Cruising utopia : the then and there of queer futurity Queerness as horizon : utopian hermeneutics in the face of gay pragmatism Ghosts of public sex : utopian longings queer memories The future is in the present : sexual avant gardes and the performance of utopia Gesture ephemera and queer feeling : approaching kevin aviance Cruising the toilet : Leroi Jones Amiri Baraka radical black traditions and queer futurity Stages : queers punks and the utopian performative Utopias seating chart : Ray Johnson Jill Johnston and queer intermedia as system Just like heaven : queer utopian art and the aesthetic dimension A jet out the window : Fred Herkos incandescent illumination After Jack : queer failure queer virtuousity Conclusion: Take ecstasy with me Appendix I: Race sex and the incommensurate: Gary Fisher with Eve Kosofsky Sedwick Appendix II: Hope in the face of heartbreak Notes Bibliography Index About the author.