PROLOGUE INTRODUCTION Before We Start, or, What Is Normal? SECTION I America--New Beginnings, New Identities: 1500-1860 CHAPTER ONE Native Peoples: Different Genders, Different Sexualities CHAPTER TWO Thomas Morton: Free Love Among the Puritans? CHAPTER THREE Jemima Wilkinson: The Surprising Life of Publick Universal Friend CHAPTER FOUR Deborah Sampson: Patriot, Soldier, Gender Rebel CHAPTER FIVE Nineteenth-Century Romantic Friendships: BFFs or Friends with Benefits? CHAPTER SIX The Mystery of Emily Dickinson: Passionate Attachments and Independent Women CHAPTER SEVEN Julia Ward Howe, Samuel Gridley Howe, and Charles Sumner: Complicated Relationships and Radical Social Change in Very Proper Nineteenth-Century Boston SECTION II American Freedom Begins to Bloom--Change and the Civil War: 1860-1875 CHAPTER EIGHT The Amazing Life of Albert D. J. Cashier: Transgender War Hero CHAPTER NINE Charlotte Cushman: American Idol, Lover of Women CHAPTER TEN Walt Whitman: Poet of the People CHAPTER ELEVEN Rebecca Primus and Addie Brown: A Nineteenth-Century Love Story SECTION III New Americans--Boldly Challenging Society: 1875-1900 CHAPTER TWELVE The Radical Victoria Woodhull: First Woman to Run for President CHAPTER THIRTEEN Jane Addams: The Mother of Social Work CHAPTER FOURTEEN Julian Eltinge: The Most Famous Cross-Dresser in America SECTION IV A New Century of Freedom--Radical Visions, Revolutionary Actions: 1900-1960 CHAPTER FIFTEEN Marie Equi: Fighting for Women, Workers, Peace, and Justice for All CHAPTER SIXTEEN Gladys Bentley: Blues-Singing Bulldagger CHAPTER SEVENTEEN World War II: The War That Started LGBTQ Politics CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Harry Hay: How His Society of Fools Started a Revolution CHAPTER NINETEEN Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin: Climbing the Ladder of Freedom and Justice SECTION V Revolutionary Changes--The Seeds of Protest Begin to Bloom: 1960-1977 CHAPTER TWENTY Pauli Murray: "You must remember that truth is our only sword" CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Bayard Rustin: A Life of Activism CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Carl Wittman: Radical Movements, Political Organizing, and Country Dance CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Rita Mae Brown: The Lavender Menace Writes Her Way to Freedom CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Gloria Anzaldúa: A Life Between Borders SECTION VI Backlash--Years of Struggle and Resistance: 1977-1990 CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Sylvester and Anita Bryant: Marching to Two Very Different Drummers CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Robert Hillsborough and Harvey Milk: Struggle and Violence, Grief and Rage CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN Essex Hemphill: The Power of Blackness CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT Kiyoshi Kuromiya: Man of Many Movements CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Art in the Face of Death SECTION VII Moving Closer to Liberation--The Future Is in Sight: 1990-Present CHAPTER THIRTY Jamie Nabozny: Gay Teen Hero CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE Jack Baker and Michael McConnell: It Started in a Barber Shop CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO Sylvia Rivera: A Life in the Streets and a Guiding STAR CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE Coming Out or Staying In: New Queer Ways of Living in the World CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR Young People Today: The Future of Queer History Glossary Bibliography Photo Credits Index.