@rjsmith: Your work sounds great! Is there a region you focus on? The Twin Cities have a really interesting queer past, so Minnesota would be great for that! (Have you read "Finding the Movement" by Anne Enke?) ?
I also love Yale's program (and their AMAZING LGBT resources). It's in my top along with Minnesota, Berkeley's Rhetoric program, and Brown's Modern Culture and Media. In my own work, I look at queer and feminist theory, the Gothic, pop culture, American film and literature, memory, the avant garde, the South (sometimes), otherness, etc.
Good luck to you! Yale should be reporting any day now... Fingers crossed for both of us!