Table Of ContentTimes Square Red, Times Square Blue
SEXUAL CULTURES
General Editors: Ann Pellegrini, Tavia Nyong’o, and Joshua Chambers-L etson
Founding Editors: José Esteban Muñoz and Ann Pellegrini
Titles in the series include:
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue The Explanation for Everything: Essays
Samuel R. Delany on Sexual Subjectivity
Paul Morrison
Private Affairs: Critical Ventures in the
Culture of Social Relations The Queerest Art: Essays on Lesbian and
Phillip Brian Harper Gay Theater
Edited by Alisa Solomon and Framji
In Your Face: 9 Sexual Studies
Mandy Merck Minwalla
Tropics of Desire: Interventions from Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and
Queer Latino America the Afterlife of Colonialism
José A. Quiroga Edited by Arnaldo Cruz Malavé and
Martin F. Manalansan IV
Murdering Masculinities: Fantasies of
Gender and Violence in the American Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices,
Crime Novel Discursive Spaces
Gregory Forter Juana María Rodríguez
Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the
Affair and the National Interest Limits of Religious Tolerance
Edited by Lauren Berlant and Lisa A. Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini
Duggan Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the
Black Gay Man: Essays Latinization of American Culture
Robert F. Reid- Pharr Frances Négron- Muntaner
Passing: Identity and Interpretation in Manning the Race: Reforming Black
Sexuality, Race, and Religion Men in the Jim Crow Era
Edited by Maria C. Sanchez and Linda Marlon Ross
Schlossberg In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender
Bodies, Subcultural Lives
J. Jack Halberstam
Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch: Relocations: Queer Suburban
Essays on Race and Sexuality Imaginaries
Dwight A. McBride Karen Tongson
God Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino
Religious Violence Literature and Queer Reading
Michael Cobb Martin Joseph Ponce
Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled
the Black American Intellectual Michael Cobb
Robert Reid- Pharr
Brown Boys and Rice Queens: Spellbind-
The Latino Body: Crisis Identities in ing Performance in the Asias
American Literary and Cultural Memory Eng- Beng Lim
Lázaro Lima
Transforming Citizenships: Transgender
Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Articulations of the Law
Body in Nineteenth- Century America Isaac West
Dana Luciano
The Delectable Negro: Human
Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Consumption and Homoeroticism
Queer Futurity within US Slave Culture
José Esteban Muñoz Vincent Woodard, Edited by Justin A.
Joyce and Dwight A. McBride
Another Country: Queer Anti- Urbanism
Scott Herring Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures and
Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Other Latina Longings
Juana María Rodríguez
Power, and Sexuality in the African
American Literary Imagination Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and
Darieck Scott Masochism
Amber Jamilla Musser
The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America: Queer Nuns: Religion, Activism, and
Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Serious Parody
Ecologies Melissa M. Wilcox
Rachel C. Lee
After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of
Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Color Life
Men Joshua Chambers- Letson
Jane Ward
Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and
Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Brown Jouissance
Feminist Art and Performance Amber Jamilla Musser
Uri McMillan
Afro- Fabulations: The Queer Drama of
A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Black Life
Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire Tavia Nyong’o
Hiram Pérez
Queer Times, Black Futures
Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Kara Keeling
Equality Queer Faith
Katherine Franke Melissa E. Sanchez
The Color of Kink: Black Women, BDSM For a complete list of books in the
and Pornography series, see www.nyupress.org
Ariane Cruz
Archives of Flesh: African America,
Spain, and Post- Humanist Critique
Robert F. Reid- Pharr
Black Performance on the Outskirts of
the Left: A History of the Impossible
Malik Gaines
A Body, Undone: Living on After Great
Pain
Christina Crosby
The Life and Death of Latisha King: A
Critical Phenomenlogy of Transphobia
Gayle Salamon
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
20th Anniversary Edition
SAMUEL R. DELANY
With a new Foreword by Robert F. Reid- Pharr
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
New York
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
New York
© 1999 by Samuel R. Delany
Foreword © 2019 by New York University
Photographs on pages 9, 11, 13, 33, 59, 94, 105, 107, and 147 © 1999 by Philip-L orca
diCorcia
All rights reserved
First published in paperback in 2001.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Delany, Samuel R., author.
Title: Times Square red, Times Square blue / Samuel R. Delany ; with a new foreword by
Robert F. Reid-Pharr.
Description: 20th anniversary edition. | New York : New York Universit Press, [2019] |
Series: Sexual cultures: new directions from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018045003| ISBN 978-1-4798-8736-1 (cl : alk. paper) |
ISBN 978-1-4798-2777-0 (pb : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Sex-oriented businesses—New York (State)—New York. | Sex customs—New
York (State)—New York. | Times Square (New York, N.Y.)—Social life and customs. | Times
Square (New York, N.Y.)—Social conditions. | Male homosexuality—New York (State)—
New York. | Urban renewal—New York (State)—New York—History—20th century.
Classification: LCC HQ146.N7 D45 2019 | DDC 338.4/7306709747—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018045003
New York University Press books are printed on acid- free paper, and their binding
materials are chosen for strength and durability.
Manufactured in the United States of America
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Bruce Benderson
Contents
Foreword xi
by Robert F. Reid- Pharr
Acknowledgments xix
Writer’s Preface xxi
Part 1. Times Square Blue 1
Part 2. . . . Three, Two, One, Contact: Times Square Red 109
Works Cited 201
About the Author 203
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