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

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

By Hollis Griffin

When I lived in New York City in the late 1990s and early 2000s, I frequented a weekly drag revue at a bar called Barracuda on West 22nd Street at Eighth Avenue. It was (and, I believe, still is) a …