Queers and literature : the Spanish context -- Lorca experts : early gay and queer criticism in Spain -- Critically queer? : Spanish studies in Anglo-American academia -- ¿Entiendes? : towards an epistemology of 'the opposite pavement' -- Against nature and culture : attempts at subversive writing -- Rewriting foreign traditions -- 'Under the thin skin of this world' : Mazuf's gesture in This breathing world by José Luis de Juan -- The pitfalls of identity : queering Shakespeare in Valentín by Juan Gil-Albert -- Tadzio's death in Venice : from the sublimation of desire to tremendismo in La muerte de Tadzio by Luis G. Martín -- Rewriting the national tradition -- The 'intercourse of saints' in A cock-eyed comedy (Carajicomedia) by Juan Goytisolo -- CAMPaign against transphobia : Yo no tengo la culpa de haber nacido tan sexy by Eduardo Mendicutti and the pitfalls of identity -- Against culture : homosexuality and counter-culture in Luis Antonio de Villena -- A dandy's gesture : aestheticising homoerotic experience and the law of desire -- Recycled histories : on the queer continuum -- Chronicles of a death foretold : the movida madrileña as a new fin de siècle -- Bones of contention : addressing homonormativity in Huesos de Sodoma -- Against nature : homosexuality and postmodernity in Alvaro Pomo -- Under suspicion : Pombo as a scribe -- Pombo as an existential philosopher and a phenomenologist -- The predicament of postmodernity : Pombo as Mazuf.