Table of Contents:
  • Globalization and "new" articulations of same-sex desire / Tom Boellstorff and William L. Leap
  • Vague English Creole: (gay English) cooperative discourse in the French gay press / Denis M. Provencher
  • Qwir-English code-mixing in Germany: constructing a rainbow of identities / Heidi Minning
  • French, English, and the idea of gay language in Montreal / Ross Higgins
  • Dancing on the needle's edge: gay lingo in an Israeli disco / Liora Moriel
  • Language, belonging, and (homo)sexual citizenship in Cape Town, South Africa / William L. Leap
  • Takatāpui, gay, or just ho-mo-sexual, darling? Māori language, sexual terminology, and identity in Aotearoa/New Zealand / David A.B. Murray
  • "Authentic, of course!": Gay language in Indonesia and cultures of belonging / Tom Boellstorff
  • Gay adaptation, Tom-Dee resistance, and Kathoey indifference: Thailand's gender/sex minorities and the episodic allure of queer English / Peter A. Jackson
  • Pájaration and transculturation: language and meaning in Miami's Cuban American gay worlds / Susana Peña
  • Mother knows best: Black gay vernacular and transgressive domestic space / E. Patrick Johnson.