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Index Abbey, Edward, 6, 188n11 abjection, 28, 100, 107, 112, 129, 140 abuse. See violence academia, 15, 33, 148, 176 acting. See performance: acting ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), 94–95 affect, 33, 77 Against Nature (Weeks), 3–4 Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Herzog), 111 AIDS: allegorization of, 73–74, 76, 80, 83; crisis, 29, 31, 72, 80, 92–95, 164, 187n3, 188n11, 193nn13–15; in deep ecology discourse, 91–92; and film, 79, 103; as “natural,” 76, 93; risk groups, 80–83, 94. See also HIV Alaimo, Stacy, 168, 193n6 alienation: of African-Americans, 54; of labor, 52, 56–57, 68; from nature, 121, 124, 181; in Safe, 82, 88; of transgender persons, 37, 44, 48, 53–54, 56, 68 All That Heaven Allows (Sirk), 71 American Literary Environmentalism (Mazel), 14, 24, 139–40, 188n15, 197n12 American West: romanticization of, 31, 166; settling and development of, 32, 108, 116, 127–28, 132, 140. See also desert Anderson, Jill E., 22, 25 “animalistic” sexuality, 115, 124 anti-capitalism, 39, 56–60 anti-colonialism, 25, 59–60 anti-domesticity, 32, 108–9, 118, 123, 126, 128, 133 anti-essentialism, 3, 25, 98, 173 anti-identitarianism, 14, 28–29, 161, 163, 171, 180, 184. See also non-identitarianism Anti-Oedipus (Deleuze and Guattari), 61–62 anti-social thesis (queer theory), 5–7 Armbruster, Karla, 53 Atomic Age, 33, 151, 152, 154–55, 196n1 atomic bomb, 29, 33, 152–53, 163, 169, 175. See also Japan, U.S. bombing of; nuclear testing; radiation sickness Azzarello, Robert, 23, 189n27 Bachelard, Gaston, 100 Bagemihl, Bruce, 21 bars: gay, 20, 36, 44, 48, 105, 114, 133–35; mixed, 134–35 Barthes, Roland, 174 Baudrillard, Jean, 42, 177, 192n19 beach, the, 32, 106, 113–14, 135, 142–43, 145–46 Bell, David, 22, 189n26 Berila, Beth, 94–95 Berlant, Lauren, 9, 188n9, 189n34 Bersani, Leo, 5, 10, 173, 187n3 Bérubé, Allan, 93, 134 bikers, 106, 126, 137–38, 144 biocentricity, 22, 27, 62, 68, 74, 91, 182 Biological Exuberance (Bagemihl), 21 Bookchin, Murray, 17, 91–93, 96 Seymour_Strange.indd 211 2/4/13 10:29 AM 212 Index Bouchard, Danielle and Jigna Desai, 192n4, 193n7, 193n15 Bowers v. Hardwicke, 114 Boys Don’t Cry (Peirce), 20, 189n21 BP (British Petroleum), 8, 188n7 Brokeback Mountain: as historicist, 32, 116, 128, 132; and neoliberalism (see also neoliberalism ); as postmodern/self-reflexive, 108–9, 116, 135–38, 141–42, 146; as queer, 5, 25–26, 31–32, 107, 132 “Brokeback Mountain” (Proulx), 111, 123, 125, 132 Brooks, Peter, 79 Bruhm, Steven and Natasha Hurley, 187n1 Buckingham-Hatfield, Susan, 78, 101, 195n31 Buell, Lawrence, 13–14, 57, 74, 188n16, 190n35, 193n11 Bullard, Robert, 26, 74, 88, 164, 194n26 Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S., 169 Bureau of Reclamation, U.S., 127, 195n3, 195n12 Bush, George H., 8 Bush, George W., 8, 19, 21, 151, 189n20, 189n25 Butler, Judith, 13, 14, 42, 157, 173, 187n3 Byers, Thomas, 121, 132 camp, 150, 163 camping, 115, 121 cancer, 72, 99, 152, 163, 170, 196n6. See also radiation sickness capitalism: accumulation, 8, 28, 58, 118, 122, 125; as anti-ecological, 5, 8, 32, 57, 107–8, 111–13; as anti-futurist, 7–8, 10, 183; and GLBTQI existence, 5, 43, 62–65, 107, 128, 134, 192n16, 195n9; global/late, 29, 42–43, 52, 63, 108–9, 118, 133–34, 183. See also alienation: of labor; anticapitalism ; pre-capitalism “Capitalism and Gay Identity” (D’Emilio), 62–63, 192n16 Carson, Rachel, 189n29 Caserio, Robert L., 5, 187n4 Castro District, 156, 159 Cereus Blooms at Night (Mootoo), 9, 11, 37, 41, 45, 48, 59, 65, 69, 70, 204, 206, 209 chemical sensitivity, 80, 193n5. See also environmental illness Chernobyl, 175 Chisholm, Dianne, 167–68, 187n5 Chris, Cynthia, 22 Christian, Laura, 74, 91, 100, 193n7 Christmas Carol, A (Dickens), 7 cisgender persons, 39, 47, 49, 52, 56, 191n6 Clark, David and Catherine Myser, 157, 159 class consciousness, 122, 125, 139, 193n7 classical narrative cinema, 73, 83, 99, 104. See also Hollywood cinema classical narrative form, 27, 79, 152. See also narrative conventions classism, 74–75, 101–2, 111, 114, 120–22, 181 Cliff, Michelle, 30, 37, 44–46, 50, 52, 55, 60, 62, 66, 90, 191n3 climate change. See global warming coalition building. See solidarity, of the oppressed Cold War, 152, 153, 197n8 Collins, Floyd, 182–83 colonialism, 9, 43, 57, 59–60, 70, 184. See also anti-colonialism commodification: of the body, 36, 44, 56, 61–63; of nature, 59, 107, 122–24, 139...

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