ABSTRACT
Larry Gross and others have productively investigated the conditions in which lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people appear, how they are represented, and what they are allowed to do, or not. The Critical Studies in Media Communication special issue collects new scholarship that addresses queer media ontologies and practices, as well as the limits of queer possibility across a wide range of media: television, music, zines, video games, mobile applications, and online spaces. The authors consider how LGBTQ representations and reception are shaped by technological affordances and constraints. Daniel Brouwer and Adela Licona address the bodily and affective challenges of transmediation in their analysis of the digitization and archiving of zines by the People of Color Zine Project (POCZP) and the Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP). Queer life has been forged as much through ingenuity, invention, and resistance as it has through the erotics of non-normative sexualities, and no less now than in earlier eras of communication technologies.
