PART I: Queering the Stage: Chapter 6: Dancing Marines and Pumping Gasoline: CODED QUEERNESS IN DEPRESSION-ERA AMERICAN BALLET.

The article discusses, among George Platt Lynes's many photographs of male nudes, one particular image of a dancer in the role of Mac, the gas station attendant hero from the American ballet Filling Station (1938), offers a compelling visual paradox.1 In the photo a young Jacques d'Amboise stands with his right leg propped up on a stool, clothed head to toe in coveralls, the type of long sleeved, onepiece safety garment often worn by mechanics and factory workers.