Over the course of the past two decades, there has been a veritable explosion in research on non-heterosexual sexual experience. The sexual practices, histories, and identities of non-heterosexual men – and the sexual networks and communities that they inhabit – have been explored and analyzed in countries and cultures around the world (see Boellstorff 2007). The impetus for this rapidly expanding body of work has been diverse, including the growth of gay and lesbian studies (Plummer 1992), the rise of queer theory (Eldeman 1995), and the practical challenges of confronting HIV and AIDS in a diverse range of non-heterosexual populations (Parker, Khan and Aggleton 1998). While the empirical record of work on nonnormative and non-heterosexual experience has expanded exponentially, careful reÀection on the theoretical framing of much of this research has perhaps been somewhat less developed, and careful analysis of the ways in which theoretical positioning has suggested a range of different methodological options has been, if anything, even rarer (Weeks 1985, 2003).