Introduction: Ethnoracial intimacies in Blacktino queer performance / E. Patrick Johnson and Ramón H. Rivera-Servera -- Part I: The love conjure/blues text installation / Sharon Bridgforth ; Reinventing the Black Southern Community in Sharon Bridgforth's the love conjure/bluestext installation / Matt Richardson ; Interview with Sharon Bridgforth / Sandra L. Richards -- Part II: Machos / directed/developed by Coya Paz, created by Teatro Luna ; Voicing masculinity / Tamara Roberts ; Interview with Coya Paz / Patricia Ybarra -- Part III: Strange fruit : a performance about identity politics / E. Patrick Johnson ; Passing strange : E. Patrick Johnson's strange fruit / Jennifer DeVere Brody ; Interview with E. Patrick Johnson / Bernadette Marie Calafell -- Part IV: Ah-mè́n / Javier Cardona, translated by Andreea Micu and Ramón H. Rivera-Servera ; Homosociality and its discontents : Puerto Rican masculinities in Javier Cardona's Ah-mén / Celiany Rivera-Vel zquez and Beliza Torres Narváez ; Interview with Javier Cardona / Jossianna Arroyo, translated by Ramón H. Rivera-Servera -- Part V: Dancin' the Down Low / Jeffrey Q. McCune Jr. ; Queering Black identity and desire : Jeffrey Q. Mccune Jr.'s Dancin' the down low / Lisa B. Thompson ; Interview with Jeffrey Q. Mccune jr. / John Keene -- Part VI: Cuban hustle / Cedric Brown ; Love and money : performing Black queer diasporic desire in Cuban hustle / Marlon M. Bailey ; Interview with Cedric Brown / D. Soyini Madison -- Part VIII: Seens from the unexpectedness of love / Pamela Booker ; "Public intimacy" : women-loving-women as dramaturgical transgressions / Omi Osun Joni L. Jones ; Interview with Pamela Booker / Tauia Nyong'o -- Part VIII: Berserker / Paul Outlaw ; What's Nat Turner doing up in here with all these queers? Paul Outlaw's Berserker : a black gay meditation on interracial desire and disappearing blackness / Charles I. Nero ; Interview with Paul Outlaw / Vershaum Ashanti Young -- Part IX: I just love Andy Gibb : a play in one act / Charles Rice-González ; Learning to unlove Andy Gibb : race, beauty, and the erotics of Puerto Rican black queer pedagogy / Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes ; Interview with Charles Rice-González / Ramón H. Riuera-Seruera