This essay was composed before eleven states–mostly red, but also blue–inscribed the cultural zeitgeist of homopanic into their state constitutions; before Ohio turned red and John Kerry conceded on 3 November 2004. Its tone is hopeful, forward-looking, one could even say devastatingly naive. Nevertheless, I hope that the project it initiates–reconceptualizing spatial imaginaries through the lens of a queer of color aesthetics and politics–can remain an important starting point for reconfiguring the representational strategies of our queer interventions in American electoral politics.
