PrefaceIntroduction11Not Given to Personal Disclosure312Rites of Passing493Cast among Outcastes: Interpreting Sexual Orientation, Racial, and Gender Identity in the Yemen Arab Republic584Being Gay and Doing Fieldwork705Traveling Woman: Conducting a Fieldwork Project on Gender Variance ad Homosexuality among North American Indians866Confessions of a Reformed Grant Hustler1117Studying Gay English: How I Got Here from There1288Coming Home: The Journey of a Gay Ethnographer in the Years of the Plague1479Constructing an Ethnohistory of the Buffalo Lesbian Community: Reflexivity, Dialogue, and Politics17110Writing Queer Cultures: An Impossible Possibility?20011My Best Informant's Dress: The Erotic Equation in Fieldwork21212Male Homosexuality in Guatemala: Possible Insights and Certain Confusions from Sleeping with the Natives23613Out of the Closet and into Print: Sexual Identity in the Textual Field26114Requiem for a Street Fighter274Afterword287Contributors309Index313