'The trouble is that for the work's sake you must wear the mask. . on a SIM-card full of memories and names. jQuery("#footnote_plugin_tooltip_17").tooltip({ tip: "#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_17", tipClass: "footnote_tooltip", effect: "fade", fadeOutSpeed: 100, predelay: 400, position: "bottom center", relative: true, offset: [10, 10] }); Many proponents of queer digital life celebrate the "open" and "honest" communication that digital applications afford in and for our present, a post-Stonewall line of thinking. If you enjoyed this piece by Terry Barr you may also like Dawn Trek in the Wahiba Desert by Sandra Arnold. While this critical, historical, and conceptual framing could go deeper (and it is my hope that this article stimulates further academic and popular conversations), I want to close with a mention of one queer literary figure whose work negotiates the "revolutionary" square space. He concludes with an analysis of the work of contemporary poet Danez Smith and their lyrical responses to queer square spaces. It was she who finally The term "homotextuality" itself has a robust history in transnational academic queer literary scholarship, including Robert K. Martin's "Gay Studies in the Victorian Novel" (, Glissant troubles the transparent/opaque binary through his "right to opacity," a right for what one scholar understands as "stubborn shadows." 4 (2015), https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/5895/4416. "20José Quiroga, Tropics of Desire: Interventions from Latino America (New York: NYU Press, 2000), 22. jQuery("#footnote_plugin_tooltip_20").tooltip({ tip: "#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_20", tipClass: "footnote_tooltip", effect: "fade", fadeOutSpeed: 100, predelay: 400, position: "bottom center", relative: true, offset: [10, 10] }); As one reviewer of José Esteban Muñoz's work writes, all "cruising is a way of moving with 'no specific destination'; the ultimate goal is 'to get lost [...] in webs of relationality and queer sociality. Smith's poetry evokes the simultaneously and somewhat paradoxically troubling and generative dimensions of gay digital dating social networks. Those I can delete, but not my friend’s. Like others before and since, Jaspal notes the transitional "revolutionized" landscape of queer intimacy afforded first by the Internet and later by smartphone apps. "The gay revolution began as a literary revolution." 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