Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Queer Slumming -- Underworld Unknowing -- The Hermeneutics of Sexual Suspicion -- The Suspicion of Sexual Hermeneutics -- Rotten Politics -- Chapter 1. Terra Incognita: Jane Addams, Philanthropic Slumming, and the Elusive Identity of Hull-House -- Disappearing Acts -- Spinster Panic -- Queered Cosmopolitanism -- Twenty Years in Cedarville -- The Limbo of Forgotten Spectators -- Chapter 2. Willa Cather's Experiment in Luxury -- Cather's Case History -- In the Company of Tramps -- Decadent Movements -- The Miseries of Pittsburgh -- Fairy Worlds -- Slumming on Park Avenue -- Capitalism and the Erasure of Gay Identity -- Chapter 3. "Slightly Known Territory": Renaissance Admixture and the So-Called Van Vechten School -- A Caucasian Storms Harlem -- The Signifying Slummer -- Parties and Mixers -- Friendship beyond Understanding -- Nugent's Shtick -- "Just a Case of Mixed Signs" -- Chapter 4. Antisapphic Modernism -- Les myst`eres de Djuna Barnes -- Looking for Bohemia -- Stephen Gordon's Slumming Tour -- Lost in transition -- Watchman, What of the Night? -- Hidden from History -- The Obscure Life -- Epilogue: Secrets of the African-American Bisexual Man -- or, Double Lives on the Down Low -- Straight Outta Compton -- Never Apologize, Never Explain -- Undetectability -- Beyond Subcultural Studies: A Manifesto -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.