Taken together, the chapters in this book outline a theory and a practice of painting ecstatic ordinarinesses in contemporary, diverse American queer life. To do so, it offers the first sustained study of five individually renowned twenty-first-century queer painters--Gio Black Peter, Doron Langberg, Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Salman Toor, and Jo o Gabriel--who have achieved substantial recognition from international museums, galleries, and critics...