The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays in the military. It has been stifled by this myopic focus on the present?? which is short-s"hted and assimilationist.
Cruising Utopia seeks to break the present stagnancy by cruising ahead. Drawing on the work of Ernst Bloch?? Jos? Esteban Mu?oz recalls the queer past for guidance in presaging its future. He considers the work of seminal artists and writers such as Andy Warhol?? LeRoi Jones?? Frank O??Hara?? R