In Naomi Wallace's play In the Heart of America, set during the first Gulf War, the character Remzi poses the following questions to Craver, his fellow soldier and soon-to-be lover: "Let's say I"m lying over there, dead as can be, and then you see it's me, from a distance. But you still have to walk over to my body to check it out. So, how would you walk?" (Wallace 2001, 88).¹ In this scene, the first in the play between the two men, Remzi is asking Craver to define their relationship. He is also asking Craver to travel the distance between them, a distance delineated by race and class—Remzi is Palestinian-American and Craver is self-described "White Trash" from Kentucky. It is a distance, furthermore, created by the military ban on same-sex relationships then in effect. In what follows, the two men improvise, revise, and negotiate the most appropriate physical representation of their relationship.