activism: AIDS, 9, 14–16, 30, 156, 171–72, 173–74, 188–95, 199–202
antiwar, 13
queer, 3, 33, 152–53, 167, 169, 171–72, 173–74, 176, 178–80, 204, 205, 212–13, 219 n. 20, 221 n. 8. See also ACT UP; Black Panthers; Chicano movement; civil rights movement; Daughters of Bilitis; Gay Activists Alliance; Gay Liberation Front; Lesbian Avengers; Mattachine Society; Queer Nation; Radicalesbians; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Young Lords
ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), 3–4, 9, 15–16, 20, 30, 156, 173, 178, 180, 191–94, 203, 205, 206, 217 n. 8, 218 n. 14, 235–36 n. 20, 236 n. 21
Adam, Barry, 217 n. 9, 220 nn. 1, 2
Advocate, The, 209, 218–19 n. 18
Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing (McKinley and Delaney), 56–57, 221 n. 8
African American studies: theories of signification, 30, 69–70, 79–82, 85–90, 93, 95–97, 102, 111–13, 114–15, 224 nn. 2, 3, 225 n. 11, 225–26 n. 13, 226 nn. 14, 17, 227 n. 20. See also Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. Kenan; queer trickster
AIDS: in Angels in America, 157–59, 162–63, 164, 170–74, 175, 176, 233–34 n. 10
“degaying” of, 235–36 n. 20
and medical waste, 181, 235 n. 16
in People in Trouble, 156, 181, 188–95, 199–202
and political rebirth, 14–16
quilt, 174
and the radical right, 212
and renaissance discourse, 3, 5, 8–9, 216 n. 7, 217 n. 8
in Silverlake Life, 222 n. 16
AIDS activist, as identity, 4, 30, 31, 128, 155–56, 159, 171–72, 173–74, 178–80, 188–95, 199–202, 213
Alarcon, Norma, 230 n. 8
Alcoff, Linda, 34–35, 52–53, 55, 56
Alexander, Elizabeth, 62
Allison, Dorothy, 64, 224 n. 2, 235 n. 14
Altman, Dennis, 14
American Psychiatric Association (APA), 14, 32, 220 n. 2
American Renaissance (New England Renaissance), 1, 5–6, 7
Angels in America: Broadway production of, 170, 177, 232 n. 3
Royal George Theatre (Chicago) production of, 162, 164–65, 166–67, 172, 174, 232 n. 3
Station Theater (Urbana, Ill.) production of, 233 n. 7
Tel Aviv production of, 232 n. 4
Anzaldúa, Gloria, ix, 22, 28, 116–18, 168, 210, 230 nn. 7, 8, 9, 10, 230–31 n. 11, 231 nn. 14, 15, 233 n. 6
Borderlands/La Frontera, 30, 116, 125, 128–31, 132–47, 148–49, 149–50, 151, 153, 219 n. 21
“Bridge, Drawbridge, Sandbar or Island: Lesbians-of-Color Hacienda Alianzas,” 147–48, 152, 153, 154
“La conciencia de la mestiza/Towards a New Consciousness,” 128, 136, 139–42, 143–46, 148–49, 149
Friends from the Other SidelAmigos del otro lado, 131–32
“The Homeland, Aztlán/El otro México,” 129–31, 132–39, 145
Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras, 153, 231 n. 16, 232 n. 17
“La Prieta,” 141, 143, 146, 213, 232 n. 17
and queerness, 116–17, 128, 142–53, 221 n. 8
“To(o) Queer the Writer—Loca, escritora y chicana,” 145–46, 147, 148, 151–53, 208–9. See also borders; new mestiza; This Bridge Called My Back
Ashbery, John, 223 n. 20
Baker, Houston, 227–28 n. 25
Baker, Rob, 171, 173, 233 n. 8
Bakhtin, Mikhail, 90
Baldwin, James, 46, 47–50, 111–13, 227 n. 23, 228 n. 26
The Fire Next Time, 111–12, 225–26 n. 13
Giovanni’s Room, 63, 69, 222 n. 18
Go Tell It on the Mountain, 79–82, 97, 98, 225 nn. 11, 12, 13, 226 n. 17
Just Above My Head, 49, 226 n. 13
Bannon, Ann, 223 n. 2
Beyond Queer, 28
A Place at the Table, 206–7, 209, 212, 213, 219 n. 19
Beam, Joseph, 62
In the Life, 49, 218 n. 13, 225 n. 8
Beatles, the, 186
Becquer, Marcos, 70–73, 75, 76, 85, 224 nn. 5, 7, 235 n. 19
Behrens, Bill, 38
Bellamy, Dodie, 29
Bell Curve, The (Herrnstein and Murray), 209–12
Benjamin, Walter, 169, 192, 233 n. 5
Gaiety Transfigured, 24, 47–48
Berlant, Lauren, 126
Bill Whitehead Memorial Award, 66
bisexuality, 128, 156, 180–87, 202, 236 n. 22
Bishop, Elizabeth, 223 n. 20
Bloom, Allan, 216 n. 7
Bloom, Harold, 159, 163, 232 n. 2
Book-of-the-Month Club, 2, 222–23 n. 18
borders: academic, 30, 117, 118, 124–28
and border guards, 30, 117–18, 119, 128, 130, 131–32, 134, 137, 148, 149–50, 208–9
and Chicana/o theory, 116–17, 122–24, 141, 230 n. 8
and queer theory, 116–17, 123, 124–28
United States–Mexican, 30, 117, 118–22, 129–41, 176. See also Anzaldúa; Kerouac
Boyd, Blanche McCrary, 224 n. 2
Bram, Christopher, 235 n. 14
Brown, John, 24
Brown, Rita Mae, 215 n. 1, 222 n. 18
Brownworth, Victoria, 64
Bryant, Anita, 15
Bulkin, Elly, 218 n. 13
Burroughs, William S., 29
butch/femme identities, 88, 183–84, 217 n. 11
Butler, Judith, 83, 219 n. 20, 233 n. 6
Bodies That Matter, 150–51, 152–53, 229–30 n. 7
Gender Trouble, 87–88, 103, 185–86, 189–90
Calderón, Héctor, 123
canons: American, 116; lesbian and gay, 62–66, 222–23 n.18
Carlston, Erin G., 221 n. 8
Cervantes, Lorna Dee, 22
Chalfant, Kathleen, 170
Chelsea House Publishers, 228 n. 26
Chesley, Robert, 233 n. 8
Chicano movement (El Movimiento), 17–20, 22, 23, 218 n. 17
Chicano Renaissance, 5, 17–20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 217 n. 10, 230 n. 9
Chicano/a studies, 122–24, 135, 141, 145, 229 n. 5, 230 nn. 8, 9. See also borders
Christianity: Fundamentalist, 69, 75, 77–78, 79–82, 105
revisions of, 77–78, 82, 93, 94, 106–12, 225–26 n. 13, 227 nn. 23, 24. See also Baldwin; Kenan
civil rights movement, 13, 32, 120, 220 n. 3
Clark, Danae, 229 n. 6
Clinton, Bill, vii, 218 n. 18
Clum, John, 155, 165–66, 170, 172
Cohen, Ed, 39, 64, 72, 227 n. 19
Cohn, Roy, 157, 158, 160, 167, 170, 176, 233–34 n. 10
Colette, 223 n. 20
Colorado, 211
Combahee River Collective, 47
and apositionality, 40–46, 66–67
and collective identity, 32–33, 52–57, 59–62, 66–68
critiques of, 33, 35–39, 220–21 n. 6, 221 n. 7
and positionality theory, 33, 35–39, 52–53, 55–57, 60–62, 66–68. See also coming-out stories
coming-out stories, 29–30, 33, 36, 37–39, 40–46, 50–51, 52–53, 62, 67–68, 221 n. 7, 223 n. 2. See also Lorde; White
confession, 76–78, 97–111, 226 n. 18
Congress, United States, vii, 25–26, 218 n. 18
Cooper, Dennis, 5, 29, 216 n. 4
Cortés, Hernán, 135
Cowan, Patricia, 60
Crimp, Douglas, 8–9, 177–78, 188–89, 191–92, 203, 216 nn. 3, 7, 217 n. 8, 222 n. 16, 233 n. 8, 235 n. 15
Crossing Press Feminist Series, 52, 62
cultural studies, 5–6, 124, 126
Cunningham, Michael, 235 n. 14
Daily Prayer Book/Ha-Siddur Ha-Shalem, 164
Daughters, Inc., 215 n. 1
Daughters of Bilitis (DOB), 12, 208
Davis, Madeline D., 12, 217 n. 9
deconstruction, 70–73, 160, 168–69, 170, 171, 196–97, 200, 233 n. 6
Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), vii
Delaney, L. Joyce, 56
de Lauretis, Teresa, 120, 178, 219 n. 20, 229 n. 3, 231 n. 17
D’Emilio, John, 10–17, 73, 220 n. 5
Making Trouble, 10–16, 36, 217 n. 9, 220 nn. 1, 2, 5
Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities, 10–12, 208, 217 n. 9, 220 n. 2
Derrida, Jacques, 200
Details, 126
Deutsche, Rosalyn, 192, 195, 197–98
Dewan, Shaila, 218 n. 14
Dhairyam, Sagri, 55, 221–22 n. 13
Dhaliwal, Amarpal, 231 n. 14
Dickens, Charles: A Christmas Carol, 74, 79, 84, 88, 95–96, 225 n. 11, 226 nn. 14, 17
Donne, John, 104
Stonewall, 67, 217 n. 9, 220 nn. 1, 3
DuBois, W. E. B., 21
Duggan, Lisa, 41–42, 77–78, 124–25, 126, 211, 216 n. 3, 217–18 n. 13, 219 n. 20, 232 n. 17
Duke, David, 212
Edelman, Lee, 216 n. 3, 226 n. 13
Elders, Joycelyn, 26, 218–19 n. 18
Eliot, T.S., 196
Enríquez, Evangelina, 135
essentialism, 36–37, 40, 41–42, 47, 53, 56, 68, 127, 132
feminism, 17, 215 n. 1, 229–30 n. 7
and gay and lesbian politics, 14–15, 152–53
and the New Left, 120
and positionality theory, 29, 33–35, 37–39, 52, 55–56, 68, 220 n. 4, 221 n. 8
and race, 23, 35, 123–24, 148, 151–53, 218 n. 13, 229 n. 3, 230 nn. 8, 10, 231 nn. 13, 14, 231–32 n. 17
radical, 13, 16, 32–33, 220 nn. 2, 4
Fink, John, 207
Firbank, Ronald, 223 n. 20
Flight of the Mind, 1
Flowers, Reg, 174
Forbes, Malcolm, 27
Fordyce, Kent, 46
Foster, Jodie, 27
Foucault, Michel, 99–101, 224 n. 6, 226–27 n. 18, 227 n. 20
Franklin, C. L., 99, 227 n. 18
Franklin, John Hope, 99, 227 n. 18
Fraser, Brad, 233 n. 7
Fraser, Steven, 210
Frazier, Demita, 61
Freedman, Diane, 134
Freedman, Estelle B., 73
Freixas, Claudio, 134
Freud, Sigmund, 99
Friedman, Peter, 222 n. 16
Fung, Richard, 22
Fuss, Diana, 72
Gates, David, 2
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., 69–70, 75, 96, 112–13, 115, 224 n. 4, 225 n. 11
and Houston Baker, 227–28 n. 25
The Signifying Monkey, 69–70, 85–89, 93, 95, 102, 112–13, 115, 224 nn. 2, 3, 227 n. 20
“Trope of a New Negro,” 21, 218 n. 15
Gatti, José, 235 n. 19
Gay Activists Alliance (GAA), 13–14, 35–36, 208, 217 n. 12, 220 n. 2
Gay Liberation Front (GLF), 3, 10, 12–14, 16, 29, 32–33, 35–37, 208, 211, 217 n. 12, 220 nn. 2, 3
Gay Pride Day, 3–4, 24, 206–7, 209
Gibson, William, 226 n. 17
Giroux, Henry, 124, 125–26, 230 n. 8, 231 n.15
Goldman, Emma, 127
Goldstein, Richard, 9
Gomez, Jewelle, 222 n. 17, 223 n. 19
Gonzales, Rodolfo “Corky”: I Am Joaquin/Yo Soy Joaquin, 18–20, 22
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 172–73
Graham, Bobbie Jean, 60
Gronniosaw, Ukawsaw, 102
Gunderson, Steve, 26, 218 n. 18
Gurganus, Allan, 222 n. 16, 224 n. 2
Halperin, David, 216 n. 3
Haraway, Donna, 34–35, 37, 39, 43, 50, 52, 56, 61, 220 n. 4
Harding, Sandra, 220 n. 4
Harlem Renaissance (New Negro Renaissance), 1, 5, 17, 20–22, 23, 24, 216 n. 2, 218 n. 15
Harper, Phillip Brian, 126, 229 n. 6
Hawaii, vii–viii
Hawaiian Renaissance, 24, 218 n. 16
Hay, Harry, 10–11
Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of, 89, 226 n. 15
Hemphill, Essex: Brother to Brother, 47, 218 n. 13
Herrnstein, Richard J., 209–12
heterosexuality: black gay critiques of, 71–73
instability of, 87–88, 98–106, 168, 180–87, 195, 200, 226–27 n–228 n. 1
invention of, 210–12
and mobility, 117, 119, 147–48, 154–55, 231 n. 14
and queer perestroika, 175–77. See also queer trickster
Hill, Anita, 218 n. 18
hipsters, 117–18, 118–22, 124, 126–27, 128, 130, 136, 137, 139, 147, 150, 151–52, 153–54, 196, 231 n. 15, 232 n. 17. See also Kerouac
Hirsch, E.D., 216 n. 7
Holleran, Andrew, 48, 49, 224 n. 2
Holt, Shelley, 233 n. 7
homelessness, 181, 187, 190, 191–93, 197–99, 201
Howard, Ronnie, 203
Hubbard, Jim, 194
Hull, Gloria T., 218 n. 13, 221 n. 8, 229 n. 3, 231 n. 13
Hunter, Nan, 217–18 n. 13
Hurston, Zora Neale, 112–13
identity politics, 37, 72, 227 n. 22
Immigration and Naturalization Service, U.S., 131
Indiana, Gary, 202, 203, 236 n. 23
individualism, 36, 56, 160, 167, 170, 174–78, 206–7, 213, 233 n. 9, 234–35 n. 13
InQueery/InTheory/InDeed Conference, 219 n. 21
invisibility, 39–40, 42–46, 66, 66–67, 221 n. 10
Isherwood, Christopher, 223 n. 20
Jackson, Jr., Earl, 35, 222 n. 16
Jagose, Annamarie, 140, 230–31 n. 11
James, Henry, 223 n. 18
Jay, Karla, 220 n. 2
Johnson, Charles, 21
Jones, Joyce, 131
Joslin, Tom, 222 n. 16
Julien, Isaac, 22
Jung, Carl, 99
Justice, U.S. Department of, 131
Kameny, Franklin, 220 n. 1
Kaplan, Carla, 21
Katz, Jonathan Ned: The Invention of Heterosexuality, 210–12
Keating, AnnLouise, 54
and James Baldwin, 79–82, 97, 98, 111–13, 225 nn. 11, 13, 226 n. 17, 227 n. 23, 228 n. 26
and Charles Dickens, 74, 79, 84, 88, 95–96, 225 n. 11, 226 nn. 14, 17
and critique of community, 69–71, 73, 74–75, 82–93
and disruption of heterosexuality, 95, 98–106
Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, 94, 113–15, 225 n. 10, 228 nn. 27, 28
and transformation of community, 75, 78–79, 93–97, 99, 106–12, 114–15, 141
A Visitation of Spirits, 30, 69–71, 73–113, 114, 115, 143, 225nn. 9, 10, 225–26 n. 13, 226 nn. 14, 17, 226–27 n.18, 227 nn. 22, 24, 228 n.27, 235 n. 18. See also queer trickster
Kennedy, Elizabeth Lapovsky, 12, 217 n. 9
Kerouac, Jack, 126
On the Road, 116–22, 123, 124, 125, 126, 126–27, 130, 135, 136, 137, 147, 153–54
The Subterraneans, 228 n. 1, 229 n. 4
Killian, Kevin, 29
King, Edward, 235–36 n. 20
King, Larry, 218 n. 18
Kissack, Terence, 13, 217 n. 9, 220 n. 2
Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, 60–62
Klee, Paul, 233 n. 5
Kramer, Larry, 48, 49, 233 n. 8, 235 n. 14
Kushner, Tony, 126, 179, 202–3, 233 n.5, 235 n. 14
Angels in America, 30, 155–78, 179, 180, 189, 202, 203, 204, 231 n. 14, 232 nn. 1, 2, 233–34 n. 10, 234 n. 11
criti–cal response to, 155, 171–72, 175–77, 234 nn. 10, 12
“Notes Toward a Theater of the Fabulous,” 169, 171
and queer activism, 156, 167–68, 171–72, 173–74, 176, 178–79, 204
and queer perestroika, 30, 155–56, 159, 160, 170–71, 171–73, 175–78, 204, 222 n. 16
and queer sexuality, 159, 160–63, 164–66, 168–72, 177–78, 233 n. 8
“A Socialism of the Skin,” 234–35 n. 13
Thinking about the Longstand–ing Problems of Virtue and Happiness, 179, 233 n. 9. See also AIDS activist, asidentity
Labonte, Richard, 215 n. 1
Lacan, Jacques, 85
Lambda Book Report, 215 n. 1, 221 n. 7
Lambda Literary Awards, 1, 155, 215 n. 1
Larsen, Nella, 216 n. 2
Lehmann–Haupt, Christopher, 207, 221 n. 10
lesbian and gay studies, 210–12, 217 n. 9. See also literary studies; queer theory
Lesbian Avengers, 16, 218 n. 14
lesbian chic, 126
LeVay, Simon, 209
The Sexual Brain, 207–12
Lewis, David Levering, 218 n. 15
Liebman, Marvin, 37
Lincoln, Kenneth, 218 n. 16
literary studies, 124–25, 215–16 n. 2
lesbian and gay, 1, 2–3, 47–50, 62–66, 215 n. 1, 235 n. 14. See also renaissance discourse
Livingston, Jennie: Paris Is Burning, 71, 235 n. 19
Locke, Alain, 21
Log Cabin Republicans, 206, 219 n. 19
Lorde, Audre, 28, 41, 47, 65–66, 205, 221–22 n. 13, 222 n. 17, 223 nn. 19, 20, 21, 230 n. 13
“Brother Alvin,” 62
Chosen Poems—Old and New, 53, 57–60, 146, 222 n. 15
“Dear Joe,” 62
memorial service, 222 n. 14
“Need: A Choral of Black Women’s Voices,” 59–62, 67, 147, 205, 223 n. 19
Our Dead Behind Us, 221 n. 8
Sister Outsider, 63, 213, 218 n. 13, 222 n. 18
“What Is at Stake in Lesbian and Gay Publishing Today,” 66, 218 n. 13
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, 29–30, 33, 39, 43, 51–57, 58, 59, 60, 62, 67, 68, 70, 75, 141, 175, 216 n. 2, 219 n. 21, 221 n. 8, 222 n. 18, 236 n. 20. See also Zami, as identity
Maddy, Yulisa Amadu, 49
Malinche, La, 135–36
Mann, Thomas, 223 n. 20
Mann, William J., 215 n. 1
Marco, Tony, 211
Marcus, Leah S., 7–8
marginality, 39–40, 42, 72–73, 78–79, 95, 115, 126, 128, 147, 219 n. 21, 221 n. 10, 229 n. 6, 230 n. 8, 231 n. 15, 232 n. 3
and New Queer Writers, 29
and region, 30, 69, 73, 75, 87, 90, 99, 115
and renaissance discourse, 6–10
marriage, gay and lesbian, vii–viii
Martin, Biddy, 37, 51, 218 n. 13
Martin, Robert K., 48
Marx, Karl, 178
Massi, Mark, 222 n. 16
Mattachine Society, 3, 10–11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 208, 211, 220 n. 1
Maupin, Armistead, 223–24 n. 2
McKenna, Teresa, 123
McKinley, Catherine E., 56–57
McRuer, Robert, 112, 224 n. 7, 225 n. 9, 227 n. 22
Men Stopping Rape, 61
Mercer, Kobena, 50, 105–6, 227 n. 22
Merrill, James, 223 n. 20
migration, urban: in gay and lesbian literature, 69–70, 89, 115, 223–24 n. 2
Mikulski, Barbara, 25, 218 n. 18
Miller, D. A., 216 n. 7
Miller, Tim, 217 n. 8
Minson, Jeffrey, 37
Mirande, Alfredo, 135
modernism, 24, 195–97, 201, 203
Modern Language Association (MLA), 63, 124
Moraga, Cherríe, 47, 123–24, 146–47, 213, 230–31 n. 11
The Last Generation, 23–24, 145, 218 n. 17. See also This Bridge Called My Back
Mordden, Ethan, 224 n. 2
Playing in the Dark, 44, 45; Sula, 43
Morton, Donald, 127–28
MTV, 126
Muñoz, Carlos, Jr., 19
Murray, Charles, 209–12
Murrieta, Joaquin, 19–20
National Black Men’s Health Network, 61
National Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays (NCBLG), 61
National Coming Out Day, 38
Native American Renaissance, 24, 218 n. 16
Nazi Germany, 20
Nelson, Emmanuel, 49–50, 215 n. 1, 225 n. 12
neoconservatism, gay, 30–31, 206–13, 219 n–19, 234–35 n. 13
Nero, Charles I., 225
new historicism, 5–6
new mestiza, 4, 31, 130–36, 139–54, 168, 213, 230 n. 10
and agency, 149–53
and critical mobility, 30, 117, 125, 128, 140–41, 147–48, 150, 154, 231 n. 14
New Negro identity, 20–21, 218 n. 15
New Queer Writers, 5, 25–31, 203, 216 n. 4, 236 n. 3
New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film Festival, 194
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), 117, 228–29 n.2
North Carolina, 30, 69, 70–71, 73, 75–79, 90–93, 94, 113, 176, 222 n. 16, 228 n. 27.See also Kenan
Norton and Company, W. W., 60, 62
Novazcek, Ruth, 28
Oakland Men’s Project, 61
Ochs, Robyn, 219 n. 20
Okazawa–Rey, Margo, 61
Other Countries, 1
Out/Look, 216 n. 3
OutWrite Conference, 179
Oyá, 135
Paredes, Americo, 122–23
Paz, Octavio, 135
Pease, Donald E., 5–6
Penthouse, 49
performativity, 30, 87–88, 103–4, 127–28, 136, 146–47, 150–53, 155–56, 159, 167, 168–69, 173–75, 178–79, 182
Phelan, Shane, 219 n. 20, 230 n. 10
Pittsburgh, 6
postmodernism, 89, 127, 156, 180, 196–97, 203
poststructuralism, 3, 52–53, 58, 70–73, 200. See also deconstruction
Pratt, Minnie Bruce, 218 n. 13
Preston, John, 221 n. 7
Proust, Marcel, 223 n. 20
public art, 179–80, 195, 197–99, 200–202
Pynchon, Thomas, 63
Quality Paperback Book Club (QPB), 63
Quarles, Benjamin, 99, 227 n. 18
queer, as concept, 16, 22, 24, 25–29, 82, 115, 128, 142–45, 147, 150–53, 167, 176, 186, 216 n. 3, 219 n. 20, 221 n. 8, 232 n. 17
queer identities, 3–4, 16–17, 126, 128, 141, 155–56, 159, 167–68, 173–74, 176, 177–78, 178–80, 183–87, 204, 205–6, 208, 212–13, 218–19 n. 18, 221 n. 8, 224 n. 2., 233 n. 6, 235 n. 19. See also AIDS activist, as identity; new mestiza; queer trickster; Zami, as identity
Queer Nation, 16, 145, 173, 206, 213, 216 n. 3
Queer Renaissance: and biology, 30–31, 206, 207–13
and Chicano Renaissance, 5, 17–20, 22, 23–24
as confluence of cultural production and political analysis, 4, 9–10, 17, 156, 167, 205, 213
and cultural production, viii, 1–3, 155, 213, 215 n. 1
and Harlem Renaissance, 5, 17, 20–22, 23, 24
and gay neoconservatism, 30–31, 206–13
and lesbian and gay marketplace, 65–66;
and radical queer political analysis, viii, 3, 5, 167–68
and region, 73, 115, 176, 223–24 n. 2
and reinvention of identity, 3–4, 16, 38–39, 51, 53, 62, 123, 141, 149, 156, 167–68, 170, 176, 177–78, 189, 205, 206, 213, 217 n. 9, 221 n. 8
and This Bridge Called My Back, 123–24, 153, 221 n. 8, 231–32 n. 17
“Queers Bash Back,” 213
queer theory, 213, 216 n. 3, 219 nn. 20, 21, 220 n. 4, 222 n. 13, 231 n. 16, 232 n. 17
and identity, 3, 16–17, 213, 221 n. 8
staging of, 155, 159, 166, 171–72, 175–78, 178–79, 204
queer trickster, 4, 30, 31, 70, 75, 78–79, 86–88, 93–97, 98, 100, 105, 114–15, 128, 141, 213
Quiñones, Tirsa, 146–47
Quintana, Alvina E., 231–32 n. 17
race: and coming–out stories, 33, 36, 40, 41–46, 50–51
and essentialism, 40, 41–42, 47
and gay male literary criticism, 47–50
and the Justice Department, 131
and lesbian and gay politics, 15, 71–73, 152–53, 218 n. 13
and lesbian and gay anthologies, 28, 46–47, 153
and lesbian and gay awards, 66, 179
and the New Left, 120
and positionality theory, 35
and queerness, 27–29, 151–53, 213, 219 n. 21, 221 n. 8
and scientific racism, 209–12. See also African American studies, Chicano/a studies, feminism, new mestiza, whiteness
Radicalesbians, 32–33, 37, 220 n. 2
Raiskin, Judith, 142, 231 n. 12
Rauch, Jonathan, 207
Reagan, Ronald, 9, 157, 175, 191, 234 nn. 10, 12
region: and queerness, 30, 69–70, 72–73, 115, 176, 223–24 n. 2
and whiteness, 43–44, 46. See also borders; Hawaii; North Carolina; urban space
Renaissance, the (Italian and English Renaissance), 1, 7–8
Renaissance Center (Detroit), 6–7, 216 n. 5
renaissance discourse, 3, 4–5, 5–10, 17, 149, 217 n. 8
Riggs, Marlon: Tongues Untied, 71–72, 235 n. 19
Robertson, Hannah, 165
Rodwell, Craig, 67
Rolston, Adam, 191–92, 203, 235 n. 15
Roman, David, 178–79, 233 n. 8
Roseanne, 219 n. 18
Ruta, Suzanne, 89
Saalfield, Catherine, 236 n. 21
Sadownick, Doug, 217 n. 8
Saldívar, José David, 123, 229 n. 5
Sandoval, Chela, 56, 231 nn. 13, 14, 17
Schulman, Sarah, ix, 38, 221 n. 7, 235 n. 14
and artistic identity, 156, 179–80, 190–91, 195–202, 202–3
and film and video production, 193–94
My American History, 14–15, 205, 218 n. 14, 228 n. 1, 236 n. 22
and New Queer Writers, 216 n. 4, 236 n. 23
People in Trouble, 30, 156, 179–202, 202–3, 204, 216 n. 5, 231 n. 14, 236 n. 22
and political identity, 156, 179–80, 187–95, 197, 199, 200
and sexual identity, 156, 179, 180–87, 190, 199, 200. See also AIDS activist, as identity
Scott, Patricia Bell, 218 n. 13, 229 n. 3, 231 n. 13
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, 17, 24, 127, 219 n. 20
Epistemology of the Closet, 1, 81, 89, 98–99, 101, 104, 215 n. 2, 227 n. 21, 233 n. 6
Tendencies, 3–4, 22–23, 25, 226 n. 15
Sherrill, Robert, 233 n. 10
Signorile, Michelangelo, 25–28
Queer in America, 25–27, 218–19 n. 18
“Silence = Death,” 20
Smith, Barbara, 47, 51–52, 61, 218 n. 13, 221 n. 12, 229 n. 3, 231 n. 13
Smith, Bessie, 21
Smith, Neil, 216 n. 5, 235 n. 17
Smith, Sidonie, 136
snapping, 71–72, 76, 86, 224 n. 5
Somerville, Siobhan, 209, 231 n. 12
Stonewall Inn Riots, 1, 10, 13, 32, 66–67, 220 nn. 1, 3
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 120
suicide: gay and lesbian, 69, 70, 74, 82, 86, 88–90, 92–93, 95–97, 210–11, 226 nn. 15, 16
Sullivan, Andrew, 206, 234 n. 13
Supreme Court, U.S., 26, 211, 218 n. 18
Swift, Carolyn, 162, 164–65, 166–67
Taylor, Elizabeth, 8
Teatro Campesino, 19, 217 n. 10, 230 n. 9
Texas Rangers, 122–23
This Bridge Called My Back (Moraga and Anzaldúa), 123–24, 135, 141, 143, 146, 153, 213, 218 n. 13, 219 n. 21, 221 n. 8, 230 n. 8, 231 n. 13, 231–32 n. 17
Thomas, Clarence, 26, 218 n. 18
Tompkins Square Park Riots, 181, 188, 235 n. 17
Toomer, Jean, 21
transsexuality, 185–86
Treichler, Paula, 194
Trinh T. Minh–ha, 55–56
Trump, Donald, 179, 191–92, 235 n. 15
Tucker, Scott, 175–77, 234 n.10
Tytell, John, 121
urban space, 6–7, 197–99, 201–2, 216 nn. 5, 6
USA Today, 46, 52 Valdes, Gina, 144
Valdéz, Luis, 19, 217 n. 10, 230 n. 9
Vance, Carole S., 211
Van Leer, David, 38
Violet Quill Club, 1
vogueing, 71–72, 76, 85, 86, 224 n. 5, 235 n. 19
Walker, Alice, 112–13
Warner, Michael, 16–17, 115, 126
Washington, Mary Helen, 112
Wattenburg, Bill, 117
Webb, Walter Prescott, 122–23
West, Cornel, 227 n. 23
White, Edmund, 53, 55, 62–67, 222 n. 17
and gay male literary criticism, 47–51
The Beautiful Room Is Empty, 32, 34, 38, 39, 63, 66–67, 220 n. 3, 222 n. 18, 223 n. 21, 224 n. 2
A Boy’s Own Story, 2, 22, 29–30, 33, 39–46, 47, 50–51, 52, 62, 63, 67–68, 221 nn. 7, 9, 10, 222–23 n. 18
The Burning Library, 41, 221 n. 8
The Faber Book of Gay Short Stories, 38, 46–47, 50–51
The Farewell Symphony, 39
Nocturnes for the King of Naples, 48, 65
“Twenty Years On,” 65–66, 223 n. 20
whiteness, 28, 29–30, 35, 36, 37, 40–51, 119–22, 131–32, 151–53, 221 n. 10, 222 n. 16, 230 n. 10, 231 nn. 14, 15, 16
Wilson, Anna, 65
Close to the Knives, 26–27
Fuck You Faggot Fucker, 27
Wood, Robin, 228 n. 1 Woolf, Virginia, 223 n. 20
Yarbro–Bejarano, Yvonne, 230 n. 9
Zami, as identity, 4, 29–30, 31, 55–57, 128, 141, 153, 175, 213
Zwiclder, Phil, 217 n. 8