Other Lips, Whither Kisses?

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Acknowledgments

The authors thank Logan Gomez, for her editorial assistance on this essay, and Karma Chávez.

Notes

1. Richard Kim, “Please Don’t Stop the Music,” The Nation, June 12, 2016: https://www.thenation.com/article/please-dont-stop-the-music/. See also David Román, “Dance Liberation,” in Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader, ed. Michael Hames-García and Ernesto Javier Martínez (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011), 286–310. This is not to say that the sanctuary of queer space is without its own complex history, and it should be emphasized that “safe” is a relative term. Ramón Rivera-Servera observed, “The nightclub has been historically for Latinos, African Americans, and white Americans a place of congregation and conviviality that does not conform to simplistic notions of ‘safe space.’ There’s a clear sense of these spaces being respites from some dangers outside, but also replete with all kinds of risks themselves. In these spaces, we started thinking not just about our pleasures together, but what it took to protect those pleasures and to demand our right to those pleasures.” Spencer Kornhaber, “After Orlando: The Singular Experience of the Queer Latin Nightclub,” The Atlantic, June 17, 2016: http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/06/orlando-shooting-pulse-latin-queer-gay-nightclub-ramon-rivera-servera-intrerview/487442/. See also Christina B. Hanhardt, “Safe Space Out of Place,” QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking 3, no. 3 (Fall 2016): 121–25.

2. Justin Torres, “In Praise of Latin Night at the Queer Club,” Washington Post, June 13, 2016: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/in-praise-of-latin-night-at-the-queer-club/2016/06/13/e841867e-317b-11e6-95c0-2a6873031302_story.html?tid=ss_mail&utm_term=.c5be428568dd.

3. Karma Chávez, “The Precariousness of Homonationalism: The Queer Agency of Terrorism in Post-9/11 Rhetoric,” QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking 2, no. 3 (Fall 2015): 32–58.

4. Hiram Pérez, A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire (New York: NYU Press, 2015), 1.

5. Charles E. Morris III and John M. Sloop, “‘What Lips These Lips Have Kissed’: Refiguring the Politics of Queer Public Kissing,” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 3, no. 1 (2006): 1–26.

6. Ibid., 13.

7. Long Doan, Annalise Loehr, and Lisa R. Miller, “Formal Rights and Informal Privileges for Same-Sex Couples: Evidence from a National Survey Experiment,” American Sociological Review 79, no. 6 (2014): 1188.

8. Maria La Ganga, “A Kiss that Helped Sway a Church,” Los Angeles Times, January 31, 2015: A1; Amara Grautski, “Marshall RB Charged in Beating of Two Gay Men Who Kissed,” New York Daily News, May 6, 2015: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/college/marshall-rb-arrested-allegedly-beating-2-gay-men-report-article-1.2212383; Andy Towle, “Gay Man Brutally Attacked after Kissing His Boyfriend at Miami Beach Burger King Speaks Out,” Towleroad.com, April 4, 2016:http://www.towleroad.com/2016/04/miami-beach-gay-attack/; Lesbian Couple Gets $80,000 Settlement after Arrest in Hawaii for Kissing, The Guardian, May 21, 2016: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/21/lesbian-couple-hawaii-settlement-kissing-arrest.

9. James Michael Nichols, “A Giant Billboard of Trump and Cruz Kissing Just Went Up 5 Minutes from the RNC,” Huffington Post, July 14, 2016: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-cruz-billboard-rnc_us_57869167e4b03fc3ee4efde4.

10. Marc Tracy, “Houston’s Coach Pecks Away at Football’s Macho Culture, a Kiss at a Time,” New York Times, October 15, 2016: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/sports/ncaafootball/houston-cougars-tom-herman-kiss-macho-culture.html?_r=0.

11. Samantha Allen, “Americans Need to Get Over Same-Sex PDA,” The Daily Beast, June 21, 2016: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/15/americans-need-to-get-over-same-sex-pda.html; Katie Rogers, “Two Men Kiss, an Act of Love and Activism,” New York Times, June 16, 2016: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/19/fashion/two-men-kissing-orlando-gay-men.html; Curtis M. Wong, “This Video of Men Kissing Turns Homophobia into Something Beautiful,” Huffington Post, June 17, 2016: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/men-kissing-video_us_576457c5e4b0fbbc8bea737c.

12. For a description, see: http://creativetime.org/programs/archive/1989/Kissing/Kissing.htm.

13. Cassils, 103 Shots: http://heathercassils.com/portfolio/103-shots/. See also Julia Steinmetz, “The Sound of Everynight Life,” QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking 3 (Fall 2016) 117–20.

14. Dylan Marron, Men Kissing Men, Seriously.TV, June 17, 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXTTgBKgkdg.

15. José Esteban Muñoz, “Feeling Brown: Ethnicity and Affect in Ricardo Bracho’s The Sweetest Hangover (and Other STDs),” Theatre Journal 52, no. 1 (2000): 67–79.

16. Ibid., 77–78.