This book is about the literal and figurative place(s) of what the author calls 'gay historical ambivalence' in post 1960s US cultural forms and formations.The author closely and critically interrogates a variety of forms through which this ambivalence presents itself in popular and everyday culture, including: gay male video bars; jokes about AIDS; landmark post-social problem films from Philadelphia to Brokeback Mountain; all-male pornography across the transition from film to video to the internet, and from its early 1970s nationalisms through its rigorous globalization since the 1990s; and, questions encircling the notion of a gay face.Products of the present are approached as forms of/from the past when the past is seen, through the presence of gay historical ambivalence, as partially commodifiable form and content.