Gay Pride and Its Queer Discontents: ACT UP and the Political Deployment of Affect

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Acknowledgments

She would like to offer thanks to Charles E. Morris III for the opportunity to participate in this forum and for his always insightful engagement with her work, and to the Maine writing retreat participants who provided feedback on early portions of this essay

Notes

1. Deborah B. Gould, Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP's Fight against AIDS (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), 10.

2. Ann Cvetkovich, An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003), 167, 157.

3. David M. Halperin and Valerie Traub, “Beyond Gay Pride,” in Gay Shame, ed. David M. Halperin and Valerie Traub (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), 3.

4. Halperin and Traub, “Beyond Gay Pride,” 3.

5. Gould, Moving Politics, 70.

6. Gould, Moving Politics, 71–2.

7. Jasbir K. Puar, Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007), 2.

8. Gould, Moving Politics, 88–9.

9. Debra Levine, “Demonstration of Care: The ACT UP Oral Histories on Video,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 16, no. 3 (2010): 442.

10. Cvetkovich, An Archive of Feelings, 170.

11. Cvetkovich, An Archive of Feelings, 173.

12. Michael Hardt, “Foreword: What Affects Are Good For,” in The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social, ed. Patricia Ticineto Clough with Jean Halley (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007), ix; Gregory J. Seigworth and Melissa Gregg, The Affect Theory Reader (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010), 12–13.

13. Gould, Moving Politics, 23.

14. Sally R. Munt, Queer Attachments: The Cultural Politics of Shame (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007), 103, 203, 216.

15. Jennifer Moon, “Gay Shame and the Politics of Identity,” in Gay Shame, 360.

16. “GAY SHAME Seeks Nominations for Annual Shame Awards,” Gay Shame San Francisco, http://www.gayshamesf.org/awards2003.html.

17. Halperin and Traub, “Beyond Gay Pride,” 9; Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003), 37.

18. Douglas Crimp, “Mario Montez, for Shame,” in Gay Shame, 72; Kathryn Bond Stockton, Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where “Black” Meets “Queer” (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006), 27.

19. For a particularly pointed criticism of the kinds of privilege enacted in discussions of shame, see: Judith Halberstam, “Shame and White Gay Masculinity,” Social Text 23, no. 3–4 (2005): 219–233.

20. Halperin and Traub, “Beyond Gay Pride,” 25.

21. Munt, Queer Attachments, 87, 102.

22. Heather Love, Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007), 14.

23. Love, Feeling Backward, 19.

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Erin J. Rand

Erin J. Rand is Assistant Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University