Locating Queer Rhetorics: Mapping as an Inventional Method

2015 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 96-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don Unger ◽  
Fernando Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Queer Rhetorics

Working Closets: Mapping Queer Professional Discourses and Why Professional Communication Studies Need Queer Rhetorics

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew B. Cox
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Cultural Rhetorics ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
Queer Rhetorics ◽  
Retail Company ◽  
Cultural Turn

This article examines the importance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rhetorical approaches in professional communication theory, introducing the theory of working closets as central to understanding how LGBT professionals navigate and succeed. The author presents case studies of LGBT professionals at the headquarters of a national discount retail company as examples of working closets and asks what the implications are for professional communication studies. He also looks at the need to learn from and through queer rhetorics, cultural rhetorics, and social justice frameworks, especially given the cultural turn of professional communication studies in the early 21st century.

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