Telling tales: Brandon Teena, Billy Tipton, and transgender biography / Judith Halberstam -- Passing like me: Jewish chameleonism and the politics of race / Daniel Itzkovitz -- Whiteness invisible: early Mexican American writing and the color of literary history / Mariá Carla Sánchez -- Passing lines: immigration and the performance of American identity / Brad Epps -- From Victorian parlor to Physique Pictorial: the male nude and homosexual identity / Michael Bronski -- Slumming / Peter Hitchcock -- The "self-made man": male impersonation and the new woman / Sharon Ullman -- Mimesis in the face of fear: femme queens, butch queens, and gender play in the houses of greater Newark / Karen McCarthy Brown -- "The Church's closet": confessionals, Victorian Catholicism, and the crisis of identification / Patrick R. O'Malley -- Moses' wilderness tabernacle / Miriam Peskowitz.