Queerness as horizon: utopian hermeneutics in the face of gay pragmatism --
Ghosts of public sex: utopian longings, queer memories --
The future is in the present: sexual avant-gardes and the performance of utopia --
Gesture, ephemera, and queer feeling: approaching Kevin Aviance --
Cruising the toilet: LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, radical black traditions, and queer futurity --
Stages: queers, punks, and the utopian performative --
Utopia's seating chart: Ray Johnson, Jill Johnston, and queer intermedia as system --
Just like heaven: queer utopian art and the aesthetic dimension --
A jeté out the window: Fred Herko's incandescent illumination --
After Jack: queer failure, queer virtuosity.

The author argues that the here and now are not enough and issues an urgent call for the revivification of the queer political imagination.