Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Popular Culture, Queer Culture / Thomas Peele -- The three phases of Ellen: From Queer to Postgay / Jennifer Reed -- Queering/Quaring blackness in Noah's Arc / Gust A. Yep and John P. Elia -- All my (queer) children: disrupting daytime desire in Pine Valley / Cathy Leaker -- Queer as Folk and the spectacularization of gay identity / Giovanni Porfido -- Fashionably femme: Lesbian Visibility, Style, and politics, in The L Word / Aviva Dove-Viebahn -- "Reading for It" : Lesbian readers constructing culture and identity through textual experience / Sheila Liming -- Reading and queering Plato in Hedwig and the Angry Inch / Wendy Hsu -- Diva interventions: Dana International and the Israeli gender culture / Amalia Ziv -- Arse Bandits: Exploring Nostalgic representations of queerness in gangster films / Sharif Mowlabocus -- Straight shooters, stainless-steel stories, and cowboy codes: the queer frontier and American identity in a post-western world / Christopher Le Coney and Zoe Trodd -- New queer whit trash cinema / Daniel Mudie Cunningham -- Identity unmoored: Yaoi in the west / Mark McHarry -- Why (not) queer? : Ambivalence about "politics" and queer identification in an online community in Taiwan / Terri He -- Reconfiguring differences: Radicalizing popular culture pedagogy / Laura Gray-Rosendale and Kendra Birnley.