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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Responsibilities of a Gay Film Critic -- Lesbians and Film -- The Hypothetical Lesbian Heroine in Narrative Feature Film -- The Great Escape -- There's Something Queer Here -- Supporting Character: The Queer Career of Agnes Moorehead -- The Ambiguities of "Lesbian" Viewing Pleasure: The (Dis)articulations of Black Widow -- From Repressive Tolerance to Erotic Liberation: Modchen in Uniform -- Acting Like a Man: Masculine Performance in My Darling Clementine -- Dossier on Hitchcock -- Introduction -- Hitchcock's Homophobia John Hepworth (with "Letter to the Editor" by Robin WOod and "Response" -- The Murderous Gays: Hitchcock's Homophobia -- "Crisscross": Paranoia and Projection in Strangers on a Train -- "I'm not the sort of person men marry": Monsters, Queers, and Hitchcock's Rebecca -- The Queer Voice in Mamie -- Flaming Closets -- Men's Pornography: Gay vs. Straight -- Freud's "Fetishism" and the Lesbian Dildo Debates -- Tom of Finland: An Appreciation -- Visible Lesions: Images ofthe PWA -- Pee Wee Herman: The Homosexual Subtext -- In Living Color: Toms, Coons, Mammies, Faggots, and Bucks -- Dossier on Popular Music -- Introduction -- In Defense of Disco -- Crossover Dreams: Lesbianism and Popular Music since the 1970s -- Immaculate Connection -- The House the Kids Built: The Gay Black Imprint on American Dance Music -- Children of Paradise: A Brief History of Queens -- The Politics of Drag -- Black Macho Revisited: Reflections of a Snap! Queen -- All Dressed Up But No Place to Go? Style Wars and the New Lesbianism -- Commodity Lesbianism -- Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Popular Culture Bibliography -- Acknowledgments of Copyright -- Contributors -- Index