Chapter 1 Introduction: What is Queer about Nostalgia?

Chapter 2 Animated Nostalgia and Invented Authenticity in Arte’s Summer of the Sixties

Chapter 3 Nostalgic Physique: Displaying Foucauldian Muscles and Celebrating the Male Body in Beefcake

Chapter 4 Sexing the Past: Communal Exposure and Self-Examination in Gay Sex in the 70s

Chapter 5 Claiming Lost Gay Youth, Embracing Femininostalgia: Todd Haynes’s Dottie Gets Spanked and Velvet Goldmine

Chapter 6 Boys Want to Have Fun! Carnivalesque Adolescence and Nostalgic Resorts in Another Gay Movie and Another Gay Sequel

Chapter 7 Reinventing Lesbian Youth in Su Friedrich’s Cinematic Autoqueerography Hide and Seek

Chapter 8 Uses of Nostalgia in Musical Politicization of Homo/Phobic Myths in Were the World Mine, The Big Gay Musical , and Zero Patience

Chapter 9 Saint Gaga: Lady Gaga’s Nostalgic Yearning for Queer Mythology, Monsters, and Martyrs

Chapter 10 Black Nostalgia: Poetry, Ethnicity, and Homoeroticism in Looking for Langston and Brother to Brother