| Introduction : gossip : the hardcore of art history? | 1 |
| 1 | The American artist in a world of suspicion | 23 |
| 2 | Idol gossip : myths of genius and the making of queer worlds | 51 |
| 3 | The gift of the gab : camp talk and the art of Larry Rivers | 74 |
| 4 | Dishing on the swish, or, the "inning" of Andy Warhol | 106 |
| 5 | Bodies of evidence : queering disclosure in the art of Jasper Johns | 136 |
| Afterword : flirting with an ending | 163 |