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Notes

1 For more on the history of the Queer No Host as a response to institutional indifference regarding the transfer of capital from communication scholars to a reprehensible hotel owner, see Charles E. Morris III and Catherine Helen Palczewski, “Sexing Communication: Hearing, Feeling, Remembering Sex/Gender and Sexuality in the NCA,” in A Century of Communication Studies: The Unfinished Conversation, ed. Pat Gehrke and William Keith (New York: Routledge, 2014), 128–165.

2 Charles E. Morris III, “Archival Queer,” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 9, no. 1 (2006): 145–151, https://www.jstor.org/stable/41940042.

3 Daniel C. Brouwer, “Corps/Corpse: The U.S. Military and Homosexuality,” Western Journal of Communication 68, no. 4 (2004): 411–30, https://doi.org/10.1080/10570310409374811.

4 Daniel C. Brouwer and Katrina N. Hanna, “(Re)articulations of Race, Sexuality, and Gender in U.S. Football: Investigating Tyrann Mathieu as Honey Badger,” in Sport, Rhetoric, and Political Struggle, ed. Daniel A. Grano and Michael L. Butterworth (New York: Peter Lang, 2019), 115–28.

5 Daniel C. Brouwer, “From San Francisco to Atlanta and Back Again: Ideologies of Mobility in the AIDS Quilt’s Search for a Homeland,” Rhetoric and Public Affairs 10, no. 4 (2007): 702, https://doi.org/10.1353/rap.2008.0027.

6 Daniel C. Brouwer, “Centering a Queer Sensorium in Rhetorical Ethnography,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Washington, DC, November 2013.

7 Daniel C. Brouwer, “Nonverbal Vernacular Tactics of HIV Discovery Among Gay Men,” in Balancing the Secrets of Private Disclosures, ed. Sandra Petronio (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000), 97–108.

8 Shuzhen Huang and Daniel C. Brouwer, “Negotiating Performances of ‘Real’ Marriage in Chinese Queer Xinghun,” Women’s Studies in Communication 41, no. 2 (2018): 140–58, https://doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2018.1463581.

9 Daniel C. Brouwer, “Privacy, Publicity, and Propriety in Congressional Eulogies for Representative Stewart B. McKinney (R-Conn.),” Rhetoric and Public Affairs 7, no. 2 (2004): 209, https://doi.org/10.1353/rap.2004.0034.

10 Michael Warner, The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life (New York: The Free Press, 1999).

11 This version of the verses, taken from the 1855 printing of “Song of Myself,” is found in Edwin Haviland Miller, ed., Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”: A Mosaic of Interpretations (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1989), 43.

12 By “hammers” I am referencing Sara Ahmed’s “An Affinity of Hammers,” in which she writes:

To experience that hammering is to be given a hammer, a tool through which we, too, can chip away at the surfaces of what is, or who is, including the very categories through which personhood is made meaningful—categories of sex and gender, for instance, that have chipped away at us. TSQ 3, no. 1–2, 22, https://doi.org/10.1215/23289252-3334151.