Queer ConstellationsDiscovers parallels between modern gay and lesbian views of urban life and Benjamins Paris, the capital of the nineteenth century Queer Constellations investigates the dreams and catastrophes of recent urban history viewed through new queer narratives of inner city life. The gay village, gay mecca, gai Paris, the lesbian flaneur, the lesbian bohmethese and other urban phantasmagoria feature paradoxically in this volume as figures of revolutionary