‘The History of Sound’ Listens for Queer Stories Erased by History

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They say that history is written by the victors, but whispers of other stories usually manage to slip past. Many of us, queerer ones not among the victorious majority, have been forced to be the keepers of our own side-histories. Written in symbols and signs, glances and insinuations, we decode when we can or we invent when we’re forced to. What must have been. We become documentarians of the invisible. The sissies on the sidelines in old movies, always good for a laugh. The “old maids” and “confirmed bachelors” that litter other people’s ever-afters.

Being queer is akin to listening for frequencies that the mainstream misses. The secret dissonance laid over an even more secret

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