Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: What Makes Queerness Most? -- ONE: There's Something Queer Here -- TWO: Whose Text Is It Anyway? Queer Cultures, Queer Auteurs, and Queer Authorship -- THREE: I Love Laverne and Shirley: Lesbian Narratives, Queer Pleasures, and Television Sitcoms -- FOUR: The Gay Straight Man: Jack Benny and The Jack Benny Program -- FIVE: The Sissy Boy, the Fat Ladies, and the Dykes: Queerness and/as Gender in Pee-wee's World -- Afterword: "You Flush It, I Flaunt It!" -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.