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 About the Contributors.