Taken together, the chapters in this book outline a theory and a practice of painting ecstatic ordinarinesses in contemporary, diverse American queer life. To do so, it offers the first sustained study of five individually renowned twenty-first-century queer painters-Gio Black Peter, Doron Langberg, Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Salman Toor, and Joao Gabriel-who have achieved substantial recognition from international museums, galleries, and critics working with short-form reviews but not yet from academics producing large-scale studies. This study argues for a broad understanding of what constitutes the queer American art of our time and for a broad sense of who can help to fashion American culture and history, including art by African American, Southeast Asian, Muslim and Jewish American, South American, and gender non-conforming queer artists. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, contemporary art, gender studies, and queer studies.