Queer Externalities

W. C. Harris is Associate Professor of English at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania and also author of E Pluribus Unum: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Constitutional Paradox.

"Queer Externalities is everything a queer intervention should be: gutsy, irreverent, and thoroughly enjoyable! W. C. Harris never fails to surprise, provoke, and entertain." — Donald E. Hall, author of Reading Sexualities: Hermeneutic Theory and the Future of Queer Studies"Harris's thesis is significant and important, covering ground often ignored in other volumes of queer studies. Readers also interested in U.S. history in general, as well as pop culture and queer lit, would find this volume invaluable. Dealing with current, relevant topics, this engaging book ranges gracefully from Anita Bryant to instant messaging." — Jim Elledge, author of A History of My Tattoo

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A Hazard of Queer Fortunes1 At the End of the Rainbow: Q-topian Literature and the Lure of Apolitical Identities2 "In my day it used to be called a limp wrist": Flip-Floppers, Nelly Boys, and Homophobic Political Rhetoric3 Queer Eye on the Prize: Homo Hands and the Activism of Camping4 Broke(n)back Faggots: Hollywood Gives Queers a Hobson’s Choice5 The IMs Are Coming from Inside the House: Recruitment, the Closet, and the RightConclusion: Like a Faggot from the AshesNotesWorks CitedIndex