Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 9
4. 1 INTRODUCTION
5. 1.1 What to Expect in this Book: A Very Brief Overview 13
6. 1.2 A Few Words on Formal Decisions 16
7. 1.3 How I Came to Write this Book 17
8. 2 THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS
9. 2.1 Why Comics? 21
10. 2.2 Unequal Distributions of Power, Rights, and Resources 40
11. 2.3 A Brief History of Intersectional LGBTIQ Politics in the U.S. 84
12. 3 ALISON BECHDEL’S DYKES TO WATCH OUT FOR: A WHITE FANTASY OF A POST-RACIAL LESBIAN COMMUNITY
13. 3.1 A “Chronicle of Lesbian Culture and History” 103
14. 3.2 A Multicultural Universe with Whiteness at Its Center 107
15. 3.3 Armchair Anti-Racism: A Post-Racial Lesbian Community in a Racist Society 121
16. 3.4 White Lesbians as a Better Kind of White 136
17. 3.5 Political Consequences of Dykes’ Armchair Anti-Racism 157
18. 3.6 Conclusion: When Fantasy Is Read as Fact 179
19. 4 HOWARD CRUSE’S STUCK RUBBER BABY: HOW ‘GAY IS THE NEW BLACK’ DISCOURSES SHAPE THE WHITE GAY IMAGINARY
20. 4.1 A Groundbreaking Work 183
21. 4.2 A Window Seat to History? 185
22. 4.3 ‘Gay Is the New Black:’ A Dominant Discourse 189
23. 4.4 Conservative Critiques 191
24. 4.5 Common Intersectional Critiques 192
25. 4.6 Further Intersectional Critiques 212
26. 4.7 Conclusion: Stuck in a White Fantasy 249
27. 5 JAIME CORTEZ’S SEXILE/SEXILIO: UNLEARNING HOMONATIONALISM AND DEVELOPING ALTERNATIVE DISCOURSES
28. 5.1 “Decentering Whiteness” 253
29. 5.2 Disidentifications with Homonationalist Discourses 255
30. 5.3 Centering Resilience 287
31. 5.4 By Way of Conclusion: Reading Sexile/Sexilio from a Place of (Relative) Privilege 296
32. 6 CONCLUSION: THE LIMITS OF WHITE LGBTIQ SELF-REPRESENTATIONS 299
33. List of Works Cited 305