Queer Praxis ― Questions for Lgbtq Worldmaking

Communication and other scholars and activists from the US offer 29 essays that attempt to theorize issues of LGBTQ identity from the perspective of relationships rather than identity politics. They first examine mainstream gay and lesbian political commitments to same-sex marriage and the possibilities for considering marriage more “queerly,” with discussion of the hierarchical position of couples and romance in weddings, community, heteronormative narratives, homonormativity, audience agency, and the politics of love, then examine the production and function of shame within heteronormative systems; how working across difference and privilege is structural and personal, addressing how love, kinship, and identity constrict community work across lines of difference and how coalitions can be consistent with queer relations of belonging; the relationship of queerness to decorum and anger; and how to map alternative ways of thinking. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Dustin Bradley Goltz (PhD, Arizona State University) is an Associate Professor of Performance Studies at DePaul University.
Jason Zingsheim (PhD, Arizona State University) is an Associate Professor of Communication at Governors State University.