Table of Contents Preface One. "Can't friends love each other?" Embracing and Resisting Queer Moments Two. Looking at Men: Expressed ­Same-Sex Desire Three. Not Looking at Women: Absence of Expressed Heterosexual Desire Four. The Physique and the Phallus Five. "What real gays are like": The Feminine Six. The Murderer and the Mafioso Seven. "We don't believe in anything": Unbelief and the Demonic Eight.

 "I think I'm.": Saying and Not Saying the Word Nine. "You've been getting a big head lately": Erotic Acts and Allusions Ten. "They're just roommates": Domesticity and Décor Eleven. The Imaginary South, California Dreams, and Memphis Nightmares Twelve. Betrayal, Breakup, and Reconciliation Thirteen. "They show men kissing": Romantic Acts and Allusions Fourteen. "Where shall we go now?" The Promise of Permanence Fifteen.

 "Gay, you know": Queering Outside the Frame Sixteen. "He never played gay before": Interviews, Fan Fiction, and the Actors' Private Lives Bibliography Index.