| Acknowledgements | |
| Foreword | |
| Preface: My Life as an American Artist | |
| Introduction | 1 |
| Pt. 1 | Essays 1981-1994 | |
| Fear and Loathing on the Hallelujah Trail | 21 |
| An Open Letter | 25 |
| Tensions Run High as Reproductive Rights Activists Form Coalitions | 28 |
| Critical History of Black Women | 33 |
| The Convention | 36 |
| Nyack and a History of Strategies Disputed | 41 |
| The Pro-Family Left | 47 |
| Riding the Go-Go Bus Home: An Interview with Diane Torr | 50 |
| Who Wants to Drive Blues out of Business? | 54 |
| Fifteen Hour Circus Ends in Arrests | 57 |
| Gay Books Back in School | 63 |
| I Have My Doubts about the Seneca Peace Encampment | 66 |
| Zaps Off with Fines after Threatening Congress | 69 |
| Adrienne Rich Transformed by Nicaraguan Visit | 72 |
| Low Marks for German Democracy | 74 |
| Entry Fee Disputed at Black Lesbian Bar | 83 |
| Feds Stop Anti-Violence Grants to Women's Groups: Cite Lesbian Rights as Anti-Family | 85 |
| AIDS Reported in the Soviet Union | 88 |
| New York: A Mass of Individually Beautiful Faces | 89 |
| A.C.L.U. Founds Gay Project | 92 |
| AIDSPAC Established by DC Group | 93 |
| Lip-Synching at Shescape | 95 |
| Straight Ads Hurt Gay Firm | 97 |
| Saving Our Space on the Lower East Side: An Interview with Marguerita Lopez | 99 |
| Health or Homophobia? Responses to the Bathhouse Guidelines | 102 |
| Koch Ready to Close More Bathhouses | 111 |
| Committee Resolves to Close Baths: Maloney Joins Anti-Gay Sellout; Gay Activist Arrested | 114 |
| Becoming an Angry Mob in the Best Sense: Lesbians Respond to AIDS Hysteria | 120 |
| When We Were Very Young: A Walking Tour through Radical Jewish Women's History on the Lower East Side 1879-1919 | 125 |
| Court Battles Continue in Lesbian Visitation Case | 149 |
| Joy of Gay Sex Removed from Brooklyn Libraries | 152 |
| Desert Hearts | 154 |
| Heal Thyself | 157 |
| Jean Genet | 161 |
| Third World Gays Important Presence at Anti-Apartheid March | 163 |
| Is Lesbian Culture Only for Beginners? | 165 |
| Wake-Up, AIDS Hysteria Will Change Your Life | 170 |
| Queens Triumph at Waldorf-Astoria Bash | 174 |
| Women Need Not Apply: Institutional Discrimination in AIDS Drug Trials | 176 |
| Thousands May Die in the Streets: AIDS and the Homeless | 180 |
| The Left and Passionate Homosexuality: Presented at the Socialist Scholars Conference | 185 |
| Children and AIDS: Debate Stirred over Placebo Tests | 188 |
| Taking Responsibility: Co-Dependence and the Myth of Recovery | 191 |
| AIDS and the Responsibility of the Writer | 194 |
| Outing: The Closet is Not a Right | 198 |
| Is the NEA Good for Gay Art? | 199 |
| Eileen Myles | 204 |
| What Ideals Guide Our Actions? | 206 |
| Delusions of Gender | 211 |
| Whatever Happened to Lesbian Activism? | 216 |
| Why I Fear the Future | 220 |
| Laying the Blame: What Magic Johnson Really Means | 223 |
| Thelma, Louise, and the Movie Management of Rape | 226 |
| Fame, Shame, and Kaposi's Sarcoma: New Themes in Lesbian and Gay Film | 228 |
| Consumed by Neglect: Who is to Blame for the TB Epidemic? | 233 |
| The Denial of AIDS and the Construction of a Fake Life | 236 |
| Tokyo Rose | 241 |
| Coming to Terms: An Interview with Carole DeSanti | 247 |
| What Is the Role of Gay Film Festivals? | 253 |
| I Was a Lesbian Child | 256 |
| Why I'm Not a Revolutionary | 258 |
| Letter to Jennifer Dunning | 265 |
| United Colors of Homophobia | 269 |
| A Modest Proposal | 273 |
| Pt. 2 | The Lesbian Avengers | |
| The Lesbian Avengers Part One | 279 |
| The Lesbian Avengers Part Two | 283 |
| The Lesbian Avengers Part Three: Excerpts from The Lesbian Avengers Handbook | 289 |
| The Lesbian Avengers Part Four: The Freedom Ride | 313 |
| Conclusion | 321 |
| Index | 325 |
Format: Textbook Paperback, 1st ed., 320 pages
