Introduction: Before we start, or, What is normal?
Native peoples : different genders, different sexualities
Thomas Morton : free love among the Puritans?
Jemima Wilkinson : the surprising life of Publick Universal Friend
Deborah Sampson : patriot, soldier, gender rebel
Nineteenth-century romantic friendships : BFFs or friends with benefits?
The mystery of Emily Dickinson : passionate attachments and independent women
Julia Ward Howe, Samuel Gridley Howe, and Charles Sumner : complicated relationships and radical social change in very proper nineteenth-century Boston
The amazing life of Albert D.J. Cashier : transgender war hero
Charlotte Cushman : American idol, lover of women
Walt Whitman : poet of the people
Rebecca Primus and Addie Brown : a nineteenth-century love story
The radical Victoria Woodhull : first woman to run for president
Jane Addams : the mother of social work
Julian Eltinge : the most famous cross-dresser in America
Marie Equi : fighting for women, workers, peace, and justice for all
Gladys Bentley : blues-singing bulldagger
World War II : the war that started LGBTQ politics
Harry Hay : how his society of fools started a revolution
Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin : climbing the ladder of freedom and justice
Pauli Murray : "You must remember that truth is our only sword"
Bayard Rustin : a life of activism
Carl Wittman : radical movements, political organizing, and country dance
Rita Mae Brown : the lavender menace writes her way to freedom
Gloria Anzaldua : a life between borders
Sylvester and Anita Bryant : marching to two very different drummers
Robert Hillsborough and Harvey Milk : struggle and violence, grief and rage
Essex Hemphill : the power of blackness
Kiyoshi Kuromiya : man of many movements
Felix Gonzalez-Torres : art in the face of death
Moving closer to liberation : the future is in sight : 1990-present
Jamie Nabozny : gay teen hero
Jack Baker and Michael McConnell : it started in a barber shop
Sylvia Rivera : a life in the streets and a guiding star
Coming out or staying in : new queer ways of living in the world today
Young people today : the future of queer history.
Introduction: Before we start, or, What is normal?
America: new beginnings, new identities: 1500-1860
American freedom begins to bloom: change and the Civil War, 1860-1875
New Americans: boldly challenging society: 1875
A new century of freedom: radical visions, revolutionary actions: 1900-1960
Revolutionary changes: the seeds of protest begin to bloom: 1960-1977
Backlash: years of struggle and resistance: 1977-1990
Moving closer to liberation: the future is in sight: 1900-present.
