...Stephanie Youngblood This article takes up the intersection of AIDS testimony, lyric poetry, and gay male sexuality in Frank Bidart's poetry. Using Douglas Crimp's discussion of the politics of AIDS aesthetics as a starting point, I focus on Bidart's 1997 collection of poems, Desire, to consider...

...David R. Jarraway Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 “VANILLA HEMORRHAGES” The Queer Perversities of Frank O’Hara David R. Jarraway Prologue In the early morning of 24 July 1966, American poet Frank O’Hara, at the age of forty, stepped out in front...

...Cameron Crookston When Fox 21 Television Studios announced that Laverne Cox would play the role of Frank N. Furter in their 2016 The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let’s Do the Time Warp Again , most public response circled around how Cox’s visible political identity as a trans woman spoke...

...Timothy M. Griffiths Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality . Franke Katherine . New York : New York University Press , 2015 . xi + 275 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 References Chauncey George . 2004 . Why Marriage? The History Shaping Today's...

... dialogue to its shamelessly expressionistic use of light and color to its overdetermined plot, which plays Cathy’s growing interest in Ray- mond against the protracted demise of her marriage as her husband, Frank, a successful television-sales executive, struggles with his long-ignored and increas...

...John D'Emilio Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America . Frank Miriam . Philadelphia : Temple University Press , 2014 . 221 pages . © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Books in Brief QUEER WORKERS, QUEER ORGANIZING John D’Emilio Out in the Union: A Labor...

... on Method: Ethereal Queer.” In Queer TV: Theories, Histories, Politics , edited by Davis Glyn Needham Gary , 48 – 61 . London : Routledge . Books in Brief QUEER WORKERS, QUEER ORGANIZING John D’Emilio Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America Miriam Frank...

... . Transvestism, Masculinity, and Latin American Literature . New York : Palgrave . Books in Brief QUEER WORKERS, QUEER ORGANIZING John D’Emilio Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America Miriam Frank Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2014. 221 pages. Over the last decade...

... of Queer America Miriam Frank Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2014. 221 pages. Over the last decade, the field of LGBT history has expanded significantly. From an early focus on the growth of an organized political movement and the emer- gence of urban communities, it now encompasses...

... Greenwich Village during the late 1950s and early 1960s. A difficult play by LeRoi Jones (Baraka), The Toilet, is emblematic of the life that Baraka eschews with hardly a backward glance.1 The Toilet was produced in 1964, and was often on a double bill with a play by Frank O’Hara, one of the members...

... . Translated by Nice Richard . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Frank Thomas . 2007 . What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America . New York : Henry Holt . 434 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES CAN A REDNECK LOVE A QUEER...

...Marcie Frank Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 References Hartman Saidiya V. 1997 . Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America . New York : Oxford University Press . Luhmann Niklas . 1982 . The Differentiation...

...), indicators of the male pervert include intemperance, unhealthy complexion or comportment, “slight frame,” and “effeminate” appearance. G. Frank Lydston ( 1899 : 530) concurs that “male sexual perverts” can be spotted by their “effeminacy of voice, dress, and manner” and “inferior” physique. Howard's...

... Press . Wilderson Frank B. 2010 . Red, White & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Wilderson Frank B. 2014 . “ ‘We’re Trying to Destroy the World’ Anti- Blackness and Police Violence after Ferguson: An Interview...

.... New York: Pantheon Books, 1980 . Frank , Jerome . Law and the Modern Mind . With an introduction by Judge Julian W. Mack. New York: Brentano's, 1930 . Freud , Sigmund . “Instincts and their Vicissitudes.” The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud...

...Chad Bennett Frank O'Hara: The Poetics of Coterie Lytle Shaw Iowa City: University of Iowa Press , 2006 . x + 332 pp . Duke University Press 2009 Chad Bennett is a PhD candidate in English at Cornell University. Books in Brief The Autobiographical Isn’t the Personal...

.... For Arvin’s critical corpus, he insists, “is an important body of modern gay writing” (313); indeed, “Arvin’s critical practice is still remark- ably fresh” (305). Robert’s sense of this practice is complex: if, on the one hand, Arvin “brought to his writing a frankness about himself...

...Matt Franks Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State . Reddy Chandan . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2011 . xiii + 303 pp . © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Books in Brief Transforming Memories Susan K. Cahn Bodies of Evidence...

... . “ Onticide: Afro- pessimism, Gay Nigger #1, and Surplus Violence .” GLQ 23 , no. 3 : 391 – 418 . Wilderson Frank B. III 2010 . Red, White & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Wilderson Frank B. III Copeland Huey...

... in English at the University of Florida. DOI 10.1215/10642684-2008-039 Books in Brief 529 The Outer Circle Chad Bennett Frank O’Hara: The Poetics of Coterie Lytle Shaw Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2006. x + 332 pp. Now...