... and the material networks of male-male cruising. To do so, I focus on James's overriding interest in what he calls “the life ‘socially’ led.” Drawing on his use of the metaphor of a secret garden to praise the Presbyterian Hospital, I show how James's preferred social aesthetic forms appear modeled on a particular...

... on the invisible and oft-forgotten outcasts of the LGBT community, those young outlaws of the working class who cruise and define themselves against the white and affluent “Mr. Middle of the Road” trope so exalted in Adair's documentary. CRUISING AND SCREENING JOHN John Rechy’s The Sexual Outlaw, Documentary...

...José Esteban Muñoz Duke University Press 2007 Cruising the Toilet LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Radical Black Traditions, and Queer Futurity José Esteban Muñoz Amiri Baraka denounced much of the life of LeRoi Jones, a writer, editor, and bon vivant in the bohemia of New York City’s...

... siderable contribution that Making Girls into Women makes to the places where we can sight the lesbian (and her proto-predecessors) in the history of women’s writing. Dana Luciano is assistant professor of English at Georgetown University. TRANSATLANTIC CRUISING...

...Guy Davidson Duke University Press 2005 “CONTAGIOUS RELATIONS” Simulation, Paranoia, and the Postmodern Condition in William Friedkin’s Cruising and Felice Picano’s The Lure Guy Davidson Appearing within months of one another in the American cultural marketplace, Felice Picano’s...

... Literature and Male Homosocial Desire ; and one other meeting, when the author and Sedgwick discussed James Merrill's poetry and also cruising. Finally, the author quotes and contextualizes a passage evidently about himself from one of Sedgwick's poems. The Bar and the Board for Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick...

...Nishant Shahani In this review, I consider recent works by José Esteban Muñoz ( Cruising Utopia ), Judith (Jack) Halberstam ( The Queer Art of Failure ), and Christopher Castiglia and Christopher Reed ( If Memory Serves ) as investments in the politics of queer futurity. Collectively, I analyze...

... of a structure of lesbian literary and erotic practices that is useful for thinking about lesbian literary history as well as its future. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s work on reparative reading and the school of queer optimism exemplified by José Esteban Muñoz’s Cruising Utopia undergird the approach to Victorian...

... offers a common ground for the beyond-human, kinship-building impulses of environmental thought and for queer theory's congruent impulses of erotic and world-building relationality (as best illustrated in José Esteban Muñoz's Cruising Utopia ). The author contends that what most cogently binds ecopoetics...

...- ests and effects of globalization and postcolonial gay and lesbian identities. After the Cayman Islands, a British territory, had refused docking privileges in Decem- ber to a so-called gay cruise originating in the United States, several other Carib- bean governments expressed the intention...

... oeuvre. Ligon conceived the series during a two-month residency at Artpace San Antonio in Texas. There he created metal plaques inscribed with personal anecdotes about cruising and desire. He installed the plaques in the public space of the city where they visually resembled the historical...

... themselves were produced from a queer kinship net- work, at some distance from the stranger relationality of both print cultures and contemporaneous cruising cultures. By queer kinship network, I mean a set of intimate relationships, both erotic and affective, that were not legitimized by the state...

... . “John Rechy: The Limits of Exuberant Queer.” In El Ambiente Nuestro: Chicano/Latino Homoerotic Writing , 91 – 110 . Tempe, AZ : Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe . Gove Ben . 2000 . “ ‘Crushed Intimacy’: John Rechy and the Masculinisation of Gay Male Promiscuity.” In Cruising Culture...

... Feminist, Queer, Crip Alison Kafer Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. xiii + 258 pp. Near the end of Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity, José Esteban Muñoz invites readers to imagine “those who have been cast out of straight time’s...

... of defamiliarizing shocks. The St. Mark’s Baths, for instance, recall Delany’s fearful, “heart-thudding” exposure to gay mass sex (267).9 Memories of cruising Central Park and the rough alleys of the meatpack- ing district recall the trauma of opening oneself to the embraces...

... History Review , no. 120 . Ricco John Paul . 2016 . “ The Art of the Consummate Cruise and the Essential Risk of the Common (2/2) ,” Feedback , February 46 . openhumanitiespress.org/feedback/sexualities/the-consummate-cruise-2 . visual culture art archive Richard Meyer David...

... masculinities existing in mercurial propinquity, this chapter perfectly sets the stage for the book s apex and centerpiece: chapter 4 s meticulous, highly original reading of William Fried- BOOKS IN BRIEF 725 kin s Cruising (1980). Young presents this film maudit, notoriously denounced even mid- production...

... a bystander s perspective, inviting the viewer to join patrons arrayed in clusters or standing alone around the edge of the dance floor as they watch and cruise. The visual focus of the image is located halfway down and just in from the left of the frame where, in the receding perspective of the shot, a man...

..., the resistance of locals, the intervention of government and nongovern- mental organizations, and church protests. In Cape Town a campaign to draw gay and lesbian tourists has created a furor among Christian groups.1 In the last four years gay and lesbian cruises have been turned away from Caribbean locations...

...” of the repeated attempt? All these questions are of potential interest to scholars of gay male sexuality. Nguyen: This brings to mind the argument that gay male cruising swerves from or evades capitalist/national time viewed as re-productive, in the sense that such a logic deems...