Neither queer theory nor queer activism has fully reckoned with the role of race in the emergence of the modern gay subject. In A Taste for Brown Bodies?? Hiram P?rez traces the development ?of gay modernity and its continued romanticization of the brown body. Focusing in particular on three figures with elusive queer histories?the sailor?? the soldier?? and the cowboy? P?rez unpacks how each has been memorialized and desired for their heroic masculinity while at the same time functioning as agents for the expansion of the US borders and neocolonial zones of influence.?

Describing an enduring homonationalism dating to the ??birth?? of the homosexual in the late 1