This accessible volume charts some of the ways in which we have understood and negotiated the pleasures and affirmations, as well as the disappointments of mass culture. Topics include the queer careers of Agnes Moorehead and Pee Wee Herman to the cultural politics of lesbian style, the visualization of AIDS and the black snap! queer experience; and two special dossiers on the queer content of Hitchcock films and the production and reception of popular music. This work also contains an extensive bibliography. Contributors include such writers as B. Ruby Rich and Essex Hemphill as well as critics including Richard Dyer.