Gay Suburban Narratives in American and

Martin Dines explores the relationship between the physical and metaphorical spaces of suburbia and the evolution of modern gay identities across a range of British and American film and fiction, looking at the work of Dennis Cooper, Quentin Crisp, Todd Haynes, Christopher Isherwood, Kevin Killian, David Leavitt, Oscar Moore and Edmund White.

MARTIN DINES is Lecturer in Suburban and Cultural Studies at Kingston University, UK. His research interests lie in the relationships between identity, place and narrative in British and American literature and culture.

List of Figures	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The Straightest Space Imaginable?	p. 1
No Place to Hide: The Suburban Sissy and the American Coming-Out Story	p. 21
Making it Public: Recent British Coming-Out Narratives	p. 74
Wasteland of the Free: New Narrative and the Suburbs	p. 105
The Importance of Being Normal: The Fiction of Suburban Resettlement	p. 130
Sacrilege in the Sitting Room: Contesting Suburban Domesticity	p. 155
Coda: Writing æHomeÆ	p. 180
Notes	p. 180
Index	p. 208
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