Cover -- Contents -- Diagnosis -- I Got Slim -- Footnotes -- RB on TB -- All AIDS, All the Time! -- It Is Tempting to Forget -- Nights You Can't Sleep -- Depression Is Crazy -- Depression and Life -- Depression and Metaphor -- Passing -- Depression and Incongruity -- Depressed Thinking -- Making Sense -- Political Discomfort -- Thinking of Bleeding -- Kids Say the Darndest Things -- Negative Logic and a Positive Point of View -- "How Can Plain Curiosity Be Unkind? " -- Towel Stories (I) -- Diabetes? Cholesterol? Something Else? -- The AIDS Crisis Is Not Over -- Speaking of HIV -- Old Friends, New Friends -- Famous Last Words -- Tough as Nail Polish -- No Therapy -- Unspoken Knowledge -- From Hervé Guibert's Hospital Diary (I) -- Hospital Visits -- From Hervé Guibert's Hospital Diary (II) -- Star Entrance -- Star Exit -- The Dream Sequence -- I Died a Thousand Deaths (All of Them Gorgeous) -- Others -- The New World -- Three Thousand Deaths in One Day -- Waiting -- Nearness and Neighborliness -- Beckoning and Appealing -- Incomplete Strangers -- Ground Zero -- "I'm Going to Die, Aren't I?" -- Happy Hour at the Cox -- Naked Arab Bodies -- S- 21 -- The Modernity of Torture -- The E.R. Episode -- Truth and Torture -- Dining with French People -- Encountering the Strange -- Times Square Lost -- In the City and Out -- From Public Schools to Public Pools -- Particular Bodies -- The Falling Man -- Towel Stories (II) -- One Drop of Blood -- Disclosure -- Shame and Experience -- The Doorstep of Shame -- Forget Your Health -- Disclosures and Surfaces -- Obama's Disclosures, Forever Deferred -- Chat (I) -- Chat (II) -- Adventures in Online Cruising -- On the Question of Barebacking, Very Briefly -- Coda to the Story of k*** -- Touchiness -- Reason to Exclude -- The Stories of AIDS -- Academic Talk -- A Brief History of HIV/AIDS Disclosure -- Founding Mothers.

Look Back in Anger (When AIDS Was All the Rage) -- Uttering AIDS -- Where's the Police When You Need 'Em? -- What I Said and How I Said It -- The Purloined Letter -- So Am I -- Small Talk -- The Story of the Raconteurs -- Compatible Discordance -- The Battlefield of the Body -- Dysclosure -- Towel Stories (III) -- Taste -- Intimacy in Public -- Accounting for Taste -- Reembodiment and Discomfort -- Reentering the Movie Theater -- Moving in Queer Circles -- Spaces, People, and Actions (I) -- The Return of Tosca (Entr'acte) -- Spaces, People, and Actions (II) -- Again, Where Are the Police? -- Tact -- My Contact in the Underground -- Hostile Bodies (and the People Who Love Them) -- Sharing: From Disclosure to Tact -- Tact and Delicacy (I) -- Tactlessness -- Tactful Encounters -- Tact and Delicacy (II) -- The Shower Scene -- Tact and Delicacy (III) -- Tact, Power, and the Police (I) -- Tact, Power, and the Police (II) -- Tact and Contamination -- Tact and Silence -- Tact and Failure -- Tact and Unreason -- The Kindness of Strangers -- Sunday in the Park with . . . ? -- The Yellow Star -- Tact as Social Music Making -- A Fart Joke from Proust -- Touch and Other Senses -- Immodesty -- Reentering the Movie Theater's Restroom -- Tact and Intimation -- Found Objects (I): Tact and Bearing Witness as Forms of Bricolage -- Tactfulness to the Dead -- Found Objects (II): Some Beauty -- Contact -- Leaving the Door Open -- The Unexpected Coda: May 24, 2011 -- Names -- Notes -- Bibliography.