Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities

Preface, 1998
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1. Identity, Community, and Oppression: A Sexual Minority in the Making
1. Homosexuality and American Society: An Overview
2. Forging a Group Identity: World War II and the Emergence of an Urban Gay Subculture
3. The Bonds of Oppression: Gay Life in the 1950s
Part 2. The 1950s: Radical Visions and Conformist Pressures
4. Radical Beginnings of the Mattachine Society
5. Retreat the Respectability
6. Dual Identity and Lesbian Autonomy: The Beginnings of Separate Organizing Among Women
7. The Quest for Legitimacy
Part 3. The 1960s: Civil Rights and the Pursuit of Equality
8. Gay Life in the Public Eye
9. Civil Rights and Direct Action: The New East Coast Militancy, 1961-1965
10. The Movement and the Subculture Converge: San Francisco During the Early 1960s
11. High Hopes and Modest Gains
Part 4. The Liberation Impulse
12. A New Beginning: The Birth of Gay Liberation
13. Conclusion
Afterword, 1998
Index