...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...

... official narrative of gay integration made possible by self-fashioning. In the first section, it describes Drag Race 's ambivalence around race, class, gender presentation, and sexuality through an analysis of the show's humor and slogans. It then discusses two contestants who are framed as “outsides...

... argues that in drawing attention to the body of the Palestinian who is stopped daily at Israeli checkpoints for long and humiliating searches, and resituating this body in a radically different context (fashion show, or perhaps strip show?), Waked resists common representations of the Palestinian...

... historical archives, this essay traces what I term the visceral archives of the body to show how particular acts and desires come into archival being (and thus into historicity) by eliciting visceral responses — “gut feelings” — on the part of suspects, witnesses, colonial authorities, scribes, archivists...

...) Renaissance texts. Taken together, these books show the continued vitality and breadth of Renaissance queer studies. The Seeds of Things: Theorizing Sexuality and Materiality in Renaissance Representations . Goldberg Jonathan . New York : Fordham University Press , 2011 . xii + 267 pp...

... 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...

... and rights, freedom and democracy, public and private, church and state. They show that the boundaries between church and state, public and private, identity and rights, race, sexuality, and religion are not as clear as they might seem. The solutions they offer push far past demands for identity-based rights...

..., but she contrasts the pointedness of the novel's plot with the looser repetitious structure of the poem's nightly séances. To show that this pointedness is characteristic of Merrill's novelistic writing, Sedgwick also looks at two actual novels that Merrill had published years earlier, The Seraglio (1957...

...Kevin Lamb; Patrick Singy As a field, the history of sexuality is often divided into Foucauldians and anti-Foucauldians. This essay, which reviews four recent contributions to the field, begins by showing that Michel Foucault's own methodology is ambiguous. Broad scholarly consensus rightly holds...

... in transnational queer studies: linking local sexual practice to global capital flows, disrupting static notions of self and sexual subjectivity, and showing the mobile and active processes of queer community production. By critically examining their use of method—not only anthropology's hallmark method...

.... By revisiting a textual scene in the genealogy of capitalism where commodity fetishism makes its appearance as a rhetorical construction—Leon Battista Alberti's treatise on the family—I show how ideology works phantasmically to “eternalize” or “universalize” historical contingency, even as the historicization...

... in their philosophical and political contexts, I then use A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections (1746) to show how Edwards's evolving response to revivalist disruptions of hierarchy led him to describe a sentimental structure of desire similar to masochism as a defense against a modern subjectivity that would allow...

... lyrics known as “imperfect enjoyments” that interrupt both sexual and formal heteroconventions, turning the sexual impasse into a queerly generative and procreative act. Although scholars traditionally read the poems as satires on sexual failure, I show that libertine poets' investments in philosophical...

... and there are neither the same nor different. Instead, they correspond in a particular arrangement. I argue that palindromes' spatiality resonates with the spatiality of anal eroticism as described by Sigmund Freud; I show how the films use palindromes to figure particular relations between people and places; and I...

...Elias Walker Vitulli This essay reviews three recently published books that stand at the intersection of queer/trans studies and critical prison studies. These books show the multiple and complex ways that queerness pervades the US prison system and the devastating effects of criminalization...

... of interdependency settlers. This article analyzes the development of same-sex migration policy to show how official immigration policy discourses have transformed their visa codifications from humanitarian in 1980, to interdependency in 1991, and family stream same-sex interdependency in 2000. These categories...

... peoples produces modern sexuality as a function of settlement. This essay reinterprets historical accounts at the intersections of queer, Native, and colonial studies to show how a colonial biopolitics of modern sexuality relationally produces Native and settler sexual subjects. Modern queer projects...

... and sexuality that that reading both reflects and reproduces. Reading Hemingway's fiction with attention to the sexual dimension that has so often circulated in criticism of him, the essay shows modern Western culture's preoccupation with celebrating heterosexuality in the form of its praise of simplicity...

... fatherhood. I focus on the television serial drama Ima VeAbbaz ( Mom and Dads ), whose protagonists are two gay men who have a child with a straight woman. I argue that the show manages to deviate from the usual representation of the gay father, thereby offering an ideological alternative to conventional...

... Moonlight and the poetry of Essex Hemphill, a black gay writer and AIDS activist. In so doing, it shows how, across literary genres and media platforms, the black ecstatic instantiates formal innovations to black queer expressive forms and encourages willful exuberance as an affective disposition...