Contents; Examples; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Studying Gay Men's English; 1 Can There Be Gay Discourse without Gay Language?; 2 Gay English as Cooperative Discourse; 3 Ensuring Cooperative Discourse: Exaggeration, Turn Taking, Pauses, and Terminals; 4 The Risk Outside: Gay English, 'Suspect Gays,' and Heterosexuals; 5 Claiming Gay Space: Bathroom Graffiti, Songs about Cities, and 'Queer' Reference; 6 Language, Risk, and Space in a Health Club Locker Room; 7 Gay English in a 'Desert of Nothing': Language and Gay Socialization; 8 Gay English and the Language of AIDS.Notes; Bibliography; Index.Electronic reproduction.Available via World Wide Web.