Introduction: what is queer about nostalgia? -- Animated nostalgia: invented authenticity in Arte's summer of the sixties -- Nostalgic physique: displaying Foucauldian muscles and celebrating the male body in beefcake -- Sexing the past: communal exposure and self examination in gay sex in the 70s -- Claiming lost gay youth: Todd Haynes's Dottie gets spanked and Velvet goldmine -- Boys want to have fun! carnivalesque adolescence and nostalgic resorts in another gay movie and another gay sequel -- Reinventing lesbian youth in Su Friedrich's cinematic autoqueeroraphy Hide and seek -- Uses of nostalgia in musical politicization of homo/phobic myths in Were the world mine, The big gay musical and Zero patience -- Saint Gaga: Lady Gaga's nostalgic yearning for queer mythology, monsters and martyrs -- Black nostalgia: poetry, ethnicity and homoeroticism in looking for Langston and brother to brother -- Afterword: queering nostalgia or queer nostalgia?
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