Table of Contents

• About the Editor
• Contributors
• Preface
• Introduction
• Part I: Pre-1950
• Alfred C. Kinsey (1894-1956)
• Henry Gerber (1895-1972): Grandfather of the American Gay Movement
• Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson (Xavier Mayne) (1868-1942)
• Prescott Townsend (1894-1973): Bohemian BluebloodA Different Kind of Pioneer
• Jeannette Howard Foster (1895-1981)
• Pearl M. Hart (1890-1975)
• Lisa Ben (1921- )
• Berry Berryman (1901-1972)
• Part II: Organizational Activists
• Harry Hay (1912 - )
• Dale Jennings (1917-2000): ONE's Outspoken Advocate
• W. Dorr Legg (1904-1994)
• Don Slater (1923-1997)
• Jim Schneider (1932- ): ONE's Guardian Angel
• William Edward (Billy) Glover (1932- )
• Jim Kepner (1923-1997)
• Stella Rush a.k.a. Sten Russell (1925- )
• Helen Sandoz a.k.a. Helen Sanders a.k.a. Ben Cat (1920-1987)
• Herb Selwyn (1925- )
• Hal Call (1917-2000): Mr. Mattachine
• Del Martin (1921- )
• Phyllis Lyon (1924- )
• Billye Talmadge (1929- ): Some Kind of Courage
• Cleo Glenn (Bonner) (Dates Unknown)
• Pat Walker (1938-1999)
• Bob Basker (1918-2001): Selling the Movement
• Shirley Willer (1922-1999)
• Part III: Movers and Shakers on the National Scene
• Franklin E. Kameny (1925- )
• Jack Nichols (1938- ): The Blue Fairy of the Gay Movement
• Lige Clarke (1942-1975)
• Barbara Gittings (1932- ): Independent Spirit
• Barbara Grier (1933- ): Climbing the Ladder
• Stephen Donaldson (Robert A. Martin): (1946-1996)
• Randolfe Wicker (1938- )
• Arthur Cyrus Warner (1918- )
• Richard Inman (1926?- )
• Part IV: Other Voices and Their Influence
• Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997): On His Own Terms
• Walter H. Breen (J. Z. Eglinton) (1928-1993)
• Warren Johansson (1934-1994)
• Donald Webster Cory (1913-1986)
• Evelyn Gentry Hooker (1907-1996)
• George Weinberg (1935- )
• Vern L. Bullough (1928- ): Making the Pen Mightier Than the Sword
• Christine Jorgensen (1926-1989)
• Virginia Prince (1913- )
• José Sarria (1923- )
• Charlotte Coleman (1923- )
• Reed Erickson (1917-1992): How One Transsexed Man Supported ONE
• Troy Perry (1940- )
• Morris Kight (1919- ): Community Activist
• Index

About the Author

Vern L. Bullough, a Distinguished Professor Emeritus from SUNY, Buffalo, is the author or editor of fifty books, including Sexual Variance in Society and History; Women and Prostitution; A Short History of Homosexuality; Science in the Bedroom and Encyclopedia of Birth Control.