Part one : Documents Page 1 1826 : "Writhing bedfellows" in antebellum South Carolina : historical interpretation and the politics of evidence Page 3 c. 1820 : The female husband Page 24 1773-1819 : A bow to heterosexual history Page 31 1878 : The perils of masturbation Page 47 1880s : Uncensoring "The mountain chant" Page 50 1881 : Water sports Page 54 1885 : Intimacy without orgasm Page 59 1909-1960s : "My gay life" Page 68 1912 : "I am not contented" : female masochism and lesbianism in early twentieth-century New England Page 89 1913 : Walt Whitman's anomaly Page 106 1914-21 : Documents in Hopi Indian sexuality Page 121 1915 : Therapy and bisexuality Page 133 1930s : "Sex variant women" Page 139 1932 : In defense of homosexuality Page 145 1933 : "The New Deal: sex in the CCC camps Page 149 1935 : "Our 'bi-sexed' heritage" Page 155 1936 : "Degenerates of Greenwich Village" Page 160 1948 : Boy prostitution Page 163 1948 : Boys and boy-loving Page 169 1950 : "The vilest of rackets" Page 173 1950 : Hunting sex perverts Page 177 1951 : When is an "H" not an "H"? Page 186 1951-55 : Dr. Kinsey and Mr. "X" Page 194 1955 : Don't call us "Queer City" Page 216 1956 : The gay "stranglehold" on theater Page 220 1956: How the King Cole Bar at the St. Regis got "de-Fagged" Page 224 1958 : Radio leads the way Page 228 1960 : The international homosexual conspiracy Page 233 1963 : Growth of overt homosexuality in city provokes wide concern Page 238 1964 : A friend at court Page 246 1965 : American Indian transvestism Page 251 Part two: essays Page 259 1971 : The literature of homosexuality Page 261 1973 : "The faggot" Page 268 1973 : Coming out Page 278 1974 : The course of the gay movement Page 283 1974 : Bisexuality Page 288 1975 : Consenting adult Page 305 1975 : Sex and the military : the Matlovich case Page 313 1977 : the Anita Bryant brigade Page 342 1978-79 : The experts on homosexuality: Masters and Johnson, The Kinsey Institute Study of Homosexuality Page 355 1980 : Christianity, social tolerance, and homosexuality Page 377 1982 : Racism in the gay male world Page 386 1983 : The gay movement : from radicalism to reformism Page 390 1988 : "Intimate matters" Page 395 1988 : From the Abolitionists to gay history Page 401 1939 : "Stonewall Place" Page 424 1990 : Twice blessed or doubly other? Page 428 1991 : Hidden from history: reclaiming gay/lesbian history, politics and culture Page 436 Appendix : Bibliography Page 469