Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction; 'So this is gay American history, huh?'; Video bars and the historical emplacement of gay male desire; the AIDS joke as cultural form; Afterthoughts from Philadelphia... and somewhere else; The cultural-aesthetic distinctions of all-male moving-image pornography; The voice of all-male pornography; The world of all-male pornography; the gay visage (and related forms of thought); Index.

About the Author

Richard C. Cante is Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.