Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Setting the stage / Karen E. Lovaas and Mercilee M. Jenkins -- The invention of heterosexuality: the debut of the heterosexual / Jonathan Ned Katz -- Necessary fictions: sexual identities and the politics of diversity / Jeffrey Weeks -- On Judith Butler and performativity / Sara Salih -- "Quare" studies, or (almost) everything I know about queer studies I learned from my grandmother (part 1) / E. Patrick Johnson -- The uses of the erotic : the erotic as power / Audre Lorde -- Language, socialization, and silence in gay adolescence / William Leap -- "Having a girlfriend without knowing it" : intimate friendships among adolescent sexual-minority women / Lisa M. Diamond -- Accounts of sexual identity formation in heterosexual students / Michele J. Eliason -- M. Dragonfly : two-spirit and the Tafoya principle of uncertainty / Terry Tafoya -- Migrancy and homodesire / Myron Beasley -- Performing "I do" : weddings, pornography, and sex / Elizabeth Bell -- A critical appraisal of assimiliationist and radical ideologies underlying same-sex marriage in LGBT communities in the United States / Gust A. Yep, Karen E. Lovaas, and John P. Elia -- Performing a rhetoric of science : Dr. Laura's portrayal of homosexuality / Paul Turpin -- Disciplining the transgendered : Brandon Teena, public representation, and normativity / John M. Sloop -- "Ah, yes, I remember it well" : memory and queer culture in Will and Grace / Christopher Castiglia and Christopher Reed -- Living in the middle : performances bi-men / John T. Warren and Nicholas A. Zoffel -- "Holly Kowalski" : sex across the curriculum / Jennifer Tuder -- Queering the (sacred) body politic : considering the performative cultural politics of the sisters of perpetual indulgence / Cathy B. Glenn -- The spirituality of sex and the sexuality of spirit : BDSM erotic play as soulwork and social critique / Robert G. Westerfelhaus -- Menopause and desire, or 452 positions on love / Mercilee M. Jenkins -- "Quare" studies, or (almost) everything I know about queer studies I learned from my grandmother (part 2) / E. Patrick Johnson -- Activism and identity through the word : a mixed-race woman claims her space / Wendy M. Thompson -- Making alliances / Gloria E. Anzaldúa.