folk (television show), 281
“queer,” as term, 278–84
queer black literacy, 160n3; pedagogies of, 157–60, 160n2
Queer by Choice (Whisman), 259
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy (television show), 281
queering measurement, transgender community and: in context, 121–25; cross-dresser estimates, 126–27, 128, 133–34, 135; gender-flux category, 133–35; intersex expanded, 135; intersex population estimates, 127, 128, 139n4; medical model, 125–30; toward more fluidity, 131–36; population counts expanded, 135–36; population estimates (2014) using traditional methods, 128; traditional methods for counting population, 125–27; transsexual definition expanded, 131–33; transsexual estimates, 125–26
queering methodology, 16–18
queering methods, queer methods and, 14–16
“Queer Method” conference (2013), 4, 30, 39n3
queer methods: in context, 3–5, 8–10; dualisms, rejection of, 12; impermeable categories, rejection of, 11–12; interest group politics, rejection of, 12–13; principles, 11; queering methodology and, 16–18; queering methods and, 14–16; queer pedagogy and, 19–22; renaissance, 3–4, 22–23; research practices, 261–62; responses to, 33; unchanging categories, rejection of, 10–11; worldmaking and livability, 5–8
Queer Methods and Methodologies (Browne and Nash), 4, 29, 115
queerness: covertness of, 15; Muñoz on, 286–87
queer of color: critique, 231; theory, 231
queer of color interviewing. See discursive hustling, queer of color interviewing and
queer pedagogy, queer methods and, 19–22
queer phenomenology, 252
Queer Phenomenology (Ahmed), 224
queer reflexivity, knowability and, 16–17
“Queer Sexism” (Ward), 266
queer space: indicators of, 113–15; in St. Louis, 232–38
queer studies: humanities and, 202; visions for, 201–4
queer studies, white gay men and: in context, 259–63; diagnosis, 270–72; dyke methods, urgency of, 273–74; male panic and lesbianification of, 266–70; social constructionism and intersectionality, 263–66
queer survey research, heterosexism and: in context, 84–86; mathesis, 86–89; ontologies quantified, 89–92; statistical inquiry, person-centered approach, 97; statistical inquiry, variable-centered approach, 93; statistics, 93–99
queer theory: Butler and, 193–94; development of, 8–10; emergence of, 3–4, 31, 169, 291n3; with epistemology and intersectionality, 168–72; “nonce taxonomy” and, 6; social sciences and, 164–65
queer theory, affective histories of: with attachment genealogy as method, 288–91; in context, 277–78, 283–86; historicity, agencies of, 286–88; queer and now, 278–83
queer theory, empirical methods and: in context, 191–92, 204–5; queering administration and leadership, 197–201; queering empirical methodologies, 192–97; queer studies and CLAGS, visions for, 201–4
“Queer Theory’s Everything Problem,” 291n1
queer time, 238–42
Queerty (gay website), 264–65, 268, 273
race: CLAGS and, 204; CRT, 195–96; gender and, 73, 168–69; oppression and, 163; racism and, 196; sexuality and, 76–78
racialized erotics. See participatory research, racialized erotics of
racism, 16, 217; AIDS/HIV and, 177; in city space, 179; patriarchy and, 168–69; race and, 196; white supremacy, 160n7, 172, 211
“radical-fuck,” 130
RDS. See respondent-driven sampling
Reagan, Ronald, 281
Reclaim Hosting, 250
record: rewriting, 220–23; “Strange Fruit,” 221
redaction-as-revelation: essay-as-performance with, 216–17; via paradox, 41n11
Reed, Bernard, 126
Reed, Christopher, 292n9
Reid-Pharr, Robert, 150–51, 153, 239
renaissance, queer methods, 3–4, 22–23
the researched: as research-design participants, 63–64, 66, 69; researchers in relation to, 53–55, 60n5, 71–78, 121–22, 236–37
researchers: queer methods, 262; the researched in relation to, 53–55, 60n5, 71–78, 121–22, 236–37; student, 63–65, 67
residential segregation, spatial isolation and, 104
respondent-driven sampling (RDS), 106–7
Rhee, Margaret, 69
Rich, Adrienne, 214–15, 216, 248, 249
Richards, Sandra, 60n5
rights: civil, 168–69, 211, 213, 278, 281; gay, 266, 269; Houston Equal Rights Ordinance, 137
Rivera, Sylvia, 169
“Rivers” (Keene), 147–49
Robinson, Zandria, 19, 32, 37, 40n8, 166–67
Rooke, Alison, 121
Rosenberg, Jord/ana, 291n5
Ross, Diana, 244
Roughgarden, Joan, 128
Ryan-Flood, Róisín, 121
Salazar, Claudia, 56–57
Salganik, Matthew, 106–7
same-sex desire, 60n4
same-sex households: populations, 103–5; U.S. Census and, 103, 116n1. See also gayborhood studies
same-sex marriage, 105; legalization of, 203
Sanchez, Angelica, 241
San Francisco Chronicle (newspaper), 109
San Francisco County Jail, 65
San Francisco Department of Public Health, 65
San Francisco State University, 65
Santayana, George, 152
Santorum, Rick, 265
Savage, Dan, 263
#SayHerName initiative, 182–83
“scavenger methods,” 14–15
Schneider, Beth E., 39n4
scholars, in academia, 199–200
scholarship: attachment genealogy and, 289–90; improvisation and, 208; journalism and, 41n12, 230
Schulman, Sarah, 34–35, 41n10, 298–99
science, 89; history of, 8, 86; measurement theory with, 8–9. See also social sciences
scientific method, 5
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, 6, 21, 30, 230, 280
SEEK Program, 248
segregation, residential, 104
“Seven Demands,” WLM, 213, 226n4
sex: in Counternarratives, 158–59; for drugs, 74–75; intersex, 124, 127, 128, 135, 139n4; work, 196, 242
sex cultures, heterosexuality and, 10
sexism, straightness damaged by, 269
Sexual Discretion (McCune), 245
sexual fluidity, 112, 259, 261
sexual identity, limits, 48
sexuality, 88, 291n5; cities and, 112; erasure of, 180; gender and, 50–51; history of, 10; race and, 76–78; silence and social construction of, 249; space and, 111–12. See also heterosexuality; homosexuality
sexual orientation: beliefs, 91; as composite concept, 106; origins of, 11; question of, 252
Sexual Orientation Beliefs Scale (SOBS), 85, 89; development of, 90; “Discreteness,” 91–92, 95–97; “Entitativity,” 91–92; “Naturalness,” 91–92, 95; “Social and Personal Importance,” 91–92
Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities (D’Emilio), 45
sexual reassignment surgery, 126
“sexy communities,” research on, 14
Shah, Nayan, 40n4
Shapiro, Thomas, 178
Sharpe, Christina, 216
Shopes, Linda, 54–55
silences: gayborhood studies and statistical, 111–12; with learning process, language and action, 248; with sexuality, social construction of, 249; tuning in and, 215
Simon, William, 39n4
Simone, Nina, 212
Singer, T. Benjamin, 123
“Situated Knowledge” (Haraway), 84
Skroupa, Chris, 109–10
slavery, 158–59, 209; colonization and, 151, 156; fugitive narratives, 156–57; with fugitive pedagogies, 154–55
Smart, Michael, 108
Smith, Barbara, 19, 41n11, 160n1
Smith, Bessie, 211, 212, 222–23
SNCC members, 170
SOBS. See Sexual Orientation Beliefs Scale
“Social and Personal Importance,” SOBS, 91–92
social constructionism, intersectionality and, 263–66
social justice, CRT and, 196
social sciences: empiricism and, 6–7; Foucault and, 88–89; humanities and, 35–36; messiness and, 28; queer theory and, 164–65; role of, 31–32; skeptics, 167
social scientific methods: with black queer justice in chocolate city, 183–84; black queer life and gaps with, 172–76; chocolate cities archive, 177–83; in context, 163–68; intersectionality, queer theory and epistemology, 168–72
social space, nightlife as, 179
Social Text, 278
socioeconomic inequality, education and, 20–22
Sonic Color Line (Stoever-Ackerman), 212
Soul Music, Strange Fruit (BBC radio documentary), 221–22
sound: blues-lines, 213–14; blues music, 209, 211, 213, 222–23, 224; codes and theatrical terms, 226n2; “concert of voices,” 224; jazz, 209, 211, 224; silences, 111–12, 215, 248, 249; white noise, 212
South Dakota, 137
Southern Nights, 241
the South: black queer life in, 180–81; escape and, 180–81. See also Black. Queer. Southern. Women.—An Oral History
space: oppression and, 112; prison with time and, 236; queer, 113–15, 232–38; racism in city, 179; sexuality and, 111–12; social, 179
spatial isolation, residential segregation and, 104
“speculative rumination,” 6, 215
Spill (Gumbs), 207–8
spiritual messages, 214
Stacey, Judith, 55
Stachowiak, Dana, 130
Stackhouse, Lenore, 50
STAR. See Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries
statistics: Foucault and, 88; person-centered approach, 97; queering, 93–99; silences, gayborhood studies, 111–12; variable-centered approach, 93
Steedman, Carolyn, 41n14
stereotypes, heteronormative view and victimology, 213
Stevens, Mitchell, 96
St. Louis, queer space in, 232–38
Stoever-Ackerman, Jennifer, 212
StoryCorps project, NPR, 243
“Strange Fruit” (Holiday), 221, 222
“Strange Record” (Time magazine), 221
Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), 169–70
student researchers, 63–65, 67
“subversive ethnographies,” 14
“Summertime” (Holiday), 222
surgeries: MtF and FtM, 131–32; sexual reassignment, 126
survey instruments, 85
survey research. See queer survey research, heterosexism and
Sweet Tea (Johnson, E. P.), 46–47. See also Black. Queer. Southern. Women.—An Oral History
Tawny, Lenore, 298
tearoom trade study, 14
testimony, oral history as, 57–58
theatrical terms, metaphor within, 226n2
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston), 56
There Goes the Gayborhood? (Ghaziani), 105
“thick description,” 40n5
the things we did and didn’t do, 35
“The Things We Did and Didn’t Do” (song), 41n11
Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns (Traub), 40n6, 161n13
This Ain’t Chicago (Robinson), 167
“Thomas theorem,” 111
Thornton, Big Mama, 212
Thrasher, Steven W., 41n12
Tilton, Jack, 297
time, 16; prison with space and, 236; queer, 238–42
Time magazine, 221
Tometi, Opal, 169
Toronto, 114
traditional methods: for counting transgender community population, 125–27, 128; Law on, 28
transcription, erotic in, 73–78
transgender: cross-dressers as, 138n1; defined, 123; identity, 122; intersex people and, 124; National Transgender Discrimination Survey, 129, 131, 134, 136; violence, 124, 137, 182–83. See also queering measurement, transgender community and
transmisogyny, 169
transsexuals: definition expanded, 131–33; estimates, transgender population, 125–26, 128
Traub, Valerie, 32–33, 40n6, 158, 161n13
“tribades,” 12
Tsoi, W. F., 126
Tuhkanen, Mikko, 151
tuning in: with essay-as-performance, 212–14; silence and, 215
Turchi, Peter, 223
Twitter, 166, 168, 173, 175, 184, 238
Uber, 254
The Unbreakable Kimmie Schmidt (television show), 180
United States (U.S.): Census, 103–6, 116n1; sexual reassignment surgery in, 126
University of California, Santa Cruz, 3
University of California Press, 4, 177
University of Maryland, College Park, 89
University of Pennsylvania, 4, 30
U.S. See United States
Valocchi, Stephen, 123
Vancouver, Canada, 114
variable-centered approach, 86, 93, 93–96
Veale, Jamie, 126
Victoria, Canada, 114
Villaurrutia, Xavier, 152
violence: Catholic Church and, 156; of colonization, 156, 174; discrimination and, 63; epistemic, 87, 262; homosexuality and, 198; Pulse nightclub and, 231, 238–42; against transgender people, 124, 137, 182–83; white queer people and, 163
visibility, in chocolate cities, 179–80
“visual color line,” 212
“vulgarizing modernity,” 151
Ward, Jane, 5, 29, 85, 259–61, 264–65, 266, 268, 269–70, 272
Washington, DC, 103; as chocolate city, 163–64, 184n1; as latte city, 163
Watermelon Woman (Dunye), 167
web 3.0, 254–55
Weeks, Jeffrey, 39n4
West Hollywood, 114
“What’s Queer about Queer Studies Now?”(Eng, Halberstam, and Muñoz), 278–79, 281, 283, 289–90
Whisman, Vera, 259
white men: homosexuality and straight, 259–60, 269. See also queer studies, white gay men and
whiteness: academia and, 244; counternarratives and, 147–48, 161n8; gentrification and, 178; geography with norm of, 174; interviews and, 231; journalism and, 244
white noise, 212
white queer people, violence and, 163
white supremacy, 160n7, 172, 211
Whittemore, Andrew, 108
“Who Is the Subject? Queer Theory Meets Oral History” (Boyd), 45
Who Writes for Black Children? (Capshaw and Duane), 160n7
“Why Are the Gay Ghettoes White?” (Nero), 178
Wilchins, Riki Ann, 129
Wilkerson, Ronald, 180
Williams, John, 124
Williams Institute, 132
Wilson, John, 109–10
Wilton Manors, Florida, 105
Winant, Howard, 178
With Billie (Blackburn), 218
WLM. See Women’s Liberation Movement
Wojnarowitz, David, 281
women: blues, 212, 213, 217; cross-dressers, 134; in PAR workshops, 68; patriarchy and, 52–53, 168–69, 270–72; relations between, 34–35. See also Black. Queer. Southern. Women.—An Oral History; Latinas
Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM), 213, 226n4
Wonder, Stevie, 244
Woods, Clyde, 175–76
workshops, PAR: cycle, 66, 67; demographics, 68
worldmaking, 5–8, 12, 15, 17–18, 20, 23, 145
World War II, 112
writing, invisibility and, 215
WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, 4, 40n6, 129
Wynter, Sylvia, 161n11
X, Malcolm, 174
Zaharakis, Geno, 110
Zerubavel, Eviatar, 12