A Taste for Brown BodiesWinner, LGBT Studies Lammy Award presented by Lambda Literary Neither queer theory nor queer activism has fully reckoned with the role of race in the emergence of the modern gay subject. In A Taste for Brown Bodies, Hiram Prez traces the development of gay modernity and its continued romanticization of the brown body. Focusing in particular on three figures with elusive queer historiesthe sailor, the soldier, and the cowboy Prez unpacks how each has