Michael Sam's Big Gay Kiss: A Memory of Queer Fantasy.

In this essay, I interrogate the performative rhetoric around Michael Sam after his big gay kiss was aired live on 2014's NFL's (National Football League) draft. Specifically, I argue that Sam has been used to deflect, deny, disavow, and/or minimize the continuities of racism, (hetero)sexism, and homophobia. However, Sam has also served as a temporal moment of queer transgression in NFL. Thus, my goal is to rewrite Sam's intersectional performance of big gay kiss event as a queer cultural production of memory that resists the logics of heteronormativity for the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]