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Is the United States a heterosexual regime? If it is, how may we understand the political position of those who cannot or will not align themselves with heterosexuality? With these provocative questions, Shane Phelan raises the issue of whether lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgendered people can be seen as citizens at all. Can citizenship be made queer? Or does citizenship require the exclusion of those who are regarded as queer to preserve the "equality" that it promises? In Sexual Strangers, Shane Phelan argues that, in the United States, queers are strangers -- not exactly the

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- I. Queer Identities -- 1. Critically Queer -- 2. True or False: The Self in Radical Lesbian Feminist Theory -- 3. Dichotomies and Displacement: Bisexuality in Queer Theory and Politics -- 4. Lesbians and Mestizas: Appropriation and Equivalence -- II. Queer Critiques -- 5. Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Queer Translating, -- 6. The Centering of Right-Wing Extremism Through the Construction of an "Inclusionary" Homophobia and Racism -- 7. Community, Rights Talk, and the Communitarian Dissent in Bowers v. Hardwick -- 8. Essentialism and the Political Articulation of Identity -- III. Queer Agendas -- 9. Intimacy and Equality: The Question of Lesbian and Gay Marriage -- 10. Politics, Practices, Publics: Identity and Queer Rights -- 11. Queer Problems/Straight Solutions: The Limits of a Politics of "Official Recognition".