...Manuel Betancourt Known for his controversial first novel, City of Night (1963), John Rechy is a Chicano gay writer whose reputation as a documenter of the seedy sexual underworld of hustlers and tricks has set the tone for discussions about his work. Interrogating this characterization...

..., this essay attributes the taken-for-granted status of reductionism to queer theory's structuring opposition to ideas associated with sameness—among them normativity, reproduction, and the status quo. However, the essay suggests that the writing of John Rechy can help us reflect on why queer scholarship...

...Stephanie Clare This essay considers a form of relation that is neither sameness nor difference but correspondence. It does so by analyzing the palindromes in two films, John Greyson's Fig Trees and Miranda July's Me and You and Everyone We Know . Within a palindrome, letters here...

...Morris B. Kaplan Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 WHO’S AFRAID OF JOHN SAUL? Urban Culture and the Politics of Desire in Late Victorian London Morris B. Kaplan London in the nineteenth century is a crucial site for the emergence of an ethos of individuality...

...Jonathan D. Katz Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 JOHN CAGE’S QUEER SILENCE; OR, HOW TO AVOID MAKING MATTERS W 0 R S E Jonathan D. Katz To know of some is good; but for the rest, silence is to be praised. -Ser Brunetto Latini...

...Joseph Pizza This article explores John Cage's “62 Mesostics re Merce Cunningham,” a love poem dedicated to the poet's longtime partner. Though scholars of Cage's writing and music tend to ignore the queer context in which his work was created, this study attempts to reconcile the poet's art...

.... These are highly romanticized images of the nation, and specifically of the freedoms and ease of a predominantly middle-­ class white community within the city. They are also visual metaphors for what Hector St. John de Crevecoeur might have called basic American middle-­class “decency,” that ideology...

... lms through the queer-view mirror (e.g., our inclusion of Dog Day Afternoon [dir. Sidney Lumet; 1975], Cruising [dir. William Friedkin; 1980], and Refl ections in a Golden Eye [dir. John Huston; 1967] in a recent festival). The Mainstreaming of Queer TV Johnson (New York): In the summer...

... queer devotional terrain what Stephen Prothero has lately put forth as the “quest for the cultural Jesus.” It is especially concerned with what has been made of the special relation to Jesus of Mary Magdalene and John the Beloved, the two most alluring of his biblical disciples. © 2011 by Duke...

...Nick Davis This article takes the recent success and notoriety of John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus (2006) as the occasion for an overview of “real” sex as a recurring motif and practice of commercial, nonpornographic cinema of recent years. Diverse in their generic modalities and, even more...

..., for example John Henry Newman, engaged in particular ways with both nonmajoritarian religious and sexual identities, Catholicism thus prefigures the admittedly uneven consolidations of sexuality that Michel Foucault has identified in the last third of the century. Thus an understanding of religious history...

... in the late fourteenth century. Eventually making its way to the web, the document is now available globally and has been the subject of numerous scholarly treatments as well as popular adaptations in various media. The sex worker, John Rykener, who went by the name Eleanor and dressed in women’s clothing...

... the would-be prison sexologist John Mulvany's experiments on subaltern Indian sexual “deviants” developed alongside and helped reconstitute the architecture of the prisons he administered, from Calcutta's Presidency Jail to Alipore's New Central Jail. It also demonstrates how he mobilized racist...

...John Howard The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government David K. Johnson Chicago: University of Chicago Press , 2004 . xii + 277 pp . Duke University Press 2005 John Howard is lecturer in American studies at King's College...

...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...

...John Howard Duke University Press 2006 Moving Image Review BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN DOSSIER Introduction Scott Herring Why single out Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain for critique? Why now? In a busy year that saw the release of queer films such as Capote, The 40-Year-Old Virgin...

...John Champagne Academic Outlaws: Queer Theory and Cultural Studies in the Academy William G. Tierney Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 1997. xxiii + 186 pp.$64.95 cloth, $32.95 paper Poisoned Ivy: Lesbian and Gay Academics Confronting Homophobia Toni A. H. McNaron Philadelphia: Temple...