Shedding light on the meaning of 'passing' and 'outing' in relation to identity, Passing/Out constructs a dialogue between the work of scholars whose intellectual careers began prior to the advent of queer theory and those whose work has been more immediately and directly shaped by this approach, with a view to breaking new ground in the field of identity.

Dennis R. Cooley is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Ethics and Associate Director of the Northern Plains Ethics Institute at North Dakota State University, USA. Kelby Harrison is the director of the LGBT Resource Center at the University of Southern California. She has a Ph.D. in philosophy and gender studies from Northwestern University.

Introduction, Dennis R. Cooley, Kelby Harrison; Chapter 1 The Ontological Foundations of Passing, Mark Chekola, Nancy Arden McHugh; Chapter 2 Complicating Reason(s) and Praxis for Coming Out, Dennis R. Cooley, Alice MacLachlan, Susanne Sreedhar; Chapter 3 Power, Oppression, and Passing, Daniel Hurewitz, Kelby Harrison; Chapter 4 Cross-Generational Risks of Ascribing and Employing "Queer," "Gay and Lesbian" or even "Straight", Janna Jackson Kellinger, Rob Cover; Chapter 5 At the Intersection of Racial and Sexual Passing and African-American Celebrity, Willie Tolliver, C. Riley Snorton; Chapter 6 Margins within the Marginal: Bi-invisibility and Intersexual Passing, Samantha Brennan, Maren Behrensen; Chapter 7 Transgender Identity and Passing Authentically, Christine Overall, Karin Sellberg;