Since the 1970s, social scientists have proposed and critiqued various models of queer territorialization. In general, I argue our politics and communities benefit most when we embrace the untidy polysemy of "queer" and explore the openings it provides. When I intend these specific meanings in this text, I will do my best to flag them. The word can summon all these thoughts and more, regardless of authorial intention indeed, it can carry whatever freight we readers bring to it. To be sure, other speakers and thinkers deploy "queer" with additional senses-an historical term of derision, a specific identity, a verb. What role does cruising play in marking specific areas of the urban landscape as "queer territory"? 1 For the purposes of this essay, I use the word "queer" primarily in its capacity as a contemporary umbrella term intended to include the panoply of non-normative sexual and gender identities concatenated in familiar and unpronounceable acronyms like LGBT, LGBTQ+, and LGBTQQIAA. From a variety of perspectives, and with an emphasis upon the US South, this series, edited by Eric Solomon, offers critical analysis of LGBTQ+ people, practices, spaces, and places. Queer Intersections / Southern SpacesĀ is a collection of interdisciplinary, multimedia publications that explore, trouble, and traverse intersections of queer experiences, past, present, and future.