Aldonza as butch: narrative and the play of genderin Don Quijote / Mary S. Gossy --

The 'Fecal dialectic': homosexual panic and the origin of writing in Borges / Daniel Balderston --

The Argentine dissemination of homosexuality, 1890-1914 / Jorge Salessi --

Julián del Casal and the queers of Havana / Oscar Montero --

Community at its limits: orality, laws, silence, and the homosexual body in Luis Rafael Sánchez's 'Jum!' / Agnes I. Lugo-Ortiz --

Toward an art of transvestism: colonialism and homosexuality in Puerto Rican literature / Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé --

Fleshing out Virgilio Piñera from the Cuban closet / José Quiroga --

The Lesbian body in Latina cultural production / Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano --

The 'Schoolteacher of America': gender, sexuality, and nation in Gabriela Mistral / Licia Fiol-Matta --

Disappearing acts: reading Lesbian in Teresa de la Parra / Sylvia Molloy --

A Logic in Lorca's Ode to Walt Whitman / John K. Walsh --

The Look that kills: the 'unacceptable beauty' of Alejandra Pizarnik's La condesa sangrienta / Suzanne Chávez Silverman --

Lesbian tantalizing in Carmen Lugo Filipi's 'Milagros, calle Mercurio' / Luz María Umpierre --

Virtual sexuality: lesbianism, loss, and deliverance in Carme Riera's 'Te deix, amor, la mar com a penyora' / Brad Epps --

Teatro viva!: Latino performance and the politics of AIDS in Los Angeles / David Román --

Nationalizing sissies / José Piedra.