Introduction to the reader -- Section I: History -- Before identity: the ancient world through the 19th century -- Sexology: constructing the modern homosexual -- Toward liberation -- Stonewall and beyond -- Section II: Politics -- Nature, nurture, and identity -- Inclusion and equality -- Queer diversities -- Intersectionalities -- Section III: Literature and the arts -- Homosexed art and literature -- Lesbian pulp novels and gay physique pictorials -- Queer transgressions -- Censorship and moral panic -- Section IV: Media -- Film and televion -- Queers and the internet -- The politics of location: alternative media and the search for queer space.