A collection of essays that explores the lives and cultural contributions of gay Latino men in the United States, and analyzes the political and theoretical stakes of gay Latino studies.

Acknowledgments ixIntroduction. Re-membering Gay Latino Studies / Michael Hames García and Ernesto J. Martínez 1Queer Theory Revisited / Michael Hames García 19Comment. It's All in Having a History / María Lugones 46Gay Shame, Latina- and Latino-Style: A Critique of White Queer Performativity / Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes 55Comment / Ramón García 81The Place of Gay Male Chicano Literature in Queer Chicana/o Work / Antonio Viego 86Comment. Our Queer Kin / Luz Calvo and Catriona Rueda Esquibel 105Carnal Knowledge: Chicano Gay Men and the Dialectics of Being / Richard T. Rodríguez 113Comment. Entre Machos y Maricones: (Re)Covering Chicano Gay Male (Hi)Stories / Daniel Enrique Pérez 141Entre Hombres/Between Men: Latino Masculinities and Homosexualities / Lionel Cantú 147Comment. The Material and Cultural Worlds of Latino Gay Men / Tomás Almaguer 168Gay Latino Cultural Citizenship: Predicaments of Identity and Visibility in San Francisco in the 1990s / Horacio N. Roque Ramírez 175Comment / Ramón A. Gutiérrez 198Feeling Brown: Ethnicity and Affect in Ricardo Bracho's The Sweetest Hangover (and Other STDs) / José Esteban Muñoz 204Comment. Never Too Much: Queer Performance between Impossibility and Excess / Ricardo L. Ortíz 220Shifting the Site of Queer Enunciation: Manuel Muñoz and the Politics of Form / Ernesto J. Martínez 226Comment. Dancing with the Devil¿When the Devil is Gay / Paula M. L. Moya 250Choreographies of Resistance: Latino Queer Dance and the Utopian Performative / Ramón H. Rivera-Servera 259Comment / Daniel Contreras 281Dance Liberation / David Román 286Comment. Dance with Me / Frances Negrón-Muntaner 311Bibliography 321Contributors 349Index 353