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This work looks at gay men's English as a cultural and a linguistic phenomenon. Examining a variety of material, including interviews and discussions with gay men, newspapers and magazines, the text focuses on the linguistic practices of gay men in their everyday lives.

Investigates the tensions that occur when processes of globalization bring one system of gay or lesbian language into contact with another. This book presents essays on topics that include old versus new sexual vocabularies, the rhetoric of gay-oriented magazines and news media, and verbal and nonverbalized sexual imagery in poetry.

Male homosexual activity in public and semipublic locations is a central but seldom explored dimension of gay culture around the world. The majority of existing research emphasizes the impersonality of such erotic interaction and underscores the element of danger involved. While never denying the danger of anonymous public sex in the age of AIDS, the contributors to Public Sex/Gay Space go beyond narrow moralisms about the need to regulate unsafe sexual practices to discuss the significance of sex in public. William Leap has brought together contributions from such fields as...