Sodom and Gomorrah in the era of late capitalism; or, a return to Walter Benjamin -- Love at last sight; or, the dialectics of seeing in the wake of the gay bathhouse -- The city of collective memory -- Queer passages in gai Paris; or, flâneries through the paradoxes of history -- The lesbian Bohème -- Conclusion: millennial metropolis: blasting a queer era out of homogeneous history.