QUEER NATIONALITY.

The article examines the depiction of the U.S. flag to mark a fantasy of erotic identification with someone present. It is a national fantasy, displayed as a spectacle of desire and a fantasy, apparently external to the official national frame of communion with an African American woman whose appearance personifies authenticity. Queer Nation's outspoken promotion of a national sexuality not only discloses that mainstream national identity touts a subliminal sexuality more official than a state flower or a national bird but also makes explicit how thoroughly the local experience of the body is framed by laws, policies and social customs regulating sexuality.