As a whole, Queer Ecologies stands as a powerful corrective to views that equate "natural" with "straight" while "queer" is held to be against nature.

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A Genealogy of Queer Ecologies / Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands and Bruce EricksonPart 1. Against Nature? Queer Sex, Queer Animality1. Eluding Capture: The Science, Culture, and Pleasure of "Queer" Animals / Stacy Alaimo2. Enemy of the Species / Ladelle McWhorter3. Penguin Family Values: The Nature of Planetary Environmental Reproductive Justice / Noël Sturgeon4. Queernaturecultures / David BellPart 2. Green, Pink, and Public: Queering Environmental Politics5. Non-white Reproduction and Same-Sex Eroticism: Queer Acts against Nature / Andil Gosine6. From Jook Joints to Sisterspace: The Role of Nature in Lesbian Alternative Environments in the United States / Nancy C. Unger7. Polluted Politics? Confronting Toxic Discourse, Sex Panic, and Eco-Normativity / Giovanna Di Chiro8. Undoing Nature: Coalition Building as Queer Environmentalism / Katie Hogan9. Fragments, Edges, and Matrices: Retheorizing the Formation of a So-called Gay Ghetto through Queering Landscape Ecology / Gordon Brent IngramPart 3. Desiring Nature? Queer Attachments10. "The Place, Promised, That Has Not Yet Been": The Nature of Dislocation and Desire in Adrienne Rich's Your Native Land/Your Life and Minnie Bruce Pratt's Crime against Nature / Rachel Stein11. "fucking close to water": Queering the Production of the Nation / Bruce Erickson12. Melancholy Natures, Queer Ecologies / Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands13. Biophilia, Creative Involution, and the Ecological Future of Queer Desire / Dianne ChisholmList of ContributorsIndex