This essay examines the tension between feminist analyses and a cultural nationalist, left critique of Carlos Bulosan`s America Is In the Heart (1946) to suggest a point of convergence between the two in the text`s trope of racial homosociality. By reading Bulosan`s revision of the triangle of desire, I argue that racial homosociality in America Is In the Heart, the very object of feminist critique, becomes a temporary alternative to hegemonic nationalism. Whereas the heterosexual relationship guarantees the homosocial one in Eve Sedgwick`s classic study of homosociality, Between Men, racial homosociality in Bulosan`s text comes at the expense of normative heterosexuality for brown men. Instead of taking such categories as men, women, and the nation as a priori categories, Bulosan`s text prods us to attend to the historically and socially contingent production of gender, sexuality and nationness. I call this Bulosan`s queering of nationalism and identify the text`s openness to feminist concerns in such an ambivalent and strategic deployment of nationalism.