Introduction / Robert Richmond Ellis -- Pt. 1. Reading Slant: Daring to Name. 1. Maria de Zayas and Lesbian Desire in Early Modern Spain / Sherry M. Velasco. 2. Concealing Pleasures: Cross-dressers, Tribades, and Sodomites in Lope de Vega's El rufian Castrucho / Harry Velez Quinones. 3. Queer Reader/Queer Muse: Romantic Friendships, Sexual Identity, and Sapphic Representations in Gomez de Avellaneda's Poetry / Librada Hernandez -- Pt. 2. Si(gh)ting the Armario: Restoring Visibility. 4. "Para objetos solamente": The Silencing of a Voice / Carmen Tisnado. 5. As Invisible as He Is: The Queer Enigma of Xavier Villaurrutia / Robert McKee Irwin. 6. Alternative Identities of Gabriel(a) Mistral, 1906-1920 / Elizabeth Rosa Horan -- Pt. 3. Locating Queer(s). 7. Chicanas in Love: Sandra Cisneros Talking Back and Alicia Gaspar de Alba "Giving Back the Wor[l]d" / Susana Chavez-Silverman. 8. Traveling Transgressions: Cubanidad in Performances by Carmelita Tropicana and Marga Gomez / Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano. 9. Evita Peron, Juan Jose Sebreli, and Gender / David William Foster. 10. Queer Cortazar and the Lectora Macho / Rosemary Geisdorfer Feal -- Pt. 4. Living/Writing Queer: An Open Book. 11. Looking Queer in the Autobiography of Terenci Moix / Robert Richmond Ellis. 12. Lesbianism, Female Homosociality, and the Maternal Imaginary in Montserrat Roig's L'hora violeta / Emilie L. Bergmann. 13. Arenas's Antes que anochezca: Autobiography of a Gay Cuban Dissident / Emilio Bejel