CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Timeline -- Introduction: Impossible Dance -- 1. The Theater of Queer World-Making -- 2. The Currency of Fabulousness: Fashioning the Self, Fashioning the Lifeworld -- 3. Slaves to the Rhythm? Using Music, Space, Composition, and the Ideas of the Body -- 4. The Order of Play: Choreographing Queer Politics -- 5. Only When I Lose Myself in Someone Else: Desire, Mimesis, and Transcendence -- 6. Closer: Crackdown, Community, and the Physicality of Queerness -- 7. Mr. Mesa's Ticket: Memory and Dance at the Body Positive T-Dance -- Appendixes -- A. Method -- B. Informants -- C. Location of Clubs -- D. How the City Planning Commission of the City of New York Defines "Adult Establishment" -- E. Regulations and Licenses -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.