Richard Dyer is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Warwick. His books include White: Essays on Race and Culture (Routledge 1997), The Matter of Images (Routledge 1993) and Now You See It (1990).

1. Introduction. 2. The Politics of Gay Culture 3. Believing in Fairies: The Author and The Homosexual 4. Gay Misogyny 5. It's Being So Camp as Keeps Us Going 6. Dressing the Part 7. It's in his Kiss!: Homosexuality as Vampirism, Vampirism as Homosexuality 8. Queer Noir 9. Coming Out as Going In: The Homosexual as a Sad Young Man 10. L'Air De Paris: No Place for Homosexuality 11. Charles Hawtrey: Carrying on Regardless 12. Rock Hudson: The Last Guy You'd Have Figured? 13. Reading Fassbinder's Sexual Politics 14. Idol Thoughts: Orgasm and Self-Reflexivity in Gay Pornography 15. Homosexuality and Heritage

For around a hundred years up to the Stonewall riots, the word used for gay men was 'queers'. Here Richard Dyer traces the contours of queer culture, examining the differences and continuities with the gay culture which succeeded it.