Includes bibliographical references and index.

1: Bulldykes, faggots, and fairies, oh my! : calling and being called queer in America, now and then. The transformation of silence into language and action (1978) / Audre Lorde ; Classifications of homosexuality (1916) / Urologic and cutaneous review ; Sexual behavior in the human male (1948) / Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy, and Clyde E. Martin ; Gay New York (1994) / George Chauncey -- 2: Are we free to be you and me? : queer sexuality in America, now and then. Sex variants (1941) / George Henry ; Sexual deviations (1968, 1980) / American Psychiatric Association ; Introduction to Body alchemy: transsexual portraits (1996) / Loren Cameron ; My gender workbook (1998) / Kate Bornstein -- 3: Out and about : queer spaces in America, now and then. Homosexual complexion perverts in St. Louis : note on a feature of psychopathy (1907) / Alienist and neurologist ; "I could hardly wait to get back to that bar" : lesbian bar culture in the 1930s and 1940s (1993) / Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline Davis ; Renegotiating the social/sexual identities of places : gay communities as safe havens or sites of resistance? (1994) / Wayne Myslik ; At the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival (2003) / Bonnie J. Morris ; One of the children : gay Black men in Harlem (1996) / William G. Hawkeswood and Alex W. Costley -- 4: The birds and the--birds : queer love, sex, and romance in America now and then. Smoke, lilies, and jade (1926) / Richard Bruce Nugent ; Opening Pandora's box (2004) / Christi Cassidy ; Mike goes to the baths (1984) / Michael Callen ; Paradigms old and new (1998) / Dossie Easton and Catherine A. Liszt ; It's a white man's world (2005) / Dwight A. McBride -- 5: Where are our white picket fences? queer relationships and families in America, now and then. Younger brother dynamics (2000) / Dan Savage ; Take my domestic partner, please : gays and marriage in the era of the visible (2001) / Suzanna Danuta Walters ; Queer families quack back (2002) / Judith Stacey ; Weddings/celebrations (2002) / Daniel Gross and Steven Goldstein ; Ruling in Goodrich v. Massachusetts Department of Health (2003) / Chief Justice Margaret Marshall -- 6: To see and be seen: queers in American media and entertainment, now and then. Why did I write The well of loneliness? (1934) / Radclyffe Hall ; Angels in America (1992) / Tony Kushner ; Prologue to All the rage : the story of gay visibility in America / Suzanna Danuta Walters -- 7: Sticks and stones: bullying, battering, and beating American queers, now and then. Stone butch blues (1993) / Leslie Fineberg ; The Laramie Project (2001) / Moisâes Kaufman ; Social movement growth, domain expansion, and framing processes : the ; gay/lesbian movement and violence against gays and lesbians as a social problem (1995) / Valerie Jenness ; National School Climate Survey, key findings (2003) / Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Educators Network ; Ruling in Lawrence v. Texas (2003) / Justice Anthony Kennedy -- 8: I am that name: American queer activism, now and then. The Society for Human Rights (1925) / Henry Gerber ; Preface to The stone wall (1930) / Mary Casal ; Statement of missions and purposes (1951) / Mattachine Society ; The ladder (1956) / Daughters of Bilitis ; The woman identified woman (1971) / Radicalesbians ; Introduction to Home girls : a Black feminist anthology (1983) / Barbara Smith ; No more business as usual (1987) / AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) ; Mission statement (1986) / Trikone ; Mission statement (1993) / Southerners on New Ground ; Mission statement (1995) / GenderPAC ; Mission statement (1990) / National Latina/o Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Organization (LLEGâO) ; Mission statement (2004) / Mosaic: The National Jewish Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity -- 9: Conclusion: We're here, we're queer, now what? Must identity movements self-destruct? : a queer dilemma (1995) / Josh Gamson ; Heeding Isaiah's call (2002) / David Shneer and Caryn Aviv.