List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Queer Slumming    Underworld Unknowing    The Hermeneutics of Sexual Suspicion    The Suspicion of Sexual Hermeneutics    Rotten Politics Chapter One Terra Incognita: Jane Addams, Philanthropic Slumming, and the Elusive Identity of Hull-House    Disappearing Acts    Spinster Panic    Queered Cosmopolitanism    Twenty Years in Cedarville    The Limbo of Forgotten Spectators Chapter Two Willa Cather's Experiment in Luxury    Cather's Case History    In the Company of Tramps    Decadent Movements    The Miseries of Pittsburgh    Fairy Worlds    Slumming on Park Avenue    Capitalism and the Erasure of Gay Identity Chapter Three "Slightly Known Territory": Renaissance Admixture and the So-Called Van Vechten School    A Caucasian Storms Harlem    The Signifying Slummer    Parties and Mixers    Friendship beyond Understanding    Nugent's Shtick    "Just a Case of Mixed Signs" Chapter Four Antisapphic Modernism    Les mystères de Djuna Barnes    Looking for Bohemia    Stephen Gordon's Slumming Tour    Lost in transition    Watchman, What of the Night?    Hidden from History    The Obscure Life Epilogue: Secrets of the African-American Bisexual Man; or, Double Lives on the Down Low    Straight Outta Compton    Never Apologize, Never Explain    Undetectability    Beyond Subcultural Studies: A Manifesto Notes Works Cited Index.