This book examines US gay and lesbian leather archives alongside contemporary artistic practices that reframe and renegotiate historical source material, creating a queer politics of the present.

Andy Campbell is Assistant Professor of Critical Studies at USC Roski School of Art and Design

List of plates
List of figures
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: bound together
2 The work of the master's hand
3 How to talk about Tom
4 Yellow, or reading archives diagonally
5 Numbers
6 'Clubs that don't exist anymore'
7 Attached to history
8 'Deep fist at the Modern'
9 Conclusion: surrogates, envelopes
Select bibliography
Index