Gay Men's Friendships

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. "Friends Take You Places You've Never Been": Gay Men, New Modes of Relations, and Heroic Friendships
2. "A Major Wall of Noninvolvement": Contemporary Men's Friendships and Cultural Limitations
3. "A Chance to Choose My Siblings": Friendship as Kinship
4. "And We Never Mentioned It Again. Ever": Friendship, Sex, and Masculinity
5. "The Magic of Sympathy and Identification": Profiles of Gay Men's Friends
6. "All the Gold and Gems of the World": The Meaning and Maintenance of Friendships
7. "Where I Go to Know I'm Not Crazy": Developing Social Support, Achieving Identity, and Confronting Conflicts
8. "A Vicarious Sense of Belonging": The Politics of Friendship and Gay Social Movements, Communities, and Neighborhoods
Appendix: Research Methodology
Bibliography
Index