The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays in the military. It has been stifled by this myopic focus on the present; which is short-sighted and assimilationist.Cruising Utopia seeks to break the present stagnancy by cruising ahead. Drawing on the work of Ernst Bloch; Joseacute; Esteban Muntilde;oz recalls the queer past for guidance in presaging its future. He considers the work of seminal artists and writers such as Andy Warhol; LeRoi Jones; Frank Orsquo;Hara; Ray Johnson; Fred Herko; Samuel Delany; and Elizabeth Bishop; alongside contemporary performance and visual artists like Dynasty Handbag; My Barbarian; Luke Dowd; Tony Just; and Kevin McCarty in order to decipher the anticipatory illumination of art and its uncanny ability to open windows to the future.In a startling repudiation of what the LGBT movement has held dear; Muntilde;oz contends that queerness is instead a futurity bound phenomenon; a "not yet here" that critically engages pragmatic presentism. Part manifesto; part love-letter to the past and the future; Cruising Utopia argues that the here and now are not enough and issues an urgent call for the revivification of the queer political imagination.
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