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Sex, secularism, and the "war on terrorism" : the role of sexuality in multi-issue organizing / Janet R. Jakobsen -- Freedom and the racialization of intimacy : Lawrence v. Texas and the emergence of queer liberalism / David L. Eng -- "No atheists in the foxhole" : toward a radical queer politics in a post-9/11 world / Sharon P. Holland -- Queer love in the time of war and shopping / Martin F. Manalansan IV -- Who needs civil liberties? / Richard Meyer -- The relevance of race for the study of sexuality / Roderick A. Ferguson -- The present future of lesbian historiography / Valerie Traub -- Deviant teaching / David M. Halperin -- After Sontag : future notes on camp / Ann Pellegrini -- Queer spectrality : haunting the past / Carla Frecerro -- The desire for gender / Robyn Wiegman -- Methodologies of trans resistance / Dean Spade -- The history of aphallia and the intersexual challenge to sex/gender / Vernon A. Rosario -- Gesture and utterance : fragments from a butch femme archive / Juana Maria Rodriguez -- Queer belongings : kinship theory and queer theory / Elizabeth Freeman -- Forgetting family : queer alternatives to Oedipal relations / Judith Halberstam -- Between friends / Jennifer Doyle -- Queer regions : locating lesbians in Sancharram / Gayatri Gopinath -- The light that never goes out : butch intimacies and sub-urban sociabilities in "lesser Los Angeles" / Karen Tongson -- "Serious innovation" : an interview with Judith Butler / Jordana Rosenberg -- Materiality, pedagogy, and queer visibility / Amy Villarejo -- Melos, Telos, and me : transpositions of identity in the rock musical / James Tobias -- Promising complicities : on the Sex, Race, and Globalization Project / Miranda Joseph, David Rubin -- Queerness as horizon : utopian hermeneutics in the face of gay pragmatism / Jose Esteban Muñoz

AbstractThe process of social differentiation, or the process of creating boxes in which we can place other people and in which we can place ourselves, is key to the existence and persistence of social inequality. The focus of this article is on the construction and maintenance of boxes and boundaries with respect to sex, gender and sexuality. We take the existence of these boxes and boundaries for granted, organizing our lives around them in a variety of ways. Exceptions to them call our categorizations and the decisions we make based upon them into question. Particularly interesting in this context are intersexuality, transgender and bisexuality. Intersexuality, transgender and bisexuality have in common the fact that they challenge our easy reliance on categories and the boundaries between those categories. Our responses to, treatment of and understanding of these exceptions provides striking insights into our system of boxes and boundaries and, correspondingly, to sex‐, gender‐ and sexuality‐based inequalities.

Detailed study of microcommunities of transgender sex workers in Guadalajara and San Francisco reveals a close relationship between migratory motives, economic aspirations, and sexuality. The resonance of both cities as "gay meccas" in their respective nation-states provides a background for the operation of these imagined sites of tolerance in transgender sex workers' lives. Migration is gendered and sexualized, and, despite infra-structural support in San Francisco, these workers find more holistic support "at home."