A brief history of changing terminology

Lawbreakers and loonies

America hunts for witches

No army of lovers: Toward a homosexual-free military

America protects its youngsters

Mattachine

The daughters

Jousts with the Four Horsemen

Slivers of space and justice

Throwing down the gauntlet

The homosexual American citizen takes the government to court

The riots

Say it proud, and loud: New gay politics

Less talk and more action: The Gay Activists Alliance

A parallel revolution: Lesbian feminists

Dressing for dinner

How gays and lesbians stopped being crazies

The culture war in earnest

Enter, Anita

How to lose a battle

Grappling with defeat

Learning how to win

Of martyrs and marches

The plague

Family values

New gays and lesbians versus the old military

Don't ask, don't tell, don't serve

"Get 'Don't ask, don't tell' done!"

How lesbians and gays stopped being sex criminals

"The first law in American history that begins the job of protecting LGBT people"

A forty-year war: The struggle for workplace protection

"The status that everyone understands as the ultimate expression of love and commitment"

Getting it right, and wrong, in the West

The evolution of a president and the country.