Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Where Are We to Begin? – John Howard
Part I: Categories of Sexuality
2. Romantic Friendship – Leila J. Rupp
3. "Someone to Talk Our Language": Jane Heap, Margaret Anderson, and the
Little Review in Chicago – Holly A. Baggett
4. The New Negro Renaissance, A Bisexual Renaissance: The Lives and Works
of Angelina Weld Grimké and Richard Bruce Nugent – Brett Beemyn
Part II: Evidence, Narrative, and Biography
5. "The Burning of Letters Continues": Elusive Identities and the
Historical Construction of Sexuality – Estelle B. Freedman
6. Paula Snelling: A Significant Other – Margaret Rose Gladney
7. Homophobia and the Trajectory of Postwar American Radicalism: The Career
of Bayard Rustin – John D’Emilio
Part III: Science, Fictions
8. Perverting the Diagnosis: The Lesbian and the Scientific Basis of Stigma
– Allida M. Black
9. "A Thought a Mother Can Hardly Face": Sissy Boys, Parents, and
Professionals in Mid-Twentieth-Century America – Julia Grant
10. Something They Did in the Dark: Lesbian and Gay Novels in the United
States, 1948-1973 – Chris Freeman
Part IV: Community, Institutions
11. Rizzo’s Raiders, Beaten Beats, and Coffeehouse Culture in 1950s
Philadelphia – Marc Stein
12. Black Feminist Organizations and the Emergence of Interstitial Politics
– Kimberly Springer
13. Protest and Protestantism: Early Lesbian and Gay Institution Building
in Mississippi – John Howard
Part V: Public Debates and Public Policy
14. Health Care, the AIDS Crisis, and the Politics of Community: The North
Carolina Lesbian and Gay Health Project, 1982-1996 – Ian K. Lekus
15. The Immigrant Infection: Images of Race, Nation, and Contagion in the
Public Debates on AIDS and Immigration – Jennifer Brier
16. The Myth of Lesbian (In)Visibility: World War II and the Current "Gays
in the Military" Debate – Leisa D. Meyer
Conclusion
17. Where Are We Now, Where Are We Going, and Who Gets to Say? – Vicki L.
Eaklor
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