Queer Collectivity in the Echoes of the Dance Floor

[pp. 7-8]: "Queer dance floor experiences of the past can continue to offer possibility in the present. Indeed, when we embrace music’s ability to elicit collective experiences of lingering, we bind ourselves to historical echoes and the individuals moved by them in the first place. One thing that makes these experiences of dance floor bliss so profound is that they are simultaneously individual and collectivizing—they feel so personal yet they necessarily tether us to others. Perhaps contemporary queerness is less about an identity claim or a series of acts in the present—maybe it’s about how we linger in and with the queer past. Perhaps it is this history and our ongoing orientation to it that allows us access to the radical potential of queerness today."