Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-224) and index.
Contents
An introduction by way of acknowledgments -- Structure of homosexual discourse -- Choosing our fathers : gender and identity in Whitman, Ashbery, and Richard Howard -- Inadmissable and inevitable Francis Grierson -- F. O. Matthiessen : the critic as homosexual -- Strategic camp : the art of gay rhetoric -- Larry Kramer and the rhetoric of AIDS -- Cannibals and queers : man-eating -- Agony of gay black literature -- Alternative service : families in recent American gay fiction.
