... discord, irony, and sub version : can "c o m ra d e s " be queer? T o g e th e r w ith a local ga y frie n d , I w e n t to a p u b lic scre e n in g o f th e p ro g ra m at a ga y bar. T h e ba r d o e s n o t have a C hinese nam e. A s its E ng lish n a m e "th e B o a t" su g g e sts, th e ba r...

... erican gay presence. Yes, there are o nly brief scenes, incidents, and descriptive passages where we can discern what might be called "traces of queerness"; and, yes, practically all the characters are Euro-Americans. But w h a t we talk about when we talk about a gay attendance in left-wing literature o...

... and respect to m y beloved Queer M inority, w hose re-discovery and re-invention has enriched and rewarded the political 2nd half of my life, I feel at last that - f o r t h e very first tim e - e v e r - l am enabled to c o m e h o m e . Thank y o u a ll for h a v in g m a d e th is im p o s s i b l e - p o...

...Michael G. Cronin Rosemary Hennessy , Fires on the Border: The Passionate Politics of Labor Organising on the Mexican Frontera ( Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2013 ). James Penney , After Queer Theory: The Limits of Sexual Politics ( London : Pluto Press...

..., and queer since the early 1990s. SeeTravis S. K. Kong, Chinese M ale Homosexualities, 14-15. 18 Lisa Rofel, Desiring China, 85-110;Travis S. K. Kong, Chinese M ale Homosexualities, 169-71. 19 First party prostitution is not a crim inal offense but still subject to periods o f detention and possible fines w...

... the sam e valence as queer, w hich not o n ly connotes "stra n g e n e ss" bu t reflects an in ju rio u s h isto ry o f in sult and th e re sista n t m o v e m e n t th a t tu rn s such in s u lt in to p o w e r.T h e absence o f q u e e r in the language, how ever, does not m ean th e absence o f s im...

... them "non-canonical."They can best be described as "deuterocanonical" (a term that I w ill discuss in the next section). In term s of history, theology, internal structuring, and deuterocanonical status, each of these documents, w hile used to regulate queerness, nonetheless open up a space...

... in community? This article argues that reading John of the Cross’s Cántico espiritual in the context of the Carmelite reform not only destabilizes Goytisolo’s notion of radical mysticism but also makes imaginable a loving critique that offers the politics of queerness and religious difference an alternative...

... profession, the im pact o f cultural theory still remains marginal and negligible. Particularly, I'm interested in w hat recent race theory (specifically the idea of intersectionality) and queer theory (specifically the idea of heteronorm ativity) each m ight expose about the way we organize the curriculum...

... a t polar bears exist, w hy bother saving them? Forget tryin g to prove th a t global w arm ing exists. We c a n 't even prove polar bears exist if we cleave to the m etaphysics of presence. Enter queer th e o ry . Q ueer th e o ry 's p o w e rfu l in s ig h t is th a t a t le a st one th in g g e n...

...Robert Azzarello Judith Halberstam , In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives ( New York : New York UP ), 2005 . 213 + viii pp. ISBN 0-8147-3585-1. Copyright © 2007 Regents of the University of Colorado 2007 B ook r e v ie w Judith Halberstam , In a Q...

...Eileen Barrett Copyright © 2007 Regents of the University of Colorado 2007 W hose Q ueer Lo n d o n ? E ileen B a r r e tt IIn Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 19T8-W57, Matt Houlbrook combs the archives o f the Public Record Office, the Central Criminal Court...

... Baldwin's texts frequently delineate and experiment w ith tw o spaces: the American Express and the queer underground. Both are characterized by a peculiar tem porality or speed. For Baldwin, those onboard the American Express are im m o ­ bilized by their collective insistence on "innocence" as they race...

..., is remarkable in its fecundity. It is space that is never filled, potential that never runs out. No matter how many stories, how many writers, there's always more space. Slash as space, space as both yearning void and infinite potential. (Julad 2003) T o date, work on women, queerness, and online com m unities...

... women could safely venture, into the "abject places" of urban geography, the urinals, shady parks, and bathhouses where men solicited working-class men or soldiers for quick, often anonymous sex. Throughout, Houlbrook repeatedly demonstrates how the queer body was defined as a public body, subject...

...Marc Stein Copyright © 2007 Regents of the University of Colorado 2007 QUEER LONDON, M ET H O D ACTING, a n d Time T r a v e l Marc S tein Matt Houlbrook begins his wonderful new book by reporting that a friend recently told him that he practices "the historian's equivalent o f method acting...

... literary queer space when, as a grad­ uate student at Berkeley in the late eighties, I was reading Virginia W oolfs A Room of One's Own w ith in the context o f a fem inist theory class and came upon the references to Chloe and O livia the friends, colleagues, and perhaps closeted lesbians w ho share...

...Heather Love Kathryn Bond Stockton , Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where “Black” Meets “Queer” ( Durham, N.C. : Duke UP ), 2006 . 271 + xi pp. ISBN 0-8223-3796-7. Copyright © 2007 Regents of the University of Colorado 2007 B ook R ev iew Kathryn Bond Stockton, Beautiful...

..., Borderline (1930), displaces its hom oerotic focus onto the subject of race. Race serves here to screen (that is, to project as w ell as to conceal) the queer contours of the POOL enterprise. English Language N otes 45.2 Fall / Winter 2007 34 E n g l is h La n g u a g e n o t e s 4 5 .2 Fa l l / Win t e r 2...

...Daniel Ussishkin Copyright © 2007 Regents of the University of Colorado 2007 H o u l b r o o k s Q u e e r H is t o r y D AN IEL USSISHKIN It is one of the many m erits of Matt Houlbrook's m agnificently-researched and beautifully-w ritten Queer London that the subject o f this book is far...