Gay Life's Featured Bars from the mid-1970s
Below are some clippings from Chicago's Gay Life, chronicling some of the gay neighborhood's most prominent gay bars in and around New...
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Discourse, Constructing the Sacred, and Disciplining Bodies
When I went to the Pulse Nightclub on the night of June 10, 2017, the first thing I saw was a sign posted with rules of the nightclub...
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East Lakeview Arts Festival
For the next few months, I will be writing short pieces here about key moments documented through my fieldwork in Chicago's Boystown that...
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News Media, Violence, and Global Capital: Contradictions in Knowledge Production
While writing a recent article on Pulse, I came across this dilemma when researching the reported protest of thousands of people against...
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"Safe Place" Programs: Neoliberalism and Violence Against LGBT People
Six months after the Pulse shooting, Orlando launched a "Safe Places" program in an effort to help victims of LGBT violence through...
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Starbucks and The Problem with Commercial "Safe Space"
In the days after Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, acts of racism, Islamophobia, homophobia, and misogyny that...
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Orlando Pride 2016
Reportedly, 150,000 attended Orlando Pride. This was the first Pride Parade after the Pulse nightclub shooting. The usual corporate...
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Love is Blinding: Emphasizing Love and Ignoring War in Response to the Pulse Shooting
Last week, the City of Orlando released the 911 calls made by Omar Mateen, the shooter who killed 49 people and injured 68 at the Pulse...
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Spaces and Flows: Interactive Presentation
To accompany my conference presentation at Spaces and Flows this month, I created an interactive presentation. This digital component is...
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NDAA: A Pernicious Tool for LGBT Violence
When Republicans are not slipping legislation into the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that legalizes, expands, or protects...
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Pulse at the Orange County Regional History Center
The Orange County Regional History Center is doing an amazing job collecting items and documenting all of the memorials of the mass...
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The LGBTQ+ People and Festivals of Boystown, Chicago
Here are some photos of Pride and Market Days from 2007-2010, which I took during my ethnographic fieldwork in Boystown, Chicago. #gay...
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Pulse Nightclub Today
These photos were taken at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando on September 22, 2016. The signs, gifts, and offerings that were left at the...
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Local Art En Memoriam
I went to the Orlando Public Library downtown to check out the Paint Strong exhibit. It's interesting to visually see how place and...
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Pulse Memorial Crosses
These are photographs of the memorial crosses at Lake Beauty taken on July 9, 2016 in Orlando, FL. #pulse #memorial #crosses #lakebeauty...
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Pulse Memorials at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
These are photographs of the memorial in front of the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Orlando. This was the site...
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Memorial at the Pulse Nightclub
These are photographs of the memorial in front of the Pulse nightclub taken on July 9, 2016 in Orlando, FL. #pulse #nighclub #orlando...
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