Introduction / Diane Richardson, Steven Seidman --

History and theory. From liberation to transgression and beyond : gay, lesbian and queer studies at the turn of the twenty first century / Barry D. Adam --

The heterosexual/homosexual binary : past, present and future / Sasha Roseneil --

The mainstreaming of lesbian and gay studies? / Peter M. Nardi --

Unusual fingers : scientific studies of sexual orientation / Lynda Birke --

Heterosexuality : it's just not natural! / Chrys Ingraham --

The comparative sociology of homosexualities / Stephen O. Murray --

Identity and community. From the Bowery to the Castro : communities, identities and movements / Verta Taylor, Elizabeth Kaminiski, Kimberly Dugan --

New technologies and 'cyber-queer' research / Nina Wakefield --

Queer bodies and the production of space / Gill Valentine --

The forgotten : a community without a generation : older lesbians and gay men / Stephen Pugh --

Queer diaspora / Anne-Marie Fortier --

Gay, lesbian and bisexual youth / Melinda S. Miceli --

The bisexual menace : or, will the real bisexual please stand up? / Kristin G. Esterberg --

Institutions. Imagining the place of the state : where governance and social power meet / Davina Cooper --

Lesbian and gay health : power, paradigms and bodies / Tamsin Wilton --

Innocence and experience : paradoxes in sexuality and education / Debbie Epstein, Sarah O'Flynn, David Telford --

Lesbian and gay bodies of law / Leslie J. Moran --

Religious views of homosexuality / Dawne Moon --

Gays and lesbians as workers and consumers in the economy / Marieka M. Klawitter --

Sweating in the spotlight : lesbian, gay and queer encounters with media and popular culture : Joshua Gamson --

Queer families quack back / Judith Stacey, Elizabeth Davenport --

Politics. Making a minority : understanding the formation of the gay and lesbian movement in the United States / Stephen Engel --

Anti-gay and lesbian violence and its discontents / Valerie Jenness, Kimberly D. Richman --

Globalization and the International gay/lesbian movement / Dennis Altman --

Nationalism has a lot to do with it! Unraveling questions of nationalism and transnationalism in lesbian/gay studies / Jyoti Puri --

Sexual citizenship : marriage, the market and the military / David Bell, Jon Binnie.