I am grateful for books, comments, and conversations to Peter Burton, Alex Evans, John Fletcher, Gowan Hewlett, Ann Rosalind Jones, Vicky Lebeau, Linda Logie, David Marriott, Vincent Quinn, Nick Rees-Roberts, David Rogers, Lynne Segal, Mark Sinfield, Peter Stallybrass, Chris West; students on the Sexual Dissidence and Cultural Change program at the University of Sussex. They are not responsible for the ideas.
Parts of this book have appeared in other forms in Critical Inquiry and GLQ (Gay and Lesbian Quarterly); Richard Phillips, Diane Watt, and David Shuttleton, eds., De-centering Sexualities (London: Routledge, 2000); and David Alderson and Linda Anderson, eds., Territories of Desire in Queer Culture (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000).
Gregory Woods’s poem, “Under where Catullus toyed,” is quoted with permission from the Carcanet Press. John Minton’s painting “Painter and Model” is used on the cover with permission from the Royal College of Art and the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth, England.