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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Re-membering Gay Latino Studies -- Queer Theory Revisited -- Comment. It's All in Having a History -- Gay Shame, Latina-and Latino-Style: A Critique of White Queer Performativity -- Comment Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes's "Gay Shame, Latina-and Latino-Style: A Critique of White Queer Performativity" -- The Place of Gay Male Chicano Literature in Queer Chicana/o Cultural Work -- Comment. Our Queer Kin -- Carnal Knowledge: Chicano Gay Men and the Dialectics of Being -- Comment. Entre Machos y Maricones: (Re)Covering Chicano Gay Male (Hi)Stories -- Entre Hombres/Between Men: Latino Masculinities and Homosexualities -- Comment. The Material and Cultural Worlds of Latino Gay Men -- Gay Latino Cultural Citizenship: Predicaments of Identity and Visibility in San Francisco in the 1990s -- Comment A Response to "Gay Latino Cultural Citizenship" -- Feeling Brown: Ethnicity and Affect in Ricardo Bracho's The Sweetest Hangover (and Other STDs) -- Comment. Never Too Much: Queer Performance between Impossibility and Excess -- Shifting the Site of Queer Enunciation: Manuel Muñoz and the Politics of Form -- Comment. Dancing with the Devil—When the Devil Is Gay -- Choreographies of Resistance: Latino Queer Dance and the Utopian Performative -- Comment Response to "Choreographies of Resistance: Latino Queer Dance and the Utopian Performative" -- Dance Liberation -- Comment. Dance with Me -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

Being gay is not a given. Through a rigorous ethnographic inquiry into the material foundations of sexual identity, The Struggle to Be Gay makes a compelling argument for the centrality of social class in gay life-in Mexico, for example, and by extension in other places as well. Known for his writings on the construction of sexual identities, anthropologist and cultural studies scholar Roger N. Lancaster ponders four decades of visits to Mexican cities. In a brisk series of reflections combining storytelling, ethnography, critique, and razor-edged polemic, he shows, first, how economic inequality affects sexual subjects and subjectivities in ways both obvious and subtle, and, second, how what it means to be de ambiente-"on the scene" or "in the life"-has metamorphosed under changing political-economic conditions. The result is a groundbreaking intervention into ongoing debates over identity politics-and a renewal of our understanding of how identities are constructed, struggled for, and lived

John D'Emilio is one of the leading historians of his generation and a pioneering figure in the field of LGBTQ history. At times his life has been seemingly at odds with his upbringing. How does a boy from an Italian immigrant family in which everyone unfailingly went to confession and Sunday Mass become a lapsed Catholic? How does a family who worshipped Senator Joseph McCarthy and supported Richard Nixon produce an antiwar activist and pacifist? How does a family in which the word divorce was never spoken raise a son who comes to explore the hidden gay sexual underworld of New York City?Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood is D'Emilio's coming-of-age story in which he takes readers from his working-class Bronx neighborhood to an elite Jesuit high school in Manhattan to Columbia University and the political and social upheavals of the late 1960s. He shares his personal experiences of growing up in a conservative, tight-knit, multigenerational family, how he went from considering entering the priesthood to losing his faith and coming to terms with his same-sex desires. Throughout, D'Emilio outlines his complicated relationship with his family while showing how his passion for activism influenced his decision to use research, writing, and teaching to build a strong LGBTQ movement.This is not just John D'Emilio's personal story; it opens a window into how the conformist baby boom decade of the 1950s transformed into the tumultuous years of radical social movements and widespread protest during the 1960s. It is the story of what happens when different cultures and values collide and the tensions and possibilities for personal discovery and growth that emerge. Intimate and honest, D'Emilio's story will resonate with anyone who has had to chart their own path in a world they did not expect to find

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Will Victory Bring Change? A Mature Social Movement Faces the Future -- 2. Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: The Slow Forward Dance of LGBT Rights in America -- 3. Still Not Equal: A Report from the Red States -- 4. LGBT Elders: Making the Case for Equity in Aging -- 5. Marriage as Blindspot: What Children with LGBT Parents Need Now -- 6. A New Stage for the LGBT Movement: Protecting Gender and Sexual Multiplicities -- 7. A More Promiscuous Politics: LGBT Rights without the LGBT Rights -- 8. Diverging Identities: Gender Differences and LGBT Rights -- 9. What Marriage Equality Teaches Us: The Afterlife of Racism and Homophobia -- 10. Canadian LGBT Politics after Marriage -- 11. The Pitfalls of Normalization: The Dutch Case and the Future of Equality -- 12. The Power of Theory: Same-Sex Marriage, Education, and Gender Panic in France -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Dissident Sexualities/Alternative Globalisms -- 1. The Wily Homosexual (First—and Necessarily Hasty—Notes) -- 2. Dissident Globalizations, Emancipatory Methods, Social-Erotics -- 3. "There Are No Lesbians Here" -- 4. Can Homosexuals End Western Civilization As We Know It? -- 5. Family Affairs -- 6. Redecorating the International Economy -- 7. Consuming Lifestyle -- 8. Local Sites/Global Contexts -- 9. Dancing La Vida Loca -- 10. Syncretic Religion and Dissident Sexualities -- 11. Stealth Bombers of Desire -- 12. "Strangers on a Train" -- 13. Like Blood for Chocolate, Like Queers for Vampires -- About the Contributors -- About the Editors -- Index

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- ONE A Small Boy and Others: Sexual Disorientation in Henry James, Kenneth Anger, and David Lynch -- TWO Initiation into Style: In the Memory Palace of Henry James -- THREE Flaming Closets -- FOUR Screen Memories, or, Pop Comes from the Outside: Warhol and Queer Childhood -- FIVE Outlaw Sex and the "Search for America": Representing Male Prostitution and Perverse Desire in Sixties Film (My Hustler and Midnight Cowboy) -- SIX Oralia: Joseph Cornell, Hunger, Sweetness, and Women's Performances -- SEVEN Tragedy and Trash: Yiddish Theater and Queer Theater, Henry James, Charles Ludlam, Ethyl Eichelberger -- Notes -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION. Coming to Terms -- 1. The Roots of Oppression -- 2. Decriminalization and Early Gay and Lesbian Organizing -- 3. Lesbian and Gay Liberation -- 4. Police Repression and Judicial Homophobia -- 5. Raging Debates, Elusive Consensus -- 6. Backlash and Social Conservative Insurgency -- 7. Fighting against the Odds, Facing New Crises -- 8. Liberating Communities, Changing Consciousness -- 9. Victory in the Human Rights Campaigns -- 10. Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Relationships -- 11. AIDS Radicalization, Queer Nation, and Identity Politics -- 12. Queer Community Standards and Queer Spaces -- 13. Identity, Community, and Visibility at the End of the Millennium -- Conclusion: Lesbian and Gay Liberation in the Twenty-First Century -- Notes -- Illustration Credits -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Spectral Homosexual in Barbadian Feedback Media -- Chapter 2. Gender, Sexuality, and HIV/AIDS Discourses in Barbados -- Chapter 3. Whose Right? Human and Sexual Rights Discourses in Barbados -- Chapter 4. Gay Tourism and the 'Civilized' Homosexual -- Chapter 5. Bajan Queens, Nebulous Scenes -- Chapter 6. Digisex: Cellphones, Barbadian Queens, and Circuits of Desire in the Caribbean -- Chapter 7. Life Stories -- Conclusion: Flaming Souls and Imperial Debris -- Notes -- References -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Can't Be Bought or Sold? LOVE AND INTIMACY IN THE AFTERMATH OF CRISIS -- Chapter 1: "Tolerated, Not Accepted". THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF QUEER CRITIQUES -- Chapter 2: "A Normal Fag with a Job". THE COMPLICATED DESIRES OF URBAN GAYS -- Chapter 3: "Tell Me You Love Me". URBAN GAY MEN NEGOTIATE COMMODIFIED SEX -- Chapter 4: "Smarter Than You Think". SEX, DESIRE, AND LABOR AMONG HUSTLERS -- Chapter 5: "Get Off the Bus". SEX TOURISM, PATRONAGE, AND QUEER COMMODITIES -- Conclusion: Love in Crisis. THE POLITICS OF INTIMACY AND SOLIDARITY -- Notes -- References -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Rendering Real the Imagined -- 2. Within Limits, Freedom -- 3. Virtuous Women, Radical Ethics, and New Regimes of Value -- 4. Public ''Emergence'' -- 5. To Be Lawful, to Be Just -- Appendix. Cast of Organizations -- Notes -- References -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Invoking "a larger freedom" -- 1 Looking (at) "Afro-Cuba(n)" -- 2 Discursive Sleight of Hand: Race, Sex, Gender -- 3 The Erotics and Politics of Self-making -- 4 De Cierta Manera . . . Hasta Cierto Punto (One Way or Another . . . Up to a Certain Point) -- 5 Friendship as a Mode of Survival -- 6 ¡Hagamos un Chen! (We Make Change!) -- Coda: ¡Vamos a Vencer! (We Will Win!) -- Notes -- References -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Challenge of Law: Sexual Orientation, 1 Gender Identity, and Social Movements -- Part I. Social Movement Strategies and the Law -- 2. Deferral of Legal Tactics: A Global LGBT Social Movement Organization's Perspective -- 3. Queer Legal Victories: Intersectionality Revisited -- 4. Intimate Equality: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Movement's Legal Framing of Sodomy Laws in the Lawrence v. Texas Case -- 5. Deciding Under the Influence? The "One-Hit Wonders" and Organized-Interest Participation in U.S. Supreme Court Gay Rights Litigation -- 6. Parents and Paperwork: Same-Sex Parents, Birth Certificates, and Emergent Legality -- Part II. Activism, Discourse, and Legal Change -- 7. The Reform of Sodomy Laws From a World Society Perspective -- 8. Like Sexual Orientation? Like Gender? Transgender Inclusion in Nondiscrimination Ordinances -- 9. Pushing the Envelope: Dillon's Rule and Local Domestic-Partnership Ordinances -- 10. Explaining the Differences: Transgender 187 Theories and Court Practice -- Part III. Legal Symbols: Constraints and Possibilities -- 11. It Takes (at Least) Two to Tango: Fighting With Words in the Conflict Over Same-Sex Marriage -- 12. Do Civil Rights Have a Face? Reading the Iconography of Special Rights -- 13. A Jury of One's Queers: Revisiting the Dan White Trial Casey Charles -- 14. The Gay Divorcée: The Case of the Missing Argument -- Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Index

"Each of us has his tastes inscribed in his brain and heart; whether he fulfills his urges with regret or with joy, he must fulfill them. He should let others act according to their own nature. It's fate that creates us and guides us throughout our lives: to fight against it would be little more than fruitless, foolish, and reckless!"In the late 1880s, a dashing young Italian aristocrat made an astonishing confession to the novelist Émile Zola. In a series of revealing letters, he frankly described his sexual experiences with other men—including his seduction as a teenager by one of his father's friends and his first love affair, with a sergeant during his military service—as well as his "extraordinary" personality. Judging it too controversial, Zola gave it to a young doctor, who in 1896 published a censored version in a medical study on sexual inversion, as homosexuality was then known. When the Italian came across this book, he was shocked to discover how his life story had been distorted. In protest, he wrote a long, daring, and unapologetic letter to the doctor defending his right to love and to live as he wished.This book is the first complete, unexpurgated version in English of this remarkable queer autobiography. Its text is based on the recently discovered manuscript of the Italian's letter to the doctor. It also features an introduction tracing the textual history of the documents, analytical essays, and additional materials that help place the work in its historical context. Offering a striking glimpse of gay life in Europe in the late nineteenth century, The Italian Invert brings to light the powerful voice of a young man who forthrightly expressed his desires and eloquently affirmed his right to pleasure

Argues that significant barriers to family-making exist for lesbian mothers of color in the United StatesOne might be tempted, in the afterglow of Obergefell v. Hodges, to believe that the battle has been won, that gays and lesbians fought a tough fight and finally achieved equality in the United States through access to legal marriage. But that narrative tells only one version of a very complex story about family and citizenship.Queering Family Trees explores the lived experience of queer mothers in the United States, drawing on over one hundred interviews with African American, Latina, Native American, white, and Asian American lesbian mothers living in a range of socioeconomic circumstances to show how they have navigated family-making. While the legalization of same-sex marriage and adoption in 2015 has provided avenues toward equality for some couples, structural and economic barriers have meant that others—especially queer women of color who often have fewer financial resources—have not been able to access seemingly available "choices" such as second-parent adoptions, powers of attorney, and wills. Sandra Patton-Imani here argues that the virtual exclusion of lesbians of color from public narratives about LGBTQ families is crucial to maintaining the narrative that legal marriage for same-sex couples provides access to full equality as citizens. Through the lens of reproductive justice, Patton-Imani argues that the federal legalization of same-sex marriage reinforces existing structures of inequality grounded in race, gender, sexuality, and class. Queering Family Trees explores the lives of a critically erased segment of the queer population, demonstrating that the seemingly "color blind" solutions offered by marriage equality do not rectify such inequalities