Containing nine performance scripts by black and Latino/a queer playwrights and performance artists—each accompanied by an interview and essay, Blacktino Queer Performance approaches the interrelations of sexuality, blackness, and Latinidad.

Acknowledgments  ix

Introduction: Ethnoracial Intimacies in Blacktino Queer Performance / E. Patrick Johnson and Ramón H. Rivera-Servera  1

Part I. The love conjure/blues Text Installation / Sharon Bridgforth  21

1. Reinventing the Black Southern Community in Sharon Bridgforth's The love conjure/blues Text Installation / Matt Richardson  62

2. Interview with Sharon Bridgforth / Sandra L. Richards  78

Part II. Machos / Teatro Luna  89

3. Voicing Masculinity / Tamara Roberts  154

4. Interview with Coya Paz / Patricial Ybarra  167

Part III. Strange Fruit: A Performance about Identity Politics / E. Patrick Johnson  179

5. Passing Strange: E. Patrick Johnson's Strange Fruit / Jennifer DeVere Brody  213

6. Interview with E. Patrick Johnson / Bernadette Marie Calafell  229

Part IV. Ah mén / Javier Cardona, translated by Micu and Ramón H. Rivera-Servera  243

7. Homosociality and Its Discontents: Puerto Rican Masculinities in Javier Cardona's Ah mén / Celiany Rivera-Velázquez and Beliza Torres Narváez  264

8. Interview with Javier Cardona / Jossianna Arroyo, translated by Ramón H. Rivera-Servera  275

Part V. Dancin' the Down Low / Jeffrey Q. McCune Jr.  285

9. Queering Black Identity and Desire: Jeffrey Q. McClune Jr.'s Dancin' the Down Low / Lisa B. Thompson  230

10. Interview with Jeffrey Q. McClune Jr. / John Keene  331

Part VI. Cuban Hustle / Cedric Brown  345

11. Love and Money: Performing Black Queer Diasporic Desire in Cuban Hustle / Marlon M. Bailey  372

12. Interview with Cedric Brown / D. Soyini Madison  387

Part VII. Seens from the Unexpectedness of Love / Pamela Booker  395

13. "Public Intimacy": Women-Loving-Women as Dramaturgical Transgressions / Omi Osun Joni L. Jones  439

14. Interview with Pamela Booker / Tavia Nyong'o  454

Part VIII. Berserker / Paul Outlaw  461

15. What's Nat Turner Doing Up in Here with All These Queers? Paul Outlaw's Beserker; A Black Gay Meditation on Interracial Desire and Disappearing Blackness / Charles I. Nero  486

16. Interview with Paul Outlaw / Vershawn Ashanti Young  498

Part IX. I Just Love Andy Gibb: A Play in One Act / Charles Rice-González  509

17. Learning to Unlove Andy Gibb: Race, Beauty, and the Erotics of Puerto Rican Black Queer Pedagogy / Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes  542

18. Interview with Charles Rice-González / Ramón H. Rivera-Servera  555

Contributors  563

Index  569

E. Patrick Johnson is Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University and the author of Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity, also published by Duke University Press.

Ramón H. Rivera-Servera is Associate Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University and the author of Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics.