This Companion examines the connections between LGBTQ populations and American literature from the late eighteenth to twenty-first centuries.

1. Queer novelties Michael Cobb; 2. Queer theater and performance Sean Metzger; 3. Queer poetry, between 'as is' and 'as if' Eric Keenaghan; 4. Writing queer lives: autobiography and memoir Julie Avril Minich; 5. Queer cinema, queer writing, queer criticism Lucas Hilderbrand; 6. Nineteenth-century queer literature Travis Foster; 7. Literary and sexual experimentalism in the interwar years Daniela Caselli; 8. The Cold War closet Michael P. Bibler; 9. The time of AIDS and the rise of 'post-gay' Guy Davidson; 10. Gender and sexuality L. H. Stallings; 11. Intersections of race, gender, and sexuality: queer of color critique Kyla Wazana Tompkins; 12. Psychoanalytic literary criticism of gay and lesbian American literature Judith Roof; 13. Post-structuralism: originators and heirs Melissa Jane Hardie; 14. Transnational queer imaginaries, intimacies, insurgencies Martin Joseph Ponce.