Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- A queer(ed) science of language -- Intersection -- Theoretically queer, practically straight -- Unbreakable -- Identity and desire in gay Indian immigrants' definition of coming out in the U.S. -- Mountain magic -- Integration -- Towards a queer and trans sociophonetics -- Queer+ Trans folk linguistics -- Transmedicalisms, transnormativities, and semantic authority -- Institution -- Queer language before -- The state of Tennessee and the Kingdom of God -- Queering the military -- Closet monsters -- Index