Introduction: thinking sideways, or an untoward genealogy of queer reading E. L. McCallum and Tyler Bradway; Part I. Reading Queery Literary History: 1. Shakespearean sexualities Stephen Guy-Bray; 2. Write, paint, dance, sex: queer styles/American fictions Dana Seiter; 3. Queer Lantix studies and queer Latinx literature 'after' queer theory, or: thought and art and sex after pulse Ricardo Ortiz; Part II. Reading Queer Writer: 4. Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw in queer time: law, lawlessness, and the mid twentieth-century after-life of a decadent person Richard A. Kaye; 5. After queer Baldwin Matt Brim; 6. Revision, origin, and the courage of truth: Henry James's New York edition prefaces Kevin Ohi; 7. All about our mothers: race, gender, and the reparative Amber Musser; Part III. Reading Queerly: 8. Camp performance and the case of discotropic Nick Salvato; 9. Reading in juxtaposition: comics Andre Carrington; 10. Reading for transgression: queering genres Rebekah Sheldon; 11. Sovereignty: a mercy Sharon Patricia Holland.