During the first semester of my last year as an undergraduate at the University of California at Berkeley, I enrolled in a course titled Queer(y)ing the Canon, in which we read literary texts like The Canterbury Tales, The Book of Margery Kempe, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight alongside critical writings of Michel Foucault, Stephen Orgel, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Derek Jarman. I also clearly remember viewing Gus Van Sant’s 1991 film My Own Private Idaho in conjunction with reading Shakespeare’s Henry IV. The instructor of that course was Professor Carolyn Dinshaw, one of the two founding editors of GLQ: A Gay and Lesbian Quarterly. Toward the end of the term, Professor Dinshaw distributed postcards to fill out if we wished to receive by mail the inaugural issue of GLQ. As a budding bibliophile, academic journal hoarder, and queer studies scholar, I happily complied. While taking this course, I was also preparing an undergraduate thesis on representations of Latino gay men in literature and visual culture. Given that my nascent academic interests stood at the intersection of Chicano/a studies and the emergent project of queer theory, I searched high and low for critical work that would assist in establishing an interpretive framework for my thesis. By then, Teresa de Lauretis’s edited special issue of differences titled “Queer Theory: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities” had been out for about a year, and it featured Tomás Almaguer’s groundbreaking essay “Chicano Men: A Cartography of Homosexual Identity and Behavior.” While Almaguer’s piece was enormously insightful and generative, I longed for additional work to help me make sense of Latino gay male identity and sexuality.

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亡灵白

在加州大学伯克利分校读本科的最后一年的第一学期，我参加了一门名为 Queer(y)ing the Canon 的课程，在该课程中，我们阅读了诸如《坎特伯雷故事集》、《玛格丽·肯佩之书》等文学作品，以及高文爵士和绿衣骑士以及米歇尔·福柯、斯蒂芬·奥尔格尔、伊芙·科索夫斯基·塞奇维克和德里克·贾曼的批判性著作。我还清楚地记得在阅读莎士比亚的《亨利四世》的同时观看了 Gus Van Sant 1991 年的电影《我的私人爱达荷》。该课程的讲师是 Carolyn Dinshaw 教授，他是 GLQ：同性恋季刊的两位创始编辑之一。学期快结束时，Dinshaw 教授分发了明信片，如果我们希望通过邮件接收 GLQ 的创刊号，请填写明信片。作为初出茅庐的藏书家、学术期刊囤积者，和酷儿研究学者，我高兴地答应了。在学习这门课程的同时，我还在准备一篇关于拉丁裔男同性恋在文学和视觉文化中的表现的本科论文。鉴于我新生的学术兴趣位于奇卡诺/a 研究和酷儿理论的新兴项目的交叉点，我四处寻找有助于为我的论文建立解释框架的批判性工作。那时，Teresa de Lauretis 编辑的差异特刊题为“酷儿理论：男女同性恋性行为”已经出版了大约一年，其中刊登了 Tomás Almaguer 的开创性文章“奇卡诺男人：同性恋身份和行为的制图”。虽然 Almaguer 的作品极具洞察力和创造力，