Queering Gay and Lesbian Studies is a broadly interdisciplinary studythat considers a key dilemma in gay and lesbian studies through theprism of identity and its discontents: the field studies has modeleditself on ethnic studies programs, perhaps to be intelligible to theuniversity community, but certainly because the ethnic studies route toprograms is well established. Since this model requires a stable andidentifiable community, gay and lesbian studies have emphasizedstable and knowable identities.