Rajat Singh is an essayist living in New York. His work has appeared on Catapult, LitHub, in The Gay and Lesbian Review, and forthcoming in the LA Review of Books. He is a Tin House scholar and a Lambda Literary Writing Retreat Fellow. He is working on a collection of essays on queer melancholy. Read his work at ruhjut.com.

ESSAY

Dancing Queen

By RAJAT SINGH

Queerness is longing to be connected to history, community, culture. Seeing ourselves in the past is how we imagine ourselves in the future.