W. C. Harris is Professor of English at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Queer Externalities: Hazardous Encounters in American Culture, also published by SUNY Press, and E Pluribus Unum: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Constitutional Paradox.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Where Gays Lie

1. "The End of the Rainbow, My Pot of Gold": The Queer Erotics of Purity Balls and Christian Abstinence Culture

2. Breeding Fraternities: Ex-Gay Ministries, Barebacking, and Alternative Models of Relation

3. Jesus Needs Gays, Yes He Does: Gay Religion, Queer Spirituality, and the Recalcitrance of Ideology

4. Slouching toward Gaytheism: Gay Suicide, "It Gets Better," and Religion's Stranglehold on Queer Survival

Conclusion: Before the Cock Crows

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