• I Decking Out: Performing Identities 1 Imitation and Gender Insubordination 2 Boys Will Be Girls: The Politics of Gay Drag 3 Who Are We? Gay Identity as Political (E) motion (A Theoretical Rumination) 4 Seeing Things: Representation, the Scene of Surveillance, and the Spectacle of Gay Male Sex II Cutting Up: Specters, Spectators, Authors 5 Anal Rope 6 Female Spectator, Lesbian Specter: The Haunting 7 A Parallax View of Lesbian Authorship 8 Believing in Fairies: The Author and The Homosexual III Zoning In: Body/Parts 9 The Queen's Throat: (Homo)sexuality and the Art of Singing 10 Below the Belt: (Un)Covering The Well of Loneliness 11 Rock Hudson's Body IV Acting Up: AIDS, Allegory, Activism 12 AIDS in America: Postmodern Governance, Identity, and Experience 13 All the Sad Young Men: AIDS and the Work of Mourning 14 Undead 15 Shocking Pink Praxis: Race and Gender on the ACT UP Frontlines V Speaking Out: Teaching In 16 Visualizing Safe Sex: When Pedagogy and Pornography Collide 17 School's Out

"This is the first anthology to offer full-strength, state-of-the-art lesbian and gay theory in all its immediacy, all its sophistication. `Theory' means something new in the hands of these two generations of passionate activist/intellectuals --Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, author of Epistemology of the Closet."