This book explores contemporary social theory and developments in the study of sexuality through the analysis of law and its practices.

Introduction 1. Military Men: Queering the Homosocial Habitus 2. Authenticity, Evasion and the Unknowable Homosexual Refugee 3. Persecution and Immutability: Homosexual Refugees 4. The Fear of 'Homosexual Spread': Legislating the Heteronormativity of Protection 1957-2000. Conclusion