Contents -- Examples -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Studying Gay Men's English -- 1 Can There Be Gay Discourse without Gay Language? -- 2 Gay English as Cooperative Discourse -- 3 Ensuring Cooperative Discourse: Exaggeration, Turn Taking, Pauses, and Terminals -- 4 The Risk Outside: Gay English, "Suspect Gays," and Heterosexuals -- 5 Claiming Gay Space: Bathroom Graffiti, Songs about Cities, and "Queer" Reference -- 6 Language, Risk, and Space in a Health Club Locker Room -- 7 Gay English in a "Desert of Nothing": Language and Gay Socialization -- 8 Gay English and the Language of AIDS -- Conclusion: Gay English, Authenticity, and Performative Effect -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- L -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T.