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Hollis Griffin

Hollis Griffin is Assistant Professor of Queer Studies and Communication at Denison University. He is the author of Feeling Normal: Sexuality and Media Criticism in the Digital Age (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017).

Commentary, no. 4, vol. 1September 7, 2016<January 17, 2017

Drag Queens in Kevlar, or The Right to Bear Arms in Queer Public Space

Hollis Griffin

Queer public spaces are zones of intimacy and possibility. They spatialize desire in ways that foster new modes of being and wanting. When I read about the June 12, 2016 shooting at Pulse in Orlando, I saw with new clarity how the public spaces in which I have felt most fully alive can so quickly be obliterated.