List of contributors; Introduction: identity, genre, modernity Guy Davidson; Part I. Histories: 1. Democracy in anti-autobiography: Whitman's 'Song of Myself' Rafael Walker; 2. Medical autobiography Adam Sonstegard; 3. Gay autobiography in the interwar years, or what kind of theory of biography does queer theory need? Benjamin Kahan; 4. Self-told stories of 'Comrades of Sorts': queer males and World War II John Ibson; 5. We are everywhere: coming out, autobiography and gay liberation Ben Nichols; 6. Gay literary autobiography and the 1970s Jack Parlett; 7. Repeating one's self: gay life writing and writing gay life in Edmund White's States of Desire, My Lives, and 'Chaos' Nicholas F. Radel; 8. AIDS and autobiography Monica B. Pearl; 9. 'Post-Gay' memoir and autobiography Octavio R. González; Part II. Identities: 10. Gay American travel writing Justin D. Edwards and Churnjeet Mahn; 11. Black gay autobiography GerShun Avilez; 12. Borderline testimonio: 'Gay Latino Autobiography', beyond gender, beyond genre Ricardo L. Ortiz; 13. Gay Asian American Autobiography Kathy Chow; 14. On transgender autobiography R.L. Goldberg; 15. Drag and genderqueer life writing Aaron J. Stone; Part III. Professions: 16. In the sex trade Steven Ruszczycky; 17. Gay celebrity autobiography Sharon Becker; 18. Sport as both a first and last hurdle for inclusion: the evolution of gay athlete autobiographies in America Andrew C. Billings, Leigh Moscowitz and Joshua R. Jackson; 19. Documenters, dissidents, and double lives: gay male life-writing in the American forces Yorick Smaal; 20. Gay religious autobiography Raymond-Jean Frontain.
