Kathleen O’Mara is Professor of African and Islamic History, State University of New York (SUNY) at Oneonta, USA. Her recent research examines LGBT social practices and sexual identity in Ghana.Liz Morrish is Principal Lecturer in Linguistics at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Her research interests combine Queer Theory, linguistics and Cultural Studies.

• Contents: Kathleen O’Mara and Liz Morrish: Introduction: Queer Impact and Practices – Kyle Jackson: Imagining Homonationalism and Homophobia in Transnational Perspective: The Case of Canada and Jamaica – Enda McCaffrey: From Homographies of Invisibility to Hypervisibility: Queering and De-Queering City Centre Space – Kyle Pape: Between Queer Theory and Native Studies: A Potential for Collaboration – Anne Kustritz: Homonational, Queer Nation, Glam Nation: Adam Lambert and American National Imagery – Rebekah Delaney: Dred: How Kinging and Illusion Queer the Audience – Burkhard Scherer: Queer as Kagyu: Negotiating Dissident Identities in Neo-Orthodox Buddhist Spaces – Maria Katharina Wiedlack: «A Race Riot Did Happen!» (Shotgunseamstress 2009): Queer Punks of Color Raising Their Voices – William L. Leap: Queer Linguistics, International Perspectives and the Lavender Languages Conference: Rethinking Alterity – Elizabeth Sara Lewis: Queer Subversion or Heteronormative Reinforcement? Linguistic Performativity in the Identity Constructions of a Young, Bisexual-Identified Brazilian LGBT Activist – Julia Scholz: The Possibility of a Quantitative Queer Psychology – Donovan Lessard: Queering the Urban, Queering Ethnography: A Review of the Analytic Concept of Space in American Urban Ethnography and Queer Geography – Josefa D.B. Scherer: Queering Public Health: A Social Justice Perspective – Aleardo Zanghellini: Gay Surrogacy and Tahitian Adoption: How Queer is Queer Parenthood? – Kelley-Anne Malinen: Challenging the Male Perpetrator/Female Victim Paradigm: Thinking Gender Transgressive Rape – Joy Brooke Fairfield: Cuddle Parties™: The Queer Potential of Metonymic Space.