Contents: Introduction: investigating lesbian and gay activism, David Paternotte and Manon Tremblay. Part I Lesbian and Gay Activism through Time: Sodomy, effeminacy, identity: mobilizations for same-sexual loves and practices before the Second World War, Gert Hekma; The homophile movement, Julian Jackson; Gay liberation and its legacies, Jeffrey Weeks; AIDS activism from North to global, Christophe Broqua; Queer movement, Gavin Brown. Part II Identity and its Discontents: LGBT identity and the displacement of sexual liberation: New York City (1969-1986), Mary Bernstein; The spatial politics of gay pride parades and festivals: emotional activism, Lynda Johnston and Gordon Waitt; Lesbians, second-wave feminism and gay liberation, Julie Podmore and Manon Tremblay; People of color mobilization in LGBT movements in the Netherlands and the United States, Nicholas Boston and Jan Willem Duyvendak; Inside or outside? Bisexual activism and the LGBTI community, Kirsten McLean; Trans activism and LGB movements: odd bedfellows?, Janneke van der Ros and Joz Motmans. Part III Social Movement Environment: Political institutions and LGBTQ activism in comparative perspective, Miriam Smith; Lesbian and gay rights and the courts, Susan Gluck Mezey; 'Lesbian and gay rights are human rights': multiple globalizations and LGBTI activism, David Paternotte and Hakan Seckinelgin; Caught in a web? The internet and deterritorialization of LGBT activism, Phillip M. Ayoub and Olga BrzeziÃ.'ezska; Faith and religion, Stephen Hunt; Neoliberalism, citizenship and activism, Diane Richardson. Part IV Claims and Debates: Decriminalizing homosexuality: gaining rights through sodomy law reform, Melinda D. Kane; SM politics, SM communities in the United States, Rostom Mesli and Gayle Rubin; Same-sex partnership and marriage: the success and costs of transnational activism, Kelly Kollman; Rainbow families and the state: how policies shape reproductive choices, Nina Eggert and Isabelle Engeli; Afterword: liberating generations: continuities and change in the radical queer Western era, Ken Plummer.

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